[ALBSA-Info] Komiteti Shqiptar i Helsinkit

[Agron Alibali]

DECLARATION

 

 
ALBANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP DENOUNCES THE BRUSSELS INCIDENT
 

 

The Albanian Human Rights Group followed with concern the event that occurred on 23 January in the facilities of the Hotel "Renaissance" (Brussels) after midnight, when some individuals attacked and maltreated the Albanian Minister of State for Integration Paskal Milo and some members of the Albanian delegation who were going to meet with Brussels EU parliamentarians.

 

This event is an act that negatively impacts Albania’s image, especially during the days when the debate for Albania was going to be held in the European Parliament and the final steps would be undertaken for the signing of the Association Stabilization Agreement with the EU. 

 

AHRG forcefully denounces this act of violence that harmed and encroached the dignity of some senior officials of Albania.

 

Starting from the event in question, the Group asks the Albanian judicial bodies to begin as soon as possible the procedures for the full clarification of this unprecedented act and the perpetrators. 

 

Relying upon article 6 of the Penal Code of the Republic of Albania, which stipulates that: “any Albanian citizen who has committed an offence abroad, can be investigated in Albania as long as there is no decision from another court,” calls upon the Prosecutor’s Office to follow all the necessary legal procedures to pursue this case.

 

Also, the AHRG is of the opinion that it is time that the justice bodies, especially the judicial ones, make a reflection on what happened so that in the future they do not issue judicial decisions that are hasty or legally unfounded.

 

Furthermore, the AHRG, although it concludes that the Brussels event ensued as a consequence of a confused policy pursued by the Albanian politicians, calls upon the political parties that the incident at issue does not become a potential cause of political gain to benefit or harm one side or another, as such a situation of tension would not be to the benefit of Albania and its citizens.

 

 
Tirana, 25. 01. 2002


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