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Article: UNHCR Begins Organized Return of Kosovar Refugees
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 29, 1999
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) began
the organized repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Kosovar
refugees by taking over 300 from camps in Macedonia to their homes
in
Kosovo's provincial capital of Pristina on Monday.
The 325 returnees from Stenkovec refugee camps 1 and 2 north of
the Macedonian capital of Skopje made their return trip aboard 10
buses organized by the UNHCR and the International Organization for
Migration, said a UNHCR press release available Tuesday.
"Returning refugees is always the most satisfying part of our
work," said Dennis McNamara, UNHCR's Special Envoy for the former
Yugoslavia and Albania. "But it is also a major challenge when you ...