INTERVIEW / SHKELZEN MALIQI: MACEDONIA AT A CROSSROADS, DEPENDS ON ITS NEIGHBOURS “The protests in Skopje, this is not the time for ethnic war. The Arabic flags were not brought in by the secret services. Transparency about the convictions of Albanians” RAMA’S ADVISER “Gruevski should present the evidence” “The protests in Skopje, this is not the time for ethnic war. The Arabic flags were not brought in by the secret services. Transparency about the convictions of Albanians” By FATMIRA NIKOLLI If Gruevski wants a stable Macedonia, then he must make more effort so that the prob- lems in Skopje are resolved through dialogue.” This is what Shkëlzen Maliqi, adviser to Prime Minister Edi Rama on the region, says in an interview for “GAZETA SHQIPTARE” about the situation in Macedonia. While stressing that the Macedonian prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, should reveal the key facts that the Skopje court used in sentencing the six Albanians in the “Monster” case, he notes that there is a certain mystification around this process. During the interview, he dwells on the declarations of the VMRO- DPMNE party against Rama, but he does not fail to criticize also the positions of the BDI. And while coming out against the protest note that official Skopje sent to Tirana and Pristina, he recalls that the Prime Minister of Albania is not paternalistic and does not seek to orchestrate the politics of Albanians in Macedonia. To the question of why Albania remains passive and does not threaten, ... On page 6

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