From mentor at alb-net.com Mon Apr 2 02:41:12 2001 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 02:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] Press-Releas: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS OF FYR OF MACEDONIA: ALL CITIZENS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW (fwd) Message-ID: PLEASE distribute as wider as possible! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- PRESS-RELEASE EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS OF FYR OF MACEDONIA ALL CITIZENS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW "NATIONAL FREEDOM" Humanitarian Foundation 456 River St., Paterson, NJ 07524 Tel: (973) 523-9203 April 02, 2001 The "National Freedom" Humanitarian Foundation, as well as the Albanian-American community and their societies throughout the US and Canada, are deeply concerned with the situation in FYR of Macedonia and the discriminatory treatment of the Albanian population by the Macedonian Government. The current situation seems to be a natural consequence to the unresponsive nature of the Macedonian Government towards the legitimate demands of the Albanian population for equal rights in all aspects of life. For many years, the Macedonian Government has systematically denied equal cultural, civil and human rights to its Albanian population, comprising at least 1/3 of Macedonia's total population. The discrimination stems from the Macedonian Constitution itself and spans across every aspect in the daily life of Macedonia Albanians, treating them as second-class citizens. The Albanian population, respects the territorial integrity of the Macedonian state, with the following demands for equal rights for all of its citizens: - Citizenship based Constitution, not an ethnic one: Changes in FYROM's Constitution to elevate Albanians and other ethnic groups to statehood forming citizens in peaceful coexistence. The current preamble of the Constitution privileges the Macedonian ethnicity above the others. - Equal Employment Opportunities for every citizen. Macedonia Albanians are being systematically discriminated when applying for jobs in the public as well as the private sector. As a result, Macedonians fill most jobs in the police, army and the public sector, despite the availability of adequately trained Albanian professionals. - Education in mother tongue at every level. As taxpayers and citizens of FYROM, Albanians are currently not entitled to state funded projects. Albanians shall be entitled to a state funded University whose language of instruction ought to be Albanian. - Institutionalization of the Albanian language. Reforming the state and local laws to allow for equal use of the Albanian language alongside the Macedonian in every institution. - Cultural and religious heritage: FYROM Government ought to nurture the cultural and religious heritage of all of its ethnic groups, not only the Macedonian one. We call on the international community to mediate immediate negotiations between the Macedonian Slav-led Government and the political representatives of the National Liberation Army (NLA), to address and peacefully resolve Macedonia Albanians' legitimate grievances and demands for equal rights. From etrit at alb-net.com Tue Apr 3 10:03:18 2001 From: etrit at alb-net.com (Etrit Bardhi) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:03:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] As Italians Move Up, a New Group Does the Pizza and Pasta Message-ID: Read the NY Times story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/03/nyregion/03PIZZ.html?searchpv=nytToday It is sad though that not a single Albanian restaurant (one that serves Albanian food) exists in Manhattan. Who knows, maybe they would do a good business, especially now that people more or less know more about Albanians and might be curious to explore their food. Etrit. From eb246 at columbia.edu Wed Apr 4 12:10:05 2001 From: eb246 at columbia.edu (Erkanda Bujari) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] Vacancies at the Library of Congress (fwd) Message-ID: Jobs... ****************************************************************** Subject: Vacancies at the Library of Congress (fwd) The Library of Congress is seeking applicants who possess knowledge of at least two of the following languages: Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak or Slovenian. The positions are ?Library Technicians? and are in the Acquisitions Directorate. At the GS6 level, the positions pay an annual salary of $26,966-$35,051. At the GS9 level, the salary is $36, 656-$47, 648. A vacancy announcement describing the position in detail as well as the application forms, can be obtained from the Library?s web page www.lcweb.loc.gov. It is also available from the LC Employment Office at 202-707-5627 or from the LC job hotline at 202-707-4315. Ask for Vacancy Announcement AT-LC-01-0040 (DP). The announcement is in effect till April 19, 2001, though an extension is possible. For members of the Lithuanian community who have further questions, please call Daiva Barzdukas at 202-707-5280 or Barbara Conaty, 202-707-2715. From mentormala at hotmail.com Thu Apr 5 11:02:45 2001 From: mentormala at hotmail.com (Mentor Mala) Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:02:45 -0400 Subject: [NYC-L] Albanian minister talks how it can take the route towards 21st century Message-ID: Hi all, The article on the URL below sounds quite interesting. It is unfortunate, I have to say interesting because we are not used to hearing, at least lately, that someone in the Albanian government is taking "drastic" and important steps towards changing the view people from all over the world see Albania. The article about Edi Rama, the minister of culture .... says: Edi Rama is unapologetic. "I have to start somewhere", he says, "and I have to show my colleagues in other Ministries, that you can take unpopular decisions and survive. That's why I refused to back down over the changes at the Opera - even when the musicians went on hunger-strike. " "We had to win, and we did, and the Opera is now doing its job for the first time in years. When other Ministers can work like this, Albania will have finally begun the long march into the real world of the 21st century." Now I don't know much about Mr. Rama, but sure as hell sounds good to me. Anyone care to disagree? ;o) The entire article can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/crossing_continents/europe/newsid_733000/733629.stm _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From imerprishtina at hotmail.com Thu Apr 5 16:40:32 2001 From: imerprishtina at hotmail.com (Imer Berisha) Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 16:40:32 Subject: [NYC-L] Fwd: FW: summer internships at the World Bank Message-ID: Hi everybody, I received this info about an internship and a possible job at World Bank, and i thought maybe somebody is interesed. Regards, Imer > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Development Gateway program at the World Bank is looking for a summer >intern > >with substantial experience and/or strong interest in e-development >(e-government, e-business etc). Candidates with MBA, MPA, Library Science, >and >IT degrees are preferred. The Gateway program could also facilitate >employment >with Country Gateway programs in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. You can >find >out more at http://developmentgateway.org. Please send your resumes with >cover >letters to Denisa Popescu at dpopescu at worldbank.org. > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. From eb246 at columbia.edu Fri Apr 6 13:45:54 2001 From: eb246 at columbia.edu (Erkanda Bujari) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] job (fwd) Message-ID: ****************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:01:59 -0400 From: John Micgiel To: Othereurope Subject: job Research Associate - Democracy Council on Foreign Relations Washington, D.C. Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is a leading nonprofit membership organization, research center, and publisher, with headquarters in NY, offices in Washington, D.C., and programs nationwide. It is dedicated to increasing America?s understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council?s 3800+ members are the leading scholars and practitioners in international affairs and foreign policy. The Council also publishes Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal on global issues. The Council is host to the widest possible range of views, but an advocate of none. Like the great universities, foundations, and other think tanks, the Council aims to enhance the quality of study and debate on world issues, develop new generations of leaders, and help meet international challenges by generating concrete ideas. The Council?s Studies Department is one of the country?s largest foreign policy think tanks, with a widely respected and influential research staff of over 65 Fellows. The department maximizes the impact of its Fellows? research by concentrating on the interlinked issues that shape the international agenda, emphasizing in particular three areas - rethinking national security, international economics, and Asia. The Studies department?s aim is to produce insights into international affairs and U.S. foreign policy through its research, programs, and publications. The Research Associate will work out of the Washington, D.C. office, under the direction of a Senior Fellow in the Studies Program. The major responsibilities of this position will include (but are not limited to): I. Administrative Responsibilities: ? 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BA or MA in International Relations, Economics and Development ? 1 year related experience ? Strong organizational skills and ability to work within deadlines ? Excellent computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, Lotus Notes, and the Internet ? Strong proofreading skills; Editing skills preferred ? Excellent written and verbal communication skills ? Ability to work independently or on a team Salary: High twenties to low thirties, based on education and experience FOR MORE INFO & TO APPLY: please link to the following website: From imerprishtina at hotmail.com Sun Apr 8 03:23:08 2001 From: imerprishtina at hotmail.com (Imer Berisha) Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 03:23:08 Subject: [NYC-L] Re: [ALBANIAN] The trial of Milosovic Message-ID: Dear Mr. Connan, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Pack and other members of the list, First of all my apologies for sending an empty e-mail two days ago, I wrote something about Milosevich trial, but somehow it was lost. As I think this issue is important I will try to repeat what I said in the posting that did not reach members of the list. Few issues have come to surface that are pertinent to the possible trial of the ?butcher of the Balkans? as some have referred to Milosevich. It is all to good to be politically correct but as I am not a politician, not a member of any political party and, do not aspire for any political position at all, I believe I can afford the luxury of saying the truth and probably risk being politically incorrect. 1. The place of trial. There is no doubt in my mind that he should be tried at The Hague. The crimes that Milosevic has been indicted for are crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Yugoslav authorities are simply buying time from the West claiming that this issue is not that important, they have other things to deal with. The truth is they do not want to initiate proceedings against him for crimes committed in Bosnia and Kosova at all, be it in Serbia or in any other place. Aware that they must do something they are organizing a ?mock? trial, pretending that he is being tried in Serbia. International law has priority over national law and there is no need for any other law to transfer Milosevic to The Hague as this is not an indictment from another country i.e. this is not an extradition case between two countries. The crimes that he has been accused of are universally recognized crimes and under the jurisdiction of the ICT. 2. No retroactivity of legal provisions ?Yes this is the rule, but as for any other rule, there are exceptions. Milosevich knew that he was committing crimes, and he did everything possible to hide them, among other things by incinerating bodies of executed Albanians, and spreading mass graves sites all over Kosova (more than 500). After all he is a lawyer, and he is not excused of not knowing the law. In relation to the retroactivity issue if this principle would have applied strictly the Nuremberg trial will not have happened. At the time when Justice Robert H. Jackson was papering for the Nuremberg trial many around him were skeptic, even within US government. It has succeeded and has become part of international law. Nuremberg trial showed the need for individuals to be tried. Their defense was: there ca be no punishment for crimes without a pre-existing law. Of course this was rejected b y the Court. 3. Syndrome of denial. Another very important phenomenon is the ?syndrome of denial? that is present among many Serbs, let alone government. What has happened in Kosova, atrocities and massacres committed are not acknowledged. Why? This the point where political ?correctness? collides with the truth. It was not only Hitler responsible for the killing of millions and million of Jewish and other people. Yes, he was at the top of the pyramid, but there were millions of Germans that supported him and were ready to die for his ?vision? of future Germany. Without a broad support he could not have started his killing machinery against humanity. After the war, because of ?political correctness? and in hope of changing the attitudes of German people, only a small group of persons was prosecuted. In return German people have acknowledged (the majority of them) that horrible crimes were committed by the Nazi Germany on their behalf. The difference between German people and Serbian people/and their governments/ is that Serbian people do not acknowledge what has happened, the pain inflicted to other human beings around Serbia, by their government with the participation of many of them. 4. What is at stake? The problem was never and is still not only Milosevic, and Europeans know that very well, but also they must be politically correct, because their people did not suffer from Serbian forces and they are politicians. The problem was and still is, Milosevic on the heads and minds of so many Serbs, today at the beginning of 21 century. It might not be politically correct but it is true that MILOSEVIC DID NOT LOOSE ELECTIONS FOR WHAT HE DID! MIOSVIC LOST ELECTIONS BECAUSE HE DID NOT FINISH WHAT HE STARTED! He ruled for 13 years because Serb people gave their votes to him, even after wars and atrocities that were being committed by Serbian Army, disguised as Yugoslav solders. So at this point the majority of Serbs voted in favor of atrocities and discrimination that went on in Kosova e.g. for ten years. Therefore Milosevic lost elections because Serb people, same individuals (majority) that voted for him, were furious because he could not accomplish his ?horseshoe? plan in Kosova to drive ethnic Albanians from the region and settle refugees from Croatia there. Serb voters were angry at him because he presented his defeat as a victory, and brought NATO inside Kosova and in the border with Serbia. Unfortunately Milosevic did not loose elections because Serb voters came to acknowledge that what was done in their name was wrong, it has to be condemned and admitted, and Serbian government should apologize to Albanian people and Boshnjak people, for atrocities committed against them by Serbia. Hence Milosevic trial is not a trial of an individual it is a trial of an entire policy and criminal and intolerant attitude of many Serbs that still have against neighboring people Albanians in particular. Serb people (again unfortunately the majority) cannot come to terms with the fact that Albanians inevitably will be equal with them and Serb rule over Kosova has been lost forever (no matter what the final status of Kosova will be). Milosevic trial is, and has to be a trial of ?Milosevichism? (unfortunately) in the heads and minds of many Serbs. It is not impossible for this negative attitude to change, but Kostunica is not the one that wants to make those changes, similar to Montenegrin government. Kostunica does not differ from Milosevic in his aims and ideas. He is a nationalist as Milosevic. 5. Kostunica The only difference between him and Milosevic is that he knows that Serbian military muscle cannot do anything to NATO forces and he is trying to give as less as possible in order to achieve as much as possible in relations with the West.I even think that he has promised Milosevic not to transfer him to The Hague. It is up to International community to ?help? Serb people to realize their dead end road and truly change. Therefore Milosevich?s trial at The Hague is of paramount importance, especially at the time that Albanians are buying their loved ones at the Kosova/Serbia border from Serbian prisons. This has being going for very long time, and as the shame. At the same time Kostunica gets green light for financial aid from US. (there are still more 400 Albanians prisoners in Serbia!) Unfortunately they have become only numbers in the notes of different governmental officials involved in Kosova for the only reason they speak Albanian and have no government of their own to care for them. Regards, Imer Berisha ________________________________________________________________________ >From: Christopher Fisher >Reply-To: cfisher at mailbag.com >To: ALBANIAN at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: [ALBANIAN] The trial of Milosovic >Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:39:50 -0500 > >__________________________Albanian Discussion List________________________ > Archives: http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/albanian.html >__________________________________________________________________________ > > >>>>> Albanians in Macedonia Crisis Center (AMCC) <<<<<<<< > http://www.alb-net.com/amcc >__________________________________________________________________________ > >Tom, > >I agree with you that *how* he comes to trial isn't important, but *why* >is. If Serbia tries him simply for crimes against the state, then he >may go to prison, even be executed, but we, Albanians and friends alike, >will be the losers. Why? Because he *MUST* be put on trial for >Genocide; in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosova. And the Serbs *MUST, MUST* >come to realize what the Germans did after Nuremberg-that they, or at >least all of them that supported him, and went "rah-rah" over his >attempt to unleash the "final solutions" to the Bosnian and Albanian >"questions", are on trial there too, in a sense. A stake needs to be >driven straight through the heart of racist Serb nationalism, and it's >first stike will not happen until Milosevic is on trial before the War >Crimes Tribunal, and the Serbs will no longer be able to pull their >denial games any longer. > >All the Best, > >Chris > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. From eb246 at columbia.edu Thu Apr 12 15:08:45 2001 From: eb246 at columbia.edu (Erkanda Bujari) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NYC-L] Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: For those who are in DC. ****************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:04:08 -0400 From: Kevin Hallinan To: Othereurope PREVENTION AND PRACTICE: THE BALKANS FORUM Organized jointly by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Georgetown University's Center for Eurasia, Russia, and East European Studies, and Search for Common Ground Session 8 Responding to Macedonia: U.S. Policy in Imminent Conflict Monday, April 16, from 4 - 6 p.m. Georgetown University - Old North Building, Room 205 Dr. Mort Halperin, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Greg Schulte, Special Advisor to the President, National Security Council The latest crisis in the Republic of Macedonia has provoked a measured response on the part of the U.S. Government. In Washington, commentators, politicians, and academics have offered multiple-and occasionally contradictory-explanations for what is perceived by many as U.S. reticence. To help answer this question, Mort Halperin will address the political dynamics of U.S. policymaking specific to the challenge of short-term conflict prevention. His commentary will focus on the structural complexity of the policymaking process in moments of imminent conflict, such as in the recent case of Macedonia. Greg Schulte will provide a valuable perspective on the decision-making process around crisis prevention and the recent conflagration in Macedonia from the highest levels inside the White House. Morton Halperin is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Democracy project. Dr. Halperin has extensive experience in foreign policy, defense, and national security affairs, having served in three U.S. administrations and having held positions in academia and at various think tanks. Most recently, from 1998 to 2000, Dr. Halperin served as the director of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department. Greg Schulte is the Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs in the European and Eurasian Affairs Directorate of the National Security Council. On detail from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he is responsible for overseeing U.S. diplomacy and military deployments in Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as U.S. relations with Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, and Yugoslavia. The discussion will be held Monday, April 16, from 4 - 6 p.m. at Georgetown University (Old North Building, Room 205). Subsequent forums will take place on the third Monday of every month at the same location and time. This monthly event is providing all actors in the Washington, DC policy community an opportunity to engage in constructive cross-discipline dialogue on events and prescribed policy for preventing the spread of conflict in Southeast Europe. The Balkans Forum brings together a diverse group of experts-academics, activists, policy makers, and practitioners-in a sustained dialogue on US policy in the Balkans. Each monthly session is organized around a brief presentation from one or two Balkan specialists followed by a roundtable discussion. We attach a brief description of the event and the sponsoring organizations for your information. We hope you will join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation. Please contact Charlotte Diez at Search for Common Ground at cdiez at sfcg.org or call (202) 777-2206 to reserve a space at the Balkans Forum. Do not hesitate to contact us if we can provide any additional information. 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