PRISTINA, June 1 (Hina) - A Macedonian academy of arts and sciences project for the "voluntary exchange of territories and population" between Macedonia and neighbouring Albania has met with harsh reactions from Albanian politicians
in the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo. They say the implementation of such a project would disturb relations in the region and abolish the principle of unchangeable borders. According to the project, published by the Skopje-based daily Vecer, Albania would get the Macedonian towns of Tetovo and Debar and several villages surrounding Gostivar, while Albania would give the Macedonian town of Pogradec and the coast along the Ohrid and Prespansko lakes to the town of Korca. The Kosovo Democratic Alliance, the strongest Kosovo Albanian party, says the project resembles Serb academy projects for the division of Albanian territories. "As long as the international comm
PRISTINA, June 1 (Hina) - A Macedonian academy of arts and sciences
project for the "voluntary exchange of territories and population"
between Macedonia and neighbouring Albania has met with harsh
reactions from Albanian politicians in the southern Yugoslav
province of Kosovo.
They say the implementation of such a project would disturb
relations in the region and abolish the principle of unchangeable
borders.
According to the project, published by the Skopje-based daily
Vecer, Albania would get the Macedonian towns of Tetovo and Debar
and several villages surrounding Gostivar, while Albania would
give the Macedonian town of Pogradec and the coast along the Ohrid
and Prespansko lakes to the town of Korca.
The Kosovo Democratic Alliance, the strongest Kosovo Albanian
party, says the project resembles Serb academy projects for the
division of Albanian territories.
"As long as the international community has another approach to the
resolving of the Macedonian problem, this Macedonian academy
project is unacceptable or us all," the party's secretary general,
Nekibe Keljmendi, has said.
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