Subject: News - Sat, 21 Aug 1993
From: zarros@turing.scs.carleton.ca (Theodoros Sp. Zarros)

        Athens News Agency Bulletin, August 21, 1993
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	Athens, 21/8/1993 (ANA):   Greece has offered to accept 500
sick and wounded evacuated from Bosnia, the foreign ministry
said in a statement yesterday. It said the ministry had informed
the UN High Commissioner for Refugees that Greece would accept
500 wounded for treatment at local hospitals. The logistical
details would be worked out later, the statement said. A UNHCR
announcement earlier this week said that more than 17 countries
had made 1,250 firm offers to evacuate sick and wounded Bosnians
but these figures are dwarfed by the refugee tide from the
Balkans conflict area. The 16-month Bosnia crisis, stemming from
the break-up of the Yugoslav federation, has killed tens of
thousands and created two million refugees in Europe's worst
humanitarian crisis since World War II.