From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Fri Jan 5 09:11:29 2001 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:11:29 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CfA: CEP Balkan Debate Forum, Timisoara, May 2001 Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at seep.ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] CfA: CEP Balkan Debate Forum, Timisoara, May 2001 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:05:37 +0100 Size: 10889 URL: From shqiponja02 at yahoo.com Thu Jan 4 06:45:31 2001 From: shqiponja02 at yahoo.com (Shkelqim Deva) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 03:45:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} TOP LISTA KOSOVARE Message-ID: <20010104114531.2320.qmail@web10803.mail.yahoo.com> TOP LISTA KOSOVARE 1. Elvis Presley - MOJ E MIRA NEPER THERRA 2. Robie Williams-THE DESTAN BEGU 3. Madonna-SILVIA`S MOTHER 4. Deep Purple-PREJ NI SHPATI TI LSHOVA SYTE 5. Hashim Shala-FIREBALL 6. Eminem - ?KA KA GURBET?ARI 7. Naim Abazi- FEELS SO GOOD 8. Titanik-KUR ME SHKON SAKAKIT 9. Jody Miller-ME KA NXANE MERAKU 10.Ismet Peja - AMERIKA , AMERIKA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From albboschurch at juno.com Wed Jan 10 11:10:59 2001 From: albboschurch at juno.com (albboschurch at juno.com) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:10:59 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Ligji i ri i Emigracionit per ndryshim statusi per ilegalet Message-ID: <20010110.111610.-413651.44.albboschurch@juno.com> [ Shenim: Falenderojme Z. Agroin Gjerazi per perkthimin ] Lenda: Rregullim statusi per emigrantet pa dokumenta te pranishem ne Amerike Shenim: per me shume informacion mbi paragrafin 245 (I) te ligjit te emigracionit qe ka te beje me kete ceshtje shiko ne Internet ne adresen: www.shusterman.com pastaj kliko ne ?245 (I) FAQ English? Pyetje dhe pergjigje mbi pikat kryesore te Paragrafit 245 (I) te ligjit te Emigracionit Pyetje1: Kam degjuar se eshte aprovuar nje ligj I ri nga Kongresi Amerikan sipas te cilit rihyn ne fuqi paragrafi 245 (I). Cfare eshte konkretisht ky paragraf dhe per cfare ben fjale? (ne pjesen qe vijon te ketij dokumenti, fjala ?paragraf? do zevendesohet me simbolin ?P?) Pergjigje: P 245 I ligjit te emigracionit lejon individet te behen rezidente permanente (marrin green card) pa qene nevoja qe te largohen nga Amerika, nepermjet nje procesi te quajtur ?rregullim statusi?. Ne pergjithesi, personat e hyre ne Amerike pa u kontrolluar nga ndonje oficer emigracioni, qe kane qene punesuar ne menyre te paligjshme ose qe kane pasur periudha kohore qendrimi pa status te ligjshem, nuk lejohen te rregullojne statusin duke qendruar ne Amerike (me disa perjashtime per te afermit e qytetareve amerikane). P 245 (I) ju shtua ligjit per here te pare ne vitin 1994 per te lejuar personat qe kualifikohen per Green Card por jo per rregullim statusi, per te rregulluar statusin duke qendruar ne Amerike kundrejt nje pagese te nje gjobe (tani kjo gjobe eshte $1000). Ne 14 janar 1998 Kongresi e cfuqizoi P 245 (I). Megjithate personat qe kualifikoheshin nen kete paragraf deri ne ate date e ruanin kete kualifikim per tere jeten. Qe prej asaj kohe ka me mijera individe qe nuk e arriten dot afatin e 14 Janarit 1998 dhe per rrjedhoje nuk kualifikohen per rregullim statusi dhe gjithashtu nuk mund te kthehen ne vendet e tyre per te marre Green Card_in pasi do te denoheshin me 3 ose 10 vjet ndalim te drejte per tu kthyer ne Amerike. Keto persona (ju mund te jeni nje prej tyre!) kane qene gjate gjithe kesaj kohe pa asnje status ne Amerike. Ne 15 dhjetor 2000 Kongresi u beri nje dhurate per krishtelindje me dhjetra mijra emigranteve te paligjshem duke e rifuqizuar P 245 (I) deri ne 30 prill, 2001. Nje gje e tille jo vetem u kthen perfitimet e P 245 (I) tere individeve qe ishin ne proces per marrjen e Green Card_it ne periudhen midis 1998 dhe 2000 por u jep edhe 4 muaj afat pas ardhjes ne fuqi te ketij paragrafi (deri me 30 prill, 2001) per tu kualifikuar per rregullim statusi. Pyetje2: C?duhet te plotesoj per tu kualifikuar per rregullim statusi? Pergjigje: Ligji ri I aprovuar lejon individet qe kane plotesuar dokumentat per Certifikate Pune ose kane bere Peticion per Vize pas dates 14 Janar, 1998 por perpara dates 30 Prill, 2001 te kualifikohen per rregullim statusi me kusht qe keta individe te kene qene te pranishem fizikisht daten e hyrjes ne fuqi te ligjit te ri (21 dhjetor, 2000). Pyetje3: Mos do te thote kjo qe individi duhet te kete qene me dokumenta te rregullta ne Amerike me daten 21 dhjetor, 2000? Pergjigje: Jo, kjo do te thote qe mjafton te kesh qene I pranishem fizikisht ne Amerike me 21 dhjetor, qofte me dokumenta te rregullta ose ilegal. Pyetje4: Cfare duhet te bej qe te kualifikohem per rregullim statusi? Pergjigje: Ose te gjesh nje punedhenes qe te te sponsorizoje, ose nje te aferm te familjes qe te bej peticion per vize per ty brenda dates 30 Prill, 2001. Nuk eshte nevoja qe aplikimi te jete aprovuar nga Emigracioni brenda kesaj date, mjafton te jete bere. Per shembull, aktualisht ne Amerike ka nevoje te madhe per punetore ne mjaft fusha. Qofte te punosh si mbushes trastash ne Stop&Shop ose si shkencetar rraketash, infermiere ose profesor, mekanik ose inxhinjer, nese punedhenesi (ose punedhenesi I ardhshem) juaj nuk gjen dot nje punetor me dokumenta te rregullta per kete vend pune, ti mund te kualifikohesh per te marre certifikate pune (zakonisht nepermjet nje avokati). Gjithashtu, nese vellai, motra, babai, nena, djali apo vajza e rritur, ose gruaja eshte qytetar amerikan, ose me Green Card (grin karte) ato duhet urgjentisht te bejne peticion per vize per ty, s?ka rendesi sa kohe duhet te presesh ne liste derisa te marresh vizen. Qellimi I berjes se ketij peticioni eshte per te te kualifikuar ty per perfitimet e P 245 (I). Qytetaret amerikane mund te bejne peticion (aplikojne) per gruan, djalin ose vajzen e martuar ose jo te cfardo moshe, prinderit, vellezerit dhe motrat. Nese ke Green Card mund te aplikosh per gruan, djalin apo vajzen e pamartuar te cfardo moshe (perfshire te divorcuarit apo vejushet). Pyetje5: Nese kam aplikuar, ta zeme, per Green Card nepermjet vellait qe eshte qytetar amerikan, a mundet qe me vone te aplikoj nepermjet nje punedhenesi (sponsori) nese me leverdis (p.sh. e marr Green Carden brenda 2 vjetesh ne vend qe te pres 10 vjet)? Pergjigje: Po. E rendesishme eshte qe te kesh bere peticionin brenda dates 30 Prill, 2001 qe te mund te kualifikohesh per P 245 (I) , pastaj mund te kalosh nga nje lloj aplikimi (p.sh. nepermjet vellait) ne nje lloj tjeter qe ka procedure me te shkurter per marrjen e Green Card_it (p.sh. me ane te nje punedhenesi) apo pas fitimit te llotarise amerikane. Pyetje6: Nese, ta zeme, vjerra ime ben nje peticion per vize per gruan time (te bijen) perpara dates 30 Prill, 2001, a perfitoj une dhe femijet nese me vone une ndahem me gruan? Pergjigje: Po, ju dhe femijet perfitoni avantazhet e P 245 (I) sikurse edhe gruaja tjeter e juaj (nese martoheni perseri) se bashku me femijet e tjere qe mund te lindin sa kohe qe martesa tjeter dhe femijet e tjere jane bere perpara se te jete bere rregullimi I statusit prej teje apo ish-gruas suaj. (shiko Memorandumin e INS_it te dates 10 Qershor, 1999 per me shume detaje) Pyetje7: Po sikur Certifikata e Punes te mos aprovohet? Ose sponsori falimenton apo terhiqet me vone? Po sikur I afermi qe nisi aplikimin per mua vdes? A pefitoj une akoma nga P 245 (I)? Pergjigje: Po. Nese Certifikata e Punes apo peticioni I te afermit tuaj ishte ?I rregullt ne kohen kur u be? ti perfiton nga P 245 (I) edhe sikur aplikimi te mos aprovohet kurre, te jete terhequr ose personi qe beri aplikimin per ty te vdese. Megjithate kij parasysh qe nese aplikimi fillestar nuk eshte I rregullt (mungonte ceku I gjobes $1000, kishte deklarime te rreme, etj) nuk perfiton nga P 245 (I) pasi ai nuk konsiderohet ?I rregullt ne kohen kur u be?. Pyetje8: Nese kualifikohem per te perfituar nga P 245 (I) dhe largohem nga Amerika per tu kthyer me pas, a lejohem me ligj te rregulloj statusin ne te ardhmen? Pergjigje: Po. Megjithate nese ke qene ilegal ne amerike per me shume se 180 dite mund te te mohohet e drejta e kthimit ne Amerike per 3 ose 10 vjet. Nese nje gje e tille eshte e vertete ne rastin tend, MOS U LARGO NGA AMERIKA PERPARA SE TE MARRESH GREEN CARD_en. Pyetje9: Nese kualifikohem per te perfituar nga P 245 (I) kur me skadon e drejta per te aplikuar per rregullim statusi ne Amerike? Pergjigje: Kurre. Sigurisht qe do te te duhet te gjesh nje sponsor apo nje te aferm qe te aplikoje per ty, kur te kerkosh rregullim statusi. Gjithashtu duhet te jesh person I deshiruar ne Amerike (te mos kesh fallsifikuar dokumente emigracioni, etj..) Pyetje10: Cfare duhet te bej per tu kualifikuar per perfitimet e P 245 (I)? Pergjigje: Duhet te veprosh shpejt per te bere veprimet perpara 30 Prillit, 2001. Shume kujdes duhet treguar ne plotesimin dhe hedhjen e dokumentave te kerkuara. Cdo gabim kushton shtrenjte. Nese aplikata juaj kthehet mbrapsh nga Emigracioni sepse nuk ishte plotesuar si duhej, ti ndoshta ke humbur rastin me te mire per te perfituar nga P 245 (I) per tu legalizuar ne Amerike. Zyra jone eshte e gateshme per t?ju ndihmuar. Nje ish- punonjese Emigracioni, Sonya Canton, do shqyrtoje aplikaten tuaj dhe do tu thote nese kualifikoheni ose jo, e me pas mund te kosultoheni me ne kundrejt nje pagese (shiko adresen ne internet: http://shusterman.com/intake.html dhe cakto nje bisede telefonike apo takim sa me shpejt qe te mundesh). Ne merremi me plotesim aplikatash per te perfituar nga P 245 (I) per gjithe Ameriken. From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Sun Jan 7 20:08:49 2001 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:08:49 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Punesim ne Harvard Law School Message-ID: Requisition Number 8005 Title Faculty Secretary II School / Unit Harvard Law School Department Faculty Support Location Cambridge Full Or Part Time Full-Time Salary Grade 06 Date Posted 11/01/2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duties And Responsibilities Works under direction of senior faculty members whose areas of interest include torts, jurisprudence, and civil procedure. Provides traditional secretarial support including word processing, organization of course materials, correspondence, memoranda, and manuscripts. Prints and processes daily email and correspondence. Arranges schedules and travel arrangements, answers phone and places calls as needed. Organizes, duplicates material; sets up and maintains files, sorts, prioritizes mail, maintains supplies. Serves as liaison between faculty members and students, liberal arts fellows and HLS administrative offices. Assists with on-line research (Lexis Nexis, Westlaw), drafting correspondence, proofreading, editing, reference checking. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Required Education 2 years secretarial experience required; BA and experience in academic environment helpful. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills required. Proficiency with preparing detailed written materials. Demonstrated ability to work with minimum supervision in a sometimes pressured environment required. Must have proven organizational skills, initiative, discretion, flexibility and ability to set priorities. Proficiency with Windows-based software applications required. WordPerfect 8 required, Excel, Internet, and other online research skills strongly preferred. 50 wpm. Interest in traditional secretarial role helpful. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Apply Please use the apply on line feature below or send your resume and cover letter to: Harvard University Resume Processing Center Req# 8005 11 Holyoke Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Please note that upon submitting your credentials, you will become part of Harvard's new applicant database, and therefore, may be considered for other suitable positions at the University. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity. From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu Jan 11 20:36:28 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:36:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] INS Press Release Message-ID: <20010112013628.5142.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> >From www.ins.gov December 21, 2000 Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act Today, President Clinton signed a major immigration legislative package called the Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act (LIFE) into law. This is alternative legislation to the Latino Immigration Fairness Act (LIFA) that was previously proposed. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is developing guidance for implementation of this new law, which will include instructions on how to apply under the new provisions. Among the changes in the law are the following: ? Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act will be available temporarily to people physically present in the United States on the date of enactment, December 21, 2000. The provision will allow a person who qualifies for permanent residency, but is ineligible to adjust status in the United States because of an immigration status violation, to pay a $1,000 penalty to continue processing in the United States. In order to be eligible for 245(i) adjustment under the LIFE Act, a person must be the beneficiary of an immigrant petition or application for labor certification filed on or before April 30, 2001. ? A new temporary "V" non-immigrant status will be available to the spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents waiting more than three years for an immigrant visa based upon an immigrant petition filed on or before the enactment date of the LIFE Act. Persons granted "V" status would receive employment authorization and are protected from removal. ? A new temporary "K" visa status will be available to spouses of U.S. citizens (and their children) living abroad. The current K visa is only available to fianc?es of U.S. citizens who are coming to the United States to get married within 90 days of arrival. ? Persons who filed before October 1, 2000, for class membership in one of three "late amnesty" lawsuits (CSS v. Meese, LULAC v. INS, and Zambrano v. INS) and who are eligible under the LIFE Act's amended legalization provisions may apply to adjust status during a 12-month period that begins once regulations are issued. Spouses and unmarried children of the class action claimants will be protected from certain categories of removal and will be eligible for work authorization if they entered the United States before December 1, 1988 and resided in the United States on that date. ? INS ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Thank you Ledia _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri Jan 12 21:55:06 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:55:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Mjeku amerikan shpeton nje femije shqiptare Message-ID: <20010113025506.2266.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> Mjeku amerikan shp?ton 5-vje?aren nga Ku?ova BERAT Historia e rrall? ka nisur dy vite m? par?. Vajza 5-vje?are Roberta Milonashi, nga Ku?ova, nisi t? ankohej pa pritur nga nj? s?mundje e r?nd? n? zem?r. Shtrimin e par? ajo e b?ri n? fund t? k?tij viti n? spitalin e Ku?ov?s. Diagnoza e s?mundjes p?r mjek?t ku?ovar?, ?sht? e mistershme, dhe me gjith? mjekimet e tyre intensive ajo evoluonte me shpejt?si, duke e v?n? n? pik?pyetje jet?n e vajz?s. M? pas vajza iu n?nshtrua analizave p?r ekzaminimin e s?mundjes prej tre muaj me radh? n? spitalin nr.1 t? kryeqytetit. Por, edhe k?tu nuk u arrit t? kurohej e aq m? pak t? p?rcaktohej lloji i s?mundjes. Mjek?t e kryeqytetit e kaluan at? p?r shtrim n? senatorium, por edhe prej aty ajo doli pa asnj? shpres? shp?timi. Vajza duhej d?rguar p?r kurim n? klinikat per?ndimore, por familja nuk i p?rgjigjej dot financiarisht. P?r k?t? arsye, i ati, Filipi, preferoi t? shkoj familjarisht n? Greqi, vet?m p?r t'i ardhur n? ndihm? vajz?s, n? janar t? k?tij viti. Humbja e shpres?s Nuk kaloi shum? koh? dhe Roberta u shtrua n? nj? klinik? t? Janin?s, ku iu n?nshtrua nj? terapie intensive dhe nj? kontrolli t? gjithansh?m sh?ndet?sor, me q?llim q? t? evidentohej vatra dhe shkaqet e s?mundjes. Por, edhe mjek?t helen? nuk mund?n t? p?rcaktojn? dot llojin e s?mundjes. Nga Janina ajo transferohet n? spitalin e Athin?s, ku u p?rs?rit e nj?jta procedur?, por pa rezultat. Nd?rsa sh?ndeti i Robert?s ?do dit? b?hej edhe m? i r?nd?. Tashm?, s?mundja e saj ?sht? shnd?rruar n? nj? shqet?sim ballkanik. Ajo po hynte n? historit? e rralla t? mjek?sis? bot?rore dhe p?rher? e m? shum? po b?hej e njohur jo vet?m nd?r shqiptar?t q? jetonin atje. Askush nuk mund t? b?nte m? shum? p?r jet?n e saj, m? tep?r se fati. Aventura Dhe fati i erdhi fare rast?sisht. N? ambientet e spitalit t? Athin?s, ajo njihet me nj? bashk?moshatare n? parkun e vog?l t? loj?rave. N? pak dit?, ato u b?n? shoqe dhe miq?sia mes tyre lidhi dhe prind?rit e tyre. Vajza e huaj ishte bija e nj? gazetareje t? "NeW York Times", n? Athin?. Kjo e fundit, pasi u njoh me peripecit? e Robert?s, n? moment u zotua t? kontribuonte p?r jet?n e saj n? rrezik. Ajo i telefonoi t? shoqit n? Florida, q? ky t? mund?sonte d?rgimin e ndonj? mjeku amerikan n? Athin?, ose shtrimin e vajz?s n? klinikat e SHBA. Gazetarja amerikane merr epikriz?n dhe analizat e vajz?s ku?ovare dhe i d?rgon vet? n? Florida. Dhe atje gjen gatishm?rin? e nj? mjeku t? njohur 76- vje?ar, mik i familjes, p?r t'i ardhur n? ndihm? Robert?s. Ai menj?her? e p?rcaktoi diagnoz?n dhe ?sht? shprehur se kjo diagnoz? ?sht? tep?r e rrall?, q? prek 1 n? 7 milion? njer?z. Nd?rsa ishte e sigurt? n? kurimin e saj dhe k?rkoi q? vajza t? d?rgohej atje, n? klinik?n e tij private. Gazetarja i rikthehet n? Athin? dhe menaxhon p?rgatitjen e dokumenteve n? ambasad?n e SHBA n? kryeqytetin helen. Si? ndodh shpesh, t? huajt hezitojn? kur ?sht? fjala p?r shqiptar?t, dhe n? k?t? rast nuk i dhan? viz?n amerikane t? atit t? saj. K?tu shpresat p?r jet?n e vajz?s u nd?rpren? s?rish. Shp?timi Por, mjeku 76-vje?ar vendosi t? vij? vet n? Athin?. Nj? muaj m? par?, pasi nd?rroi plot 4 avion?, ai erdhi n? Greqi, duke shfryt?zuar 4 dit?t e pushimit. Ai takohet dhe bisedon me prind?rit dhe vet Robert?n dhe n? ?ast vendosi: "Vajza do t? operohet. Operacioni kushton 12 milion? dhrahmi. Por, garancia e dh?n? p?r t? ishte vet?m 30 p?r qind". Ishte p?rs?ri nj? shum? e pap?rballueshme p?r familjen e saj, e cila u b?ri thirrje p?r ndihm? bashkatdhetar?ve q? jetonin n? Athin?. N? pak dit?, ata dhan? p?r jet?n e 5-vje?ares plot 8 milion? dhrahmi. N? fund operacioni u krye me sukses nga mjeku i njohur nga SHBA. Madje, profesori i Floridas nuk deshi t? dinte m? p?r shum?n q? meritonte. Nd?rkoh? q? gazetarja e informoi se kontributi ishte vet?m 8 milion? ai zgjati dor?n drejt nj? vazoje me lule, dhe pasi k?puti nj? deg? u tha: "I shp?tova jet?n nj? luleje dhe jo nj? f?mije". Roberta doli nga spitali 3 jav? m? par?. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Sun Jan 14 12:08:35 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:08:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Grants Message-ID: <20010114170835.12813.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com> GRANTS FOR WOMEN SCIENTISTS. The Women's International Science Collaboration (WISC) Program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is a program intended to increase the participation of women in international research projects. This program provides grants to individual U.S. scientists who plan to establish new research partnerships with their colleagues from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The grant, up to $ 4,000, will provide travel and living support for the U.S. woman scientist. Contact NSF's Eastern Europe Program staff who can advise regarding applications for NSF international supplements (cdudka at nsf.gov). (Civil Society mailing list, 28 December) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From AQeli at rushu.rush.edu Sun Jan 14 12:20:22 2001 From: AQeli at rushu.rush.edu (Albi Qeli) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:20:22 -0600 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] (no subject) Message-ID: Kete fundjave do shkoj ne Boston. A di kush te me thote se ku mblidhen bashke shqiptaret aty? Albi From kbejko at hotmail.com Tue Jan 16 15:22:39 2001 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:22:39 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Censusi i Shqiperise Message-ID: Hajde mos u bej paranoid pastaj! Ne vend qe ta na japin para per energjine na japin para per censusin. Te shohim si do te disbursohen keto fonde nga INSTAT-i. Ministri i Financave Anastas Angjeli, n?nshkroi me p?rfaqsuesit e pal?s Greke marr?v?shjen e grantit p?r shum?n prej 1 milion? EURO N? Athin? t? Greqis?, Ministri i Financave Shqiptare Z.Anastas Angjeli, n?nshkroi me p?rfaqsuesit e pal?s Greke marr?v?shje e grantit p?r shum?n prej 1 milion? EURO, nd?rmjet Qeveris? s? Republik?s s? Shqip?ris? dhe Qeveris? s? Republik?s s? Greqis? p?r regjistrimin e popullsis? n? Shqip?ri n? vitin 2001. P?r pal?n Greke kjo marr?veshje u n?nshkrua nga Zv/Ministri i Ekonomis? Komb?tare t? Greqis? Z. Zaferopoulos. Fondi i akorduar p?r k?t? q?llim n? form? granti do t? p?rdoret p?r financimin e projektit t? regjistrimit t? popullsis?, projekt i cili i ?sht? ngarkuar dhe do t? realizohet nga Instituti i Statistikave (INSTAT) t? Shqip?ris?. Disbursimi i fondeve sipas k?saj marr?veshje do t? filloj? menj?hr? pas firmosjes, n? p?rputhje me nevojat q? ka p?rcaktuar sipas projektit INSTAT-i. I gjith? ky proces shum? i r?nd?sish?m udh?hiqet nga Komisioni Qendror Regjistrimit t? Popullsis? dhe Banesave q? kryesohet nga Zv/Kryeministri. Ky projekt p?rvec fondeve t? akorduara nga buxheti i shtetit mb?shtetet edhe nga donator? t? tjer?, n? kuadrin e mb?shtetjes q? komuniteti nd?rkomb?tar i ka dh?n? k?tij projekti. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu Jan 18 17:00:13 2001 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:00:13 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Event on Kosova in Washington DC Feb 5 invitation Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: ngoodrich at sfcg.org Subject: Feb 5 invitation Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:44:44 -0500 Size: 7742 URL: From deti at ont.com Fri Jan 19 00:24:27 2001 From: deti at ont.com (etel) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:24:27 -0600 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] BU university Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20010118232427.006e6794@mail.ont.com> Miredita/mirembrema te gjitheve.... Kam nje kerkeseze te vockel. Kam derguar aplikimin ne Boston University dhe jam shume kurjoze te di nese ka ndonje student shqiptar atje qe mund te me tregoje me shume per shkollen nga eksperienca personale. I would, VERY MUCH, appreciate. Faleminderit, Ethel Haxhiaj--Texas Etel H. From besnik at alb-net.com Fri Jan 19 12:39:28 2001 From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:39:28 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] FW: Could you distribute In-Reply-To: <20010119090723.9248.qmail@web1608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Isa Blumi Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:07:23 -0800 (PST) Assalam allaykum, I am an Muslim Kosovar Albanian, an American citizen and extremely upset. My native Balkans has been witness to genocide conducted in the name of a national/fascist ideology that has used the symbolism of the Serb orthodox church as its central cultural vehicle. The Chetnik-era use of the extended first three fingers on the right-hand are well-known to us in the Balkans who have faced Serb fascism, it is equivalent to the NAZI straight-arm that is banned from the world's acceptable behavior. Why, I ask rhetorically, are Serb nationalist symbols, the very gestures used when millions of the Balkans Muslims were cleansed from their homes in an orgy of genocide during the 1990s, permitted to be used with impunity in one of the US's major cultural/business exports, the NBA? I am refering to two Serb players who constantly flash this demeaning and offensive symbol on global television link-ups. I am conducting research in Istanbul and follow the behavior of the two players in Sacramento, Vlade Divac and "Peja" Stojakovic, who consistantly flash this symbol of Muslim murder, if I can see it, millions around the world see it. My trouble is that this is a perfect example of how incapable we Muslims are in organizing to protect our interests. How can the abuse of these symbols of hate against Muslim be permitted to continue? Simply, we do not have the influence our size and collective economic power warrents. If an NBA player, on the international stage as I watch it on television, would display anti-Jewish or Nazi-era symbols, there would be immediate uproar. Our community, however, has failed to make the world sensitive to anti-Muslim behavior and its many manifestations. Serb fascism is a demonic force that persists, two central perpretrators of this symbolism are playing for a professional league that has many mMslims playing for it. These Serbs get away with these gestures of hate and even our brothers playing on the same court are not aware of it. I am pleading with this organization to at least reach out to the NBA and its Muslim players, to make them aware of this. I constantly see "highlights" of these two individuals flaunt their hatred and our community must demonstrate an ability to resist this! I suggest contacting the media and the NBA would have a dramatic effect. Publicizing this may seem small, but it is, in my mind, an important gesture. It demonstrates that anti-muslim symbolism is not permitted and this will have an international effect. We are forced to fight with weapons around the world because the murder of Chechens, Albanians, Kashmiris and others is permissiable in a series of journalistic tropes. Once we make it politically and economically impossible to display Muslims in a negative manner, around the world, Russians, Serbs, Indians cannot kill us and we will not be forced to take up arms, which is putting us in this never-ending circle of violence that gives us all a bad image. Please look at a letter I sent to numerous newspapers covering the "Sacremento Kings." As to be expected, I have received no response. Until we Muslims in American can make it impossible for Serb professional basketball players to flaunt their fascist symbols, even after more than 10 years of genocide, we will be second-class citizens and always vulnerable to murder, rape and forced migration. Newspapers and the NBA should not be allowed to ignore us and our concerns. With much respect, Isa Blumi ####################### Dear Madame/Sir, I am writing you to attract your attention to the use of offensive gestures by one of the more popular figures of Sacramento civic life. Vlade Divac, the Serb-born starting center for the National Basketball Association Sacramento franchise, the ?Kings,? has throughout the 1990s proven to be very popular among those who attend the matches in which he participates and among his teammates. Unfortunately, contrary to his easy-going demeanor and the never-ending self-marketing of his charitable side, such popularity distorts his offensive on and off-court behavior. While I am currently living in Istanbul Turkey and have little desire to follow such seemingly unimportant activities as a NBA basketball players activities, I have always been curious about how the NBA handles such figures as Divac. Mr. Divac is a national icon in Serbia and throughout the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and later in Kosova he regularly played for the Serbian national team. The fact that he actively participated for the national team that had clear political ties to the Milosevic regime and its policies of ethnic cleansing and wide scale murder and rape is not a question I wish you to consider. Although I do not accept the rather pathetic claims of sports and politics not mixing. Of course it does, that is why Serbia?s political machinery constantly used its successes on the Soccer field and Basketball court to promote their agenda. How can anyone forget Hitler?s stewardship of the 1936 Olympics? I am writing to draw your attention to the public expression of Divac?s unbending nationalism. For most people in the Balkans it is today?s manifestation of Fascism. That a man can actively and consciously display the three finger symbol of Serb fascism after all that has happened is unambiguously offensive, and Divac intends it to be. Whether or not he supports Slobadan Milosevic or promotes genocide is also not relevant here, it is the fact that he has consistently used the Ultra-Right hand gesture of extending the first three fingers of the right hand that all victims of Serb fascism find vulgar and unbecoming. I am responding tonight because while watching some highlights from a recent match his team played in Boston, to my disgust, I found that Divac, after scoring a basket openly flashed the Serb nationalist gesture (its closest equivalent in a sociocultural context is the Nazi straight arm of the 1930s and 1940s.). Not only was Divac openly parading around the basketball court flashing a fascist symbol, but he even got his team-mates to do it. To see Afro-Americans and even a Turk-national flash this symbol of mass graves, rape and ethnic hatred strikes me as scandalous. That Divac flaunts his disgusting nationalism on the court is nothing new, he has done it for years, but the fact that the league and in fact, the country as a whole does not take Divac to task is an outrage. I am sure by his flashing this symbols of a nation?s chauvanism Albanian Kosovars, Croats and Bosnians see this. For them it must bring such pain and disgust to their hearts. I implore that you or a colleague address this issue. It is not an issue for the sports desk but a social issue that affects all citizens in the US. The NBA would never tolerate a Nazi or supporter of a White extremist to flaunt their feelings like this. One need only look some recent footage of Serb soldiers and politicians, how they arrogantly flash their three fingers (representing the trinity of the Serb orthodox church) before the hundreds of thousands of dead in the Balkans. This is a scandal waiting to be exposed and this is an opportunity to show the world how inept the NBA and its minders are. The NBA is truly an international league now, I am sure the several Croat and Slovene nationals in the league do not appreciate Divac and his Serb compatriots showing their racism on their sleeves. I am also sure the Afro-American players who so ignorantly flash this symbol of murder and hate now, would think twice if they were to learn what it represented. I am asking you, as a journalist to at least draw to someone?s attention this offensive activity. It drives deep into how our society is infested with gestures of hatred that most people not directly affected just do not realize. I am sure once this is exposed, the league and the fans of the NBA would not want to see Mr. Divac publicly display this gesture that is the 1990s version of the Nazi straight-arm. I appreciate your attention and again ask you to consider this with at least professional curiosity and hopefully, a moral sense of duty as well. Please feel free to contact me, Yours truly, Isa Blumi Ph.D. Candidate Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies New York University ------ End of Forwarded Message From pilika at yahoo.com Fri Jan 19 15:24:21 2001 From: pilika at yahoo.com (Asti Pilika) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:24:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [Prishtina-E] Info: Anti-Muslim/Anti-Albanian Symbols in NBA! Message-ID: <20010119202421.23461.qmail@web805.mail.yahoo.com> --- Mentor Cana wrote: > From: Mentor Cana > To: , > , > , > , > > CC: , , > > Organization: "http://www.alb-net.com/" > Subject: [Prishtina-E] Info: > Anti-Muslim/Anti-Albanian Symbols in MBA! > Reply-to: prishtina-e at alb-net.com > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:35:43 -0500 (EST) > > --- Prishtina-E Discussion Forum --- > Archives: > www.alb-net.com/pipermail/prishtina-e > > > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Isa Blumi > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:07:23 -0800 (PST) > > By Isa Blumi > Ph.D. Candidate > Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies > New York University > > Assalam allaykum, > > I am an Muslim Kosovar Albanian, an American citizen > and extremely upset. My native Balkans has been > witness to genocide conducted in the name of a > national/fascist ideology that has used the > symbolism > of the Serb orthodox church as its central cultural > vehicle. The Chetnik-era use of the extended first > three fingers on the right-hand are well-known to us > in the Balkans who have faced Serb fascism, it is > equivalent to the NAZI straight-arm that is banned > from the world's acceptable behavior. Why, I ask > rhetorically, are Serb nationalist symbols, the very > gestures used when millions of the Balkans Muslims > were cleansed from their homes in an orgy of > genocide > during the 1990s, permitted to be used with impunity > in one of the US's major cultural/business exports, > the NBA? I am refering to two Serb players who > constantly flash this demeaning and offensive symbol > on global television link-ups. I am conducting > research in Istanbul and follow the behavior of the > two players in Sacramento, Vlade Divac and "Peja" > Stojakovic, who consistantly flash this symbol of > Muslim murder, if I can see it, millions around the > world see it. > > My trouble is that this is a perfect example of how > incapable we Muslims are in organizing to protect > our > interests. How can the abuse of these symbols of > hate > against Muslim be permitted to continue? Simply, we > do not have the influence our size and collective > economic power warrents. If an NBA player, on the > international stage as I watch it on television, > would > display anti-Jewish or Nazi-era symbols, there would > be immediate uproar. Our community, however, has > failed to make the world sensitive to anti-Muslim > behavior and its many manifestations. Serb fascism > is > a demonic force that persists, two central > perpretrators of this symbolism are playing for a > professional league that has many mMslims playing > for > it. These Serbs get away with these gestures of > hate > and even our brothers playing on the same court are > not aware of it. I am pleading with this > organization > to at least reach out to the NBA and its Muslim > players, to make them aware of this. I constantly > see > "highlights" of these two individuals flaunt their > hatred and our community must demonstrate an ability > to resist this! > > I suggest contacting the media and the NBA would > have > a dramatic effect. Publicizing this may seem small, > but it is, in my mind, an important gesture. It > demonstrates that anti-muslim symbolism is not > permitted and this will have an international > effect. > We are forced to fight with weapons around the world > because the murder of Chechens, Albanians, Kashmiris > and others is permissiable in a series of > journalistic > tropes. Once we make it politically and > economically > impossible to display Muslims in a negative manner, > around the world, Russians, Serbs, Indians cannot > kill > us and we will not be forced to take up arms, which > is > putting us in this never-ending circle of violence > that gives us all a bad image. Please look at a > letter I sent to numerous newspapers covering the > "Sacremento Kings." As to be expected, I have > received no response. Until we Muslims in American > can make it impossible for Serb professional > basketball players to flaunt their fascist symbols, > even after more than 10 years of genocide, we will > be > second-class citizens and always vulnerable to > murder, > rape and forced migration. Newspapers and the NBA > should not be allowed to ignore us and our concerns. > > With much respect, > > Isa Blumi > > ####################### > > > Dear Madame/Sir, > > I am writing you to attract your attention to the > use > of offensive gestures by one of the more popular > figures of Sacramento civic life. Vlade Divac, the > Serb-born starting center for the National > Basketball > Association Sacramento franchise, the ?Kings,? has > throughout the 1990s proven to be very popular among > those who attend the matches in which he > participates > and among his teammates. Unfortunately, contrary to > his easy-going demeanor and the never-ending > self-marketing of his charitable side, such > popularity > distorts his offensive on and off-court behavior. > While I am currently living in Istanbul Turkey and > have little desire to follow such seemingly > unimportant activities as a NBA basketball players > activities, I have always been curious about how the > NBA handles such figures as Divac. Mr. Divac is a > national icon in Serbia and throughout the wars in > Croatia, Bosnia and later in Kosova he regularly > played for the Serbian national team. The fact that > he actively participated for the national team that > had clear political ties to the Milosevic regime and > its policies of ethnic cleansing and wide scale > murder > and rape is not a question I wish you to consider. > Although I do not accept the rather pathetic claims > of > sports and politics not mixing. Of course it does, > that is why Serbia?s political machinery constantly > used its successes on the Soccer field and > Basketball > court to promote their agenda. How can anyone > forget > Hitler?s stewardship of the 1936 Olympics? > I am writing to draw your attention to the public > expression of Divac?s unbending nationalism. For > most > people in the Balkans it is today?s manifestation of > Fascism. That a man can actively and consciously > display the three finger symbol of Serb fascism > after > all that has happened is unambiguously offensive, > and > Divac intends it to be. Whether or not he supports > Slobadan Milosevic or promotes genocide is also not > relevant here, it is the fact that he has > consistently > used the Ultra-Right hand gesture of extending the > first three fingers of the right hand that all > victims > of Serb fascism find vulgar and unbecoming. I am > responding tonight because while watching some > highlights from a recent match his team played in > Boston, to my disgust, I found that Divac, after > scoring a basket openly flashed the Serb nationalist > gesture (its closest equivalent in a sociocultural > context is the Nazi straight arm of the 1930s and > 1940s.). Not only was Divac openly parading around > the basketball court flashing a fascist symbol, but > he > even got his team-mates to do it. To see > Afro-Americans and even a Turk-national flash this > symbol of mass graves, rape and ethnic hatred > strikes > me as scandalous. That Divac flaunts his disgusting > nationalism on the court is nothing new, he has done > it for years, but the fact that the league and in > fact, the country as a whole does not take Divac to > task is an outrage. I am sure by his flashing this > symbols of a nation?s chauvanism Albanian Kosovars, > Croats and Bosnians see this. For them it must > bring > such pain and disgust to their hearts. I implore > that > you or a colleague address this issue. It is not an > issue for the sports desk but a social issue that > affects all citizens in the US. The NBA would never > tolerate a Nazi or supporter of a White extremist to > flaunt their feelings like this. One need only look > some recent footage of Serb soldiers and > politicians, > how they arrogantly flash their three fingers > (representing the trinity of the Serb orthodox > church) > before the hundreds of thousands of dead in the > Balkans. This is a scandal waiting to be exposed > and > this is an opportunity to show the world how inept > the > NBA and its minders are. The NBA is truly an > international league now, I am sure the several > Croat > and Slovene nationals in the league do not > appreciate > Divac and his Serb compatriots showing their racism > on > their sleeves. I am also sure the Afro-American > players who so ignorantly flash this symbol of > murder > and hate now, would think twice if they were to > learn > what it represented. I am asking you, as a > journalist > to at least draw to someone?s attention this > offensive > activity. It drives deep into how our society is > infested with gestures of hatred that most people > not > directly affected just do not realize. I am sure > once > this is exposed, the league and the fans of the NBA > would not want to see Mr. Divac publicly display > this > gesture that is the 1990s version of the Nazi > straight-arm. > > I appreciate your attention and again ask you to > consider this with at least professional curiosity > and > hopefully, a moral sense of duty as well. > > Please feel free to contact me, > > Yours truly, > > Isa Blumi > Ph.D. Candidate > Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies > New York University > > _______________________________________________________ > Prishtina-E discussion forum: > Prishtina-E at alb-net.com > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/prishtina-e __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue Jan 9 07:58:13 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:58:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] "privatizimi" i AMC-se anti-kushtetues? Message-ID: <20010109125813.36798.qmail@web11503.mail.yahoo.com> KOHA JONE "Te gjitha pronat shqiptare te marra nga greket, te paligjshme" Nje avokat merr guximin t'i drejtohet Gjykates Kushtetuese per mbrojtjen e sovranitetit te neperkembur "Duke qene se Greqia ka ne fuqi ligjin dhe dekretin mbreteror, me te cilin i eshte shpallur lufte Shqiperise, rezulton se ky objekt me rendesi strategjike i eshte shitur shtetasit te shtetit me te cilin Shqiperia eshte ne gjendje lufte. Per me teper, ndersa shtetasit shqiptare me kombesi shqiptare per shkak te ligjit te luftes te shpallur padrejtesisht kunder Shqiperise ne nje kohe kur ajo ishte e pushtuar e jo sovrane, nuk gezojne pronat dhe frytet e pronave te tyre ne trojet e tyre etnike e ne rajone te tjera brenda kufijve politike te Greqise, por ato prej mbi 60 vjetesh shfrytezohen nga shteti grek, me kete vendim te Qeverise nje shtetasi grek i eshte dhene edhe nje pasuri tjeter e madhe me rendesi strategjike kombetare e Shqiperise" Nga avokat Gjet Kola Te nderuar zoterinj gjyqtare te Gjykates Kushtetuese te Republikes se Shqiperise. Ne zbatim te objektivave per privatizimin e sektoreve strategjike te ekonomise, Kuvendi Popullor dhe Qeveria, kane miratuar disa ligje dhe akte nenligjore, ne baze te cileve eshte privatizuar dhe shoqeria anonime "AMC". Ne keto akte qe citohen me lart nuk ka asnje dispozite kufizuese per perzgjedhjen e investitoreve strategjike per privatizimin e ketij sektori. Ne keto kushte, keto ligje dhe aktet nenligjore te dala ne zbatim te tyre nuk pajtohen me Kushtetuten per arsye se: Parlamenti grek, me date 10.11.1940, ka miratuar ligjin nr.2636 "Mbi veprimet juridike te armiqve dhe konfiskimin konservativ te pasurive armike". Ne zbatim te ketij ligji me dekret mbreteror te po kesaj date Greqia ka deklaruar se eshte ne lufte me Shqiperine. Me dy akte nenligjore, vendimin e perbashket te Ministrise se Financave dhe Ministrise se Ekonomise Kombetare date 7.6 dhe 9.7.1947 perkatesisht me nr.14882 e 3574 dhe me ligjin 4506 te vitit 1965 shteti grek ka bere nje perjashtim duke ju dhene te drejte per te nxjerre pronat e tyre nga sekuestroja konservative vetem shtetasve shqiptare me kombesi greke, qe ne baze te regjistrimit te pergjithshem te popullsise te vitit '81, shtetas shqiptare me kombesi greke ishin vetem rreth 65 mije dhe perbenin e perbejne me pak se 2.5 per qind te popullsise se pergjithshme te Shqiperise. Kete qendrim ka mbajtur dhe Gjykata e Larte e Greqise, e cila me vendim te vitit 1970 eshte shprehur se duhet te vazhdoje te qendroje sekuestroja konservative per pasurite e shtetasve shqiptare me kombesi jo greke, pra, per 97.6 per qind te popullsise te Shqiperise, deri ne hartimin e traktatit te paqes midis Greqise dhe Shqiperise. Edhe pas renies se mbreterise ne Greqi e deri me sot vazhdonte mbahet i njejti qendrim dhe asnje shtetas shqiptar me kombesi shqiptare nuk mund te marre pronat e tij ne Greqi edhe tani pas mbi 60 vjet te miratimit te atij ligji ne parlamentin grek e te dekretit, me te cilin i eshte shpallur lufte Shqiperise dhe mbi 55 vjet nga mbarimi i Luftes se Dyte Boterore. Shteti grek rezulton se nuk ka hequr dore nga realizimi i objektivave te hershme panhelenike. Per kete qellim me parate e siguruara nga shfrytezimi i pasurive te konservuara te shqiptareve ai po blen edhe objekte strategjike te ekonomise ne Shqiperi, me qellim qe ne mos deportimin e shqiptareve ne Turqi e Evrope sic ka vepruar me shumicen e shqiptareve ne trojet e tyre, brenda kufijve politike greke, minimalisht shqiptaret te jene refugjate ne atdheun e tyre. Shoqeria anonime (AMC) vepron ne nje nga sektoret me rendesi te vecante strategjike sic eshte ai i telekomunikacionit. Keshtu eshte cilesuar kjo shoqeri edhe ne ligjet e vendimet e cituara me lart dhe ne VKM Nr.29, date 21.1.1999 e akte te tjera. Me ligjin nr.8660, date 18.9.2000 eshte ratifikuar "Kontrata per blerjen e aksioneve te shoqerise anonime (AMC)", objekt me rendesi strategjike te vecante kombetare nje shoqerie greke-norvegjeze ku shtetasi grek eshte pronar i me shume se 50 per qind te aksioneve te kesaj shoqerie. Duke qene se Greqia ka ne fuqi ligjin dhe dekretin mbreteror me te cilin i eshte shpallur lufte Shqiperise, rezulton se ky objekt me rendesi strategjike i eshte shitur shtetasit te shtetit me te cilin Shqiperia eshte ne gjendje lufte. Per me teper, ndersa shtetasit shqiptar me kombesi shqiptare per shkak te ligjit te luftes te shpallur padrejtesisht kunder Shqiperise ne nje kohe kur ajo ishte e pushtuar e jo sovrane, nuk gezojne pronat dhe frytet e pronave te tyre ne trojet e tyre etnike e ne rajone te tjera brenda kufijve politike te Greqise, por ato prej mbi 60 vjetesh shfrytezohen nga shteti grek, me kete vendim te Qeverise nje shtetasi grek i eshte dhene edhe nje pasuri tjeter e madhe me rendesi strategjike kombetare e Shqiperise. Ne baze te Kushtetutes se Greqise neni 4, pika 6 "Cdo helen, ne gjendje te mbaje armet, eshte i detyruar te kontribuoje ne mbrojtjen e atdheut sipas dispozitave te ligjeve". Duke qene se me keto ligje dhe me aktet nenligjore te dala ne zbatim te tyre eshte cenuar pavaresia e atdheut tone Shqiperise, teresia e territorit dhe sovraniteti i popullit te deklaruara te paprekshme ne Kushtetuten e RSH, edhe pse te miratuar nga vetem rreth 40 per qind e zgjedhesve shqiptare me te drejte vote, neni 2,3 e vijues te saj dhe te gjitha kushtetutat qe kane qene ne fuqi qe nga krijimi i shtetit shqiptar. Se qeveria greke i ka qendruar me konsekuence ligjit nr.2636 dhe dekretit te dates 10 nentor 1940, me te cilin i eshte shpallur lufte Shqiperise e kane treguar veprimet e saj. Ajo fillon qe nga masakrimi e deportimi i popullsise shqiptare myslimane nga trojet e saj etnike ne Cameri e vise te tjera etnike shqiptare, te perfshira brenda kufijve politike te Greqise, provokacioni i armatosur kunder Shqiperise i gushtit 1949, vrasjet e herepashershme pa shkak e paralajmerim te kufitareve shqiptare e deri tek incidenti i Peshkepise. Ky qendrim u demonstrua ne menyre te hapur nga zv/ministri i Jashtem grek J.Kranidiotis, qe me vone vdiq aksidentalisht, i cili ne mars te vitit '97 u fut ne territorin shqiptar pa lejen e organeve kompetente shqiptare si ne nje territor t` pushtuar ose ne nje vend pa zot dhe nga aktet e tjera te autoriteteve greke kunder Shqiprise deri ne ditet e sotme. Te nderuar gjyqtare Me ligjin nr.8306, date 14.3.1998, ligjin nr.8515, date 21.7.1999, ligjin nr.8660, date 18.9.2000, me VKM nr.329, date 12.7.1999, VKM nr.373, date 12.8.1999, me VKM nr.255 date 27.5.2000, eshte miratuar shitja e kesaj shoqerie me rendesi strategjike kombetare, nje shoqerie ku nje shtetas grek, shteti i te cilit ka ne fuqi ligjin dhe vepron ne thelb si ne gjendje lufte me Shqiperine, zoteron mbi 50 per qind te aksioneve. Keto ligje te Kuvendit Popullor dhe vendime te Keshillit te Ministrave jane miratuar ne kushte tejet diskriminuese per Shqiperine, ku sovraniteti paraqitet thjesht si nje fiksion, dhe Shqiperia nje shtet vasal. Me keto akte te Kuvendit te Shqiperise dhe keto vendime te Qeverise me eshte cenuar rende dinjiteti dhe siguria ime personale, e familjes dhe ajo mbarekombetare. Per kete arsye kerkoj: Qe ligjet e miratuara nga Kuvendi i Shqiperise dhe vendimet e Qeverise te dala ne zbatim te tyre, qe nuk kane vendosur kufizim per shtete, te cilat kane shpallur dhe nuk kane shfuqizuar gjendjen e luftes me Shqiperine, ne caktimin e kritereve per strategjine e privatizimit te sektoreve me rendesi te vecante, te kritereve per privatizimin e shoqerise anonime "Albanian Mobile Communications" (AMC) dhe aktet qe kane miratuar kete shitje dhe qe citohen me lart, te shpallen te papajtueshem me Kushtetuten e Shqiperise. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue Jan 9 08:25:03 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:25:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Rugova on La Stampa Message-ID: <20010109132503.99303.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com> Albanian leader Rugova says Belgrade staging depleted uranium "campaign" Source: La Stampa, Turin, in Italian 6 Jan 01 p 2 [2] Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the main Kosovo Albanian party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, has suggested that the Belgrade authorities orchestrated the rising concern over the impact of depleted uranium bombs used by NATO in the former Yugoslavia. He said that those responsible had opposed NATO intervention in 1999 and were opposed to NATO's continued presence in the area. He denied that depleted uranium ordnance might have led to about 1,000 deaths among the civilian population in Kosovo. The following is an excerpt from an interview with Rugova by "G. Ru." in Pristina, "Rugova: An orchestration to discredit allies", published by the Italian newspaper La Stampa on 6 January: Pristina: Ibrahim Rugova, the Gandhi of the Balkans and "president" of the Albanian community in Kosovo, as well as the undisputed winner of the recent round of local elections in the region, sees a plot orchestrated by Belgrade (both the Belgrade of [former Yugoslav President Slobodan] Milosevic and the Belgrade of [Yugoslav President Vojislav] Kostunica) underlying the depleted uranium affair. Rugova, who is a moderate leader, does not believe in the new Serbian path being pursued by Kostunica, a man in whom the international community on the other hand has placed its trust. "We have yet to understand Belgrade's line on Kosovo. Kostunica's statements are not a move in the direction that we had been hoping for." This is what Rugova told [Italian] Defence Under Secretary Marco Minniti when the latter met him in his home yesterday. At the end of the Italian under secretary's visit, Rugova reiterated his suspicion that there is a Serbian conspiracy behind all the alarm over contamination from depleted uranium. [La Stampa] Mr Chairman, international public opinion is following with some concern the affair of military personnel who have come down with leukaemia, a disease that they may have contracted after coming into contact with depleted uranium. Have any instances of death or of pathologies that could be linked to uranium contamination been reported here in Kosovo among the civilian population? [Rugova] Not as far as I am aware. I am sorry that this alarmist campaign has been triggered. It is a campaign designed to discredit NATO intervention in Kosovo. It would have been better to wait for the results of the various medical inquiries and for those provided by the military experts before triggering this kind of alarm. I repeat, there could well be some kind of orchestration behind this campaign. [La Stampa] An orchestration on whose part? [Rugova] On the part of those who do not accept the situation that has come into being in Kosovo; on the part of those who were opposed to NATO intervention back then and who are opposed to NATO's ongoing presence in the area today. [La Stampa] But Milosevic is no longer in power in Belgrade. Is Kostunica "guilty" too? [Rugova] Also those who are in power now may well have an interest in fomenting this campaign that seeks to bar the road to progress in Kosovo. [La Stampa] According to a number of sources, depleted uranium may have led to about 1,000 deaths among the civilian population in Kosovo. [Rugova] Not as far as I am aware. This is nothing but propaganda spread around by Belgrade to bar the way to stability in the region, to the independence of Kosovo, and to democracy... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From albboschurch at juno.com Tue Jan 9 11:48:46 2001 From: albboschurch at juno.com (albboschurch at juno.com) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:48:46 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Immigrants: "Adjustment of Status" Message-ID: <20010109.122315.-3919299.6.albboschurch@juno.com> Important Amesty-Type Law enacted for non-legal Immigrants in the U.S. New "Adjustment of Immigration Status" Law Enacted Attention: Immigrants in U.S. without papers. NOTE: [ This is section 245(i) where you can obtain the information about the status adjustment for immigrants. To get more information you can look at: www.shusterman.com And then click '245(i)FAQ English' and you will get the full information. ] SECTION 245(i) Q1. I've heard that a new law was recently passed by Congress which would reauthorize section 245(i). What is section 245(i)? (? = Section) A. ?245 of the immigration law allows persons to become permanent residents without leaving the U.S. through a process called "adjustment of status". Generally, persons who entered the U.S. without being inspected by an INS officer, who have ever been unlawfully employed in the U.S. or who failed to always maintain lawful status in the U.S. are barred from adjusting their status in the U.S. (There are certain exceptions to the last two bars for "immediate relatives" of U.S. citizens and for certain EB applicants.) ?245(i) was first added to the law in 1994 to allow persons who qualify for green cards, but not for adjustment of status, to be able to adjust their status in the U.S. upon payment of a fine (currently $1,000). Congress phased ?245(i) out of the law on January 14, 1998. However, persons who had already qualified under the law as of that date were "grandfathered" into the benefits of ?245(i) for the rest of their lives. The problem was that hundreds of thousands of otherwise qualified persons who missed the January 14, 1998 deadline cannot adjust status in the U.S., and cannot return to their countries to obtain green cards without being subject to either a three or a ten-year bar from returning to the U.S. These persons (You may be one of them!) have been in a state of legal limbo since 1998. Congress gave a holiday present to hundreds of thousands of potential immigrants on December 15, 2000 when they extended the grandfathering date of ?245(i) to April 30, 2001. Not only does this extend the benefits of ?245(i) to persons who had labor certifications or visa petitions (I-130, I-140 or I-360) filed on their behalf between 1998 and 2000, but it gives persons over four months AFTER the passage of the law to qualify for the benefits of ?245(i). Q2. What must I do to qualify for ?245(i)? A. A person with a labor certification or a visa petition filed on their behalf on or before January 14, 1998 is qualified for the benefits of ?245(i). Under the new law, a person who has a labor certification or visa petition filed on their behalf after January 14, 1998, but on or before April 30, 2001, is also qualified for the benefits of ?245(i) but only if they were physically present in the U.S. on the date of enactment of the new law (December 21, 2000). Q3. Does this mean that I must have been lawfully in the U.S. on December 21, 2000? A. No, merely that you were present, legally or illegally, in the U.S. on that date. Q4. What exactly do I have to do to qualify for the benefits of ?245(i) A. You must have either an employer or a relative submit a labor certification or a visa petition on your behalf by April 30, 2001. It is not necessary that the Labor Department or the INS approve your application or petition by this date, only that it be filed. For example, there is a tremendous labor shortage in the U.S. in a wide variety of occupations. Whether you work as a nanny or a rocket scientist, a nurse or a professor, a mechanic or an engineer, if your employer (or prospective employer) is unable to find a U.S. worker to fill your job, you may be eligible for labor certification. Also, if your brother, sister, father, mother, adult son or daughter, or your spouse is a citizen, or perhaps even a permanent resident, they should immediately submit a petition on your behalf, no matter what the waiting time is in that particular category. The purpose of filing such a petition is to qualify you for the benefits of ?245(i). U.S. citizens may petition for their spouses, married or unmarried sons and daughters of any age, parents, and brothers and sisters. Permanent residents may petition for their spouses and their unmarried sons and daughters of any age (This includes sons and daughters who are divorced or widowed). Q5. Do I have to adjust status in the same category that I was petitioned for? A. No. Let's assume that your brother (or your spouse's brother) has recently naturalized. The published waiting time for a sibling petition varies from 12 to over 20 years on paper, and the actual waiting time is even longer. Still, you should have him petition for you and your spouse and children immediately. The filing of a simple petition will make your whole family eligible for the benefits of ?245(i). You are not obligated to wait 12 to 20 years to obtain a green card. If you qualify for a green card through employment, through another relative, or even through the green card lottery, because you are qualified under ?245(i), you will be able adjust for status for permanent residence much more quickly. However, if you adjust your status based on a visa petition which was not the original basis for your being eligible to adjust status under ?245(i), you must use your new priority date. Q6. If my wife's relative files a petition for her on or before April 30, 2001, can we both qualify for permanent residence based upon a labor certification and visa petition filed after that date? How about my children? Once they turn 21 years of age, they won't be entitled to any benefits based on this petition, will they? A. You and your children are considered to be "derivative beneficiaries" of the petition filed by your wife's relative on her behalf. This entitles not only your wife, but you and your children to the benefits of ?245(i). If later on, you qualify for a green card based upon your job, a future job, a petition filed by one of your relatives after April 30, 2001, or if you win the green card lottery no matter how far in the future, you and your family can still adjust status under ?245(i). Even your children who "age-out" by turning 21, or by marrying, will still be entitled to the benefits of ?245(i) if they were "derivative beneficiaries" of a visa petition filed by your wife's relative on or before April 30, 2001. Conversely, if you and your wife divorce, not only will you and your children be eligible for the benefits of ?245(i), but so will each of your new spouses and children, as long as the new relationships are in place prior to the time you or your ex-wife adjust status. An INS Memorandum, dated June 10, 1999, provides excellent guidance in such situations. Q7. What happens if my labor certification is not approved? Or if the employer goes bankrupt or withdraws my labor certification or visa petition? What happens if my relative dies? Am I still eligible under ?245(i)? A. Yes, the INS utilizes an "alien based" interpretation of ?245(i). If a labor certification or visa petition was "approvable when filed", you are entitled to the benefits of ?245(i) even if the application/petition was never approved, was withdrawn, or the petitioner ceases to exist. Filings that are deficient because they were submitted without fee, or because they were fraudulent or without any basis in law or fact, are not considered to be "approvable when filed" and confer no benefits under ?245(i) . Q8. If I qualify for the benefits of ?245(i), leave the U.S. and return at a later time, will I still be entitled to adjust status in the U.S. in the future? A. Yes. However, if you have been "unlawfully present" (a legal term of art - be sure to consult with an experienced immigration attorney) in the U.S. for 180 days or more, you may be subject to either a three or a ten-year bar to returning to the U.S. If this applies to you, DO NOT TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE U.S. UNTIL YOU BECOME A PERMANENT RESIDENT. Q9. If I qualify for benefits under ?245(i), when will my eligibility for being able to adjust status in the U.S. expire? A. Never. Once you qualify for benefits under ?245(i), your eligibility never expires. Of course, you must still qualify (through a relative, a job or the green card lottery) when you apply for adjustment of status. And you must be admissible to the U.S. If you are a criminal, have committed immigration fraud, etc., you may be inadmissible. Q10. I want to qualify for the benefits of ?245(i). What should I do? A. You need to move quickly to meet the April 30, 2001 deadline, and you can't afford to make any mistakes. If the INS or the Labor Department returns your application because it was incomplete or because you made a mistake in completing the forms, you may lose your last best chance to qualify for benefits under ?245(i) and to legalize your status in the U.S. Our office is ready to file several hundred labor certifications and visa petitions between now and April 30, 2001 to help you qualify for the benefits under ?245(i). We have enlisted the services of former INS officer Sonya Canton to screen your case to determine whether you qualify for benefits under the new law. Consultations will be offered at a discounted price during the holidays and at the beginning of the new year. See http://shusterman.com/intake.html and schedule your telephonic or in-person consultation as quickly as possible. We will be submitting applications/petitions in all 50 states to qualify you for lifetime benefits under ?245(i). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. From SimonVukel at aol.com Fri Jan 19 18:08:21 2001 From: SimonVukel at aol.com (SimonVukel at aol.com) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:08:21 EST Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Re: [NYC-L] FW: Could you distribute Message-ID: <23.64edc14.279a22e5@aol.com> Regarding Isa Blumi's email, I have to admit I haven't watched enough basketball lately to see what Divac has been doing on the court, so I can't comment on that without seeing it for myself. If in fact he has been fluanting a Serb symbol of hatred, then he should be taken to task for it. Thankfully we live in a free country and he can do as he wishes (as unfortunate as his actions may be), but as Isa states, his team members and his fans should at least be made aware of what that symbol potentially represents before they join him in its expression. Nevertheless, I do have an issue with Isa Blumi's attempt to portray this as a Muslim issue. Serb aggression knew no religious boundaries -- Albanian Christians and other non-Serb Christians were just as equally slaughtered as Muslims, so it is unfortunate that Isa make this a call to arms, so to speak, for Muslims. I would encourage all Albanians to resist any effort to make what happened in Kosova a religious issue. It was not Christian vs. Muslim. It was Serb vs. Albanian. And whether one believes in God, Allah, Yahweh, or none at all, let's all pray and hope that Kosova one day truly be free, and that the nations of the Balkans can one day come to a peaceful understanding. They don't have to love each other, but no one's going anywhere, so they might as well learn to live together. Have a good weekend everyone. -Simon Vukel -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From wplarre at bndlg.de Sun Jan 21 04:25:38 2001 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:25:38 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: U.S. Troops in Balkans Watch Bush (AP, January 20, 2001) Message-ID: <3A6AAB12.C0809DD8@bndlg.de> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010120/pl/bush_us_balkans_1.html Saturday January 20 7:09 PM ET U.S. Troops in Balkans Watch Bush By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer CAMP BONDSTEEL, Yugoslavia (AP) - Spc. Torrey A. Wise is one of 9,000 U.S. soldiers in the Balkans that President Bush has said he would prefer to see at home. The 24-year-old wants to stay in Kosovo, where he said he and his buddies are making a difference. ``We're doing some good here,'' said Wise, who was dividing his attention between his plate of pork cutlets and mashed potatoes and a wide-screen television bringing Bush's inauguration to the mess hall at the U.S. main base in eastern Kosovo. During the presidential campaign, Bush and key foreign policy advisers suggested Europe wasn't shouldering enough of the peacekeeping burden in Kosovo and Bosnia, where Yugoslavia's violent collapse has left behind powerful ethnic tension. Already most of the Balkan peacekeepers are Europeans. In October, Bush said he would ``very much like to get our troops out'' of the Balkans, a prospect opposed both by America's NATO (news - web sites) allies and those the peacekeepers were sent to protect: Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and Bosnia's Muslims. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Bush sought to allay European fears of a swift U.S. exit. ``I have never said upon swearing in, we'll pull out of the Balkans,'' he said. ``I've always said we will work in consultation with our European allies to convince them that they need to carry more of the peacekeeping role. I intend to start that process.'' As they watched the inauguration ceremony, some U.S. soldiers in Kosovo and Bosnia complained about separation from relatives and other hardships connected to their tours. But the overwhelming sentiment among those questioned was that they were better soldiers for being in the Balkans - and that the Balkans was a better place because of them. ``I work with the local population on a daily basis,'' said Spc. Shawn Carter, 28, of Green Bay, Wis. ``We help them rebuild schools, we help out ... try with people to restore their life as it was before. ``I think that this mission has helped me out,'' he said. ``I have already gained some experience.'' Others expressed similar opinions about the U.S. presence in Kosovo, which began with the entry of NATO troops in mid-1999. ``I think that being here has opened the eyes of a lot of the soldiers'' about life in a part of the world much less privileged than back home, said Wise, a radar specialist from Westmoreland, Va. In Bosnia, the scene and the sentiments were similar. Soldiers at the main U.S. base in Tuzla kept one eye on their dinners and the other on the inauguration ceremonies. Despite the statements about the U.S. presence, Maj. John Minto, of St. Petersburg, Fla., said he doubts a new administration will mean major changes. ``A sign of a democratic nation is that you can change presidents without seeing tremendous amounts of changes,'' he said. Copyright ? 2001 The Associated Press. Na d?rgoni v?rejtjet dhe sugjerimet tuaja, q? QIKSH Albeuropa t? jet? m? e p?lqyeshme, m? efikase dhe m? e dobishme - n? sh?rbim t? M?rgat?s, t? mbar? kombit dhe t? atdheut ton? - Shqip?ris? Etnike. N?se e sheh t? arsyeshme dhe t? dobishme, d?rgo shkrimet e ALBEUROP?S n? E-mail-et e miqve tuaj dhe i regjistro ata n?: albeuropa-subscribe at egroups.com N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? 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From: Kokkalis_Program at ksg.harvard.edu Subject: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:55:29 -0500 Size: 6159 URL: From wplarre at bndlg.de Sun Jan 21 04:24:56 2001 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:24:56 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: Better red than dead in Kosovo (Scotsman, 20 JANUARY 2001) Message-ID: <3A6AAAE8.E864447B@bndlg.de> http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=40882&keyword=the SATURDAY 20 JANUARY 2001 Better red than dead in Kosovo FOR NATO peacekeepers and local Kosovan inhabitants, fearful that they might be at risk from cancer after exposure to the residues of depleted uranium, a miracle cure appears to have arrived in Kosovo's capital, writes Christian Jennings in Pristina. "World Scientific Researchers have discovered that the Kosovo Kabernet Sauvignon Red contains a substance that can preventively effects against radio-active irradiation," claims the label of a 1992 bottle of the wine, produced near the southern town of Prizren. The colourful label on the screw-top bottle of red wine also claims that "since olden times" the wine has been used as therapy in combating the effects of radiation. Wine producing in Kosovo is mainly centred around the south of the province near the old Ottoman town of Prizren, and the 2000 vintage was the first since NATO's bombing campaign in 1999. Many of Kosovo's vines were destroyed by the Serb army between 1997-1999, when battle tanks were driven through vineyards. The Scotsman Na d?rgoni v?rejtjet dhe sugjerimet tuaja, q? QIKSH Albeuropa t? jet? m? e p?lqyeshme, m? efikase dhe m? e dobishme - n? sh?rbim t? M?rgat?s, t? mbar? kombit dhe t? atdheut ton? - Shqip?ris? Etnike. N?se e sheh t? arsyeshme dhe t? dobishme, d?rgo shkrimet e ALBEUROP?S n? E-mail-et e miqve tuaj dhe i regjistro ata n?: albeuropa-subscribe at egroups.com N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Wed Jan 24 12:13:33 2001 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:13:33 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: A Pictorial Guide to Hell: Stark Images Trace the Balkans' Descent (New York Times, January 24, 2001) Message-ID: <3A6F0D3D.53AF408A@bndlg.de> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/24/arts/24HAVI.html?pagewanted=all January 24, 2001 A Pictorial Guide to Hell: Stark Images Trace the Balkans' Descent By JOHN KIFNER The image is stark, one of the most enduring of the Balkan wars: a Serb militiaman casually kicking a dying Muslim woman in the head. It tells you everything you need to know. Ron Haviv was 27 when he took that photograph in the early spring of 1992, and even today the words come tumbling out, every detail etched in his memory, when he talks about it. The picture is one of the most gripping in his new book, "Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal" (TV Books/Umbrage Editions), a collection of searing photographs. Some of the photos are on view through Feb. 8 at the Saba Gallery (116 East 16th Street, Manhattan) and will go on permanent exhibition at the war museum in Sarajevo. The previous year in Vukovar, Serbs had killed a Croatian woman in front of Mr. Haviv and prevented him from taking the picture. He had vowed it would not happen again. This time it was the town of Bijeljina, at the very beginning of the Bosnian phase of a war that tore the former Yugoslavia apart. Tensions were high as reports and rumors spread of Serbian plans for what would eventually be termed "ethnic cleansing." Zeljko Raznatovic, the gangster turned paramilitary leader known as Arkan, stormed into the largely Muslim town with his Tigers militia, and the carnage began. "They were going house to house, looking for fighters and things to take," Mr. Haviv remembered. "Inside a mosque, they had taken down the Islamic flag and were holding it like a trophy. They had a guy, they said he was a fundamentalist from Kosovo. He was begging for his life. "There was shouting outside. They had taken the town butcher and his wife, and they were screaming. They shot him, and he was lying there. "The soldiers were shouting in Serbian, `No pictures, no pictures.' "I felt like I had to photograph it. There was a truck that had crashed nearby. I got between the cab and the body and turned my back so the soldiers couldn't see me. They shot the woman, then they brought out her sister and shot her. "I was trying to think as clearly as possible. It was incredibly important for evidence to try to get the soldiers with the bodies in the same picture. I framed it, I was probably about 30 feet away. "There were the two soldiers. Another came from my left, he had a cigarette in one hand and sunglasses on top of his head. When he kicked her, it was like the ultimate disrespect for everything." He had the pictures, but he still needed clearance from Arkan to leave. As Mr. Haviv waited for the warlord, he frantically stripped his cameras, hid the rolls of film and reloaded. "I heard this crash," he said. "The Kosovar came flying out of a third-floor window and landed at my feet. I started photographing him." A few minutes later, Arkan arrived. "I need your film," he said. At first Arkan said he would have the film processed and give back the pictures he approved of, Mr. Haviv said. But he immediately began a long, complicated argument about the poor quality of film processing in Belgrade, which so distracted Arkan that he wound up taking the two rolls of film in the cameras and not bothering to search for more. When the pictures were published abroad, Mr. Haviv was put on a Serbian death list and was once held and beaten for three days. Mr. Haviv had been, at this point, a major international photographer for about three years. He had studied journalism at New York University, graduating in 1987, but only took up photography as a hobby in his senior year. He started out as an assistant to a fashion photographer, then broke in as a street photographer - working free at first - for the New York City Tribune, the defunct Unification Church newspaper, then Agence France-Presse. Chris Morris, a swashbuckling war photgrapher, took the young man under his wing, helping him get to Panama for his first big glimpse of history in 1989. He scored a rare trifecta - the covers of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report - with his shot of a vice presidential candidate being beaten by paramilitary thugs. He knew little about the Balkans when he set out for Slovenia, where a brief war was brewing in 1991. A decade later, he is wiser and sadder. "I was very happy when the pictures were published," he said. "It was a week before the first shots were fired in Sarajevo. There were lots of reports from journalists, diplomats, spies, everybody, that Bosnia was going to be very bad. I thought these pictures would provide a final push, so the world would stop this. But obviously nothing happened. It was really incredibly disappointing. "I went from this very idealistic view of the power of photography to feeling it was just really frustrating. We all wound up feeling that way all through Bosnia - photographers, journalists, television people. Nobody was really listening. There were just halfhearted efforts to solve the situation. Then Kosovo, and once again the waffling that led to so many deaths. And the victims become aggressors, and the aggressors become victims, and it goes around and around." Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company Na d?rgoni v?rejtjet dhe sugjerimet tuaja, q? QIKSH Albeuropa t? jet? m? e p?lqyeshme, m? efikase dhe m? e dobishme - n? sh?rbim t? M?rgat?s, t? mbar? kombit dhe t? atdheut ton? - Shqip?ris? Etnike. N?se e sheh t? arsyeshme dhe t? dobishme, d?rgo shkrimet e ALBEUROP?S n? E-mail-et e miqve tuaj dhe i regjistro ata n?: albeuropa-subscribe at egroups.com N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue Jan 23 11:50:38 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:50:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Terrorism in Greece Message-ID: <20010123165038.66558.qmail@web11508.mail.yahoo.com> Financial Times (London) January 23, 2001, Tuesday USA Edition 2 WORLD NEWS - EUROPE: Greece admits to terrorism failings By KERIN HOPE ATHENS Greece's Socialist govern-ment yesterday admitted its record on fighting terrorism was unsatisfactory after a prominent opposition deputy was injured in a bomb blast outside his home in Piraeus port. Vassilis Michaloliakos, a deputy for the New Democracy party, was hit by flying glass and marble fragments. Witnesses said the bomb was detonated by two young men on a motorcycle as Mr Michaloliakos entered his apartment block on Sunday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. But experts said it might have been staged by November 17, a leftwing terrorist group that has carried out 23 assassinations since the mid-1970s. None of its members has been arrested. A government spokesman said results so far from a stepped-up campaign against terrorism were "not what we'd hoped for". The public order ministry overhauled the police's counter-terrorism unit and began co-operation with UK experts after the assassination last June of Brigadier Stephen Saunders, military attache at the British Embassy in Athens. Greece's efforts to crack down on terrorism have come under international scrutiny as preparations move ahead for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The Socialists are under pressure to approve anti-terrorism legislation that would include witness protection schemes and permit terrorism trials to be held in camera. Michalis Stathopoulos, the justice minister, yesterday raised fears the government might backtrack on its pledge to catch up with November 17. In an interview with the daily newspaper Kathimerini, Mr Stathopoulos said he saw "no need" for an anti-terrorism law. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ From avelinahr at yahoo.com Mon Jan 22 12:33:20 2001 From: avelinahr at yahoo.com (A. Springhetti) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:33:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Re: ALBSA-Info digest, Vol 1 #296 - 5 msgs Message-ID: <20010122173320.15155.qmail@web1804.mail.yahoo.com> It is just a personal observation, but many of the troops based in Kosovo value their experience simply because of the sense of control it gives them and free girls every night. Free girls, or girls for littlemoney- both are flourishing in kosovo. I have been a witness to the left boot substituted by the right boot. they are the same brand. Of course it is up to the individual. The feeling of being an American in the Balkans was always one of a superiority. Lets look deeper. And Balkan hospitality is notoriously famous. Is it better to die free or live as a slave.Who knows? Peace is the best!!! I pray for brotherhood on the Balkans. But some people( serbs, albanians, etc) think that they are (more) superiour to others.And they get support- from different parties.Somebody has an interest in this. Who? God? Wake up, Brothers of Centuries- We have slaughtered each other for many wars .Only We can stop it. Why noone remmembers the little girl raped and killed? Was not she a victim as well. There are no words, no justifications for anyone here- there is only ONE thing- My Dear Albanian Brothers- and it is called Personal Consciousness. God bless you, us and let peace on earth. --- albsa-info-request at alb-net.com wrote: > Send ALBSA-Info mailing list submissions to > albsa-info at alb-net.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > albsa-info-request at alb-net.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ALBSA-Info digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [NYC-L] FW: Could you distribute > (SimonVukel at aol.com) > 2. {QIKSH ?ALBEUROPA?} NEWS: U.S. Troops in > Balkans Watch Bush (AP, January 20, 2001) (Wolfgang > Plarre) > 3. Re: BU university (irma spaho) > 4. Events at Harvard (Agron Alibali) > 5. {QIKSH ?ALBEUROPA?} PRESS: Better red than > dead in Kosovo (Scotsman, 20 JANUARY 2001) (Wolfgang > Plarre) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > From: SimonVukel at aol.com > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:08:21 EST > To: nyc-l at alb-net.com, > albanian at listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu, > alpsa2000 at egroups.com, alpsa-info at alb-net.com, > albsa-info at alb-net.com, > alb-club at alb-net.com, ivo at reporters.net, > NAACDC at aol.com > CC: ngapeja at rocketmail.com > Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Re: [NYC-L] FW: Could you > distribute > > > --part1_23.64edc14.279a22e5_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Regarding Isa Blumi's email, I have to admit I > haven't watched enough > basketball lately to see what Divac has been doing > on the court, so I can't > comment on that without seeing it for myself. If in > fact he has been > fluanting a Serb symbol of hatred, then he should be > taken to task for it. > Thankfully we live in a free country and he can do > as he wishes (as > unfortunate as his actions may be), but as Isa > states, his team members and > his fans should at least be made aware of what that > symbol potentially > represents before they join him in its expression. > > Nevertheless, I do have an issue with Isa Blumi's > attempt to portray this as > a Muslim issue. Serb aggression knew no religious > boundaries -- Albanian > Christians and other non-Serb Christians were just > as equally slaughtered as > Muslims, so it is unfortunate that Isa make this a > call to arms, so to speak, > for Muslims. I would encourage all Albanians to > resist any effort to make > what happened in Kosova a religious issue. It was > not Christian vs. Muslim. > It was Serb vs. Albanian. And whether one believes > in God, Allah, Yahweh, or > none at all, let's all pray and hope that Kosova one > day truly be free, and > that the nations of the Balkans can one day come to > a peaceful understanding. > They don't have to love each other, but no one's > going anywhere, so they > might as well learn to live together. > > Have a good weekend everyone. > -Simon Vukel > > > --part1_23.64edc14.279a22e5_boundary > Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > SIZE=2>Regarding Isa Blumi's email, I have to admit > I haven't watched enough >
basketball lately to see what Divac has been > doing on the court, so I can't >
comment on that without seeing it for myself. >  If in fact he has been >
fluanting a Serb symbol of hatred, then he > should be taken to task for it.   >
Thankfully we live in a free country and he can > do as he wishes (as >
unfortunate as his actions may be), but as Isa > states, his team members and >
his fans should at least be made aware of what > that symbol potentially >
represents before they join him in its > expression.   >
>
Nevertheless, I do have an issue with Isa > Blumi's attempt to portray this as >
a Muslim issue.  Serb aggression knew no > religious boundaries -- Albanian >
Christians and other non-Serb Christians were > just as equally slaughtered as >
Muslims, so it is unfortunate that Isa make this > a call to arms, so to speak, >
for Muslims.  I would encourage all > Albanians to resist any effort to make >
what happened in Kosova a religious issue. >  It was not Christian vs. Muslim.   >
It was Serb vs. Albanian.  And whether one > believes in God, Allah, Yahweh, or >
none at all, let's all pray and hope that Kosova > one day truly be free, and >
that the nations of the Balkans can one day come > to a peaceful understanding. >
 They don't have to love each other, but no > one's going anywhere, so they >
might as well learn to live together. >
>
Have a good weekend everyone. >
-Simon Vukel >
> > --part1_23.64edc14.279a22e5_boundary-- > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > To: ALBANEWS , > albeuropa-list , > alb-information-list > > From: Wolfgang Plarre > Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:25:38 +0100 > Reply-To: albeuropa at egroups.com > Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ?ALBEUROPA?} NEWS: U.S. > Troops in Balkans Watch Bush (AP, January 20, 2001) > > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010120/pl/bush_us_balkans_1.html > > Saturday January 20 7:09 PM ET > > U.S. Troops in Balkans Watch Bush > > By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer > > CAMP BONDSTEEL, Yugoslavia (AP) - Spc. Torrey A. > Wise is one of 9,000 > U.S. soldiers in the Balkans that President Bush has > said he would > prefer to see at home. The 24-year-old wants to stay > in Kosovo, where he > said he and his buddies are making a difference. > ``We're doing some good here,'' said Wise, who > was dividing his > attention between his plate of pork cutlets and > mashed potatoes and a > wide-screen television bringing Bush's inauguration > to the mess hall at > the U.S. main base in eastern Kosovo. > During the presidential campaign, Bush and key > foreign policy > advisers suggested Europe wasn't shouldering enough > of the peacekeeping > burden in Kosovo and Bosnia, where Yugoslavia's > violent collapse has > left behind powerful ethnic tension. Already most of > the Balkan > peacekeepers are Europeans. > In October, Bush said he would ``very much like > to get our troops > out'' of the Balkans, a prospect opposed both by > America's NATO (news - > web sites) allies and those the peacekeepers were > sent to protect: > Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and Bosnia's Muslims. > In an interview Thursday with The Associated > Press, Bush sought to > allay European fears of a swift U.S. exit. > ``I have never said upon swearing in, we'll pull > out of the > Balkans,'' he said. ``I've always said we will work > in consultation with > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Mon Jan 22 15:47:55 2001 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:47:55 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Conference in San Francisco Message-ID: From: Florin Curta Date: Wed Jan 17, 2001 5:16pm Subject: CfP: Ethnicity and Medieval Frontiers Panel, San Francisco, January 2002 Dear list members: The 116th American Historical Association annual meeting will be held in San Francisco, between January 3 and 6, 2002. The 2002 conference theme will be "Frontiers." I plan to organize a panel on ethnicity and medieval frontiers. Ethnicity was often defined as the political construction of cultural difference. However, the relation between medieval ethnicity and such salient political features as frontiers has only recently received scholarly attention. My intention with this session is to illuminate some of the most interesting aspects of recent research in this direction, such as the role of frontiers in ethnogenesis, the economic and religious dimensions of ethnic boundaries, or the re-consideration of the concept of frontier in Late Roman and Islamic history. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract before February 7 to the address below or at the e-mail address provided. I also posted this information on the AHA 2002 panel locator database (http://www.theaha.org/annual/panels/). Thank you, Florin Curta _____________________________________________________________ Florin Curta Department of History College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida 4411 Turlington Hall P.O. Box 117320 Gainesville, FL 32611-7320 Phone: (352) 392-0271 FAX: (352) 392-6927 E-mail: fcurta at h... http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/fcurta From aalibali at yahoo.com Mon Jan 22 15:53:30 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:53:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] From CNN Message-ID: <20010122205330.32007.qmail@web11506.mail.yahoo.com> As the United States marks the 60th anniversary of its entry into World War II in 2001, the living memories of the generation that experienced the war are slipping into history. At the same time, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation are growing up without any real sense of what life was like during the war -- on the battlefronts and on the home front. CNN.com invites our readers who lived through World War II to submit their personal remembrances of the war years. Your written accounts will become part of an archive of World War II memories. Tell us in your own words what the war years mean to you. It is important, of course, to remember the sacrifices of the young men and women who fought and died. But later generations should also know about the laughter and the tears on the home front, about gasoline and food rationing, travel restrictions, wage and price controls, forced displacements, about the value of radio broadcasts, newspaper reports and writing letters, about the G.I. Bill and readjusting to civilian life. Perhaps most of all, later generations should appreciate the extraordinary sense of national purpose the country experienced and has rarely known since. We also are interested if you would like to share with us your memorabilia -- photographs, movies, tape recordings, pamphlets, posters, telegrams, ration books, unit patches, letters to loved ones -- anything that can be reproduced photographically or electronically. Send us a brief description of your materials along with your stories and we will let you know whether we can include them on the Web site. We expect to launch the site in April 2001 and add to it through December 7, 2001. Click here for a printable version. Please send your e-mails to: memories at cnn.com Or send by regular mail to: Memories, CNN Interactive, 11th Floor SW One CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. 30303 Note: Only those entries accompanied by a home address, a daytime phone number, and an e-mail address (if any) will be considered. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ From wplarre at bndlg.de Thu Jan 25 14:05:04 2001 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:05:04 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: TIRANA AND BELGRADE RESTORE TIES (part of IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 212, January 24, 2001) Message-ID: <3A7078E0.2B8CC935@bndlg.de> Betreff: IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 212 Datum: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:33:19 -0000 Von: Institute for War & Peace Reporting WELCOME TO IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 212, January 24, 2001 TIRANA AND BELGRADE RESTORE TIES Tirana smooths over nationalist opposition to its decision to re-establish diplomatic ties with Belgrade By Llazar Semini in Tirana Tirana seems to have diffused nationalist protests in Kosovo and Albania over its restoration of diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Kosovo leaders had seen the renewal of ties as a betrayal. Their grievances were then exploited by the Albanian opposition. The nationalist protests, however, eased following talks between Albania's Deputy Foreign Minister Pellumb Xhufti and Kosovo Albanian leaders in Pristina. Tirana appears to have persuaded Kosovar leaders that far from abandoning Kosovo, it was attempting to establish a sound basis for the province's campaign for independence. Diplomatic ties between the two countries were re-established on January 17, five days after an approach from Belgrade, an Albanian foreign ministry statement said. Links were severed in March 1999 by the Yugoslav government over Albania's support of the NATO bombing campaign. In restoring diplomatic relations, the Albanian government implicitly accepts United Nations Resolution 1244, which recognises Kosovo as a province of Serbia - hence the hostile reception to the news from Kosovo Albanian politicians intent on pushing for independence for the province. Xhufti's visit to Pristina appears to have smoothed ruffled feathers. A few days later, Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for Kosovo's Future, said on Voice of America radio that he supported Tirana's decision and believed the move would prove to be positive for Kosovo Albanians. Tirana's representatives in Belgrade will provide Kosovo Albanians with a voice in the Yugoslav capital to both remind the new authorities there of the numerous problems yet to be resolved in the province and provide valuable insights into what the Yugoslav authorities intend to do with it. A pressing issue is the fate of Kosovo Albanian prisoners currently held in Serbian jails. The Kosovars are demanding their release, but no political party from Pristina dares to talk to Belgrade on this or any other matter ahead of the general elections expected later this year. An Albanian foreign ministry statement on January 21 confirming the re-establishment of diplomatic relations said, "The Albanian government has made clear that the release of Kosovar political prisoners and the [fate] of the missing from the conflict in Kosova are issues of special importance, which the new Belgrade authorities should treat as a priority and in a democratic way." Eager to exploit the Albanian government's discomfiture immediately after the restoration of diplomatic relations, the country's opposition politicians joined Kosovo Albanians in denouncing the move as "too hasty". The main opposition party, former President Sali Berisha's Democrats, said the government should have attached preconditions to any agreement with Belgrade. Berisha repeated the old accusation that the ruling Socialists were "linked" to Belgrade and did not enjoy the support of Kosovo Albanians. The hostility aroused by the decision exposed a lack of coordination within the Albanian government. Conflicting reports and comments called into question whether ties had in fact been re-established or were simply under discussion. On January 22, the head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Sabri Godo, said in a television interview he would need to seek clarification from the foreign minister. "I am not clear if relations were re-established or only the talks to re-establish them were started," Godo told Television Arberia. "The latter would be the right course of action at the moment." This appeared to contradict both the foreign ministry statement from the day before and comments from United Nations Balkans envoy Carl Bildt that Tirana re-established relations the previous week. Albanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sokol Gjoka attempted to shed more light on matters saying, "there's no confusion". Tirana had responded positively to an approach from Belgrade on January 17, he said, "but of course there are procedures to follow." Albanian Foreign Minister Paskal Milo said he had consulted with Western governments, especially the United States, before coming to agreement with the Yugoslav authorities. The situation was further confused by conflicting reports that Socialist leader Fatos Nano had met Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica during his recent trip to Athens. In 1997, Nano seriously undermined his own credibility at home and among Kosovo Albanians when he met former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in Crete. Clearly worried that a meeting with Kostunica could also prove damaging, Nano's spokesman immediately denied the reports. The following day, however, Greek media reported Nano had met Yugoslav Federal Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic in an Athens hotel. Finally, on his return to Tirana, Nano said he had met Kostunica and Svilanovic in the Greek capital and had discussed the fate of Kosovo Albanian prisoners, the "disappeared" and the "democratic and peaceful development of the Balkans". Nano's actions are not expected win him suppport in Albania or Kosovo, but could bolster his standing in the West. He met US Ambassador Joseph Limprecht on his return to Tirana, an indication Washington approved of decision to meet Kostunica. Llazar Semini is co-ordinator for IWPR in Tirana and former project editor in Pristina Na d?rgoni v?rejtjet dhe sugjerimet tuaja, q? QIKSH Albeuropa t? jet? m? e p?lqyeshme, m? efikase dhe m? e dobishme - n? sh?rbim t? M?rgat?s, t? mbar? kombit dhe t? atdheut ton? - Shqip?ris? Etnike. N?se e sheh t? arsyeshme dhe t? dobishme, d?rgo shkrimet e ALBEUROP?S n? E-mail-et e miqve tuaj dhe i regjistro ata n?: albeuropa-subscribe at egroups.com N?se don t? ?regjistrohesh nga ALBEUROPA, d?rgo nj? Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From liridonlatifi at yahoo.co.uk Thu Jan 25 14:26:56 2001 From: liridonlatifi at yahoo.co.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Liridon=20Latifi?=) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:26:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Visa issue ! Message-ID: <20010125192656.11022.qmail@web1201.mail.yahoo.com> Hi everyone: I am an exchange student from Kosova. My Visa status is: J-1. Actually I attend High School in WA State and I am a senior, I want to continue my studying ( College or University ) in the United States. But,...how ? How do I change my status ? What status should I apply to ? I would be very thankful to receive some information ! Thank you in advance! ===== DoNi ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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Vinci 10 skipass al giorno e uno splendido weekend a Cervinia. Scia e vinci su http://www.ciaoweb.it/Viaggi From ipilika at hotmail.com Mon Jan 29 10:04:46 2001 From: ipilika at hotmail.com (Iris Pilika) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:04:46 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] UN asked to help in southern Serbia Message-ID: Yugoslavia seeks U.N. help on rebels Svilanovic is seeking U.N. action after a Yugoslav soldier was killed January 28, 2001 Web posted at: 1507 GMT BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Yugoslavia's foreign minister is seeking an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to deal with an escalation of violence in southern Serbia. The request comes amid continuing attacks by ethnic Albanian rebels seeking independence together with the nearby province of Kosovo. In a statement released late Saturday, Goran Svilanovic called for an "urgent meeting" of the Security Council, apparently meaning a special session. He demanded an "immediate and strong condemnation of terrorist attacks," as well as "punishment of culprits" responsible for the death of the Yugoslav soldier on Friday and similar attacks in the recent past. Ethnic Albanian militants are operating in a five-kilometre (three-mile) zone separating Kosovo from Serbia proper. The buffer zone was set up under a 1999 deal which forced Yugoslav government troops to pull out of the province, now run by the United Nations and a NATO-led international peacekeeping force. Svilanovic's statement called on international officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson, "to urgently take all measures to stop the Albanian terrorists." A military statement said a group of 20 armed terrorists targeted a Yugoslav Army vehicle in the contested area on Saturday, causing "no serious consequences" for the army personnel. It said the federal forces "energetically responded" to the rebel fire. On Saturday, Yugoslavia's interior minister, Zoran Zivkovic, warned that Yugoslavia would resort to police and army units to subdue the rebels. Zivkovic said: "We shall not wait until spring ... The terrorists will then show even more interest to advance and we would be on the verge or in a conflict with many casualties." The new Yugoslav leadership is trying to avoid a brutal crackdown on the ethnic Albanian rebels. Repression of Kosovo Albanians by former President Slobodan Milosevic ultimately triggered the 1999 NATO military intervention. Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Fri Jan 26 13:57:34 2001 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:57:34 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} NEWS: WHAT HAPPENED IN RECAK? / DEMACI SPEAKS OUT: THERE IS NO TRUST (RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT, Vol. 5, No. 7, 26 January 2001) Message-ID: <3A71C89E.A39E7E3A@bndlg.de> Betreff: RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT, Vol. 5, No. 7, 26 January 2001 Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:54:36 +0200 Von: RFE/RL List Manager An: balkanreport at list.rferl.org RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC _____________________________________________________________ RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT Vol. 5, No. 7, 26 January 2001 A Twice-Weekly Review of Politics, Media, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcasts in the western Balkans. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HEADLINES * WHAT HAPPENED IN RECAK? * DEMACI SPEAKS OUT: THERE IS NO TRUST =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WHAT HAPPENED IN RECAK? Several German-language newspapers have recently run highly controversial articles about how to interpret the latest findings of a Finnish forensic team in Kosova. The Finns conducted an autopsy of 40 bodies believed to be of Albanians killed in the massacre of Recak on 15 January 1999 (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 18 January 1999). The "Berliner Zeitung" claimed on 17 January that the forensic experts prepared a report that "does not contain any proof of the alleged massacre." The original report is due to be published in an upcoming issue of "Forensic Science International." In a commentary on 19 January, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" suggested that the "Berliner Zeitung" journalists grossly misrepresented the Finnish report. The Frankfurt daily suggested that they are helping "faithful supporters of the conspiracy theory, according to which bellicose NATO -- instigated by the U.S. -- launched the air war against Yugoslavia, deliberately and by misleading the public." It also linked the "Berliner Zeitung's" account to the recent debate about NATO's use of ammunition coated with depleted uranium (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 9 January 2001). Then on 20 January, the Frankfurt daily dismissed the account by the "Berliner Zeitung" outright. It said that "the report of the Finnish forensic experts does not...rule out the possibility that the Albanians were victims of a massacre." The daily added that the Finnish report "only describes the circumstances and methods of the investigation and draws some possible conclusions, taking into account, however, the difficulties of the experts' work." The arguments of the "Berliner Zeitung" certainly do seem questionable. The daily argued that the Finnish team was unable to confirm that the bodies it investigated did indeed come from Recak. The team could neither clarify the events before the autopsy, nor precisely where each of the victims was killed. The daily also claims that nobody looked into the possibility that some of the victims may have been Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) fighters, as Belgrade maintains. But the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" pointed out that the chain of events is easy to reconstruct. On 15 January there were clashes between Serbian police and UCK fighters, according to sources from both sides. UCK officials then reported seven UCK fighters killed, while Serbian police said that they killed "15 terrorists." The following day the death toll stood at 45, including an 18-year-old woman and a 12-year-old child. OSCE Chief of Mission William Walker reported on 16 January 1999 that 20 of the victims were found in a dried-out riverbed, while another 25 bodies were spread throughout the village. Apparently relatives of five victims buried them in Recak, while Serbian police took the bodies of the other 40 victims from the mosque in Recak to Prishtina on 17 January 1999. There, a mixed Belarusian and Serbian forensic team conducted a first autopsy and issued a report soon afterwards. They claimed that there was no sign that the shots had been fired at the victims at close range. The report also claimed that a paraffin test showed that the victims had used firearms themselves. Those were the same bodies on which the Finnish forensic team conducted an autopsy later. The first report of the Finnish experts, published on 17 March 1999, dismissed the findings from the Belarusian and Serbian paraffin test, arguing that this technology has been considered outdated since the 1960s. The Finns added that contemporary tests with an electron microscope did not show traces of gunpowder on the hands of the victims. Because the forensic experts could not verify the temperature and other conditions obtaining during the transport of the bodies from Recak to Prishtina, and because they could not investigate the site of the massacre, they were unable to confirm exactly where the bodies came from or when the victims died. But in their first report, the head of the team, Helena Ranta, described the incident in Recak as a "crime against humanity." She argued that the victims did not carry any ammunition, and that there were no signs that the corpses had been looted, since the experts found money in the victims' pockets. The "Berliner Zeitung" acknowledges that the bodies showed between one and 20 wounds caused by bullets. But it interprets the lack of gunpowder traces in a rather paradoxical way, arguing that "in only one case did the forensic experts find traces of gunpowder, which would point to an execution." The daily further argues that a massacre did not take place by quoting an unnamed Canadian journalist, who claims that Ranta raised doubts about a mass execution in a private conversation. Furthermore, the daily added that Ranta presented another report to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on 21 June 2000, and that the report has remained secret ever since. A presentation of her findings before officials from EU member states in Brussels also remains secret, according to the "Berliner Zeitung," which added that not even members of the European Parliament were allowed to see the minutes of Ranta's presentation. Thus the daily suggests -- but cannot prove -- that Ranta probably raised doubts about a massacre before both the tribunal and the EU officials. The German Foreign Ministry, however, dismissed that theory. It argues that the findings have not been released to the public pending the conclusion of investigations by the tribunal, but not to cover up the truth. And a tribunal spokeswoman told the "Berliner Zeitung" on 18 January that "we have enough proof from different sources...that civilians were massacred in Recak." The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung," furthermore, recalled that the NATO air raids did not come as a response to the Recak massacre. After Recak, the international community made even stronger efforts to obtain a political solution to the crisis through the Rambouillet negotiations. The air raids started only after the negotiations failed due to a lack of Serbian cooperation. The daily also recalls that about 2,000 ethnic Albanians had been killed in Kosova already in 1998, and that an estimated 10,000 more were killed during the war of 1999. It concludes by saying that "everything indicates that during the air raids between March 1999 and June 1999, [Serbian and Yugoslav forces used] the same tactics of genocide and expulsion as they had the previous year, just more intensely. The conclusion that it was genocide -- according to the definition in the UN Convention -- does not change just because the entire Kosovar Albanian people was not killed in the process." (Fabian Schmidt) DEMACI SPEAKS OUT: THERE IS NO TRUST. The UN administration in Kosova, UNMIK, got a new boss recently: former Danish Defense Minister Hans Haekkerup. He is the antithesis of his flamboyant French predecessor, Bernard Kouchner. Haekkerup has been quick to readjust UNMIK's goals, postponing elections set for the spring and delaying the return of some 100,000 displaced Serbs until ethnic violence stops (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 16 January 2001). In Prishtina recently, RFE/RL correspondent Jolyon Naegele spoke with Kosova's leading human-rights activist, Adem Demaci. He was known during communist times as "the Kosovar Mandela" because of the long years he spent as a political prisoner. During the recent conflict in Kosova, Demaci briefly acted as a political spokesman for the UCK. Demaci talked to Naegele in Serbo-Croatian about the UN's role in the province and of the many difficulties still facing Kosova. Here is Naegele's report: Adem Demaci, like many Kosovar Albanians, is sorry to see Bernard Kouchner leave, and he is wary about what changes Haekkerup will bring. As Demaci puts it, "Haekkerup is a lawyer and a soldier, while Kouchner is a true humanitarian." But, Demaci adds, while Kouchner sought to heal the wounds of years of ethnic violence, the time had come to regulate Kosova's legal system and government. He predicts Haekkerup's experience bodes well for Kosova's future. Haekkerup said recently that he hopes to resolve Kosova's status in three to four years, while faithfully abiding by UN Security Council Resolution 1244. That resolution provided the legal framework for the NATO-led military occupation, establishing "an interim administration for Kosovo" under which the people of Kosova can enjoy "substantial autonomy within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." But Haekkerup has indefinitely postponed legislative elections originally expected in the spring of this year. The international community, particularly the OSCE, has been wary of elections that could result in a new assembly declaring full independence from Belgrade. Demaci says it's not clear how the Kosova question will be solved because everything else remains unresolved: "Many forces and interests divide the international community. Some say Kosova should gain independence and thereby resolve this crisis in this part of the Balkans once and for all. Other forces in the West are not interested in seeing Kosova independent since they are more interested in Serbia. So these conflicting interests are clashing at Kosova's expense." Demaci adds that criminals are taking advantage of the situation, because the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force and the UN police "are above the events." He says security forces are not rooted in society and do not have the opportunity to form their own networks to track down and apprehend criminals. (That, however, may change with the development of a UN-supervised local police force, the Kosova Police Service.) Demaci argues: "I say that nothing has been resolved. We have a situation now in which we don't know who the criminals are. Bombs went off at the Yugoslav mission in Prishtina [in November]. We've had murders, and four Ashkali [Albanian- speaking Roma] were murdered. Albanians from both sides [of the political spectrum] have been killed. Old [UCK] fighters and politicians are being murdered. We don't have a real picture [of what's going on]." Demaci says uncertainty over Kosova's status is aggravating matters. He believes that the political temperature in the province has been rising ever since pacifist Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosova, or LDK, won a landslide victory in local elections last October. Demaci believes that people who fought for Kosova to be free, who lost family members, and who lost everything else cannot look at this impassively. And he says that the LDK's people did not suffer many casualties but rather watched and waited to see how things would turn out. At the funeral of Rugova's murdered media adviser Xhemail Mustafa in November, Demaci called on those who lost the elections to accept the result without seeking revenge. Demaci served as the political representative of the UCK from August 1998 to February 1999. He says 20,000 to 30,000 people were actively engaged as UCK fighters. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovar families found themselves surrounded, expelled, attacked, or forced to hide. In the end, he says, almost a million people were affected. Now that Rugova's LDK has the majority, Demaci says that many Kosovar Albanians who suffered think the LDK's victory means they have lost something. "The political level of our people is quite low, and they are not in a position to take account of things the way they should. They think they have lost something. Among all of the people, you'll always have a tiny group of fanatics who cannot restrain themselves. There were slogans scrawled in towns around Kosova showing how upset these people were after the elections -- slogans like 'Oh my nation! I will not forgive the blood I shed for your freedom.'" Demaci suggests that ethnic Albanians may not be the only ones behind the wave of killings. "There is a 20 percent possibility that the Serbs have been doing [the killings]. But I tend to think the fault lies on the Albanian side because -- this factor is very important -- the people who suffered the least for Kosova's freedom have come to power, and the lack of accord continues" among the Albanians themselves. Last June, on the first anniversary of the end of the NATO air strikes and the capitulation of Serbian forces, Demaci -- along with various former UCK commanders -- spoke at a mass gathering in Prishtina's sports stadium. But when Demaci called for tolerance toward Kosova's Serbs, the stadium erupted in whistles and jeers. "Do not forget the Serbian people who have decided to stay in Kosova. They are in a difficult position. It is our duty and obligation to open up prospects for them. Not even the Serbian regime is interested in their fate. Help them. They are depressed and scared and it is up to you to create safe conditions for them." Demaci says that young people protested in the stadium because they could not understand how Albanians could live together with those who not so long ago tried to kill them, burning down their homes and destroying their property. In his words: "We will need quite a lot of time before we are able to soften our stand." Demaci, who is 64 years old, spent 28 years in communist Yugoslav prisons between 1958 and 1990 for his human rights activities. He subsequently chaired the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms for five years. This non-governmental organization still occupies most of his time. He says his mission in life is to set an example to Kosovar Albanians of mercy, forgiveness, and not forgetting -- since, as he phrases it, "forgetting only leads to history repeating itself." Demaci says that Albanians will not let themselves become slaves to the past: "We Albanians suffered so much from this domination, discrimination, and destruction by the Serbian authorities for 100 years. We know more than anyone what destruction means and we know that it is important to create an atmosphere in which others can live, too. There can be no freedom solely for Albanians, just as there could not be freedom just for Serbs. The Serbs tried to do that, but they lost everything. So we cannot repeat the same mistake." Within a month after the Milosevic regime fell, Demaci traveled to Belgrade as the first Kosovar Albanian to meet openly with the Serbian public. No other Kosovar Albanian activist has done so since. "Here is the problem. I was recently in Serbia. I had some good, interesting meetings, but I have no illusions that I succeeded in convincing the Serbs there that they should lay off those old projects-- which call for domination and discrimination [against the Kosovar Albanians]." Demaci believes Serbs could greatly ease matters by promising never again to resort to hegemony, domination, discrimination, or destruction. But he says Serbs still harbor hopes that they will one day take back Kosova or somehow disarm the province. Demaci says this is just a pipe dream. He says the Serbs should decide whether to co-exist with the Albanians or go their separate way. "There is no cooperation, no community without trust, and the Serbian regime for the past 100 years has only deformed, damaged, and squandered this trust to the point that no Albanian trusts the Serbs. [Albanians] still kill people for speaking Serbian. It is still dangerous to speak Serbian [in Kosova]. Trust has shrunk to zero." Demaci says that he suspects new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, Serbian Prime Minister-designate Zoran Djindjic, and federal Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic all harbor strong nationalist feelings toward Kosova and cannot be trusted by Kosova's Albanian majority. "Deep down," he says, "the new leaders are all hegemonists, children of the old regime" (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 17 October 2000). As Demaci sees it, the new leaders in Belgrade failed to stand up to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. In his view, they spent too much time fighting among themselves for power and not enough time dealing with substantive issues (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 1 December 2000). (Jolyon Naegele) QUOTATIONS OF THE WEEK. "Until our country is stabilized and democratized to the full, legal actions could turn into a mockery of justice and mere revenge. If one wants to destabilize the situation in this country, one might behave the way Carla Del Ponte behaves." -- Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica to the "International Herald Tribune" of 24 January. "Political change has happened both in Washington and in Belgrade, and I truly believe the changes are for the better. I think Washington's attitude towards Yugoslavia and the Balkans will be colored more by economics than politics. Good business and investment plans are far more beneficial than any hasty peace plans and quick solutions, which came too late in the past." -- ibid. "I would like to see [in the U.S.] more understanding of the realities of the Balkans. For example, much has been said about a multiethnic society in Kosovo, but we are far away from that, and have many displaced Serbian people, [as well as] much terrorism and violence that has been brought from Kosovo to Serbia." -- ibid. The Clinton administration "was paying too much attention to us, and we are facing the consequences, which should be faced by the Americans as well." -- ibid. "We should keep an open ear to what the world is saying." -- Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, quoted in the "Guardian" of 24 January. ************************************************* Copyright (c) 2001. RFE/RL, Inc. All rights reserved. The "RFE/RL Balkan Report" is prepared by Patrick Moore based on sources including reporting by RFE/RL's South Slavic Service. Direct content-related comments to Patrick Moore in Prague at moorep at rferl.org or by phone at (4202) 2112-3631. Technical queries should be emailed to listmanager at list.rferl.org For information on subscriptions or reprints, contact Paul Goble in Washington at (202) 457-6947 or at goblep at rferl.org. 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Mr Kostunica, who was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos over the weekend, is now rushing back to Belgrade because of what he describes as a "new threat to stability" in southern Serbia. The Yugoslav authorities allege that a small number of K-For forces has been helping to smuggle weapons to former fighters of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA, who are now fighting in the Presevo valley of southern Serbia. The past week has seen the most serious violence in the region since last November, when four Serb policemen were killed by suspected Albanian guerillas. UN concern In an exclusive interview with BBC World Television, Mr Kostunica said: "The threat is still under control, but it can get out of control. There we have once again the flames of a new war... we are trying by all means to prevent it. "The situation is getting worse and worse. One soldier has been killed in the last few days and a few have been wounded," he said. Carl Bildt, the UN special co-ordinator for the Balkans, told the BBC that this was "the most serious threat to stability in the Balkans, and there is very little awareness or attention to what is about to explode". The Yugoslav Government has demanded an urgent United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the actions of ethnic Albanian guerrillas in the region. The rebels are fighting for the independence of three Albanian-populated towns in a part of Serbia which adjoins Kosovo. They have been using 5km-deep military exclusion zone on the boundary, patrolled by the Nato-led K-For peacekeeping forces, to attack Serbian security forces. The Yugoslav soldier who was killed was hit in a guerilla attack on Friday. In a statement, the Yugoslav army said one of its units also came under what it called "strong terrorist" sniper fire on Sunday morning. It said the guerrillas fired anti-tank grenades and mortars in an attempt to prevent the Yugoslav unit from taking position on a hill. Abrupt departure Mr Kostunica had been due to speak to the Davos forum on plans for the economic regeneration of Yugoslavia, before his abrupt departure. He told the BBC that the seriousness of the situation meant that, as president, he should be in Yugoslavia rather than the Swiss Alps. He said that some of the guerrillas fighting in southern Serbia came from Macedonia, describing the scenario as one of "classic terrorism". Belgrade has repeatedly complained that the exclusion zone, or buffer strip, along the border - imposed by Nato as part of the 1999 ceasefire agreement - has given the rebels a free hand to mount attacks on Serb troops. But the guerrillas, of the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB), say the Yugoslav army has fuelled the violence by firing shells into the exclusion zone. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! 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Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From wplarre at bndlg.de Mon Jan 29 12:45:21 2001 From: wplarre at bndlg.de (Wolfgang Plarre) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:45:21 +0100 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH ŤALBEUROPAť} PRESS: (New York Times, January 29, 2001) Message-ID: <3A75AC31.E4B04AE2@bndlg.de> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/29/world/29YUGO.html January 29, 2001 Flare-Up on Kosovo Border Leaves Serb Dead and 4 Hurt By CARLOTTA GALL BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 28 - Fighting between the Yugoslav military and ethnic Albanian guerrillas in the tense buffer zone just east of Kosovo in southern Serbia has risen sharply, with four Serbian soldiers reported wounded today and one killed Friday night, government officials said. The casualties, the first for the military since they were deployed along the edge of the buffer zone two months ago, led the Yugoslav government to demand that the United Nations Security Council take urgent measures to halt the guerrilla activity. The violence has worried the new authorities in Serbia, which have vowed to be more democratic than Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader. The government has said it wants to find a political solution but has also requested that the international treaty ending the 1999 war between NATO and Yugoslavia over Kosovo be changed to permit Yugoslav military into the area to deal with the armed militants. The rebels operate virtually unimpeded in the three-mile-wide buffer zone that separates international peacekeepers in Kosovo from the Yugoslav Army and police troops in Serbia proper. Only lightly armed local Serb police officers are allowed in the area and in November they lost ground to the well-armed Albanian fighters, who call themselves the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medveda and Bujanovac. The Yugoslav Army and Serbian police forces have dug in along the edge of the mountainous buffer zone and occasionally come into contact with the rebels, exchanging sniper fire. A Yugoslav soldier died of gunshot wounds on Friday night. Another was wounded today and three were slightly injured when their armored vehicle hit a mine, according to Yugoslav officials. It is not known if the rebels suffered any casualties. State television showed Nebojsa Covic, the Serbian deputy prime minister given the task of solving the crisis, touring the front line and peering through binoculars at guerrilla positions. A shot rang out, setting off a burst of retaliatory fire from the distance. The position is a difficult one for the government, which is anxious not to appear weak, yet is under pressure from the international community not to use force. The Yugoslav interior minister, Zoran Zivkovic, said in an interview last week that the police retreat from the buffer zone in November was ordered by people still loyal to Mr. Milosevic in order to cause problems for the new president, Vojislav Kostunica, and his alliance, which had not yet consolidated power in the country. 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Email n?: albeuropa-unsubscribe at egroups.com From pulab at gusun.georgetown.edu Tue Jan 30 09:26:32 2001 From: pulab at gusun.georgetown.edu (Besnik Pula) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:26:32 +0200 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] ALPSA web site Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, I am very happy to announce the launch of the Albanian Political Science Association's web site. It includes detailed information about ALPSA, a list of its officers, and its ongoing programs. The site can be found at http://www.alpsa.org. Last year, ALPSA successfully organized a three-week Summer School in Political Science and International Relations in Tirana, with courses taught by renown professors from North American and European universities. ALPSA's current programs are the following: - Two-week Graduate Courses in Public Administration and Local Governance in Prishtina (March 2001), taught by renown professors of public administration and political science; - Best Graduate and Undergraduate Paper Awards, with prizes of up to US$350; - Travel and Supplementary Research Grants of up to US$500; - The publication of the Journal of Southeast European Politics (www.seep.ceu.hu), together with Central European University and the Independent Macedonian Political Science Association; - Four-week Summer School in Political Science and International Relations (Tirana and Prishtina, Summer 2001). Individual announcements for these programs will follow. For more details on these programs, the association and its objectives, and how to become a member, please visit ALPSA's web site. Sincerely, Besnik Pula From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed Jan 31 14:28:18 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:28:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Minority Protection in Europe Message-ID: <20010131192818.91498.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: PACE calls for stronger minority rights in Europe: press release, debate and addendum Assembly calls for stronger minority rights http://stars.coe.fr/act/compress/CP01/47a(01).htm STRASBOURG, 24.01.2001 - The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has just backed a Recommendation to improve the protection of national minorities and called for a draft protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on the rights of national minorities which would include the definition of national minority adpted in its previous Recommendation (n? 1201 de 1993). The Assembly stressed the importance effective minority rights protection, as the only way to reduce ethnic tensions that might provoke more conflicts. It condemned the denial of the existence of minorities and of minority rights in several Council of Europe member states. The Assembly said all member states must safeguard the minimum rights of national minorities, as set out in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and called for the drafting of an additional protocol to the Convention giving to the European Court of Human Rights or to a general judicial authority of the Council of Europe the power to give advisory opinions concerning the interpretation of the text. In his report, Rudolf Bindig (Germany, Soc.) says that Andorra, Belgium, France and Turkey have to date neither signed nor ratified the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and this means that it cannot take full effect across the continent. These countries have significant minorities, which ought to be protected, and whose rights are not officially recognised. The Assembly called for these countries to bring their constitution and their legislation into harmony with European standards. Other countries - Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal - have signed but not yet ratified the framework convention. Turning to other texts which might help protecting national minorities, such as the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights abolishing discrimination, the Assembly said states must to ratify and to apply them properly. It also proposed to reinforce the role of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, by unblocking funds and providing a staff member special responsibility for minority rights' protection. Contact: Sabine Zimmer Tel: +33 3 88 41 25 97 Fax:+33 3 88 41 27 89 pressunit at coe.int __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed Jan 31 14:37:59 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:37:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] More on minorities in Europe Message-ID: <20010131193759.14196.qmail@web11501.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: More links on the PACE debate and new recommendation on minorities Subject: PACE debate and new recommendation on minorities Dear MINELRES list members, On January 23, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held the next debate on the rights of national minorities. Main report was presented by R.Bindig (Germany) of behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, reports for opinion - by H.Gjellerod (Denmark) on behalf of the Political Affairs Committee, C.Tabajdi (Hungary) on behalf of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography, and L.M. de Puig (Spain) on behalf of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education. New PACE Recommendation has been adopted as a result of the debate. Since I also took part in the debate as a member of the PACE, it is not easy to give a concise report about the debate (too much of impressions, and too various :-). For more details, see: Corresponding press-release http://stars.coe.fr/act/compress/CP01/47a(01).htm Rights of national minorities. Report by Mr Rudolf Bindig on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Doc. 8920. 4 January 2001 http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/EDOC8920.htm Rights of national minorities. Report by Mr Henning Gjellerod on behalf of the Political Affairs Committee. Doc. 8939. 22 January 2001 http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/EDOC8939.htm Rights of national minorities. Report by Mr Csaba Tabajdi on behalf of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography. Doc. 8943. 23 January 2001 http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/EDOC8943.htm Regional or minority languages. Report by Mr Lluis Maria de Puig on behalf of the Committee on Culture and Education. Doc. 8941. 22 January 2001 http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc01/EDOC8941.htm Report of the debate http://stars.coe.fr/verbatim/200101/E/0101231500E.htm#7 txt Rights of national minorities. Recommendation 1492 (2001), adopted by the Assembly on 23 January 2001 (3rd Sitting) http://stars.coe.int/ta/ta01/EREC1492.HTM -- __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed Jan 31 21:51:53 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:51:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fondacioni Kadare Message-ID: <20010201025153.79436.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> GAZETA E GJIROKASTRES Krijohet fondacioni "Kadare" Do mbroj? ansamblin muzeal t? qytetit GJIROKASTER Shkrimtari i njohur Ismail Kadare, p?r pak dit? dhe do jet? m? pran? qytetit t? tij t? lindjes. K?saj radhe, jo me veprat e tij apo n? ndonj? vizit?, por me nj? fondacion, i cili do t? mbaj? emrin e tij, ide kjo e hedhur nga Bashkia e Gjirokastr?s. Lajmin e ka publikuar kryetari i Bashkis? s? Gjirokastr?s, Murat Ka?i, n? nj? takim t? zhvilluar me nj? grup intelektual?sh gjirokastrit?. "Gjej rastin t? them k?tu, q? nj? fondacion i till? mund t? quhet fondacioni "Kadare", kjo, sigurisht, pasi t? marrim edhe lejen e duhur nga vet? shkrimtari", ka theksuar Ka?i. Sipas tij, q?llimi i ngritjes s? k?tij fondacioni, do t? jet? mbajtja gjall? e ansamblit muzeal t? qytetit, i cili ?do dit? q? kalon, po rr?nohet ?do dit? e m? tep?r, madje ai po r?nkon. "Ne, kirurg?t, e dim? mir? ?'do t? thot? r?nkim. R?nkon ai q? ?sht? duke vdekur, ul?rin ai q? ka forc?", ka vijuar m? tej qytetari i par? i Gjirokastr?s. N? fakt, ideja p?r krijimin e nj? fondacioni, i cili do t? mbronte vlerat arkitektonike e kulturore t? Gjirokastr?s, ka koh? q? ka lindur. Nd?rsa rreth 10 dit? m? par?, n? vizit?n q? Presidenti Meidani ka b?r? n? Gjirokast?r, gjat? nj? takimi me pushtetar?t vendor?, ka propozuar krijimin e nj? fondacioni, n? m?nyr? q? ai t? bashk?punonte me UNESCO-n p?r t? marr? n? mbrojtje vlerat kulturore t? k?tij qyteti. Aktualisht, mjaft prej sht?pive karakteristike dhe muzeumeve t? qytetit, po shkojn? drejt rr?nimit t? plot?. N? rrezik jan? me dhjet?ra banesa t? kategoris? s? par?, si dhe mjaft monumente kulture. Dega e Monumenteve t? Kultur?s n? k?t? rreth, ka koh? q? ka dh?n? alarmin, p?r humbjen e vlerave t? pap?rs?ritshme q? ato kan?. Megjithat?, situata nuk ?sht? kaq e zymt? dhe qyteti duhet shp?tuar. Vet? Kadare, gjat? vizit?s s? tij t? fundit n? qytetin e lindjes, nj? vit m? par?, tha: "Un? e gjeta qytetin m? mir? se ?'mendoja. Baza njer?zore e tij nuk ?sht? shfryt?zuar. Gjeta Gjirokastr?n, emancipimin e mendjes, q?ndrimin gjakftoht?, njer?zit q? e duan vendin n? m?nyr? t? men?ur. Duket pak e lodhur, k?rkon nj? pun?, e do nj? shtys?, por do t? vijn? njer?z m? t? p?rkushtuar. Qyteti ?sht? i gjall?. Ka fituar, ka humbur. Kishte nj? gjimnaz, tani ka dy.... Qyteti im m'u duk i rinuar, pluhur do t? zinte, por si mish e trup njer?zor, m'u duke mjaft i rinovuar". __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue Jan 30 22:24:59 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:24:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Nje liber i ri Message-ID: <20010131032459.36962.qmail@web11501.mail.yahoo.com> Mbi librin analitik "Dritehije shqiptaro-greke" te Ndricim Kulles Qysh prej jetesimit te shtetit modern grek, ne historine e Shqiperise u shfaq edhe e ashtuquajtura "ceshtje e Jugut", prej pretendimeve territoriale te qeverive greke. Keshtu kontributi i shqiptareve per pavaresimin e shtetit grek, kontribut qe vinte prej shpirtit liridashes te shqiptareve, prej nevojes per te luftuar kunder rrezikut te perbashket, porse edhe per shkak te edukates libertine e kozmopolite, qe u mbrujt ne periferite e Perandorise Osmane, u zevendesua politika e likuidimit te faktoreve jashtegreke. Me numerimin e shtresave, gjegjesisht te reja, qe paten marredheniet problematike shqiptaro-greke, merret Ndricim Kulla ne botimin e tij analitik "Dritehije shqiptaro-greke". Shtresimi i problematikes shqiptaro-greke ne historine re te fqinjeve te vjeter ballkanike, shihet nga Kulla me nje trashegim te rendesishem historik. Prejardhja e dyfishte perandorake e gadishullit trashegoi nje situate konfuze fetare, duke e shndrruar mozaikun religjioz ne nje miter te re aleancash, grindjesh, luftrash e hasmerish. Gjendja greke nen Perandorine Osmane pati rrjedhojat e pashmangshme te roberimit e te dekadences shpirterore, porse se voni nje protektorat rus shpetoi rrezikun e asimilimit dhe ngjalli nje kujtese paraperandorake, duke rilindur idene e zhdukur te Bizantit e te Perandorise se Lindjes, nje utopi e mirefillte helene. Ringjallja u shoqerua edhe me arbitraritetin e trashegimise thjesht greke te kesaj perandorie, duke sjelle me vete dhe pervetesimin e cdo perpjekje per clirimesi, nje prirje per te restauruar Perandorine e dikurshme ortodokse. Pas luftes clirimtare greket iu vune nje perpjekjeje, sa donkishoteske aq edhe intesive, per te imponuar primatin ne krejt shtetet e reja qe po lindnin ne Gadishull. Afermendsh nje perpjekje e tille do te shndrrohej ne pengese paresore per ato kombe qe ende nuk e kishin shtetin e tyre, si shqiptaret. Keshtu, lufta clirimtare e shqiptareve perdite perplasej me perpjekjet e fqinjeve per te futur nen suazen e vet cdo aspirate te tyren. Edhe pas shpalljes se pavaresise, vone e me "cene" te shumta, shteti shqiptar nuk u gjend jashte ekuacioneve religjioze te Greqise, perkundrazi nen kercenimin e shpeshte te falangave greke per te shkeputur ndonje cope nga trungu i shtetit tone. Konfliktet "u pasuruan" me agresionet ushtarake te 1914-es dhe 1941-it, te cilat u shoqeruan me gjenocidin e e 1945-es ndaj popullsise came, plaga me e re e ndoshta me e mprehte mes Shqiperise dhe Greqise. Ndricim Kulla ne njeren nga analizat e veta e sheh mbrujtjen e aspiratave evropiane ne hapesiren e siujdheses sone te kushtezuar nga ripermasimi i qendrimit grek ndaj pakices kombetare shqiptare ne Greqi. Autoritetet zyrtare te shtetit grek duhet te kerkojne falje per gjenocidin e ushtruar ndaj popullsise shqiptare te Camerise. Me pas t'u kthejne cameve te cilet jetojne ende, apo pasardhesve te tyre, pronat e shtetezuara e ne disa raste te tjetersuara te tyre. Por qendrimet greke ndaj Shqiperise per Kullen marrin permasa shqetesuese kur ato drejtohen ndaj vet strukturave shteterore shqiptare, me synimin driteshkurter te dobesimit te tyre (mundesisht te rrenimit te tyre). Te tilla akuza u hodhen mjaft ne pranveren e 1997-es. Me vone erdhen monopolet greke dhe zhbalancimi i ekuilibrave shqiptare te marredhenieve me jashte. Pasi fillimet e ekonomise se tregut kishin vene ne nje balance te stabilizuar prej rreth 70% te vellimit te investimeve te huaja ne Shqiperi prej Italise dhe vetem 21% prej Greqise (statistikat e 1995-es), ne fund te mijevjecarit ato shenonin nje paritet mes te dy vendeve. Flitet mjaft per monopolet greke ne ekonomine shqiptare, porse edhe per favorizimet nder tendera e patenta prodhimesh. Kjo permase shqetesuese e marredhenieve shqiptaro-greke shihet ne shume kendveshtrime nga analisti Kulla. Pervec permases historike hegjemoniste qe shfaqet thuajse kudo nder analizat e perfshira ne liber, tipari levantinist si dukuri shfaqet per Kullen ne politike, ekonomi, por me lexueshem ne art e kulture. Titulli "Dritehije..." i adresohet me shume faktit se herepashere problemet jane fshehur nga "dukje" me madhore te historise, afermendsh te ndihmuara edhe prej faktoreve ideologjike apo gjeopolitike, se s nga pohimi qe gjendet gjithkund ne analizat e Ndricim Kulles se problematika shqiptaro-greke ka qene e perhershme, te pakten ne historine moderne te dy shteteve. E perheshme ka qene perpjekja shteterore e Greqise per te shtrire hegjemonine e vet drejt Veriut (Vorio Epiri eshte spekullimi me i njohur) dhe njelloj e perhershme ka qene rezistenca e shqiptareve perballe nje tentative te tille. Tere kjo problematike trajtohet gjithkund ne "Dritehije shqiptaro-greke", ne librin me te fundit analitik te Ndricim Kulles, botuar nga "Phoenix". Ilir Nikolla Koha Jone 01/30/2001 __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed Jan 31 14:15:24 2001 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:15:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CEMOTI Message-ID: <20010131191524.15174.qmail@web11504.mail.yahoo.com> Announcement/Publication Cahiers d'etudes sur la Mediterranee orientale et le monde turco-iranien - CEMOTI N? 29/ 2000, 372 p. Sommaire Semih Vaner Editorial L' HUMANITAIRE / L'ALBANIE LA QUESTION HUMANITAIRE : FIN DE SIECLE OU FIN DE CYCLE ? Philippe Ryfman In Memoriam F. Jean Philippe Ryfman Introduction Olivier Roy L'humanitaire en Afghanistan : entre illusions, grands desseins politiques et bricolages Michel Leezenberg Humanitarian Aid in Iraqi Kurdistan S. Neil MacFarlane Humanitarian Action and Conflict in the Southern Caucasus : The Cases of Abkhazia (Georgia) and Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan) Dzovinar Kevonian Les refugies et l'action humanitaire en Transcaucasie post-sovietique : enjeux politiques et considerations historiques Laurence-Donia Kotobi De quelques reflexions sur l'humanitaire dans le champ sanitaire en Iran islamique Fran?oise Rollan Aide humanitaire et quelques sites web L'ALBANIE : DIX ANS APRES Kol? Gjeloshaj & Jean-Michel de Waele Introduction Jean-Guillaume Ditter & Ilir Gedeshi Dix ans de transition economique albanaise : de l'autarcie ? l'extraversion Christian Pihet 1991-1999. Annees d'orages en R?publique d'Albanie : l'organisation difficile d'un systeme politique pluraliste Kol? Gjeloshaj & Jean-Michel de Waele La republique d'Albanie et la question du Kosovo Michel Roux, Gilles de Rapper & Olivier Deslondes Dimanche a Miras, lundi a Dipotamia. La frontiere albano-grecque dans la region de Bilisht et de Kastoria Christophe Chiclet Les relations greco-albanaises : amours ambigues *** Sevki Akdag Le statut juridique du travailleur migrant turc devant le juge communautaire Azade-Ayse Rorlich Kazakh intellectuals, identity, and collective memory : echoes of recent debates Christine de Montclos Les Balkans vus du Vatican : les crises de Bosnie et du Kosovo Johann Uhres Le point sur les alphabets utilises pour les langues turciques CHAMP LIBRE Sasan Fatemi, " Le Chanteur silencieux. Un apercu de la vie musicale en Iran "; Nasrin Faghih, " Au bord du tableau noir, tout est encore possible ! "; Yvette Benusiglio, " Quand une revue turque revisite l'Islam ". DOCUMENT Damien Helly, Jean-Paul Burdy, " Entretien avec E. Elcibey " CHRONIQUE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE " Le guide " de Bilge Karasu par Anne Mortal. 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