- Title: ALBANIA: REFUGEES FLEEING KOSOVO RECEIVE AID IN NORTHERN ALBANIA.
- Date: 7th June 1998
- Summary: BAJRAM CURRI, TROPOJE REGION; ALBANIA (JUNE 6, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: WAREHOUSE WITH RELIEF AID STORES (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. MV/GV: LOADING FOOD AID ONTO TRUCKS (4 SHOTS) 0.36 3. TV: TRUCK ARRIVING AT DISTRIBUTION POINT 0.42 4. GV/MV: TRUCK BEING UNLOADED (5 SHOTS) 1.18 5. MV/CU: REFUGEES WAITING TO RECEIVE AID/ HOLDING PASSPOR
- Embargoed: 22nd June 1998 13:00
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- Location: BAJRUM CURRI, TROPOJE REGION; ALBANIA
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- Country: Albania
- Reuters ID: LVA2JIXANS7VO1HPZSCS2VN4NFK3
- Story Text: Refugees fleeing fighting in Serbia's troubled Kosovo province have been receiving aid in the northern Albanian region where they are sheltering.
In the Albanian border village of Bajram Curri in the Tropoje region, where most of the refugees are being sheltered, relief operations continued on Saturday (June 6) as two tonnes of wheat, oil, rice and flour were distributed by the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to refugees staying in locals homes.
UNHCR emergency field officer Andrew Harper said some 20,000 tonnes of aid in total would be distributed this week to the villages where it is estimated some 10,000 refugees are living.Harper said tents have also been ordered for the refugees but at the moment they had all been accomodated in homes.
It's estimated that some 11,000 ethnic Albanians have fled fighting in Kosovo and sought refuge in Albania's northern Tropoje region.
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