HL Deb 22 June 1999 vol 602 c68WA
The Earl of Sandwich

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many refugees are still receiving international support in Serbia. [HL2959]

Baroness Amos

With the exception of the Red Cross, most international organisations working with refugees withdrew their staff from Serbia at the start of NATO's air campaign. The international and local Red Cross movement is continuing to assist 225,000 particularly vulnerable refugees from the conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia, in Serbia.

Since re-establishing a presence in Kosovo, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has dispatched relief convoys to 10 municipalities in Serbia to assist some of the 50,000 internally displaced Serbs from Kosovo. UNHCR has not been asked to assist other refugees.