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Concern in Albania over repatriation agreement
Several Tirana dailies wrote on 30 January
that Albania will have difficulty carrying out its recent agreement with
Germany to help repatriate 100,000 refugees from Germany to Kosova. "Gazeta
Shqiptare" argued that the Albanian police do not have the manpower
to protect the convoys of refugees from probable attacks by armed bandit
gangs, dpa reported. Elsewhere, an Albanian Defense Ministry spokesman
said that Germany has sent $3.5 million worth of military equipment to
Albania "in recent years." Observers note that much of it comes
from stocks of the former East German army. PM
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