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To: BillCh who wrote (1893)	4/6/1999 5:26:00 AM
From: BillCh	Respond to of 17770

Last night, NATO said no refugee flights were yet planned as the discussions with the Macedonian Government were still continuing. NATO's plans were blocked on another front yesterday after it moved 5000 people from the border at Brace to a new transit camp built in 24 hours by British NATO forces. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said none of those people had been moved on because of Macedonian government bureaucracy. NATO and the UNHCR are now convinced that a second huge wave of refugees is about to engulf Macedonia, further increasing the pressure. UNHCR spokeswoman Paula Ghendi said the inability to move refugees out of the transit camp was "really very frustrating" and that a new catastrophe loomed unless procedures could be established to more rapidly move refugees on. In Albania, Kosovo refugees continued to pour into the country yesterday as aid operations got into full swing. Stunned by the lack of planning by the UN and NATO, the Albanian Government has taken over co-ordination of the relief operation, which will involve up to 8000 NATO troops. "The UN could have predicted this disaster. We did. We didn't expect it to be so big but it doesn't take a genius to see that if you start a war, there will be refugees," said a spokesman for the Tirana Government.