11.   Tajikistan, unable to feed its own people, cannot afford a refugee wave and President Emomali Rakhmonov has vowed that no refugees will be allowed in.

12.   Havana has also expressed irritation that US sanctions imposed during the latest refugee wave had not yet been lifted.

13.   Havana has expressed irritation that US sanctions imposed during the latest refugee wave had not yet been lifted.

14.   Alarcon expressed irritation with the fact new US sanctions imposed during the latest refugee wave had not yet been lifted, and threw in a thinly veiled threat.

15.   Among his concerns were the possibility of a massive Haitian refugee wave flooding the United States, drug trafficking in Haiti, and US economic interests.

16.   The Russians have taken control of the capital Grozny and other main towns after heavy fighting that has created a refugee wave of hundreds of thousands of people.