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[Agron Alibali]

[11] Karamanou tables question on security of Greeks
in Albania
STRASBOURG, 07/07/2000 (ANA - Y. Zitouniati)
PASOK Eurodeputy Anna Karamanou on Thursday tabled a
question to the Council of Ministers and the
Commission at the European Parliament regarding the
protection of the Greek minority in Albania. 
The tabling of the question was prompted by a rocket
attack on the night of July 3 against the ethnic Greek
inhabitants of the southern Albanian village of
Dervitsani from the nearby Lazarati village, which is
considered as a refuge for many Albanian criminals. 

Karamanou points out that the attack was not the first
against members of the Greek minority in the country,
and Albanian police seems unable to apprehend the
culprits. She asks the Council and the Commission to
inform her of the political moves and the measures
they intend to promote to increase security in the
area. 

[12] Albanian parliamentarian calls for lifting of
state of war between two countries
GJIROKASTER, 07/07/2000 (ANA - P. Barkas)
The President of the Albanian Parliament's Permanent
Foreign Affairs Committee Sabri Godo called on
Thursday for the lifting of the state of war between
Albania and Greece by the Greek Parliament as a
precondition to solving other problems, which will
lead to an improvement in relations between the two
countries. Godo was speaking after a committee
meeting, which discussed relations between Greece and
Albania for two-and-a-half hours. 
Foreign Minister Paskal Milo made an extensive
proposal at the meeting of the Permanent Foreign
Affairs Committee on relations between the two
countries. 

"The law on the state of war between Greece and
Albania is still valid and it has been officially
confirmed. This constitutes a big irrationality for
the reason that improved relations exist between the
two countries in the economic sector but, above all,
in the military one," Godo said. 


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