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Sunday, September 09, 2001, updated at 15:13(GMT+8)
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More Refugees Return to Macedonia From Kosovo, Says UNHCR

More than 4,000 refugees have returned to Macedonia from Kosovo during the last two days, said the United Nations refugee agency Saturday in Kosovo's capital of Pristina.

Astrid Van Genderen, a spokeswoman for the Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said that about 2,050 refugees went back to their Macedonian homes on Friday and more than 2,000 on Saturday, reported local media.

Since the political situation has been turning for better, those refugees had "a positive feeling" and they felt it was time to go back, said Genderen.

The refugees, who fled to the Yugoslav province because of the insurgency in Macedonia, continued to return home because of the lifting of a roadblock set up two weeks ago by Macedonian protesters on the main road connecting Kosovo with Skopje, capital of Macedonia.

Later on Thursday, the Macedonian parliament approved a key peace deal which was of importance to the NATO's weapons collection from ethnic Albanian rebels in this former Yugoslav Republic.

Up to now, more than 42,000 Macedonian refugees have already returned to Macedonia from Kosovo while more than 30,000 refugees were still in ethnic Albanian dominated Kosovo, added the spokeswoman.







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More than 4,000 refugees have returned to Macedonia from Kosovo during the last two days, said the United Nations refugee agency Saturday in Kosovo's capital of Pristina.

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