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PRISTINA -- About 35,000 ethnic Egyptians have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija through the ethnic Albanian separatists' genocidal policy, backed by the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and the U.N. civilian mission to the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's province (UNMIK), a provincial official said Friday.
In a talk with Egyptian charge d'affaires in Belgrade Bashem Khalil, Cerim Abazi of Kosovo and Metohija's provisional executive council said that, before KFOR's deployment to the province, more than 100,000 ethnic Egyptians had lived there, said a statement issued by the association of ethnic Egyptians in the province.
He said that a large number of them had sought refuge in Macedonia, Montenegro, other parts of Serbia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden.
Ethnic Egyptians who have remained in the province are denied the right to free movement, their lives are threatened and they do not even receive humanitarian assistance, he said.
Khalil pledged to help create conditions for the return of all expelled from Kosovo and Metohija and ensure relief aid deliveries to those who need it most in the province.