DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Other breaking news coming out of NATO, which has decided to send a limited number of troops into Macedonia. With more on that let's bring in Yves Brodeur, a spokesman for NATO. Mr. Brodeur, hello.</s>YVES BRODEUR, NATO SPOKESMAN: Hello.</s>KAGAN: Can you tell me how many troops are going in and why specifically now?</s>BRODEUR: Yes, NATO has authorized the immediate deployment of 400 troops and these 400 troops actually constitute the headquarters of Task Force Harvest. They will be going to Macedonia to start to prepare for the full deployment of Operation Essential Harvest.</s>KAGAN: And for the full deployment, what are we talking about? How many?</s>BRODEUR: The full deployment will be, in total, 3,500 troops.</s>KAGAN: I was under the impression that NATO pretty much wanted to stay out of Macedonia and Macedonia wanted NATO to stay out, as well.</s>BRODEUR: No. I think that there is a little confusion in the sense that NATO has been requested to undertake a very specific mission, which is the collecting of the weapons of the Albanian insurgents, and we've agreed to do that. And this is precisely what we hope to be able to do, accomplish within the next few days.</s>KAGAN: Yves Brodeur with NATO, thanks for being specific and explaining to us exactly what those NATO troops will be doing.
NATO Decides to Send Troops Into Macedonia