The United Nations refugee agency said today it was "deeply disturbed" by reports that Macedonian Slavs were fleeing ethnic Albanian areas of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, "a development that recalls some of the darkest days of the past decade in the Balkans," according to the agency.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today expressed concern over the stalemate in negotiations in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia between the Government and the country's ethnic Albanian community.
Reflecting continuing uncertainty over peace prospects, some 300 people have returned to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from Kosovo while close to 200 left the country for the province, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed "increasing concern" at the continuing rejection by border officials of people returning without valid passports from Kosovo to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Thanks to relative calm along the border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo, fewer people are fleeing their native lands and some are returning home, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported today.
