Yesterday, the opposition party SDSM had hold a press conference so they can inform people about the protests, that has to be hold today in the downtown "Makedonija". In these protests, they expect al lot of citizens from Skopje and other parts of Macedonia to be present. But, SDSM is removed from all the actions that can change the task of protest. According to the spokesman of this party, everything is already organized so the protests can be hold and according to the stenography only the president of the SDSM, Branko Crvenkovski, will spoke to the crowd, despite the fact that in the meeting will also participate some small parties.

Yesterday, in Macedonia were arrested five Serb from Macedonia, because they are suspected for the explosion that happened in the NATO truck before the "Gazela" factories. The forester of this factory that was also engaged in this terrorist act is still in hiding. Two members of the Yugoslav defense forces advised this act. The Minister of Interior, Pavle Trajanov, declared this in yesterday’s press conference of this Ministry.

According to the officially information given by Operative Staff of the Ministry of Interior (MVR), until yesterday 13 o’clock about 1.633 refugees from the borderland of Bllace left Macedonia and went to Kosovo. 362 of them had the regular documents, 891 had the status of humanitarian cared persons with green card and 351 refugees had an identity card given by UNHCR. According to the UNHCR until yesterday 14 o’clock, 4.000 refugees left Macedonia from the borderland of Bllace, while 4.683 left Macedonia from the Jazince borderland. Now about 169.000 refugees are settled in Macedonia, while using airlift 88.602 refugees were transferred to third countries.

According to the minister of Interior Trajanov, the organized return of refugees must began in July 1, so 5.000 or 10.000 refugees will be returned daily in Kosovo.

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The aid of 881.000 dollars dedicated to the textile capacities in Macedonia, will be exploited by three firms that have a long-term cooperation with the American corporation Liz Claiborne - Mokel from Bitola, Astibo from Shtip and Oteks from Ohrid. American Corporation should gave materials for 250.000 shirts and pants for refugees, in which 3.000 textile workers from Macedonia will be engaged. According to the plan these clothing articles should be prepared from the August and September and should be dispatched in October.

A lot of school girls and boys and also a lot of student refugees that are settled in Gostivar should travel to Tetovo, so they can go to school, some of them in medical school and some of them in the university. But, because the lot of them does not have money they might not go to school. So the students organization ILIRIDA, almost two and half months helps them with the financial means. According to the vice-chairman of this organization until know they distributed means to 200 schoolboys and girls and also to the students.

The H.O. "Mother Teresa" from Struga, today have sent 5 tons humanitarian aid in the village of Vranovc, in the Veles municipality where are settled more than 80 Albanian deportees from Kosovo. This is the first humanitarian aid for these refugees.