MACEDONIA: AID AGENCIES AT STANKOVIC CAMP ARE FACED WITH EVER MORE ETHNIC ALBANIAN REFUGEES FLEEING KOSOVO

Record ID: 347271

  • Title: MACEDONIA: AID AGENCIES AT STANKOVIC CAMP ARE FACED WITH EVER MORE ETHNIC ALBANIAN REFUGEES FLEEING KOSOVO
  • Date: 20th April 1999
  • Summary: STANKOVIC, MACEDONIA (APRIL 20, 199) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV REFUGEES OUTSIDE TENTS (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SLV WOMEN BEAT OUT BLANKET 0.15 3. SLV/CU PEOPLE AROUND CAMP FIRE COOKING (3 SHOTS) 0.31 4. SV FOOD HANDED OUT 0.36 5. SV BREAD LOAVES 0.42 6. MCU PEOPLE TAKE BREAD 0.48 7. SLV/SV PEOPLE IN QUEUE (3 SHOTS) 1.
  • Embargoed: 5th May 1999 13:00
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  • Location: STANKOVIC CAMP, MACEDONIA
  • Country: Macedonia
  • Reuters ID: LVA9NV81IH23MYX0YEHSVPXQ8GO
  • Story Text: Aid agencies at the sprawling Stankovic camp close to
    Macedonia's border with Kosovo are faced with ever more ethnic
    Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo.

    Increasing pressure on the camp's resources means aid
    workers are trying harder than ever to move groups of the
    refugees onwards.

    Relief groups are struggling to feed, shelter and care
    for almost 50,000 Kosovo ethnic Albanian refugees at
    Stankovic's two compounds.

    Simona Opitz, a spokeswoman for the International
    Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday (April 20) that her
    organisation was taking the destination preferences of the
    refugees into account during its labours to relocate them.She
    said that efforts were being made not to separate families and
    to send those refugees in need of medical assistance to
    locations where their needs could be met.

    On Tuesday refugees were leaving the camp on board buses
    bound for Turkey.

    Among those to leave was a woman identified only as
    Iberia.She said she was sad to be abandoning her country for
    an uncertain future.She is travelling with her family of
    seven.

    Macedonian Foreign Minister Aleksander Dimitrov said on
    Monday his country was on the brink of economic disaster
    because of an influx of around 140,000 ethnic Albanian
    refugees from Kosovo.
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