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USA: KOSOVO'S ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER DR BUKOSHI AT CAPITOL HILL
English/Nat
U-S envoy Richard Holbrooke is expected to meet Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic again on Wednesday, in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to avoid a NATO attack.
The United States has threatened military action...
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ALBANIA/UK: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
English/Nat
A mini international summit has been held in London to discuss the conditions and requirements for the successful return of refugees to Kosovo.
Although hundreds of millions of dollars in aid is being made available by the...
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Albania - Vote Rigging Denied
President Sali Berisha denied on Thursday (30/5) that voting
irregularities had influenced the outcome of Sunday's general
election in Albania.
gvs street
newspapers laid out on stand and people passing by
President Sali Berisha English...
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Albania - Berisha speech
Albania's opposition leader Sali Berisha said Tuesday (29/09) the resignation of Socialist Premier Fatos Nano was not enough and demanded a "technical" government be set up to arrange new elections.
WS rally outside Democratic Party...
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ALBANIA: DURRES: MULTINATIONAL SECURITY MISSION: ITALIAN TROOPS ARRIVE
English/Nat
More Italian troops arrived in the western Albanian port of Durres Sunday, to join the implementation force already in the country.
European countries are sending 6-thousand troops to Albania. Some 3-thousand-500 have...
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Albania - Refugees
Concern is growing in Albania how to accommodate the thousands of refugees that are crossing into the country to escape the conflict in Kosovo, according to relief agencies on Saturday (13/06). One group of about 40 refugees trekked down...
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Albania-Arrival Italian troops to join task force
More Italian troops arrived in the Albanian port of Durres on
Saturday (19/4) to join the Italian-led multi-national task
force.
The force, which will ultimately number 6,000, is intended to
secure the safe delivery of international aid...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: PRESIDENT SALI BERISHA REAFFIRMS HIS POSITION
English/Nat
Albanian President Sali Berisha reaffirmed, Sunday, that he will not stand aside - despite calls for his resignation from rebel leaders in the south.
Rebels hold him responsible for unrest in the country - prompted by the...
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Albania - Kosovan refugees/Aid Red Cross
As Kosovan refugees continued to flood over the border into northern Albania on Sunday (07/06), the International Red Cross began a massive programme of food distribution to affected areas. Around 50,000 members of the ethnic Albanian...
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ALBANIA: HUGE INFLUX OF REFUGEES & NATO TROOPS
English/Nat
Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, is struggling to cope with the huge influx of refugees and NATO troops.
Albania has already taken in over 300-thousand refugees who've fled Kosovo and now it has to play host...
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Kosovo - Security operation continues
The Serbian security operation against Albanian "terrorists" in central Kosovo was still under way Saturday afternoon (7/3), a Serbian Interior ministry official said. The Drenica region, a 300 square kilometre (120 square mile) triangle...
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ALBANIA: POLIO VACCINES ARRIVE FOR EMERGENCY VACCINATION PROGRAMME
Albanian/Nat
The first load of polio vaccines has arrived in the poverty-stricken country of Albania where there is a serious outbreak of the disease.
Twelve Albanians have so far died and up to 78 are infected by the disease which is ...
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Albania - Berisha update
The Albanian parliament on Friday (18/9) voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of opposition leader Sali Berisha, paving the way for his arrest and prosecution on charges of leading a coup. The vote came after more than three thousand...
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Minister dismisses allegations in Del Ponte book
1. Wide exterior of Kosovo government office building
2. Close of sign reading: (Albanian/Serbian/English) "Republic of Kosovo, Ministry of Justice."
3. Kosovo's Justice Minister, Nekibe Kelmendi, at desk in office
4. SOUNDBITE...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE
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United Nations aid workers in Macedonia say they are witnessing a systematic mass expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.
At the Blace border crossing, refugees piled into an overflowing temporary camp, some so exhausted...
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ALBANIA: PRESIDENT BERISHA TO RESIGN IF SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT ELECTED
English/Nat
Albanian President Sali Berisha announced on Wednesday that he will resign in the event of a Socialist government.
His announcement comes after the Socialists apparently won victory in Sunday's parliamentary election.
At a...
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ALBANIA: PRESSURE ON UNHCR TO MOVE REFUGEES
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Despite increasing pressure on the U-N-H-C-R to move refugees away from the Albanian border, the agency says its attempts to move ethnic Albanians are proving unsuccessful.
Camps in Kukes are overcrowded and dangerously...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: PROTESTS AGAINST CRACKDOWN ON ETHNIC ALBANIANS
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Albania's Prime Minister Fatos Nano has issued a rallying call to ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, following a weekend of violence in which 20 people were killed.
Nano's call coincided with a large pro-Kosovo rally attended...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: OSCE DELEGATION CRISIS PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
An international delegation has criticised both the Albanian opposition and government for their part in rioting this week that threatened to topple the elected leadership.
Officials of the Organisation for Security and...
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ALBANIA: MULTINATIONAL SECURITY MISSION: ARRIVAL OF TROOPS UPDATE (3)
Spanish/Nat
Spanish troops joined their French and Italian counterparts in the multi-national security force arriving in the Albanian port of Durres.
The troops, part of a vanguard to protect aid distribution in the region, were...
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WRAP NATO delays membership for Ukraine, Georgia, family photo, Putin arrives
1. Wide of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General (++part overlaid with shots of audience++):
"Therefore we agreed - we of course the heads of state in government - that an invitation to the...
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Opposition protesters call for PM Berisha to quit
1. Mid of Albanian police outside Prime Minister Sali Berisha's office, Albanian flag in background
2. Mid of policeman giving out orders
3. Wide of row of policemen holding shields and helmets
4. Wide of protesters holding flags and...
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WRAP NATO delays membership for Ukraine, Georgia; Croatia PM
1. Wide of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General (++part overlaid with shots of audience++):
"Within the framework of the United Nations, many actors have worked hard to resolve the name...
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Gaza - Albanian Prime Minister meets Arafat
Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano arrived in Gaza City on Thursday (12/03) for a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. The two leaders discussed recent developments in the West Bank
and in Kosovo. Following the...