Shea said there were "very alarming" reports that Serb soldiers who had been pushing ethnic Albanian refugees across the borders of Kosovo into Albania and Macedonia were now pushing them back into Kosovo.

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For Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Macedonia the joke is that they are getting not progress but stagnation reports.

ECONOMIST: The Balkans and Europe

The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday that more than 170, 000 Kosovo Albanians have left Albania and Macedonia in the last week to return to their homes -- which may or not still be there.

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The same goes for the other bits of the old Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro) plus Albania.

ECONOMIST: The EU and the western Balkans

Alas, the convulsions in Kosovo could easily involve neighboring Macedonia and Albania, nearby Bulgaria and perhaps even Turkey and Greece.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Mr Simitis says Greece will take in 5, 000 Kosovo Albanian refugees but will concentrate on helping refugees in Macedonia and Albania itself.

ECONOMIST: Orthodox��but unorthodox

There is hopeful talk in western capitals of making more of new friendships with a younger generation of politicians that were forged or consolidated in the heat of the Kosovo war: for instance, Pandeli Majko and Ljupcho Georgievski, respective prime ministers of Albania and Macedonia, and Nadezhda Mihailova, Bulgaria's foreign minister.

ECONOMIST: Ending conflict in Kosovo | The

Financed by the European Union, this project aims at encouraging, assisting and accelerating media reforms in the South-East European countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and Kosovo (under UNSCR1244).

UNESCO: Communication and Information

The Skopje roundtable was the first in a cycle of national events, which will take place in each country participating in the programme: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and Kosovo.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES