[ALBSA-Info] MPA - 21.03.2001

[Agron Alibali]

[10] ETHNIC GREEK ASSOCIATIONS CALL FOR GREEK
GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN THE ALBANIAN
   POPULATION CENSUS

                                          
Thessaloniki, 21 March 2001 (16:30 UTC+2) 
   The ethnic Greek Minority Associations in a request
submitted to the Greek
parliament by right-wing main opposition party of New
Democracy parliament
deputy Sotiris Kouvelas call on the Greek government
to persuade the Albanian
government to accept their demands concerning the
imminent population census
that will be held in Albania. 

                                          
Specifically, the ethnic Greek Minority Associations
want the nationality,
language and religion to be included in the population
census questionnaire, the
Albanian government to stop the policy it follows
against the ethnic Greek
 minority, one person per family in each household to
be enough on the day of
the population census, the Albanian government to
announce the date of the
population census in time, the population census to
continue for 2-3 days
including a weekend, and finally, they want the
movement of immigrants at the
Greek-Albanian borders to be facilitated. 

                                          
[13] TWO ETHNIC GREEKS WERE INJURED IN A HAND
 GRENADE ATTACK IN HIMARA

    Himara, 21 March 2001 (16:22 UTC+2) 

                                           Two ethnic
Greeks were injured in a hand grenade attack targeting
a Greek
                                           coffee-shop
in Himara, Albania last Sunday night. 

                                           One of the
two brothers, who own the coffee-shop, was injured as
well as an
                                           ethnic
Greek customer and an Albanian. The last two were
seriously injured.
                                           The attack
was launched after a brawl between the perpetrator,
who is
                                           Albanian,
and ethnic Greeks living in the region. 

                                           The Himara
Residents Association mentions, in a statement issued
on the
                                           occasion of
the imminent population census and parliamentary
elections in
                                           Albania,
that the Albanian government has launched a terror
campaign against
                                           the ethnic
Greek minority and calls on the Greek government to
demand from
                                           the
Albanian authorities to protect the ethnic Greeks in
the region as a token of
                                          
appreciation for the contribution of the Greek state
in the Albanian state
                                          
reconstruction efforts. 

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