71.   The United States has demanded the camps be closed and the people sent home.

72.   The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the host countries will meet in Geneva in March to discuss a new deadline for closing the camps.

73.   Turkey demanded that Syria close the camps.

74.   Zairian officials have threatened in the past to close the camps completely.

75.   He added the aim of gradually closing the camps would be to repatriate Rwandans and Burundi from Zaire.

76.   Horne also discounted a poor public practice Tyson had last week, saying the camp was closed this week so Tyson would have no workout distractions.

77.   In the past, Turkey, which is demanded the camp be closed, has bombed sites where it said PKK fighters were active.

78.   Instead voluntary returns would be encouraged in particular by acting against Hutu extremists who were preventing the refugees from going home and gradually closing the camps.

79.   It has said the camp is closed to the press because of the risk of booby traps rigged by Palestinians defenders.

80.   After Tanzania announced its decision to close the camps, tens of thousands of refugees fled in the opposite direction from Rwanda in an effort to escape forced repatriation.