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A parliamentary delegation of the German Green Party headed by Steffi Lemke was received Monday by the Yugoslav Minister of Development, Science and Environment Nada Sljapic and Minister for Refugees, Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Aid Bratislava Morina.
The delegation, which represents the Greens wing that had condemned the recent NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, discussed with Yugoslav ministers the effects of the aggression on the population, economy and environment in Yugoslavia.
Sljapic singled out among the many effects the shortage of medicines and medical equipment, and frequent power cuts which have damaged medical equipment in hospitals.
She also spoke of the difficult situation in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, where attacks by terrorist "KLA" are endangering the lives of Serb doctors and preventing them from working, and underlined that Serb patients cannot count on help or professional knowledge of ethnic Albanian doctors. Patients in need of blood dialysis have been denied treatment in the province, she said.
The Greens delegation expressed at their meeting with Morina their condemnation of the NATO aggression and its use of inhuman weapons.
Morina pointed to the devastating effects of the nearly three months of bombardment - the loss of lives and the destruction of economic facilities - and noted that about four million Yugoslavs were living in extremely difficult conditions.
The most serious problem Yugoslavia is facing is providing aid and accommodation to nearly 700,000 refugees from the former Yugoslav republics and to the over 200,000 persons displaced from Kosovo-Metohija, Morina said quoted by a Yugoslav information ministry statement.