Resolution on Kosovo is approved
In the U.S. House of Representatives
Yesterday afternoon, the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress approved a resolution concerning Kosovo.
This, among other things, called for the rights of the people of Kosovo, urging President Clinton to talk with Belgrade in order to end Serbian violence against Kosovars.
The resolution approved yesterday by the House of Representatives for Kosovo foresees U.S. engagement in support of those rights. Its text was initiated by two American lawmakers, Tom Lantos and Eliot Engel, both of Albanian origin, who noted that the resolution represents the unity of the efforts of the Albanian-American community in support of the rights of the Albanians of Kosovo.
“This is an important step for the Kosovo issue,” said the spokesperson of the Albanian-American National Committee, Mark Gjonaj.
The resolution strongly argues that the fundamental principles of democracy and human rights must be applied equally to the Albanians of Kosovo and that without them there can be no lasting peace in the Balkans. It also stresses that only the involvement of the United States in resolving the Kosovo issue can change the rigid stance of the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, toward Kosovo.
Specifically, the resolution asks the American government to support Kosovo’s autonomy and to stop Serbian police violence against Albanians. It also calls on the government in Belgrade to отменить? annul the declaration of a state of emergency in Kosovo and withdraw security forces from the regions of Kosovo.
It further requests that a delegation from the U.S. Congress be sent to Yugoslavia to study the Kosovo problem, especially ethnic discrimination against Albanians living in Yugoslavia.
Socialists seem to have returned to real politics
Nano “forgotten” on the anniversary of his imprisonment
The other prisoner of Nano appears to have been making politics with the most common accusations, with which an Albanian prisoner can make business, in order to secure the attention of those for whom he has been welcomed by his representatives.
On the 10th anniversary of Fatos Nano’s imprisonment, the socialists seem to have abandoned their usual political accusations and adopted a more realistic stance. However, although the opposition has indeed undergone a significant change in its approach toward the majority, this does not mean they are ready for serious cooperation with one another.
What is happening in the Socialist Party is far from its bitter past with the leaders of the Communist Party of Albania, when it too was under harsh government scrutiny. Now, their positions are shifting more because of the state than because of other parties, but this change is not yet clear.
Fatos Nano and the socialists have tried to pursue a politics different from that of the Democratic Party, which had cut off communication and the possibility of dialogue with them. Meanwhile, the opposition has decided not to trust the government anymore and has taken a harder line against it.
According to the article, the stance of Nano and the socialists remains unclear because of the lack of a clear strategy; they are aware that to have influence they must be present on the political scene and not remain outside it.
Tirana: The disciplinary trial of Milošević begins
Yesterday in the Court of First Instance in Tirana, the trial began, opposed by the Communist Party of Albania, against the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević.
“I think of the family members killed by the police; I felt happy when I saw the killers in court,” said one of the survivors of the Podujeva massacre during the trial in the Court of First Instance in Tirana. The journalist from Rrëshen, 54-year-old Islamerije Gega, 43-year-old and Krista Mosko, 43-year-old,
7-month investigation. We are not sure a party, they protested far from allies in Europe and in their interaction with the EU, which they considered an enemy of the country. “Albania is the only solution for Albania, starting also from the collapse of communism,” said the general secretary of the Communist Party of Albania, Qamil Leka, during a long conversation with the media about this process. In 1992, the chairman of the Communist Party of Albania, Hysni Milloshi, had been removed from its leadership because he was accused of ties with the Communist Party of Albania that had not gone through courts. The investigations into their killing in Kosovo began in 1992 as well as in Tetovo, in Macedonia, during police and state actions in Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. The aforementioned petitioners, with first and last names discussed, had clearly been organized in such a way that they were not sure whether they had survived or not.
