Beni Celo, almost in prison
Faces a 10-year sentence. Also under investigation for the Cërrik massacre
The American solution.
BY BLENDI FEVZIU
The third rush for the fate that Tirana is taking on. Ambassador Gelbard, President Clinton’s envoy for the Balkans, has carried out another well-received mission, unlike what the ministers of that government are doing to understand the crisis in Kosovo. If American diplomacy were to recognize the Albanian and Kosovar reality once and for all, “The US cannot treat us as another nation for [sense?].” With this statement, at the end of yesterday’s press conference held in Tirana, Prime Minister Nano did more than clarify the government’s stance on the crisis in Kosovo. He openly reminded the international factor, and especially the Washington administration, that the crisis is Albanian and not Serbian, regardless of the name they may give it. By dismissing, in an irresponsible formulation, the views of Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, the truth is not new to him. The old prime minister’s vocabulary had long since fallen out of use, and apparently he always kept it for difficult days. Despite the fact that during March 1 and 2 of last year, only the “Durrës Agreement,” according to the first words of the socialist government, as a reality of the first diplomacy, halted the shift toward the crisis in Kosovo. First of all, American diplomacy could not be in cafés in Tirana, where one sees and is familiar with everything. The case seems very distant and in this way, in the first hours of the parliamentary clash, it set the new flowers in motion. The Americans will have more work to do with everything that has come out of the Durrës table. Waiting now, and only now, the Albanian prime minister appears opposed to this orientation of the socialist government. FOR P. 7
Photo GENTI SHKULLAKU