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KOSOVO/MACEDONIA: NATO TROOPS PATROL BORDER (2)
English/Nat
As the airstrikes continue over Yugoslavia, NATO troops are patrolling the Kosovo/Macedonia border.
Large numbers of refugees have been crossing the border and arriving in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, looking for...
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MACEDONIA: BALKAN COUNTRIES LEADERS SUMMIT (2)
English/Nat
Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski has officially convened a Balkan summit in Skopje, saying it heralded the beginning of "truly historic times".
Heads of government from Balkan countries began arriving in the Macedonian...
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FYR Macedonian President Trajkovski meets with Sec Powell/Powell pledges support for Skopje govt.
1. Macedonian President President Boris Trajkovski with U-S Seretary of State Colin Powell at the State Department photo opportunity
2. Cutaway
3. Wide shot of Powell and Trajkovski outside State Department.
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin...
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Dramatic pix of new Macedonian offensive
Matejce village
1. Wide shot of tanks on the move
2. Wide shot of village with smoke rising
3. Mid shot of tank firing
4. Wide shot of shell hitting house
5. Wide shot of tank firing
6. Wide shot of shell hitting roof of house
7. Mid...
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Brigata Sassari troops prepare for departure
1. Various shots soldiers marching
2. Various shots soldiers being briefed for mission
3. Blackboard with rules of engagement written on it
4. Soldiers walking
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sergeant Christian Corda, 152nd Sassari Infantry...
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ITALY: DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS SCARE LATEST
French/Italian/Nat
Valery Melis is one of the Italian soldiers who contracted leukaemia after serving in a Nato mission in the Balkans.
He can't say if the roots of his disease are from his time in the Balkans, where he served as a...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Hundreds of refugees from Kosovo crossed into Macedonia on Tuesday, amid reports that thousands more are on their way to the border.
Following Monday's mass arrival of 3-thousand refugees, the border between the two...
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Macedonia: Morning: Tetovo recovering from overnight fighting
Natural Sound
Macedonian Slavic officers defending the country's second largest city from ethnic Albanian rebel assaults dismissed the insurgents' predictions of victory on Tuesday, saying they'll fight to the end to defend the...
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MACEDONIA: ACTOR RICHARD GERE TOURS REFUGEE CAMPS (2)
English/Nat
American actor Richard Gere arrived in Macedonia Wednesday, to tour refugee camps and see conditions there first hand.
Gere, an active human rights campaigner first, toured the Brazda camp, before heading on to meet with...
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GERMANY: US PRESIDENT CLINTON MEETS FREED POWs
English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton has met the three American P-O-Ws freed over the weekend by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
President Clinton is currently in Germany and met the trio and their families at the Ramstein Air...
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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs concert to mark 100th anniversary of WW1
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo on Saturday to commemorate 100 years since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an event which triggered World War One.
Thousands...
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Kosovo: Tension: KFOR patrol recaptured Albanian stronghold
English/Nat
Macedonian troops drove ethnic Albanian gunmen from their stronghold on the border with Kosovo on Thursday, the defence ministry said.
American troops in Debelde confirmed the insurgents had fled, taking their weapons with...
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ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: AID ARRIVES FOR REFUGEES (V)
English/Nat
Humanitarian aid supplies from NATO countries are arriving in Albania, where the capital's airport has become the centre of this massive relief operation
Military teams from the U-S and France flew in on Sunday with supplies...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE (2)
English/Nat
NATO is studying ways and means to put together and manage a major airlift of humanitarian supplies into Albania and Macedonia to help deal with the thousands of Kosovo refugees.
The alliance is working out how to use...
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(V)KOSOVO: DIPLOMATS LEAVE PRISTINA AS TALKS WAVER
English/Nat
Kumanovo and Skopje airport, Macedonia - 19 February 1999
Kumanovo, 35 kms northeast of Skopje
0.55 Various of British troops in training exercises using live ammunition
The last members of the U-S KDOM (Kosovo Diplomatic...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: CHILDREN
Albanian/Nat
The Kosovo conflict, and subsequent refugee crisis, has provided the world with innumerable images of despair, sadness and heartache.
In many cases, the human face of that suffering has been young children, crying, worried...
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Macedonia: Night: Macedonian army fire at rebels in hills
English/Nat
Fighting between government troops and ethnic Albanian rebels sent residents scurrying for cover on Sunday on the outskirts of Tetovo, Macedonia's second-largest city.
Only a handful of people, and a few cars with their...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: PROTESTS AGAINST NATO ATTACKS
Eng/Macedo/Nat
Yugoslavia's neighbours placed their armies on alert on Thursday, following the NATO airstrikes against Slobodan Milosevic's regime.
The most immediate worry was the possibility of a flood of refugees fleeing Serbia and...
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Wrap, new pix of military seizure of rebels' weapons, tanks in area & earlier hillside pix.
Kalle, near Tetovo - March 27 2001
1. Soldier waving car driving up hill
2. Police checkpoint with trucks carrying back destroyed police vehicle
3. Various of mountain fort which was allegedly stronghold of Ethnic Albanian fighters
4....
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MACEDONIA/KOSOVO BORDER: REFUGEES RETURNING HOME
Albanian/Nat
The first ethnic Albanian refugees returned home to Kosovo from Macedonia on Monday.
They follow closely behind the 14-thousand-3-hundred allied troops who have entered Kosovo in the three days since the international...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: BONINO ARRIVES TO ASSESS SITUATION
English/Nat
The European Union's top humanitarian aid official has arrived in Macedonia to assess how the influx of Kosovar refugees is being handled there.
Emma Bonino told reporters in Skopje on Saturday that she was there to look at...
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MACEDONIA: PRAYERS AS CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE EASTER
Eng/Macedo/Nat
Macedonia's orthodox Christian community celebrated Easter on Friday night against a backdrop of continued NATO bombardment.
Many used the time to donate money for refugees and to sign anti-NATO petitions.
At the main...
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UK's largest military aircraft arrives in Macedonia
1. Wide shot of tarmac as KFOR vehicle passes
2. Plane coming in to land
3. Plane taxiing
4. Wide shot plane at standstill and door open
5. Troops on pan standing by
6. Mid shot doorway of plane showing equipment inside
7. Wide of plane...
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Update on NAT0-Macedonia meeting
Skopje
1. President Boris Trajkovski talking to NATO delegation including Major General Gunnar Lange, NATO commander in Skopje and NATO's special Balkans envoy, Pieter Feith
2. Close up Trajkovski
3. Lange (on right), Feith (in middle)...