SARAJEVO, May 18 (Hina) - Almost 60,000 refugees, registered by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, have arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina so far, UNHCR spokeswoman Wendy Rappeport said in Sarajevo on Tuesday. The largest individual
group is made of refugees from Sandzak, a Yugoslav region bordering with eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, of whom there are 21,000. The number of Albanian refugees has reached 20,000, of whom only one third have arrived in Bosnia over the past two months. Albanians and Muslims, along with about 650 Serbs, have been accommodated on the territory of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim entity, while some 17,600 Yugoslav Serbs found refuge in the Bosnian Serb entity. Refugees from Yugoslavia are still arriving. Last week, between 700 and 800 refugees arrived every day in Sarajevo, of whom 30 to 50 had no accommodation whatsoever, Rappeport said. The largest number of ref
SARAJEVO, May 18 (Hina) - Almost 60,000 refugees, registered by the
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, have arrived in Bosnia-
Herzegovina so far, UNHCR spokeswoman Wendy Rappeport said in
Sarajevo on Tuesday.
The largest individual group is made of refugees from Sandzak, a
Yugoslav region bordering with eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, of whom
there are 21,000.
The number of Albanian refugees has reached 20,000, of whom only one
third have arrived in Bosnia over the past two months.
Albanians and Muslims, along with about 650 Serbs, have been
accommodated on the territory of Bosnia's Croat-Muslim entity,
while some 17,600 Yugoslav Serbs found refuge in the Bosnian Serb
entity.
Refugees from Yugoslavia are still arriving. Last week, between 700
and 800 refugees arrived every day in Sarajevo, of whom 30 to 50 had
no accommodation whatsoever, Rappeport said.
The largest number of refugees are still accommodated in their
relatives' and friends' homes although collective refugee centres
had been set up in both entities.
UNHCR continues to provide food packages and monthly allowances of
DM60 per refugee.
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