[ALBSA-Info] Kosova and Albania's politicians

[Asti Pilika]

Mashtrim ose naivitet...

Sigurisht qe segmente te caktuara politike jane kunder
vizitave te politikaneve te anes se kundert te
spektrit nga pertej kufirit.  Kjo nuk do te thote se
vizitat e ndersjellta te politikaneve nuk i duhen
Kosoves a Shqiperise.  Kjo do te thote te ndalohet
artificialisht kembimi i mendimeve mes shqiptareve.
Budallallek! Nje nderprerje e tille iu intereson vetem
te huajve, ndaj Kushneri nuk ngurroi te ndalonte
viziten e Berishes ne Kosove. Ama nje keshill
nderpartiak i mbledhur per te organizuar viziten e tij
beri nje deklarate te forte proteste kunder ketij
vendimi antishqiptar te kreut te UNMIK-ut.

Keshtu eshte puna, pavaresisht nga deklaratat
gazetareske te zz. Haxhiu, Llazebeu, e Rraxhimi. Ka
nje ndryshim thelbesor mes mosvajtjes se Nanos e
Berishes ne Kosove. I pari vendosi te mos shkonte, i
paralajmeruar per nje pritje te ftohte, se afermendsh,
Kosoven e kishte shitur me kohe. I dyti u ndalua,
sepse, si duket, pritja do t'i behej me e nxehte nga
c'e deshironte Kushneri e te majtet.



--- Kreshnik Bejko <kbejko at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  Why Albania Politicians Are Not Welcome to Kosovo
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> TIRANA - The chief editor of a leading Prishtina
> daily said in a television 
> interview two weeks ago that both opposition leader
> Sali Berisha and the 
> leader of the ruling Socialist Party, Fatos Nano,
> were not welcome in 
> Kosovo.
> “It would be good for Kosovo if Berisha and Nano
> would not come to Kosovo,” 
> said Baton Haxhiu, the editor of Koha Ditore said in
> an interview to private 
> TV channel Klan.
> For decades, Haxhiu said, Albania’s political class
> had manipulated Kosovo 
> Albanian politicians and inflamed the already
> volatile political situation 
> there.
> Albania’s politicians have mingled and often fueled
> the animosity between 
> the politicians in Kosovo, often not to the benefit
> of Kosovo’s Albanians 
> themselves, analysts in Tirana said.
> Nano decided not to take the step to Kosovo last
> month, where he was urged 
> by the Democratic Party of Kosovo, the Hashim Thaci
> party, not to visit. The 
> Socialists had supported during the war the former
> Marxist guerrillas, both 
> with weapons and by allowing Albania’s territory to
> be used by the KLA.
> The Socialists also turned a deaf ear when the
> leader of a guerrilla group 
> that was against Thaci, was killed in Tirana. No
> murderer of Ahmet Krasniqi, 
> the Defense Minister of Bujar Bukoshi’s LDK
> government, had been arrested by 
> their government.
> Berisha, as a former President of Albania, surely
> did not have a clean 
> record in his dealings with the diaspora and the
> Albanians in the Balkans.
> The DP leader is still considered a provocative and
> inflammatory politician, 
> who exerts an authoritarian personality and survives
> out of conflicts he 
> aggravates.
> His mingling with the Albanian political classes in
> Kosovo and Macedonia 
> have also proven to be conflictive.
> Berisha was credited with using Ibrahim Rugova, the
> moderate Albanian 
> leader, for political benefit when he obliged Rugova
> to rally behind him in 
> the hot Albania political issue of a draft
> constitution he wanted to pass. 
> Voters turned that draft down, and saw Rugova’s
> interference as 
> inappropriate.
> He then strained the relations with Rugova, by
> urging Kosovars in 1996 to 
> take the roads and abandon Rugova’s civil
> disobedience method. He supported 
> at the time Adem Demaci, an adversary of Rugova.
> Rugova himself did not forget about this. In
> Berisha’s worst moments, during 
> 1997, the Kosovar leader urged him to resign. “It is
> no big misfortune if a 
> president resigns,” Rugova had commented in March
> that year, when Berisha 
> was resisting popular demands to leave the office.
> Rugova remains aloof to Berisha now, and he refused
> to hand him an official 
> invitation of the LDK, the Democratic League of
> Kosovo, diplomatically 
> saying that “Berisha is being invited by the people
> of Kosovo.”
> Equally problematic were Berisha’s mingling with the
> affairs of the Albanian 
> politicians in Macedonia. In 1994, he played down
> Nevzat Haliti and lobbied 
> Albanians to vote for Arben Xhaferri, whom he had
> considered as loyal at the 
> time. Xhaferri has long abandoned Berisha.
> The biggest mistake Berisha made was during the
> Rambouillet talks of Kosovar 
> Albanians with Serbs, where he urged them not to
> sign the agreement. The 
> agreement was being pressured by the international
> community.
> “This scrapped him of the right to visit Kosovo,”
> said speaker Skender 
> Gjinushi on Wednesday.
> But his record of creating turbulence in Albania,
> much to the fashion of a 
> post-communist authoritarian and tricky ruler, had
> also been an example that 
> the model Albania gives does not serve much to
> Kosovo.
> In the end, both Socialists and Democrats, in their
> share to power, had 
> trained their own Kosovo guerrilla groups, which
> would frequently turned 
> against each other during the war last year. (By
> ARTUR LAZEBEU and ALTIN 
> RRAXHIMI)
> 
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