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ALBANIA: NATO APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTERS AT TIRANA
English/Nat
The first batch of six U-S Apache helicopter gunships arrived in Albania on Wednesday, signalling an escalation in NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia,
At least two-dozen of the low-flying, anti-tank helicopters are...
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Former Kosovo PM cleared of war crimes leaves Netherlands, home village reaction
Rotterdam, Netherlands
1. Wide pan of former Kosovan Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj leaving airport building on foot with others
2. Various of small plane taking off
Glodjane, western Kosovo
3. Wide of Haradinaj family home
4. Hilmi...
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KOSOVO: RUGOVA ATTEMPTS RESCUE OF PEACE PROCESS
Eng/Albanian/Nat
The race is on to try to rescue Kosovo's collapsed peace process.
The new chairman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O-S-C-E), Knut Vollebaek, on Tuesday met with representatives from both...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST (2)
Albanian/Nat
As refugees continue to trickle from Kosovo across the border into Albania, the humanitarian effort to move refugees away from the most overcrowded camp continues.
Radio announcements instructed displaced Kosovo Albanians...
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Albania - EU mission arrives
A European Union "consultative mission" arrived in the Albanian capital, Tirana, on Wednesday (26/3) for a one-week fact finding mission to the strife-torn nation.
plane landing at Tirana airport
EU delegation walking across...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: MULTINATIONAL FORCE HAVE AUTHORITY TO USE FORCE
Italian/Nat
Italy's Defence Minister says the multinational force arriving in Albania will have the authority to use arms if they are attacked or roads are blocked.
Beniamino Andreatta arrived in strife-torn Albania on Saturday to...
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Two election officials shot and wounded as voting starts
1. Ilir Meta, Socialist Prime minister at polling station
2. Various of Meta voting
3. Old man looks through list of voters and checking for his name
4. Polling Commission monitors in polling station
5. People registering to vote
6....
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Overloaded boat sinks in lake, 16 dead
Lake Farka, 5 km from Tirana
1. Wide of restaurant where party was held next to lake
2. Pan of lake
3. Part of wrecked boat in water
4. Deserted restaurant
5. Rescue boat with Albanian flag
6. Wide of lake
7. Capsized boat floating...
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USA: KOSOVO'S ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER DR BUKOSHI PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
As diplomats urge Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end his crackdown in Kosovo, one of the province's ethnic Albanian leaders is calling for air strikes.
On Wednesday Dr Bujar Bukoshi spoke to journalists in...
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WRAP No quick path for Georgia, Ukraine; talks to begin on Macedonia
AP Television
1. Wide of NATO flag
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Giorgos Koumoutsakos, Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"Greece it believes, that whenever a problem between an aspirant country and a member country persists it would be not...
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Kosovo Deputy PM invites Russians to be "more positive" as independence looms
1. Exterior of Kosovo government building
2. Mid of Deputy Prime Minister walking
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lutfi Haziri, Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo:
"U.S President's statement yesterday on Kosovo came on right time. We do believe...
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MACEDONIA: U-N-H-C-R AID CONVOY READY TO ENTER KOSOVO
English/Nat
The United Nations refugee agency is making preparations to send a huge convoy of urgent aid into Kosovo.
The U-N-H-C-R was refused entry into the Serb province during the 78 days the conflict lasted.
The U-N-H-C-R says it's...
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Albania - Italian troops arrive
International mediator Franz Vranitzky announced on Thursday (17/4) that Albania's warring political parties were ready to stage a general election. Vranitzky was in Tirana for talks with political party
chiefs and senior government...
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ALBANIA: AID AGENCIES PREPARING TO HELP REFUGEES
English/Nat
As NATO troops gear up to enter Kosovo, aid agencies are making frantic preparations for the mammoth task of helping hundreds of thousands of refugees return home safely.
The United Nations has issued an urgent new plea to...
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ALBANIA: EU ATTEMPTS TO MEDIATE CRISIS SITUATION CONTINUE
English/Nat
Attempts to mediate the situation in Albania by European groups continued Friday.
A delegation from the Council of Europe met separately with President Sali Berisha and opposition leaders .
Afterwards, the vice chairman of...
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ALBANIA: POTENTIAL FOR TOURISM ON UNDEVELOPED COASTAL REGION
Albanian/Nat
The Albanian government is waking up to the tourism potential of its undeveloped coastline.
Decades of Stalinism and isolation kept the former Eastern bloc country free of tourism and preserved some of the most attractive...
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ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF MAN SHOT DEAD IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
English/Nat
The funeral has taken place of an Albanian who was shot dead amid mysterious circumstances in the capital, Tirana.
The authorities say Eduard Kullolli was killed in a personal quarrel.
His family say he was the victim of...
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WRAP Ivanov handshake with Jung, Solana on Kosovo; ADDS Albanian FM on Kosovo
1. German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung and Russia's FIrst Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, entering room for photo opportunity, zoom in to Ivanov and pan to Jung
2. Wide of Ivanov and Jung
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Solana,...
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Death toll rises to 11 in wake of ammunition dump explosions
1. City centre
2. Albanian flag
3. News stand
4. Newspapers
5. Close up of newspaper headlines
6. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Dule Hoxha, Vox Pop:
"This has been a big tragedy and it's politics' responsibility. All Albanians have been...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
A group of 1-thousand 500 refugees crossed into Albania from Pusha in Yugoslavia late on Saturday.
One man who fled the Kosovo village told APTN that Serb forces had given them an ultimatum to fight against the Kosovo...
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ALBANIA: KUKES: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST (2)
English/Nat
Aid agencies trying to cope with the huge influx of Kosovar refugees into Albania say their work is being hampered by rough terrain and poor security.
Refugee camps in Kukes are stretched to breaking point trying to cope with...
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ALBANIA: KLA VOLUNTEERS FIGHTERS ARRIVE AT DURRES (V)
Natural Sound
Kosovo Albanian emigres from Germany, France and the United States, with no military experience, are flooding into Albanian.
They hope to join the Kosovo Liberation Army and fight against the Serbs.
In a matter of days,...
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ITALY: BRINDISI: FOREIGNERS ARE EVACUATED FROM ALBANIA
English/Nat
The U-S, Italy and Britain have evacuated hundreds of foreigners from Albania as the country slides towards total anarchy.
Four U-S military helicopters flew 51 Americans out of Tirana and brought them aboard a warship in the...
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FRANCE: YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PM DRASKOVIC PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
Yugoslav Deputy Premier Vuk Draskovic has accused Kosovo Albanians of trying create an ethnically pure state - an effort he said was reminiscent of the Nazis.
He said the ethnic Albanians were trying to derail the peace...