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<title><![CDATA[UN High Commissioner for Refugees welcomes Albanian offer of humanitarian admission for 210 residents of Camp Hurriya, Iraq]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, today welcomed a generous offer by the Albanian Government of humanitarian admission for 210 residents from Camp Hurriya in Iraq to Albania.
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pre-screening in Albania helps identify new arrivals in need of protection]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Albania has implemented an innovative procedure to conduct preliminary screenings of people who enter the country illegally. It helps identify foreigners in need of assistance and aims to reduce the chance of persons being removed, perhaps unlawfully, from Albania.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feature: Albanian artists return home, ending exile for exhibition]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After spending years abroad, 23 Albanian artists have returned to their homeland to stage "Colours of Albania in the World", a thought-provoking exhibition on human suffering and dignity.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Integration in Albania: No longer a pipe dream]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A Kosovo Albanian who is making the best of his new life in Albania.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR welcomes constitutional changes extending Albanian's rights in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR Friday welcomed constitutional changes guaranteeing civil rights to the ethnic Albanian minority in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. On Thursday High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers warned of further population displacements if the August peace accord is not implemented immediately.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FYR of Macedonia: 2,000+ head home]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ At least 2,000 residents of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have headed back to their homes over the past few days, after fighting died down in the north of the country. Only a handful of people...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: thousands on the move]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Several thousand people are on the move in and around the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia following clashes between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. Over the past six...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> More than 4,400 refugees and displaced people returned to Kosovo last week, about 3,100 of them from countries outside the Balkan region and the rest from Montenegro, Albania,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> Around 4,700 refugees returned to Kosovo last week from countries in Europe, North America and Oceania and another 1,400 went back from neighbouring territories. Of the returnees...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> Around 4,700 refugees came back to Kosovo last week from countries outside the Balkan region. Returns of displaced people and refugees from countries in the region dropped sharply...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> More than 755,000 Kosovars have returned to Kosovo since the deployment of KFOR troops in the Serbian province in mid-June. Of this total, 714,000 returned from neighbouring countries...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Funding</strong> Contributions to UNHCR's 1999 Kosovo emergency operation have now reached $262.8 million, or 79 percent of the revised budget of $332.9 million. The largest donors are the United...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 6 Aug 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> Nearly 90 percent of the over 850,000 ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo during the war have returned to the Serbian province. Around 715,000 have gone back from neighbouring territories...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> The first repatriation flight into Pristina is scheduled for today, organized by IOM, with around 150 returnees flying into Slatina airport from Switzerland. Daily repatriation...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>UNHCR present at Stability Pact summit</strong> UNHCR is represented by its Assistant High Commissioner Søren Jessen-Petersen, at the Sarajevo meeting of the Stability Pact for the Balkans region....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Consolidated appeal</strong> On 27 July, the United Nations launched its revised consolidated appeal for the Southeastern Europe Humanitarian Operation, defining the financial needs of 12 U.N....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Returns</strong> Just 4,527 refugees returned from neighbouring countries over the 3-day period 23-25 July, while returns from abroad gathered pace. No repatriation flights took place on Sunday,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Kosovo Session of ECOSOC</strong> UNHCR's Special Envoy to the Kosovo region, Mr. Dennis McNamara, who is also the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Numbers</strong> Returns over the two-day period (19-20 July) numbered just over 6,500. An effort is underway to verify the number of refugees and displaced people remaining in Albania, Bosnia...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kosovo Crisis Update]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Funding</strong> The U.N. will issue its revised consolidated appeal for the Kosovo emergency and post-Dayton operations early next week, on the eve of the first donors' conference for Kosovo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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