09/04/1999
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Zëri i Popullit

9 April 1999

USA: The Rambouillet Agreement is outdated

STATEMENT BY JAMES RUBIN: PAGE 4

30 THOUSAND ALBANIANS ABDUCTED

Kosovo Albanians who survived the Bllacë valley, where the Macedonians held them (REUTERS)

Serbs: 30 thousand Albanians to shield us from the bombs

Serbs take them at the border with Macedonia Macedonia, which lies south of Kosovo, suddenly removed around 40,000 refugees from the notorious “no man’s land” in Bllacë, about 30 km from Skopje, taking them to transit camps or sending them by bus toward Albania. In Gevgelija, Pol Stromberg, spokesperson for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, said that the exact number of refugees who had been trapped in the Bllacë area, and of those whose whereabouts are unknown, was not known. Asked whether the number of those missing refugees was 30,000, he replied: “Yes.”

Albanian children in refugee camps, Macedonia

EU Commissioner Bonino and Foreign Minister Milo (REUTERS)

350 million EUROS for Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro...

The European Union provided 250 million EUROS in humanitarian aid for Albania, Macedonia and the other countries that have hosted Kosovo refugees. The European Union provided 100 million EUROS in budgetary support for Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro MINISTERS MILO AND ANGJELI, SUCCESS IN LUXEMBOURG: PAGE 5

SPECIAL REPORT: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MACEDONIA? — PAGES 2–3

HERE ARE THE ASSOCIATIONS RECEIVING 90% OF THE AID

THEIR NAMES, ADDRESSES, PHONE NUMBERS: PAGE 7