The flood of refugees back to their homes in Kosovo has continued: the United Nations refugee agency said more than thirty-three-thousand ethnic Albanians had crossed into the province on Monday alone, mainly from Albania and Macedonia.

Camps at Kukes, in northern Albania, which last week were packed with refugees, are now almost deserted and are being dismantled.

Serbs have also been returning to Kosovo from Montenegro, where up to seventeen-thousand are believed to have sought refuge when the Yugoslav army withdrew from Kosovo last week.

Italian NATO troops have been escorting small convoys of cars to the town of Pec, where the returning Serbs are staying. A UN official, who has just returned from Kosovo, described Pec as a burnt-out shell, but said the situation in Prizren and Pristina was better.

He also warned that a survey of schools made the UN's aim of getting all Kosovan children back at school by September-the-first look increasingly ambitious.