TIRANA, March 1 (Hina) - The Albanian Parliament supports a political way for the resolution of the Kosovo crisis, and advocates neither the change of internationally recognised borders nor a project of a greater Albania, said
representatives of the Albanian ruling coalition. Five MPs of the ruling coalition - Socialists, the Peasants' Party, the Democratic Alliance, the Party of Human Rights and Social Democrats - on Sunday held talks with a Croatian parliamentary delegation that is on a three-day visit to Albania. The Croatian delegation of the Sabor foreign policy committee consisted of its head, Zarko Doljan of the Croatian Democratic Party (HDZ), Zdenka Busic of the HDZ, Miroslav Kis, who is a representatives of minorities in Croatia and an independent MP, Anto Kovacevic of the Croatian Christian and Democratic Union (HKDU) and Anto Djapic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP). Albanian MPs stressed
TIRANA, March 1 (Hina) - The Albanian Parliament supports a
political way for the resolution of the Kosovo crisis, and
advocates neither the change of internationally recognised borders
nor a project of a greater Albania, said representatives of the
Albanian ruling coalition.
Five MPs of the ruling coalition - Socialists, the Peasants' Party,
the Democratic Alliance, the Party of Human Rights and Social
Democrats - on Sunday held talks with a Croatian parliamentary
delegation that is on a three-day visit to Albania.
The Croatian delegation of the Sabor foreign policy committee
consisted of its head, Zarko Doljan of the Croatian Democratic
Party (HDZ), Zdenka Busic of the HDZ, Miroslav Kis, who is a
representatives of minorities in Croatia and an independent MP,
Anto Kovacevic of the Croatian Christian and Democratic Union
(HKDU) and Anto Djapic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP).
Albanian MPs stressed they did not want a greater Albania, but they
would like that the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo may have the right to
self-determination.
Domljan warned his Albanian counterparts that nations can have the
right to the self-determination, but minorities cannot exercise
it. It is hard to believe that the international community would
change such fundamental principles, he added.
Great responsibility lies with Albania for treating properly the
issue at this moment, concluded Domljan ruminating on the Kosovo
problem.
Another Croatian parliamentarian, Anto Kovacevic, expressed a
different opinion on this matter. He maintained that Kosovo
Albanians had the right to have their own state, after such right
could not be denied to Montenegrins or, for example, to Slovenes.
Kovacevic raised the question why the international community
could not recognise a state of the Kosovo Albanians if it had
accepted the Republic of Srpska (the Bosnian Serb entity).
The Croatian guests were greeted by a Deputy Speaker of the Albanian
Parliament, Jozefina Topalli, heading MPs of the Democratic Party
of Sali Berisha, who have been boycotting the work of the parliament
since September 1998 when a senior official of this party, Azem
Hajdari, was killed.
The vice president of the Democratic Party, Genc Pollo, recalled
that in 1997 the then Socialist opposition used the collapse of the
financial pyramid schemes to canalise the wrath of the impoverished
people into attempts to topple the then ruling Democrats.
He told Hina that murderers of Hajdari had not yet been brought to
the court adding that it was the basic precondition for resumption
of talks with the ruling coalition.
He added that they insisted on the release of ten members of the
Democratic party from prison and on the de-politisation of the
current state of affairs.
At the present situation a political agreement and a pre-term
election are the priorities of Albania, Pollo told Hina.
He added that the government is partly paralysed, and everybody
knows of connections between some members of the Government and the
organised crime, he said adding that the Government did not enjoy
the confidence of people.
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