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Article: UNHCR Seeks 353 Million Dollars for Bosnian Refugees
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has
appealed for 353 million U.S. dollars for its 1996 operation in
ex-Yugoslavia, focusing on the return of more than 800,000 refugees
and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The money is part of an 823-million-dollar appeal launched by 11
agencies through the 1996 U.N. Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for
the region.
Programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina will make up nearly 197 million
dollars of UNHCR's 1996 budget. The agency is planning to phase out
emergency assistance for the 2.4 million current beneficiaries within
the republic and to divert funds mainly to the return and relocation
of refugees and IDPs. Just under 110 million ...