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Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> ---------------- Original message follows ---------------- From: Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> To: syndicate@aeca.at Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:20:41 +0200 Subject: Fw: -- Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> Subject: Daily Update 22.04.99 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:23:18 +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 Thursday, April 22, 1999 EXCERPT .The Vice-president of the Government stressed out that the state of direct war danger should not be declared...Will the humanitarian assistance be distributed to the host families that have sheltered refugees?... The refugees from Lojane and Malino are transferred to the camps...The health condition of the refugees is good in general...USA has still decided to accept 20.000 Kosovo refugees from Macedonia...New shipments of humanitarian assistance arrived in Macedonia... SECURITY SITUATION Referring to the announcement given by the President of Republic of Macedonia about declaring a state of a direct war danger, the Vice-president of the Government, Miss Dosta Dimovska, stated that: " Our state is functioning, all the institutions of the system are functioning, the situation is mostly stabile, so such a statement (of the President) is not in correlation with the real condition at all". Also, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Pavle Trajanov was precise claiming that " there aren't any conditions to declare a pre-war or a war state in Macedonia". According to the announcement of the Ministry of Information of RM, several conclusions have come up on yesterday's meeting of the Crisis Headquarters, that was also attended by the UN Vice High Commissioner for Refugees. On this meeting, the ways of improving the cooperation between the UNHCR and competent institutions of RM were discussed. Also, it was agreed that the delivery of the humanitarian assistance to the host families where the refugees are sheltered should start. The assistance will be provided by the UNHCR, and will be distributed by the Red Cross of Macedonia. Yesterday, the Minister of Defence, Mr. Nikola Kljusev has demanded from UNHCR to cover the expenses that Macedonian enterprises and state institutions have concerning the sheltering of humanitarian assisted persons. UNHCR intends to pay $1 million in advance for the construction of the camps, but the Minister Kljusev thinks that this is not enough and that the expenses should be covered fully and in due time REFUGEES The people from Kosovo, that have entered Macedonia in the last few days trough the illegal passages near the villages Lojane and Malino are dislocated, stated the Vice-secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. Aleksandar Doncevski. He also stressed out that until yesterday at 9:00, 4.183 people were sheltered, 800 in Blace, and the rest in Stenkovec and Brazda. About 1.300 people are still in Lojane. The transferring of the refugees from the v. Malino is more difficult because of the inaccessibility of the terrain. Concerning that, a help in vehicles is been asked from NATO and it has been confirmed as well. The registration of the people from Kosovo that are hosted in the families is still in processing. Although, it is estimated that the number of the people that should attain the status of humanitarian assisted persons is 80.000,until now only 70.241 people have attained it. The Vice-minister of Health Care, Mr. Muharem Negipi, stated yesterday that the health condition of the humanitarian assisted persons from Kosovo in the camps is generally good , with an increased number of respiratory infections. To retain this situation, the consistence of the population in the camps should be reduced, which means that in the camps should not be sheltered more than 15.000, the humanitarian units should be settled and the garbage should be removed. Also it was stressed out, that it is necessary to remove the people with new born babies from the camps to families. There aren't any occurrences of mass infective illnesses. According to the information of the Republic's Health Care Institute, the laboratory analysis did not show any infective illnesses among the refugees. The completing of the teams that will, together with UNHCR, vaccinate the refugees in camps and the ones hosted in families, is in processing. According to the Ministry of Health Care, since the beginning of the refugee wave, 30 persons have died and 104 babies were borne so far. The Minister of Education ,dr.Nenad Novkovski stated for MIA, that the teaching of the refugee children will be performed in the organized way, and he also insisted on gathering as many children as possible. Air Bridge The process of evacuation of the refugees from Macedonia during the last days is decelerating. The Crises Headquarters asked for all the camps to be transit centers and the announced quotes for sending the refugees in other countries to be obeyed. If the announced quotes are fulfilled, 110.000 people from Kosovo would leave Macedonia. Unfortunately, only 29% of the announced quotes are effectuated so far. USA have decided to give temporary status " refugees" to about 20.000 Kosovo refugees that are staying in RM now, informed the western agencies. The plan that predicts sheltering the refugees with their families already living in the USA, or with the families who have volunteered to host them, is still into consideration Their sheltering will be temporary, and after the war they will be returned to their homes. USA have previously given up the idea of temporary sheltering of 20.000 Kosovo refugees in the American military-marine base Guantanamo in Cuba. 402 Kosovar refugees were transported yesterday to Belgium, Poland and Turkey. Camps Table according to UNHCR CAMP Assisted persons 1 STENKOVEC 1 (Brazda) Tr.cen. 29,300 2 STENKOVEC 2 Tr.cen. 12,800 3 BOJANE Camp 3,200 4 NEPROSTENO Camp 3,300 5 RADUSA Camp 1,500 6 SENOKOS Camp 550 7 RADUSA (baracs) Gat.cen. 400 8 CEGRANE Camp 0 TOTAL 51,050 At the camp Bojane there are 4.200 humanitary assisted persons at the moment. The Turkish Red Cross(TRC) is in charge of the camp. All the refugees are having tents, blankets and mattresses. There is a camp kitchen as well, where the refugees are getting hot meals. So far 12 builded and 24 field toilets are placed in the camp, and 40 in total are planned. MCIC and Norwegian Church Aid are starting with placement of 40 showers. The teams of Skopje Health Center and TRC are taking care of the people's health in the camps. It must be stressed out that great deal of the refugees in the camp are throwing the powder milk procured by TRC, as well as the blankets that are too thin or wet from the rain. There are 50 trunks with humanitarian help from Turkey, and TRC is already expecting the arrival of 18 more. The contains of 11 of them will be given to the Macedonian Red Cross. Today TRC have given to the Macedonian Ministry of Health medicaments and other medical issues 100-150.000DM worth. ACTIVITIES MCIC Yesterday MCIC teams have urgently distributed 2 trunks of food (4.500 breads, 1.400 kg. sausages and 4.500L of milk) in the villages Tanushevci and Malino, where during the last days, few thousands people from Kosovo have arrived , through the Vitina region (FR Yugoslavia), illegally passing the border near the village Malino(RM). Other organizations CRS and Caritas are continuing with daily distribution of food in Stenkovec, procured by World Food Programme. In order to reduce the smuggling in Stenkovec, yesterday, the canteen was supposed to start working. Yesterday, 13.5 T of humanitary help in food for adults and babies have arrived in Skopje, thanks to the food processing industry " Podravka" from Croatia, stated The Embassy of R .Croatia in Skopje. Also , yesterday at the passing Bogorodica, 27 trunks of humanitarian help, mainly tents, blankets, sleeping bags, flower and beans, from Austria, Greece, Holland and Bulgaria have entered Macedonia from Greece. 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