[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 15, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S7019]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TAIWAN'S HUMANITARIAN AID TO KOSOVO

  Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I would like to recognize the important 
contribution Taiwan has made to the international effort to provide 
humanitarian assistance to the refugees of Kosovo. Taiwan recently 
announced that it will grant $300 million in an aid package to the 
Kosovars. The aid package will include emergency support for food, 
shelters, medical care, and education for Kosovar refugees who were 
driven from their homes and forced to live in exile. In addition, I am 
pleased that Taiwan has offered short-term accommodations for Kosovar 
refugees in Taiwan along with technical training in Taiwan to help the 
refugees be better equipped for the restoration of their homeland upon 
their return.
  Slobadan Milosevic initiated a brutal and calculated effort to rid 
Kosovo of ethnic Albanians and fracture Europe. The United States and 
its NATO allies moved quickly and decisively to stop the massacres of 
innocent women and children inside Kosovo, and the international 
community joined the effort to provide relief to the hundreds of 
thousands of refugees who fled homes burned by Yugoslav police.
  Over two months of NATO bombings resulted in the withdrawal of all 
Yugoslav military and police from Kosovo and Milosevic's acceptance of 
a NATO-led peacekeeping force to secure Kosovo for the refugees return. 
The rebuilding and recovery efforts that are now beginning in Kosovo 
will take many years and many resources. Taiwan has contributed 
significant financial and technical resources to this effort. However, 
more importantly, Taiwan's generous actions should give comfort to the 
people of Kosovo that the world's leaders will help them through this 
difficult time.

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