Solana, returning to Brussels after talks in Skopje, said he was optimistic about the coalition.
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Poffley, in Skopje, said putting everything in place would be a "complicated process".
Its air force has been flying food, blankets and medical supplies to Skopje, the Macedonian capital.
In Macedonia's capital, Skopje, senior politicians, Serbian mafiosi and Albanian guerrillas all hide behind blacked-out car windows.
When Macedonia renamed Skopje airport for Alexander the Great in 2007, this seemed a one-off to annoy Greece.
They also said they would send an EU envoy to be based in Skopje to help shore up the talks.
That will change, he said, in the four days before the team flies to Skopje for the vital game with Macedonia.
Her fascination with India began as a child, when missionaries from the subcontinent gave a talk at her school in Skopje.
George was a drowning man after the game in Norway, going down for the third time after defeats in Skopje and Amsterdam.
Only people with Macedonian passports or travel papers were allowed across at Blace, about 12 miles northwest of the capital, Skopje.
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The national roundtable held in Skopje successfully started this process in Macedonia.
More than 20 armoured personnel carriers transported the troops down the main highway leading from Skopje, the capital, to the border with Greece.
Macedonian media reported an exchange of infantry fire near the village of Aracinovo, a rebel stronghold on the outskirts of the capital, Skopje.
They will help a detachment of 41 British troops, who arrived in Skopje on Friday night, to establish a headquarters for Operation Essential Harvest.
SKOPJE, Macedonia (CNN) -- Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov was critically injured Tuesday in a car bomb attack that took the life of his driver.
Tensions between Macedonia's ethnic groups recently flared up over the construction of a church-shaped museum in Skopje's old fortress, which Albanians are unhappy about.
Macedonia said it had launched the assault to "eliminate" the Albanian National Liberation Army from Aracinovo, a village which is practically a suburb of Skopje.
In the second of two conflicting versions of events, a unit of special forces was despatched to a vineyard outside Skopje to apprehend the group.
The pipeline is transporting crude oil from Greece to a refinery at Skopje, which was bought in 1999 by Hellenic Petroleum, the Greek state oil company.
Ethnic Albanian rebels said they were back in control of Macedonian villages northeast of the capital Skopje that they had been forced from earlier by the army.
Concerns grew that the rebels might try to extend their activity to almost within Skopje by attacking Aracinovo, an Albanian-dominated district between the city centre and villages the rebels currently occupy.
Monday's battle in Tetovo, the second in as many days, began while U.S. and European envoys were meeting President Boris Trajkovski in the capital Skopje, 40 kilometres (25 miles) to the west.
And if Macedonian heroes are to be celebrated in statue form, surely space can be found for a few more Albanians (Skopje-born Mother Teresa and Skanderbeg, a medieval hero, are already represented).
But the dangers are evident to anyone who travels a few miles out of Skopje, to an area controlled by well-armed, cocksure, ethnic-Albanian fighters, contemptuous of all politicians and enjoying some popular support.
The main road to Greece has been renamed for Alexander and the national sports stadium named after his father, and plans are afoot to erect a huge statue of Alexander in central Skopje.
The BBC's Paul Welsh in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, says Western diplomats expect some low level violations of the ceasefire, and the real test will be whether any new large scale confrontations break out.
How to achieve that was the subject of some hard talking this week between Mr Xhaferi and Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign-policy spokesman, who has been shuttling between Brussels and Skopje, Macedonia's capital.
The arrest in Kosovo, earlier this month, of six alleged members of the so-called Ilirida Republican Army, a new Albanian-nationalist group, produced sighs of relief in Skopje, where Slav-Macedonians often accuse the West of coddling armed Albanians.
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