PRESS RELEASE (1999)47 4 April 1999

NATO DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL TO VISIT ROMANIA, BULGARIA, THE FORMER
YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA(*) AND ALBANIA

In view of the current crisis in Kosovo, on behalf of the Secretary General
General of NATO, the Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Ambassador Sergio
Balanzino, will visit Romania, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia1 and Albania on 5-7 April 1999.

During his visit, he will meet with the authorities of these countries and
NATO troops in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia1. He will also
meet with the Commander of ARRC, General Sir Mike Jackson, and will view at
first hand the refugee situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia1 and Albania.

The tentative agenda of the Deputy Secretary General's visit is attached at
annex.



MEDIA ADVISORY
(not for publication)

The agenda of this visit is subject to change.

For more information on the Deputy Secretary General's visit, members of
the press should contact the NATO Press and Media Service, tel.(32)-2-707
50 41. During the visit they should contact the Officer for Southern and
Eastern Mediterranean Countries at NATO, Mr. Nicola de Santis, GSM phone:
(32)-75-23 04 06 (from Belgium 075-23 04 06).

(*) Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name

Annex to
Press Release(99)47


TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL'S VISIT TO ROMANIA,
BULGARIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA1 AND ALBANIA


Monday, 5 April 1999

10.30 Arrive Bucharest
(Meetings with the President of Romania, Emil Constantinescu, the Acting
Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Victor Babiuc and the Foreign
Minister, Mr. Andrei Plesu.)

14.00 Press Conference (time and place to be confirmed)

15.00 Depart Bucharest

15.35 Arrive Sofia
(Meetings with government officials: President Petar Stoyanov, Prime
Minister Ivan Kostov, Foreign Minister Nadezhda Mihailova, Defence Minister
Gueorgui Ananiev)

18.30 Press Conference (time and place to be confirmed)


Tuesday, 6 April 1999

08.00 Depart Sofia

07.30 Arrive Skopje (local time)

08.00 Briefings by COMARRC.

10:00 Meetings with President Kiro Gligorov, Prime Minister Ljubco
Georgievski, Foreign Minister Aleksander Dimitrov, Defence Minister Nikola
Kljusev

12:30 Press Conference at Hotel Intercontinental, Skopje (time to be
confirmed)


14:00 Visit of Brazde refugee camp
(time to be confirmed)

16.00 Depart Skopje

16.30 Arrive Tirana (local time)

17.00 Meetings with President Rexhep Mejdani, Prime Minister Pandeli
Majkom, Foreign Minister Paskal Milo, Defence Minister Luan Hajdaraga

19.00 Press Conference (t.b.c.)


Wednesday, 7 April 1999

09.00 Visit to refugee camp at Kukes

12.00 Transfer from Kukes to Tirana

15.00 Depart Tirana