51.   European Union foreign ministers struggled Monday to find the best way to send and protect emergency aid shipments to Albania.

52.   Food stocks are perilously low in the capital because of a Serb blockade of U.N. aid shipments.

53.   French Defense Minister Alain Richard, who was visiting the air base, said that French humanitarian aid shipments would increase in the coming days.

54.   Greece sent its second aid shipment in a week.

55.   He said before departure that the EU had not ruled out deployment of a police force to somehow protect aid shipments.

56.   He said the six-member delegation wanted to gather information and unblock stalled humanitarian aid shipments for victims of the fighting.

57.   He later instructed Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu to oversee the aid shipments personally.

58.   However, according to the U.N. agreement with Uzbekistan for moving aid, only U.N. international staff and U.N. humanitarian aid shipments are allowed to pass into Afghanistan.

59.   Humanitarian aid shipments are expected to move from southern Uzbekistan to Afghanistan in the coming weeks.

60.   In Miami, Brothers to the Rescue, a volunteer fliers group that searches for Cuban rafters, was organizing aid shipments to the camp.