BBC World Service
Thursday, 26 October, 2000, 14:57 GMT 15:57 UK

Appeal for Yugoslavia
refugees

The United Nations refugee agency has warned
that seven-hundred-thousand displaced people
in Yugoslavia need urgent help to survive the
coming winter months.

The agency, the UNHCR, is appealing for
twenty-million dollars for blankets, beds and
fuel, after lack of funds forced it to cut its aid
programmes.

The money will go to refugee centres in Serbia
and Montenegro, where Serbs and others
displaced from Kosovo and from earlier
conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina are
now living.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service