Kosovo Albanian refugees who spent several months in France and Ireland have been returning home.

French authorities said that the first one-hundred-and-eighty Kosovars there have been flown to Pristina, and more will follow this month. The French Labour Minister Martine Aubry, said that most of the six-and-a-half thousand refugees still in France want to return; but that many were waiting for the situation at home to improve before they go back. In Dublin a group of one hundred ethnic Albanian Kosovars flew to Pristina today from where they would be transported to their homes.

The United Nations says that more than seven-hundred-and-twenty-thousand people who fled Kosovo during the military conflict have so far returned home.