BONN CONFERENCE ON KOSOVAR REFUGEES ENDS

BONN, April 1 (Hina) - The killing and exile of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo is not an expression of spontaneous Serb anger due to NATO attacks on FR Yugoslavia, but is a cold-blooded planned campaign which began at the end of this February, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said in Bonn on Thursday at the end of a conference on humanitarian aid and stability in the southeast of Europe. The conference gathered foreign ministers of the European Troika -- Germany, Austria and Finland, as well as from Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Slovenia and Hungary. Also participating were European commissioners Emma Bonino and Hans van den Broek, chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Knut Volleabek and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata. As the wave of refugees from Kosovo struck Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro the most, participants of the conference agreed a fund should be urgently established to assist these countries. The European Union is taking on this commitment. Necessary is also an urgent coordination of all relevant international organisations, individual countries and non- government organisations to provide and distribute humanitarian help, primarily food, medicaments and makeshift camp equipment. Fischer said an European Commission mission must urgently be sent to Albania and Macedonia so it could determine further ways of providing assistance. The international community is also concerned about the humanitarian situation in Kosovo where the delivery of assistance is currently impossible. Emma Bonino returned on Thursday from a visit to Macedonia and Albania. She said Europe was observing the same model of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with regard to which she mentioned several towns in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bonino said Serbian troops had given a new momentum to the policy of ethnic cleansing, explaining the Serbian army and paramilitary troops were closing refugees in trains travelling from Pristina to the Macedonian border. The refugees are stripped of their identification so they would not be able to return, she added. So far about people have been exiled in this way. Macedonian Foreign Minister Aleksandar Dimitrov requested urgent assistance for his country into which, as he said, about refugees have found refuge so far, and another are expected to arrive still. He expressed with some western countries would assume some of the load. Participants of the conference said refugees must remain in the region, because of the wave of refugees extend to western countries, their return would be made less possible. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nadezda Mihajlova agreed refugees should not expand to other countries because it is the destabilisation of the region that is the goal of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. With the campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out in Kosovo, Mihajlova stressed Milosevic was also waging a psychological war presenting NATO as the aggressor and Serbia as a victim. (hina) lml