We are confident that the Bahamians will carefully consider any claims for protection consistent with international standards and ensure that no bona fide refugee is returned to Cuba.
We continue to hear from refugees ... a number of accounts of different kinds of crimes and atrocities, including recently that Serb forces are burning or destroying the bodies of their victims.
They have the rights of refugees for a year. Our first priority is ... the refugees who have family members in the United States who want to take them in. Second, there may be Kosovar Albanian-Americans willing to take them in even if they're not family members.
In many ways, the flight of refugees from Kosovo is increasingly a flight from hunger.