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Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> Subject: MCMC daily update on situation 20.04.1999 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:13:19 +0200 Organization: MCMS/MCIC X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MACEDONIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION DAILY UPDATE ON SITUATION IN MACEDONIA Tuesday, April 20, 1999 EXCERPT ...Last night, 2.300 more refugees from Kosovo have arrived at Macedonian-Yugoslav border at the v. Lojane near Kumanovo, and they are still waiting to enter Macedonia...The construction of a new camp at Chegrane, of capacity to shelter 15-20.000 refugees is in processing...6.673 refugee-children are involved in the regular primary school education system... About 30.000 refugees are transported from Macedonia, till now...Until today, 139.100 people are registered in total...The Macedonian Red Cross is continuing to distribute the food as humanitarian help. SECURITY SITUATION " The most optimistic estimations are that the military activities in Kosovo will proceed in the next three months, and Macedonia is been already effected exactly by that."-stated the Minister of Internal Affairs of RM in his interview for the weekly newspaper "Denes"." The Balkan will not be stabile in the next 10 years. As a state, we should do everything not to involve ourselves in such activities." Mr. Trajanov considers that NATO, if they decide to involve the ground forces in the Kosovo crisis, will respect the Macedonian Government's and Parliament's decision that the territory of the country can not be used for attacking of any neighbouring country...considering that this could brought us in delicate position. maybe not now, but certainly in the future. We will be neighbours with the same countries in the future too, and this fact should be respected".( from the weekly newspaper "Denes" of 20.04.99). Border Until yesterday, until 04:00 P.M., neither one refugee has been registered at border passages Jazince and Tabanovci, and at Blace only 40 refugees have passed the border. They were immediatly transported to Neproshteno and Stenkovec. The UNHCR claims that the Macedonian-Yugoslav border is only officially opened, and it is not functioning from the Yugoslav side. Yesterday night 2.300 more refugees from Kosovo have arrived at Macedonian-Yugoslav border at the v. Lojane near Kumanovo, and they are still waiting to enter Macedonia. They have immediately received the help in blankets and food from UNHCR, and 11 busses are waiting to transport them to the camps. However, the Government of RM has allowed enter for only 400 refugees, explaining that there is no place in the camps anymore. This is released on the today's press-conference of UNHCR. REFUGEES "According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, until today, 139.100 people are registered in total, and 45.280 of them are sheltered in the camps: in Stenkovec 33.611, in Bojane 4.865, in Radusha 1.857, in Neproshteno 4.190 and in Senokos 557 people" - stated the Ministry of Information. The largest number of refugees is been hosted in families in Macedonia. On the UNHCR's press-conference the numbers of the refugees were presented, as showed in the table below: 20.04.99 According to UNHCR In the cities in Macedonia 1 STENKOVEC 12,600 Skopje 24,000 2 BRAZDA 25,000 Tetovo 30,000 3 RADU[A 1,500 Struga 5,500 Radu{a gath. Centre 400 Gostivar 5,000 4 BOJANE 3,200 Others 16,500 5 NEPRO[TENO 3,300 6 SENOKOS 550 Total in CAMPS 46,550 Total in HOUSEHOLDS 81,000 About 15 refugees have asked for health services in the Skopje's clinics. >From yesterday, 6.673 refugee-children are involved in the regular primary school education system in Macedonia, mostly in Gostivar, Tetovo and Skopje. The high school classes are attended by 490 refugee-children, and 52 children are involved in pre-primary education system. The pupils are only attending the classes, which is been evidented. The UNHCR is helping by delivering tables, chairs and notebooks, and the Soros Foundation is providing a meal for the pupils. According to the school officials, 80 more teachers should be engaged for a normal functioning of the classes, which will be financed by the UNHCR. Refugee centres The Ministry of Civil Constructionwork and NATO have started constructing the new refugee camp in Chegrane. 20 platforms are already prepared and tents are being posed for sheltering 15-20.000 refugees. The camp will be ready till Monday. UNHCR is considering opening of new camps for the Kosovo refugees in Spain and Sweden, and is negotiating with Great Britain for transporting refugees who need medical treatment. In the camp Neproshteno the refugees have organised primary school, and 150 children attend it. Nato will definitely hand over the camp to International humanitary organisations tomorrow. On Monday the vaccination of children refugees will start. Air bridge, evacuation According to UNHCR, with the evacuation of the refuges, about 30.000 persons have left from Macedonia. 15.500 of them left in Albania by busses, others by plane in Germany (10.000), Turkey (3.000), Norway (1.100), Belgium, Austria, Croatia, France, Iceland, Israel, Poland and Switzerland. ACTIVITIES The Macedonian Red Cross had a meeting yesterday with the representatives of the Searching Service, that together with International Red Cross Committee, and in cooperation with local and city organisation of Red Cross is working on the registering and reuniting the closest members of the families, stated Macedonian Red Cross. Macedonian Red Cross continues with distribution of humanitary help in food, hygienic issues and other things, provided by UNHCR, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, UNICEF and other donators, according to the world standards established with food program. The Macedonian Red Cross got humanitarian help from Slovenian red Cross, in 110 T of food, 7 T of pasta and blankets from the Bulgarian Red Cross, tents from Germany and 4.374 food parcels from Kuwait Red Crescent, that are distributed in the camps Stenkovec, Bojane and Radusha, says Macedonian Red Cross. Together with the delegation from Saratowian area of the Russian federation, second humanitary shipment arrived in Macedonia. The help consists in few T of food and medical issues. The delegation stated that the federation is ready to get 50.000 Kosovo refugees from Macedonia. CRS in their statement on their activities from 19.04.99, informs on daily activities in the camp Stenkovec 1 (Brazda). Referring the security, 40 more Nato soldiers are engaged to patrol in the camp. For solving the garbage problem, 10.000 bags are given out to the refugees and one trunk will collect the garbage every day. Major problem in the camp is distribution of the food. Considering the fact that there are 25.000 people in the camp, long rows are being formed. Opening of more points for distributing the food is planned, for speeding up the matter. During the last days, because of the low temperatures, caritas and CRS have given more blankets for the refugees. Greece will not take any refugees from Kosovo, but will give 2 million $ for helping the refugees in Macedonian camps and 2.5 billion drs. for supporting Macedonia and Albania, stated yesterday the deputy prime minister for national economy of Greece. , Aleksandros Baltas. Nikola Parapunov bb l P.O. Box 835 l 91000 Skopje l Republika Makedonija Tel.: 091/365 381 l Faks: 091/365 298 l E-mail: mcms@informa.mk l www.mcms.org.mk ------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