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To: JBL who wrote (8910)	5/18/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

It is no way they can wait into the winter, so the entire crisis must be "resolved" by July-August at the latest... Macedonia president wants to move 100,000 Kosovans 09:56 a.m. May 17, 1999 Eastern SKOPJE, May 17 (Reuters) - Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov said on Monday up to 100,000 Kosovo refugees should be moved out of his country. ''It is important for the international community to take refugees out -- 100,000 refugees,'' Gligorov said during a visit to the Bojane refugee camp. Macedonia, a small impoverished former Yugoslav republic of 2.2 million people, has campaigned hard to reduce the number of refugees it is sheltering, now estimated at 230,000. It says it cannot cope with the burden economically and the West has to do more to help. It also says that the influx threatens political stability. Under Macedonia's pressure, nearly 50,000 people have been taken to third countries, but Gligorov said it was not enough. ''It is being done every day but so far we are far away from the numbers we agreed upon a month ago,'' he said. Macedonia has been in talks with Albania -- which has over 430,000 refugees but says it will take in as many as is needed -- to accept up to 60,000. A camp for 6,000 is ready in Albania but the UNHCR refugee agency, which says no one should go against his will, has so far transferred only a handful of Kosovans there. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.