AP adds UNDP yesterday launched a trust fund to help Albania and Macedonia recover and rebuild from the Kosovo refugee crisis. Meanwhile the Guardian reports Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia are in imminent danger of economic and political collapse from the Kosovo crisis, according to a leaked Nato document published in the Greek newspaper Ta Nea yesterday. A few hundred ethnic Albanian refugees made it to Macedonia yesterday, the first known sizeable group of people to cross the border in six days, reports Reuters . They dodged Serb forces whose massacres they said they had witnessed in Drenica on their way to the border. The border is now officially open although Macedonian authorities effectively closed it a week ago.
Local authorities view such mountain crossings as illegal.
Local people showed the secret crossing point on the condition its exact location was not revealed. Dimitrov said Macedonia would create 20,000 new camp spaces by extending existing camps, and by building a new one. He also said his country would keep letting in all those fleeing what the West calls ethnic cleansing in the Serb region of Kosovo. About 150 reluctant Kosovo Albanian refugees were taken to a refugee camp in southeast Albania from camps in Macedonia overnight, officials said yesterday, reports Reuters . The group left Macedonia in three buses Monday as the first group in a planned relocation of several thousand refugees to Albania.