Albanian guerrilla chief Ali Ahmeti gestures during an interview with Reuters in the village of Sipkovica, some 70 km from the capital, March 1, 2002. Macedonia's former ethnic Albanian guerrilla chief has dismissed talk of a new conflict in the former Yugoslav republic and called for its two main ethnic groups to work together. Macedonian media have been awash with stories that ethnic Albanian rebels plan a "spring offensive" to plunge the country back into fighting which erupted last year and was halted by a Western-backed peace accord in August.