[kan-l] Gazeta Albania, 18 February 1999 (Congr. Trafickant on Kosova)

[Ramazan Hajdini]

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Stand up for the independence of Kosova!

By U.S. Congresman James A Trafickant

I will tell the American administration that our military
forces are component part of the peacekeeping troops to
secure the people that are in Kosova. They respect the facts
and plans which have been drafted before.
The policy of the United States of America, first of all
aims at the cease of fire to see a sort of stability in the
region. For the moment being our policy is autonomy, but my
opinion is, and I will convince the Congress on this, that
is brings nothing else but endless crisis. The only final
solution is independence. Without this there will be no
security in the region, there will be successive continuos
conflict, until there will be an independent Kosova in
Yugoslavia. I think that this is good for the region and
after all it is to the benefit of the world, to the benefit
of America and certainly to its interests in the Balkans.
I would like to say something about my meeting with the
prime minister (Pandeli Majko). I do not have anything to
say about my meetings with the political representatives,
but my meeting with the Prime Minister was specific.
Probably, this is related to a stand, I would like to say
today, to a stand that is passive and not active, that does
not provide possibilities and I think that it is now time to
reach goals.
The Prime Minister was very technical about Kosova and he
spoke to me about the borders under the international law.
My question to the young politicians of Albania is: Albania
behaves in accordance and respects the international laws,
but isn't Miloshevic the one who violated the international
laws by committing barbarisms on the Kosova Albanians? Isn't
it time for Albanians to rally out, to step up for this
cause? If not for this cause for what else? If not now, then
when?
What is being risked today is the defeat in a big game,
where big things cannot be achieved. Albanians are all over
the region, but the heart of the homeland, is this, it is
Albania. And if Albania does not support independence then,
why should the rest of the world do it? You should step up
now. You should stand up. At this moment our government does
not support independence. We will work in America to change
this stance, because in the future an independent Kosova
would be far more better for the region and sure for more
better for my country.
I denounce communism. Do not mess up communism with
nationalism. I do not support isolationism.
An independent Kosova is also good also for the Serbs; it
opens perspectives, if unites the people.
Leave aside differences, discords and unite round the joint
root, thus you will win the respect in the world.
There will no longer be massacres, violations, or treatment
as a second-hand citizen.
It is time to start. We will present a resolution in the
Congress. I have asked the Democratic Party in Albania to
present this resolution about the independence of Kosova to
Parliament.
We have Also presented a petition with signatures on the
independence of Kosova, that will circulate all over the
world, in America, New Zealand, Australia, Austria and that
will be signed not only by those of Albanian blood, but by
all those that ask for liberty and justice.
Develop your political program now, prepare your strategy.
No matter what happens in France, go ahead, hit the iron
until it is hot for the independence of Kosova.

*This is what the US Congressman, James Traficant spoke out
while taking the floor during the proceedings of the
International Conference on the Democratic Security and the
Regional Stability, organized by the Albanian Institute for
International Studies.




Albanians, joint war

The chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha and the
chairman of the Democratic Party of the Albanians in
Macedonia (FYROM), Arber Xhaferri held a meeting where they
discussed at length about the crisis in Kosova and for the
ways of the inter-action of the Albanian factor in the
Balkans.
In the meeting, together with the engagement for the
solution of the Kosova problem, it was discussed also for
the indispensability of a stable political solution for
Albania, as the only way out for pulling the country out of
the crisis.
Berisha and Xhaferri considered the liberation war of the
Kosova people as a "war of all the Albanian nation".
At the same time, the two Albanian politicians emphasized
that the "engagement of all the efforts by the Albanians in
Albania, Kosova, Macedonia and Diaspora, wherever they are
to win this war on the Serb aggression  in Kosova continues,
it is indispensable".
The coalition where the Albanian Democratic Party of Arber
Xhaferri takes part came out victorious in the last
elections held in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
which gave five ministerial posts in the new governmental
cabinet of Skopje to this party.
analysts appreciate that after this, the situation of the
Albanians in FYROM is improved a lot. Very meaningful in
this direction was also the amnesty from which there
profited two Albanian local leaders, sentenced to long-term
imprisonment.




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