11.  Officials emphasized that NATO was prepared to move only after an agreement among the Macedonian parties themselves.

12.  The announcement came after a key Macedonian party that had backed out of the talks returned to negotiations.

13.  The announcement came after a key Macedonian party returned to negotiations after temporarily backing out of the talks.

14.  The party is the second largest Macedonian party.

15.  The plan threatened in part because of demands by a minor Macedonian party to impose a referendum on the constitutional changes.

16.  The ruling Macedonian party, led by Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, reiterated support for the existing versions of the draft amendments.

17.  Western officials are concerned that the proposal might be endorsed by hard-liners within VMRO, the major Macedonian nationalist party.

18.  With BC-Macedonia US envoy confident Macedonian parties will sign peace accord,

19.  She also resigned from her post of vice-president of the main Macedonian party VMRO-DPMNE, headed by Georgievski.