01.07.99
SECURITY SITUATION
The British princes Ana, in Friday will visit Macedonia and Kosovo, declared the spokesman of Buckingham Palate. She will visit the British military units and she will also meet the President of Republic of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov. Prince’s Ana is the only doughtier of the queen Elizabeth, and is the first member of the British queen’s family, that will visit Kosovo, after the NATO forces pull out of province the Serbian forces.
THE REFUGEE NUMBER
About 145.000 refugees from Macedonia, went to Kosovo with the self organization, stressed the Ministry of Interior (MVR) and they also estimated that the refugee camps next week maybe totally empty. 5.000 refugees left Macedonia the day before yesterday, while 7.000 kosovar refugees left Macedonia yesterday, mostly in the borderland of Bllace and Jazince. MVR and UNHCR stressed that 15.000 refugees are still settled in the camps. The situation is same with the refugees settled in families.
CAMPS
The camps in Macedonia, during yesterday are intensively emptying, so momentary in canopy are settled about 20.000 humanitarian cared persons. According to the UNHCR, camp Stenkovec 1 will be officially empty in July 3. Ten buses of "Proleter" yesterday have returned about 410 refugees to Kosovo. The half of refugees was from the camps of Bojane, Radusa, Cegrane and Neprosten and they were going in Pristina, while 200 refugees were transferred to Urosevac.
SUPPORT
The two clubs "Lions" (from Skopje and Gazi Baba) gave humanitarian aid in amount of 16.500 dollars to the Macedonian Red Cross. The president of the club Lazar Lazarov and the president of the Macedonian Red Cross, Ivan Narashanov these days visited the commune organization of the Red Cross in Gostivar and gave this humanitarian aid for the refugees of Cegrane camp.
The Rehabilitation Center for children’s of Kosovo "Pueblos Fraters", that is the non-government organization, works in Tetovo in cooperation with the Association of Albanian women’s - branch of Tetovo, the UNHCR, the Commune of Tetovo etc. Even that this is a non-government organization is financed from the Spanish government. Until now about 1.000 children visited this organization, while 200 children’s are coming every day.