 During the meeting held the same day with EU's senior foreign policy official, Javier Solana, the Macedonian government agreed to stop completely their military activities in Aračinovo, and to let the NLA insurgents leave the encircled village.After talks between President Boris Trajkovski and Javier Solana, the Macedonian government officially announced that it had ended its offensive against the NLA in Aračinovo.According to western media reports the talks were apparently "extremely acrimonious", with the Macedonian security forces reluctant to abandon the battle they were convinced that they were going to win.