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Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> ---------------- Original message follows ---------------- From: MCMS/MCIC <mcms@informa.mk> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:03:44 +0200 Subject: MCIC daily update 14.04.1999 -- MACEDONIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION DAILY UPDATE ON SITUATION IN MACEDONIA Wed, April 14, 1999 EXCERPT ... The crisis provoked by the military actions against FR Yugoslavia is becoming more and more evident in the every day life in Macedonia...The Red Cross is making efforts to register the refugees sheltered in households in Macedonia...Until today, 7.362 people are evacuated from Macedonia... CRS ( Catholic Relief Services) are in charge of the camp Brazda...AAH (Action Against Hunger) is delivering fresh food to the refugees in the host households. SECURITY SITUATION The crisis provoked by the military actions against FR Yugoslavia is becoming more and more evident in Macedonia. The Government will prepare a programme in order to help the enterprises get over the problems.This programme will be prepared for those enterprises that used to work successfully, but are now directly effected by the situation in FR Yugoslavia. REFUGEES The UNHCR is working on evidencing and registration of the Kosovo refugees in Macedonia. The registration is going faster in the camps. The UNHCR is also, together with the Red Cross, is making efforts to register the refugees accommodated in host households. They are expecting that the whole process will be over in two weeks. Border In the few previous days, from Saturday till yesterday, 2 trains and a dozen of cars with a total number of about 2.000 refugees arrived at border passing Blace. The UNHCR is expecting a new wave of refugees. There are some indications that a great number of people are already in the trains in Prishtina, and that their arrival in Macedonia is expected. About 200 people have illegally passed the border at the village Tanushevci north >from Skopje. Today, at 10:00 A.M., a train with refugees arrived at the border passing Blace. The UNHCR is expecting that they will enter the Macedonian territory and will be registered during the day. According to the Mistry of internal affairs, today till 1PM, 2.000 refugees have entered Macedonia on the passing Blace. The UNHCR is ready to accept the refugees. They also stated that talks have been made with the Macedonian government concerning the extending of the camps capacities and opening some new locations to accept the refugees. The estimations of the events in the other side of the border, in Kosovo, are that about 50.000 people from the surroundings of Uroshevac are expected to arrive in Macedonia. Refugee centers NATO is finishing it's logistic support in cmp organising. They are being handed over to NGO's and NATO is getting back to it's regular activities concerning the mission of implementation of the peace agreement in Kosovo, stated the spokesman of NATO in Skopje. The authority to run the Camp Bojane is handed over to the humanitarians >from Turkey that are coordinated by the Turkish government. They are taking care of all the needs of the refugees and are coordinating the activities in the camp. On 13th of April there were 2.600 people staying in the camp. Humanitarians from Turkey told us that they are negotiating with the Macedonian authorities about extending the camp for capacity of about 10.000. Air Bridge Till yesterday late in the afternoon, 554 refugees left for Germany, 107 for Norway and 65 for Turkey. On today's press conference representative of the UNHCR stated that, so far, there are 7.362 persons from Kosovo evacuated from Macedonia and transferred to Germany, Norway, Island, Turkey, Israel and Poland. Macedonian government gave the number of 24.500 refugees that have left Macedonia included those transported to Albania by busses. Activities In order to provide more efficient information for the foreign humanitarian NGO's that work in Macedonia, the Ministry of External Affairs, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, will prepare a guide for the registration procedure according to the legislation in our country. CRS( Catholic Relief Services) are responsible for the camp Brazda where about 20.000 refugees are staying. All the needs for food and water(non sparkling and low sparkling) in the camp are satisfied. Two days ago, this organisation has started with food distribution to the refugees staying with families in Macedonia. Every refugee gets a parcel that contains: oil, flower, bean, sugar, soap and pare of blankets. On Monday the help was distributed in 7 towns in the eastern part of Macedonia(Gevgelija, Valandovo, Berovo, Delcevo, Kocani, Vinica and Radovish), and during yesterday in 4 towns in western part of Macedonia( Ohrid, Resen, Bitola and Gostivar). CRS is getting 10-11 trunks of flower every day from CRS-Bulgaria. AAH( Action Against Hunger)are supplying with fresh food the refugees that are staying with the families in Gostivar, and are working on coordination together with the other humanitarian organisations as well. Since the refugee crisis began UNICEF has distributed essential drugs, emergency health supplies and oral rehydration salts to primary health centres in Tetovo, Gostivar, Skopje and Kumanovo. In response to the immediate needs of refugee children, high protein biscuits and hygiene kits have been distributed in camps and to those living with host families. UNICEF delivered five 4x4 vehicles to the Ministry of Health for use with mobile medical teams to cover hard-to-reach areas where refugees hosted in families pose an additional workload for health facilities. Yesterday some 10.000 diapers and 2.000 baby blankets, a donation from UNICEF UK, were distributed to the Brazda, Stenkovec, Radusa and Bojane camps. Baby food, tinned food and hygiene items have been distributed to refugees accommodated with host families. Vaccines procured by UNICEF for an immunisation campaign to cover children both in camps/collective centers and in host families have arrived in Skopje. UNICEF and ICRC, in co-operation with CARE Austria and Save the Children UK, is working on tracing and family reunification. Teams have been established in all camps and the registration process started on 6 April. To date, 110 unaccompanied children have been registered, and the priority is to trace and reunify those children who are alone. Some 600-refugee parents are looking for their children. A school for refugee children was organised by residents in Neprosteno camp. Refugee teachers are organising outdoor classes for 100 children, with school activities focusing on four subjects: mathematics, language, music and art. UNICEF will provide desks and notebooks and will also initiative education activities in other camps. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress