From inahoxhazaloshnja at yahoo.com Sun Mar 13 18:58:14 2005 From: inahoxhazaloshnja at yahoo.com (Ina Hoxha Zaloshnja) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:58:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NYC-L] MJAFT in NYC - Breakthrough Elections in Albania? Message-ID: <20050313235814.23089.qmail@web53506.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Albanian Community, We would like to extend to you our cordial invitation to the event that the MJAFT movement will hold in NYC this month. Please read the information provided below: LOCATION: Columbia University WHEN: Friday, March 25th TIME: 12:00-13:30 ADDRESS: 1302 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) Mr. Erion Veliaj, Executive Director of the MJAFT!(ENOUGH!) Movement of Albania, will speak on the forthcoming elections (Summer 2005) including the assessment on the political scene, the prospects for fair voting, the trajectory of democracy of the country, and finally the importance of these elections in the regional context. The MJAFT! (ENOUGH!) Movement was founded in 2003 as a campaign to raise awareness against corruption, poor public services, illegal trafficking, blood feuds, environmental degradation, and the malfunctioning of Albanian democracy. MJAFT! has encouraged sharp debates throughout the country and has become an undeniable catalyst for change. For its incessant dedication and numerous achievements MJAFT! became the recipient of the 2004 UN Civil Society Award. (www.mjaft.org) The Event is Free and open to the public. Please feel free to invite family and friends to come along. We would be very happy to see you all there. Thank you, NY-MJAFT Club Staff nyclub at mjaft.org, inahoxha at mjaft.org www.mjaft.org -- --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From jeton at hotmail.com Wed Mar 16 00:51:26 2005 From: jeton at hotmail.com (Jeton Ademaj) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:51:26 -0500 Subject: [NYC-L] Rugova Assassination Attempt Message-ID: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050315/1/3r9l6.html Wednesday March 16, 2:39 AM Kosovo president survives roadside bomb ahead of Solana meeting A roadside bomb narrowly missed Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova as he drove to meet visiting EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, an attack that drew condemnation from Europe and the United States. Rugova survived without injury when the bomb detonated as his convoy passed on its way to the meeting in the provincial capital Pristina, Kosovo police spokesman Refki Morina said. One passerby was injured. A visibly shaken Rugova attended the meeting with Solana, who is in Kosovo to discuss the formation of a new government following the resignation of prime minister Ramush Haradinaj to face charges at the UN war crimes court. "Thank God I am saved again because the same thing happened a year ago," Rugova, 61, told reporters after the meeting. "Unfortunately there are still people who want to destabilize Kosovo. I condemn this act and the people who do things like this should be stopped." A security guard said he believed the bomb, which exploded around 8:30 am (0730 GMT), was hidden in a garbage can and detonated by remote control. "The blast was so strong that it broke windows on the fifth floor of a nearby building," he said. The international community immediately condemned the blast as an act of terrorism which threatened to destabilise the southern Serbian province, still highly volatile more than five years after the 1998-1999 war between ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas and Serbian security forces. The attack came days after Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, a former ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander seen as a hero by many Kosovo Albanians, resigned and surrendered to the UN war crimes court at The Hague. "This attack on the president of Kosovo, at a time when all democratic forces in the province should be working together to safeguard and promote the fundamental values of democracy and human rights, is an unacceptable act of terrorism," said Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis. The top US diplomat in Kosovo, Philip Goldberg, said the bombing "can only damage efforts to build a peaceful, democratic Kosovo. Such acts of violence and terror have no place in a society dedicated to democratic principles and the rule of law". About 1,000 extra NATO peacekeepers were dispatched to the UN-run province this month amid fears of a new explosion of violence by Haradinaj loyalists targeting the Serb minority or even UN staff. Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority demands independence from Serbia and opposes any moves to try former guerrillas in the UN war crimes court, insisting they were freedom fighters. Solana later met the commander of NATO-led forces in Kosovo as well as chief UN administrator Soren Jessen-Petersen. "I condemn strongly the attack. We cannot tolerate these kinds of acts. Kosovo is a place which needs a future, not bombs," Solana told reporters. Petersen said he was "shocked and outraged" by the bombing. "Such acts have no support from the population and won't succeed," he said. In a separate statement Solana praised the "maturity" of Kosovo in keeping the peace following Haradinaj's resignation, and urged Rugova to "take responsibility" for the formation of the new government. Rugova dismissed fears of an institutional crisis following Haradinaj's departure, but a statement from the government Tuesday said the bombing was a direct threat to stability. "It is a brutal and terrorist attack against the highest institution here. The attack implies the most dangerous scenario for the destabilization of Kosovo," the provincial government said. Haradinaj pleaded not guilty in his first appearance before the UN court on Monday. He is facing 37 charges involving murder, persecution and rape of civilian Serbs, Roma (gypsies) and ethnic Albanians. Kosovo has been administered by the UN since a NATO air campaign in 1999 forced Serbian troops under then Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw from the province and end a crackdown on the separatist movement. From inahoxhazaloshnja at yahoo.com Thu Mar 17 11:31:26 2005 From: inahoxhazaloshnja at yahoo.com (Ina Hoxha Zaloshnja) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:31:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NYC-L] Entertaining and Intellectually Stimulating Events in NYC Message-ID: <20050317163126.78148.qmail@web53510.mail.yahoo.com> MJAFT Speech at Columbia University ?Breakthrough Elections in Albania?? Friday, March 25 at 13:00 1302 International Affairs Building at Columbia University 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam), NYC An elegant dinner with prominent Albanians in NYC area at Bruno?s Ristorante Friday, March 25 at 19:00 240 East 58th Street (between 3rd and 2nd Avenue), NYC Radio MILOS organizes Mjaft event at ZANA?s Friday, March 25 at 22:00 30 East 30th Street, NYC For additional information, please contact: Ina Hoxha Zaloshnja inahoxha at hotmail.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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