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Author:  Associated Press (US)  

Publisher/Date:  September 10, 1999  

Title:  George Soros funding Kosovo education system to help create Balkans 'free-trade zone'  

Original location: http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990910/V000010-091099-idx.html

TIRANA, Albania (AP) -- American financier-philanthropist George Soros promised Friday to donate money to rebuild destroyed schools and print textbooks for children in the neighboring Yugoslav province of Kosovo.

The Hungarian-born Soros, who arrived to Tirana on Thursday, said he would be traveling on to Kosovo to discuss the project.

The billionaire has been funding a similar project in Albania.

The Albanian government has strongly supported a proposal by Soros to establish a free-trade zone in southern Europe, which would include countries of former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova.

``We'll have a new vision for this region,'' Soros told reporters in Tirana. ``This is the only way to avoid conflicts.''

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