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Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> Subject: MCIC daily update on situation 24.04.1999 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:16:01 +0200 Organization: MCMS/MCIC X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MACEDONIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION DAILY UPDATE ON SITUATION IN MACEDONIA Saturday, April 24, 1999 EXCERPT ...Another bunker with weapons and munitions discovered...The damage of Macedonian economy is worth 800 million DEM until now...According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are more than 170.000 Kosovo refugees in Macedonia...Turkey will accept 10.000 refugees more. SECURITY SITUATION Macedonian police has discovered an improvised bunker in Radovishka Krasta near Struga where 31 automatic guns and 56.000 peaces of munitions 7,62 made in China were hidden. It is supposed that the weapons and munitions are illegally brought in Macedonia. Before few days, another bunker was discovered with bombs and munitions, near this place. According to the Labour Union of Macedonia, the damages of Macedonian economy have reach over 800 million DEM. BORDER During yesterday, at border passages Blace and Jazince, 1.264 Yugoslav citizens who enter Macedonia were registered, among who 1.071 entered at Blace and rest at Jazince. According to the Macedonian border and military officials, during the last days 179 Yugoslav citizens have illegally passed the state border. REFUGEES According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, till yesterday, 170.033 refugees, who were registered, have entered Macedonia. It is supposed that, lots of the refugees are still not registered. Only 24.928 Kosovo refugees have been transferred to other countries, and 50.982 are humanitarian assisted in the camps in R.Macedonia. 78.471 Kosovo refugees have attained the status of humanitarian assisted person. The Yugoslav citizens who have illegally entered Macedonia, are now in the area of the villages Malino and Brest. Their registration started yesterday, and 351 people are transported by trucks, first to the village Lipkovec then to the transit center Stenkovec. Camps The Macedonian government has given a green light to UNHCR for identifying locations for new camps and extending of the currently existing ones. In the camp, a canteen and a kiosk were opened and 3 telephone lines, besides the already existing 10, were installed as a donation of Catholic Migration Committee, Catholic Relief Services and Caritas- Germany. One tent with 25 tables and 50 chairs was also placed, where the classes will be conducted for 150 children from first to forth grade of primary school by 50 teachers from the camp and 5 education experts from UNICEF. Until now, 452 refugees from Stenkovec 1 and 2 were reunited thanks to the Red Cross of Macedonia. Air-bridge Approximately 300 people per day are transported trough the air-bridge. Yesterday, 323 refugees were transported abroad, among who 164 to Turkey and 159 to Austria. Today, it is expected that there will be one flight to Austria, two to Turkey, one to Netherlands and it is still not confirmed about the flight to Great Britain. ACTIVITIES MCIC The teams of MCIC and Norwegian Church Aid, will make the plans for sanitation of the new camp in Chegrane today, together with the UNHCR and Technische Hilfwerke. In the camp Bojane, the digging for instalment of showers and improving of the sanitation is in processing. Other organisations UNICEF has sent food, blankets, mattresses, clothes, hygienic and baby products, canisters and pills for cleaning of the water to the new arrived refugees who are temporarily sheltered in Blace and Stenkovec. The Turkish President, Mr. Sulejman Demirel stated today for CNN that Turkey will accept 10.000 more refugees from Kosovo. According to Demirel, Turkey will build camps for 10.000 refugees in Macedonia and Albania as well. Including this last efforts of the Turkish Government, the number of people who will be humanitarian assisted by Turkey will reach 50.000. The Canadian Government, stated yesterday that they will offer 30 million Canadian dollars more as a humanitarian assistance, so till the end of the crisis this assistance could reach the amount of 100 million Canadian dollars. Until now Canadian Government has provided humanitarian assistance worth 59 million Canadian dollars. At the airport Petrovec, 107.884 kg of humanitarian assistance arrived yesterday by 5 planes. It is mainly consisted of food, medicines and other products for the Kosovo refugees sheltered in Macedonia. The assistance arrived from Cairo, England and Germany. According to the information from the airport, humanitarian assistance from Austria is been announced for today. A seminar was held in the Ministry of Health Care, for the medicine teams of Health Centers from Skopje, Tetovo and Gostivar and the medicine teams of the humanitarian NGOs who will execute the action for immunization of the children in the camps in cooperation with IMC, UNICEF and WHO. About 9.000 children from 0-47 months old will be vaccinated with the following vaccines: BSG, DTP, OPV and MPR. The refugee-children sheltered in the families will be vaccinated after finishing of the action in the camps. UNICEF is publishing brochures concerning the vaccination, which are distributed in the camps. Yesterday, one part of the medicines and sanitation issues that have arrived as humanitarian assistance were distributed to the medicine centers in Tetovo, Bitola, Kichevo, Kumanovo, Struga, Debar, Gostivar, Skopje to the Clinic Center-Skopje and NGO " Mediciens du Monde" as well, stated the Ministry of Information of RM. The spokesman of NATO in RM Eric Mignot, informed that from the beginning of the refugee crisis, 4.800 T of humanitarian assistance arrived in Macedonia. ------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