ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: THE FIRST BATCH OF GERMAN TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT ARRIVE IN ALBANIA FOR DEPLOYMENT AS PART OF NATO'S HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

Record ID: 565773

  • Title: ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: THE FIRST BATCH OF GERMAN TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT ARRIVE IN ALBANIA FOR DEPLOYMENT AS PART OF NATO'S HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
  • Date: 24th May 1999
  • Summary: DURRES, ALBANIA (MAY 24, 1999)(REUTERS) 1. SV SHIP DOCKING 0.05 2. SLV/LV VEHICLES DRIVING OFF SHIP/SOLDIERS LOOKING ON (3 SHOTS) 0.34 3. MCU (German) MAJOR NORBERT GROTHSCHALK SAYING: "A total of 600 soldiers will be deployed in Albania to participate in Nato's efforts to manage the humanitarian crisis." 0.50 4. SLV/LV SOLDIERS WATCHING/TRUCK AND TRAILER DRIVING OFF (2 SHOTS) 1.16 TETOVAR, MACEDONIA (MAY 24, 1999)(REUTERS) 5. LV/SV GERMAN TROOPS ON PARADE GROUND (2 SHOTS) 1.23 6. SV/LV GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER RUDOLF SCHARPING ON PODIUM ADDRESSING TROOPS (4 SHOTS) 1.48 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: DURRES, ALBANIA / TETOVAR, MACEDONIA
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  • Country: Macedonia Albania
  • Reuters ID: LVAD1LUEF7ZM10CVYR9ZLX6LHOH1
  • Story Text: The first batch of German troops and equipment have
    arrived in Albania for deployment as part of NATO's
    humanitarian assistance effort, while the German defence
    minister has been visiting German troops stationed in
    Macedonia.

    German troops and military equipment arrived at the
    Albanian port of Durres on Monday (May 24).A German officer
    said the troops were there to assist with NATO's efforts to
    deal with the humanitarian crisis in the country resulting
    from the influx of refugees from neighbouring Kosovo.Major
    Grothschalk said a total of 600 German troops were expected.

    They arrived on the day British Defence Secretary George
    Robertson said NATO troops would escort refugees back to their
    homes in Kosovo with or without the agreement of Yugoslav
    President Slobodan Milosevic.

    Also on Monday, German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping
    reviewed German troops serving with NATO in northern
    Macedonia.Scharping arrived in the Macedonian capital,
    Skopje, on Sunday (May 23) and was taken by helicopter to
    Tetovar on Monday (May 24), where 1,500 German troops have
    been stationed since December.


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