A Macedonian woman wait to cast her ballot at a polling station in Skopje.
A Macedonian woman wait to cast her ballot at a polling station in Skopje on March 13, 2005. Voting began in Macedonia on Sunday in the first local elections under a 2001 peace deal to give the country's 25 percent Albanian minority greater power. The move to decentralize power is the final, and key, pillar of the Ohrid accord brokered by the West with Albanian rebels more than three years ago to prevent a new Balkan civil war. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski OT/WS