From vsherifi at naac.org Mon Jan 13 17:43:59 2003 From: vsherifi at naac.org (Valbona Sherifi) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:43:59 -0500 Subject: [Prishtina-E] =?iso-8859-1?q?Shqip/Anglisht=3A_Shefi_i_misionit_t=EB_SHBA-s=EB_t?= =?iso-8859-1?q?hot=EB_se_pavar=EBsia_e_Kosov=EBs_duhet_t=EB_meritohet?= Message-ID: Keshilli Kombetar Shqiptaro Amerikan 2021 L Street, N.W., Suite 402, Washington, DC 20036 481 8th Avenue, Suite 922, New York, NY 10001 Brigada e Krajishtes, No. 8, 38000 Prishtina, Kosova Telephone: (202) 466-6900 Fax: (202) 466-5593 Web: www.naac.org Email: naac at naac.org ________________________________________________________________________ Per Shtyp: 13 Janar, 2002 Kontakt: Valbona Sherifi (202) 466-6900 Deklarate Per Shtyp Shefi i misionit t? SHBA-s? thot? se pavar?sia e Kosov?s duhet t? meritohet Washington, D.C., 13 Janar, 2002: Keshilli Kombetar Shqiptaro Amerikan (KKSHA/NAAC) leshoi kete deklarate per shtyp ne lidhje me takimin qe KKSHA mbajti me daten 9 Janar, 2003 ne zyren e Uashingtonit me Shefin e Misionit Amerikan ne Prishtine, Ambasadorin Reno Harnish dhe me Nen-Drejtorin per Kosoven tek Departamenti i Shtetit Amerikan, z. Donald Braum. Kjo deklarate eshte e derguar edhe ne gjuhen angleze bashakngjitur tek ky e-mail. Udh?heq?sit politik? t? Kosov?s duhet ta kuptojn? se pavar?sia duhet merituar, tha Reno Harnish, shef i misionit t? ShBA-s? n? Prishtin?, n? nj? takim koh?t e fundit me Martin Vulaj, drejtor ekzekutiv i K?shillit Komb?tar Shqiptaro-Amerikan (KKSHA) n? zyrat e KKSHA-s? n? Washington, D.C. Duke diskutuar gjendjen aktuale te Kosov?s, progresin e arritur q? prej p?rfundimit t? luft?s si dhe sfidat q? mbeten p?r t? ardhmen, ambasadori Harnish tha m? 9 janar 2003 se misioni i SHBA-ve n? Kosov? po p?rqendrohet kryesisht n? tri p?rpar?si: ligjin dhe rregullin, zhvilimin ekonomik dhe kthimin e refugjat?ve. Ai tha se shum? m? tep?r duhet b?r? n? secil?n prej k?tyre fushave. Udh?heq?sit politik? duhet t? punojn? m? tep?r p?r kthimin e serb?ve; jo thjesht? t? flasin, por ta d?shmojn? p?rkrahjen e tyre p?r kthimet, tha Harnish, duke shtuar se politikan?t e Kosov?s ?nuk kan? ngulmuar edhe aq p?r k?t? ??shtje dhe duhet ta kuptojn? q? ?sht? pengesa m? e madhe p?r [pavar?sin?]?. Vulaj ra dakord se duhet b?r? m? tep?r n? k?t? drejtim, por nj?koh?sisht theksoi se kthimet duhet t? b?hen n? baza vullnetare dhe individuale, q? n? ndonj? rast t? caktuar mund t? k?rkojn? edhe nj? periudh? koheje t? gjat?. Sipas tij, ata q? duan t? kthehen duhet pik?s?pari t? kalojn? n?p?r nj? proces verifikimi n? m?nyr? q? t? sigurohet se nuk do t? lejohet kthimi n? Kosov? i atyre q? planifikuan krimet e luft?s apo i atyre q? kryen barbarizmat. Vulaj shtoi se kjo metod? do t? mund?soj? arritjen e p?rmir?simeve t? domosdoshme q? do t?i b?jn? kthimet edhe m? t? lehta, si p.sh. krijimi i kushteve m? t? mira t? jetes?s, mund?si pun?simi m? t? m?dha dhe siguri t? mir? p?r t? gjith?. Drejtori ekzekutiv i KKSHA-s? gjithashtu shprehu shqet?sim mbi vrasjet e shumta q? jan? b?r? n? Kosov? q? prej p?rfundimit t? luft?s pa?ka pranis? s? madhe t? NATO-s n? vend. Vulaj pyeti, ?si ?sht? e mundur q? 40.000 trupa t? NATO-s jan? t? vendosura n?p?r Kosov? dhe s?rish kan? ndodhur nj? num?r vrasjesh ? duke p?rfshir? edhe disa q? duket se jan? b?r? p?r motive politike ? nd?rkoh? q? askush nuk ?sht? arrestuar n? lidhje me vrasjet?? Ambasadori Harnish, i cili shoq?rohej n? takim nga Donald Braum, z?vend?sdrejtor p?r Kosov?n n? Departamentin e Shtetit Amerikan, tha se p?rpjekjet e paqeruajt?sve shum?komb?tar? po d?mtohen nga hezitimi i d?shmitar?ve p?r t? d?shmuar n? proceset gjyq?sore. Megjithat?, diplomati amerikan ishte optimist p?r p?rmir?simet n? ligj e rregull n? t? ardhmen, duke vler?suar lart efikasitetin e Sh?rbimeve Policore t? Kosov?s q? p?rb?het nga 5.300 polic?. N? vazhdim, Harnish beri t? ditur se Departamenti i Drejt?sis? s? SHBA-ve, q? ?sht? angazhuar n? fush?n e ligjit dhe rregullit n? Kosov?, ?sht? i p?rgatitur m? mir? p?r t? luftuar krimin sesa forcat paqeruajt?se t? NATO-s. P?rsa i p?rket ekonomis?, Harnish shprehu zhg?njim n? lidhje me zhvillimin ekonomik t? ngadalsh?m t? Kosov?s dhe n?nvizoi nevoj?n e ?uarjes p?rpara sa m? shpejt t? procesit t? privatizimit. Me k?t? rast ai i b?ri thirrje Agjencis? s? Mir?besimit t? Kosov?s ? trupi ligjor q? ?sht? i ngarkuar me mbikqyrjen e k?tij procesi ? q? t?i leht?soj? nd?rmarrjet q? pritet t? privatizohen nga barra t? panevojshme, si p.sh. mbajtjen n? pun? t? nj? numri t? caktuar pun?tor?sh apo prodhimin e nj? produkti t? ve?ant?. Ai tha se shumica e nd?rmarrjeve q? presin privatizim jan? n? gjendje aq t? keqe saq? k?to lloj kushtesh mund t? shihen nga investitor? t? mundsh?m si pengesa t? pakap?rcyeshme. M? pas Harnish theksoi nevoj?n e p?rmir?simit t? imazhit t? p?rgjithsh?m t? Kosov?s, q? me pat?drejt? ?shikohet nga shumica e vendeve evropiane si nj? shtet i mafies dhe si nj? burim trafikimi?. Pas takimit me diplomatin amerikan, Vulaj tha se gjithsesi Kosova ?sht? nj? ??shtje q? tregon suksesin e politik?s s? jashtme t? SHBA-ve dhe b?ri thirrje p?r vazhdimin e angazhimit politik t? Amerik?s. Ai theksoi se KKSHA-ja ?sht? e bindur se e vetmja mund?si q? Kosova t? p?rfitoj? nga progresi i arritur, t? p?rballoj? sfidat q? e presin, t? kaq?rcej? v?shtir?sit? dhe t? b?het nj? faktor stabiliteti n? rajon ?sht? njohja e saj si nj? shtet i pavarur, q? do t? integrohet n? Evrop? dhe strukturat Euro-Atlantike. Nd?rkoh? q? nj? Kosov? e pavarur mund t? duket disi sfiduese, tha Vulaj, ?do zgjidhje tjet?r do t? rezultoj? n? destabilitet t? brendsh?m dhe rajonal. Nj? dit? para largimit nga SHBA-t?, ambasadori Harnish mori pjes? n? konferenc?n ?Kosova: ?far? ?sht? p?rpara??, t? organizuar nga instituti Amerikan i Paqes m? 10 janar n? Washington, D.C. Ai tha se p?rqendrimi i qeveris? s? Kosov?s n? arritjen e standarteve p?rpara diskutimit t? statusit p?rfundimtar do t? mund?soj? vendin q? t? ket? nj? shoq?ri funksionuese dhe t? suksesshme. Standartet e vendosura nga komuniteti nd?rkomb?tar n? Kosov? nuk kan? p?r synim t? pengojn? diskutimin e statusit t? ardhsh?m, por jan? kushtet p?r krijimin dhe funksionimin e nj? shoq?rie t? suksesshme, theksoi Harnish. ?K?to standarte nuk kan? p?r synim t? sh?rbejn? si pengesa ndaj diskutimit t? statusit p?rfundimtar, por jan? k?rkesa q? do ta shnd?rrojn? Kosov?n n? pjes? t? Evrop?s moderne. K?to standarte k?rkojn? nj? shoq?ri shum?-etnike, nj? ekonomi tregu funksionale, reforma t? trupave mbrojt?se t? Kosov?s, pra pra element? q? krijojn? planin e pun?s p?r t? transformuar Kosov?n?, tha ai. Njer?zit, vazhdoi shefi i misionit t? SHBA-ve n? Kosov?, mund dhe duhet t? veprojn? edhe pa shpalljen e pavar?sis? n? m?nyr? q? t? zhvillojn? tipare si p?rgjegjshm?ria, respekti p?r ligjin dhe t? vazhdoj? nd?rtimi i komuniteteve. Keshilli Kombetar Shqiptaro Amerikan (KKSHA) eshte nje organizate jo perfituese dhe jo qeveritare e dedikuar ndaj advokimit te ceshtjeve shqiptare, promovimit te paqes dhe zhvillimit ekonomik ne Ballkan per te forcuar politikat demokratike, per te inkurajuar respektin per te drejtat e njeriut, dhe duke mbajtur programe zhvillimi dhe edukative. Per me shume informacion mbi KKSHA-ne ju lutem vizitoni faqen tone te internetit www.naac.org. ### -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Harnish meeting.doc Type: application/msword Size: 31744 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/prishtina-e/attachments/20030113/2be9570d/attachment.doc From mentor at alb-net.com Wed Jan 15 17:32:14 2003 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:32:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Prishtina-E] test... please ignore... Message-ID: test From mentor at alb-net.com Mon Jan 20 18:35:59 2003 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:35:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Prishtina-E] Urgent request. (fwd) Message-ID: If you can help please contact Sara directly at salolipe841231 at hotmail.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:07:18 +0000 From: Sara Pelle Subject: Urgent request. Vila Real (Portugal), 24th December 2002 Dear friend(s) of Kosova responsible(s) for this site, First of all, let me explain why i'm writting to you. I have to tell you that I stablished contact with some Kosovar people in 1999(summer) when the crisis in Kosova apearead and some kosovar people came to Portugal temporarly for caution. unfortunatelly, i'm not in contact with these good friends I conquered in that extraodinary summer in which I have the opportunity to share so many different and interesting traditions and culture, because the communications are bad and I don't know anything about them:if they're in the same land, called Ferizay and with the same phone number. Despite this comunications' issues, my Strenght and hope reborned when I saw your site with so many information about Kosova...and that part:"locating relatives". Now, I'm sincerly hoping that somehow, with your preciouse help I'll locate and stablish contact again with my kosovar friends... Maybe it will be difficult but it isn't impossible to happen this I'm saying to you...Hope is the last to die... I've tried many times to send normal letters by mail to Kosova but they always came back to Portugal with no delivering to my friends; when I try calling to the phone number they gave to me, always is saied that the number is wrong nowadays...I really want to stablish contact with them, because in spite of having spent with them less than a month, our relationship quickly grow to a strong friendship. Secondly, I have to ask you to help me in this situation maybe giving me some informations about where is their homeland- Ferizay-, how is the situation there, and what is the mail situation in Kosova now. I would be very thankfull if you could answer this email the quickest you could. and somehow and maybe tell me if you can help me to found my friends and give me the informations I've requested till now in this email. With the best wishes and lots of respect, Sara Pelle Portugal From jeton at hotmail.com Wed Jan 29 09:13:19 2003 From: jeton at hotmail.com (Jeton Ademaj) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:13:19 -0500 Subject: [Prishtina-E] Fwd: Job Announcement for Posting (fwd) Message-ID: >To: othereurope at columbia.edu >Subject: Job Announcement for Posting (fwd) >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:50:29 -0500 (EST) > >Overseas Strategic Consulting, Ltd., a consulting firm based in >Philadelphia, Pa. is looking for a seasoned public affairs consultant for a >short term contract of 2.5 months in Pristina, Kosovo. The consultant will >be working on an economic reform project in a public education capacity. >Available to travel by February 7. Please send resume to Joe Keohan at >jkeohan at oscltd.com. Must be available to travel immediately. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail From vsherifi at naac.org Fri Jan 10 17:54:52 2003 From: vsherifi at naac.org (Valbona Sherifi) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:54:52 -0500 Subject: [Prishtina-E] English/Albanian: Letter to Secretary Powell Regarding Nicholas Gage from the Coalition of Albanian American Organizations Message-ID: Coalition of Albanian American Organizations C/O 2021 L Street, N.W., Suite 402, Washington, DC 20036 Letter to Secretary Powell Regarding Nicholas Gage from the Coalition of Albanian American Organizations Washington, January 10, 2003: Through the initiative of the National Albanian American Council (NAAC) and the Albanian Heritage Foundation (AHF), the overwhelming majority of the Albanian American organizations contributed, signed and sent the following letter to the US Secretary of State Colin Powell and the National Security Advisor to the President, Ms. Condoleeza Rice, the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Richard Lugar, the Chairman of the US House Committee on International Relations, Congressman Henry Hyde and the Chairman of the Albanian Issues Caucus, Congressman Eliot Engel. Please note that an Albanian version of this letter is also released along with this statement. The full text of the letter reads as following: January 9, 2003 The Honorable Colin Powell United States Secretary of State US Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Powell, We the undersigned, as Albanian Americans and as members of Albanian civic, religious, cultural and humanitarian organizations, are writing to protest in the strongest possible terms the United States of America Department of State?s (DOS) official endorsement and support of the recent visit to Albania by Nicholas Gage - a.k.a. Nikos Gatzoyiannis. Nicholas Gage is a well-known opponent of Albanians? interests in the Balkans. It is a matter of public record that the Panepirotic Federation of America, Canada and Australia, the organization Mr. Gage represents, refers to Southern Albania as ?Northern Epirus? and considers it to be occupied by Albania, an obvious provocation and a direct renunciation of Albania?s sovereignty. Nicholas Gage (i) greatly, intentionally and publicly misrepresents the population of Albania?s Greek minority up to an astounding 30% of Albania?s population of three million, compared to the official Albanian government number of 58,000, approximately 2% (ii) implicitly portrays all of the Albanians of the Orthodox faith in Albania as Greeks, thus offending the Albanian Orthodox Church and its congregation throughout the world, and (iii) in an effort to vilify Albanians, has aggressively campaigned in Washington and elsewhere with his fabrications about the lack of human rights of Albania?s Greek minority. These false claims are in direct conflict with the conclusions reached by DOS, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and other international human rights organizations in their various positive assessments. The facts are that the Greek minority lives side by side with the Albanians, has several media outlets which communicate and publish only in the Greek language, has a three-times-better teacher/student classroom ratio when compared with Albanians in a system that provides education in Greek from elementary school to university, and has a disproportionately high representation in Albania?s government. In addition, Gage publicly opposed the US/NATO intervention in Kosova even as innocent Kosovar civilians were being massacred by the thousands, including American citizens of Albanian descent. Furthermore, as recently as May 22, 2001, he stated in the Washington Post that the thousands of Greeks in Albania should receive the same treatment as the nearly two million Kosovar Albanians, clearly implying that when Kosova attains its independence, Southern Albania should secede and follow step. These positions serve only to fuel tensions and threaten the progress of improving Albanian-Greek relations while undermining overall stability in the Balkans, an area where the U.S. has made a significant strategic investment of its human, political, financial and military assets. We are outraged by the fact that during his visit to Albania, and while being hosted in an official capacity by our Embassy in Tirana, Mr. Gage (i) reiterated all of the above-mentioned views, including the fabrications about the number of the Greek minority and the analogy of their situation with the Albanian Kosovars, (ii) downplayed the plight of the several hundred thousand ethnic Albanians residing in Greece, who are subjected to the Greek form of ethnic cleansing known as Hellenization, and (iii) had the audacity to malign all of the Albanian Chams who used to live in Greece as Nazi collaborators. As highlighted in a 2001 press release of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Mr. Gage?s thesis is not only a blatant fabrication but it is a political and historical crime against Albanian Chams, since, in fact, many Albanian Chams died in Greece?s liberation struggle during WWII. The malicious characterization of Albanian Chams as Nazi collaborators is particularly appalling in light of the fact that Albanians and Albania saved 100% of the Jews who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Greece (as well as in other Balkan countries), while, according to Harvey Sarner, the author of ?Rescue in Albania,? - an account of how Albanians saved Jews - of the total population of approximately 72,000 Jews who lived in Greece prior to the beginning of the war, 60,000, fully 83% of the Jewish population, became victims of the Holocaust. In addition, Mr. Gage conveniently ?forgets? that, as described in the words of Joseph Jacobs, Head of the US Mission in Albania in 1945-1946, only ?in the fall of 1944 and during the first months of 1945 the [Greek] authorities in north-western Greece perpetrated savage brutality by evicting some 25,000 [Albanian] Chams - residents of Chameria - from their homes? and by killing over 5,000 men, women and children in a clear attempt to establish an ethnically pure border region with Albania. These events marked the culmination of genocidal and ethnic cleansing efforts that Greek ultranationalists had commenced since 1913. By 1945, the Greek nationalists had cleansed the area of ethnic Albanians of Muslim faith and also stripped them of their properties, valued at well over $2.5 billion at the current market prices. The tens of thousands Albanian Chams have lived in exile ever since. Thus, we would like to remind Nicholas Gage, as well as those who share or support his views, that, despite the manipulations, Mr.Gage cannot use history as a justification for his destabilizing agenda. As Americans and representatives of the Albanian American community, we are deeply disappointed and disturbed that during his visit to Tirana, Mr. Gage was hosted and publicly accompanied by Ambassador James Jeffrey. In ex post facto efforts to justify this grand-scale reception, DOS representatives in the U.S. and Tirana have stated that Mr. Gage?s visit and endorsement was necessary in order to foster dialogue and enable Mr. Gage to have his ?hearing day? before the Albanian authorities. The Albanian-American community is very supportive of dialogue regarding respect for minority rights, friendly relations with neighboring countries, Albania?s integration in Euro-Atlantic structures, and its economic development. Indeed, dialogue with the proper forums such as Euro-Atlantic institutions, human rights institutions, and the neighboring governments, has been an important part of Albania?s development as a democracy. However, we do not understand what dialogue DOS is seeking to foster, and for the benefit of whom, when Mr. Gage is a private citizen who has a documented public record as one of the most fervent adversaries of Albanian interests and who, to our knowledge, does not have any standing either from the Greek government or from the American government. We are certain that DOS is aware that, for historical and more recent reasons, Albanians view Americans as their truest friends. Everything that is endorsed by the United States, in the Albanian public?s perception, becomes worthy of attention and support. Therefore, by publicly hosting and endorsing Nicholas Gage, the American Embassy in Tirana and DOS willingly or unwillingly have tacitly endorsed his views, and thus they have breached the trust of Albanians and Albanian-Americans. We believe that as Albanian-Americans, we have the right to demand that DOS and the U.S. Embassy in Tirana serve as instruments for the furtherance of democratic principles and economic development in Albania, rather than becoming facilitators of the interests of individuals with chauvinist agendas. DOS?s silence that preceded Mr. Gage?s trip to Albania, as well as the events during his visit on the ground, have demonstrated that there is a gap in communication and perception between DOS representatives and the American citizens of Albanian descent. It has been clearly evidenced through words and deeds that America?s truest and best friends in Europe, and possibly in the world, are the Albanians; therefore, we believe that the time has come for joint efforts to establish a qualitatively different relationship between the Albanian-American community and DOS. We request that the first step toward bridging this gap be for DOS to issue a full public disclosure pertaining to the nature and agenda of Gage?s meetings in Albania, as well as render a public explanation about how Albanian and U.S. interests were served by supporting a ?dialogue? with Mr. Gage, an individual whose views on the region serve only to stoke the fires of ethnic tension. Notwithstanding the above, DOS can and should indeed serve as a facilitator for true dialogue with respect to minority rights and other issues in the Balkans. As it relates to Greece, we urge DOS to pressure the Greek government to recognize all ethnic minorities within its territory, including more than 40,000 remaining Albanian Chams of the Orthodox faith, and grant them the same rights that Albania provides to an approximately equivalent number of existing Greeks in Albania. As Greek human rights groups and many international human rights organizations state clearly, Greece's policy of nonrecognition of the existence of ethnic minorities is no longer permissible. In addition, dialogue is needed to address the grievances of the hundreds of thousands of Albanian immigrants living in Greece, who are being subjected to different forms of ?Hellenization? as well as societal and institutional discrimination. Furthermore, we urge DOS to do all it can in order to, once and for all, seek a just resolution to the proprietary and other legal claims of the Albanian Chams, including their right to repatriation and Greek citizenship. Of paramount importance, and as a complementary and preliminary step to achieving the resolution of these issues, we ask DOS to pressure the Greek government to abolish the Status of War Law with Albania dating back to then Italian-occupied Albania of 1940. By still maintaining a Status of Law of War with Albania over 60 years later, while at the same time signing a Treaty of Friendship, Greece not only has created an absurd situation, but is in clear violation of the U.N. Charter, which requires ?[a]ll Members [to] refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state ?, as well as of other provisions of International Law. Finally, a drastic improvement in communication channels and cooperative efforts between the U.S. Government and the Albanian-American community is necessary for a plethora of other Albanian issues in the region. Since the fall of communism, Albania has made considerable steps towards the establishment of a democracy and market economy. However, as evidenced by several reports, Albania?s progress, economic development, and integration within the Euro-Atlantic institutions has been constantly impeded by high-level corruption, lack of political transparency, ineffective election reforms, and limited results in the fight against organized crime and human trafficking. In Kosova, while tremendous progress is clearly evident, further delays in the resolution of its final independent status are impeding investment and economic development as well as creating a fertile environment for destabilization. Furthermore, despite the relative stability achieved in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Macedonian authorities have a long way to go in order to fully comply with the internationally brokered and the U.S.-endorsed Ohrid Agreement and recognize and accept Albanians as equal and respected Macedonian citizens. Last, but not least, much more can be done for the rights of Albanians in Montenegro, as well as those of the Albanians in the Presheva Valley of Southern Serbia. The Albanian-American community stands ready to offer its expertise, knowledge, experience, and contacts in the region in order to work toward the resolution of these issues and the achievement of a sustainable and real stability in the Balkans. Albanians consider the United States to be their best friend. At a time when our country is engaged in a global war against terrorism, at a time when many have tested their true feelings toward the United States, big or small, true friendships such as the one the Albanians offer to Americans, must not be neglected or forgotten. Let us use the most recent Gage debacle as a learning experience and a steppingstone toward the establishment of a true partnership for the advancement of the common U.S. and Albanians? interests. A similar letter was sent to the National Security Adviser to the President, Ms. Condoleeza Rice, the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Richard Lugar, the Chairman of the US House Committee on International Relations, Congressman Henry Hyde and the Chairman of the Albanian Issues Caucus, Congressman Eliot Engel. Respectfully submitted by, Albanian American Community of Illinois ? Ilaz Kadriu, President Albanian American Cultural Foundation ? Cafo Boga, President Albanian American Islamic Center - Imam Vehbi Ismail, Religious Leader of Albanian Muslims in the US and Canada Albanian American Society Foundation ? Esad Rizai, President Albanian Center of New York ? Drita Kokalari, President Albanian Heritage Foundation ? Gary Kokalari, President Albanian League of Prizren ? Ismet Berisha, President Albanian Media Group ? Vera Mjeku, President Alba Soul ? Ilirjan Papa, President Ana e Malit - Xheladin Zeneli, President Atlantic Association ? Arber Muriqi, Head Representative Dede Gjo Luli Foundation ? Prele Sinishtaj, Head Representative Democratic League of Kosova U.S.A. ? Agim Rexhaj, President Forumi Shqiptar - Ilirjan Papa, Director Friends of Kosova Protection Force ? Shefki Mexhuani, Head Representative Frosina Network ? Van Christo, Owner and Director Human Rights Association "Chameria" Illyria Newspaper ? Ekrem Bardha, Publisher Malesia-Humanitarian Fund ? Gjon Ivezaj, President National Albanian American Council ? Richard Lukaj, Chairman Pan Albanian Federation, VATRA ? Agim Karagjozi, Chairman Patriotic Association of Dibra ? Lavdrim Cami, President Peja Association ? Agim Cavderbasha, Head Representative Plave and Guci Foundation ? Xhevat Kukaj, President St. Paul?s Albanian Catholic Church ? Father Anton Kqira You are receiving this message because you have requested information about our organization directly from us or through an internet listserv. If you no longer wish to receive such information and would like to be removed, please notify us at naac at naac.org or the listserv that has distributed this information to you. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed -------------- next part -------------- [ The following attachment was DELETED when this message was saved: ] [ A Application/MSWORD segment of about 44,667 bytes. ]