As in Albania, the ethnic-Albanians in Macedonia, who may number up to 35% of the 2.2m population, have been doing their best to look after their destitute cousins.
On the foreign front, Mr Berisha sensibly made sure that, despite large and restless Albanian ethnic minorities in Serbia and Macedonia, Albania proper kept out of the Balkan cockpit.
KUKES, Albania (CNN) -- Ethnic Albanian refugees seeking shelter from the war raging in neighboring Kosovo are coming under increasing pressure to move out of crowded border camps.