MACEDONIA: THE KOSOVO REFUGEES CONTINUE TO CROSS BORDER TO MACEDONIA AS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AGENCIES ATTEMPT TO STEP UP THE PACE OF RESETTLEMENT TO OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTIRES

Record ID: 274805

  • Title: MACEDONIA: THE KOSOVO REFUGEES CONTINUE TO CROSS BORDER TO MACEDONIA AS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AGENCIES ATTEMPT TO STEP UP THE PACE OF RESETTLEMENT TO OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTIRES
  • Date: 26th April 1999
  • Summary: BLACE, MACEDONIA (APRIL 26, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. LV BLACE BORDER POST 0.05 2. SLV LATEST INFLUX OF REFUGEES WAITING TO COME ACROSS BORDER INTO MACEDONIA (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SLV REFUGEES WALKING OVER BORDER CARRYING LUGGAGE 0.20 4. TV EXTERIOR OF BLACE TRANSFER CAMP 0.26 5. LV PEOPLE WAITING AROUND IN CAMP 0.30 6. SV PEOPLE SIT
  • Embargoed: 11th May 1999 13:00
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  • Location: BLACE AND STANKOVIC, MACEDONIA
  • Country: Macedonia
  • Reuters ID: LVADPFV9QFQ1R2EG19VCRJGVY20V
  • Story Text: The flow of refugees into Macedonia is unceasing, as
    humanitarian relief agencies attempt to step up the pace of
    resettlement to other European countries before the camps'
    infrastructures collapse due to pressure of numbers.

    The refugees continued to trickle over the border into
    Macedonia on Monday morning (April 26) to the alarm of
    humanitarian relief agencies working in the area.

    According to some agency representatives the camps are now
    holding three times the capacity they were initially designed
    to do, putting immense pressure on the infrastructure of the camps.

    At Stankovic camp bus shuttles for Europe are leaving
    daily but the agencies say the pace of resettlement is too
    slow.On Monday a few bus loads left with refugees bound for
    France and Norway but no sooner do fifty refugees leave on one
    coach, than another hundred arrive over the border
    U.S.movie star Richard Gere will go to Macedonia this
    week to visit ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo on a
    morale-boosting mission, the daily Vecir reported on Monday.

    Quoting an assistant to Gere in New York, the paper said
    the Hollywood human rights activist would meet Macedonian
    government representatives, humanitarian officials and tour
    the refugee camps on Wednesday.

    Gere, a Buddhist, campaigns actively for human rights in
    Tibet.On the screen he is well known for his roles in "An
    Officer and a Gentleman" and "Pretty Woman".


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