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Der Albanische Gesundheits Minister Vasili, kündigt Straf Verfolgung für Umwelt- und Lärm Sünder an

janmalte — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:25:46 +0000

Nach Albanien im Dreck, der eigenen Mafia Hotels, Lokale ziemlich unterging, weil Selbige fast immer illegal gebaut wurden und Müll- und Abwasser Entsorgung im Meer erfolgte, will man auch wegen den Kommunal Wahlen in 2011 Retten was zu retten ist. Hinzu kamen vor allem in Sarande und Vlore, erhebliche Lebensmittel Vergiftungen durch nicht gekühlte und alte Lebensmittel.

Der Gesundheits Minister kritisiert ebenso, auch seine Insektoren, denn 13 Jahre, machte man kurz gesagt Nichts, sondern fraß sich lieber, wie die Polizei kostenlos durch die Lokale und oft den ganzen Tage lang auch gut mit Alkohol versorgt.

Albania’s Berisha calls for laws to improve tourism infrastructure

02/09/2010

TIRANA, Albania — Prime Minister Sali Berisha called on his cabinet Wednesday (September 1st) to draft laws that will improve tourism infrastructure. Berisha wants each beach to have a dedicated area of at least 100m and wants no illegal construction along the coast. He also urged the ministry for environment to protect tourist sites from pollution and to order the removal of bars and restaurants that pollute the environment. (Shekulli, Top Channel, Balkan Web, Ora News - 01/09/10)

02 Shtator 2010 - 18:13 | Shqiperi

Higjiena urbane, Vasili kritika Inspektoratit Sanitar
Higjiena urbane, Vasili kritika Inspektoratit SanitarTIRANE- Duke bërë bilancin e punës së Inspektoratit Sanitar në fund të sezonit veror, ministri i Shëndetësisë Petrit Vasili u shpreh se ka munguar vendosmëria për tu përballur me problemet e higjienës urbane, sic mund të jenë zhurmat e padurueshme, kontrolli mbi mbeturinat apo niveli hidrosanitar i lokaleve apo ambienteve të tjera të frekuentuara nga turistët.

“Këtij bumi të jashtëzakonshëm turistësh, jo në të gjitha rastet Inspektoratit Sanitar i është përgjigjur me vendosmërinë e duhur, në mënyrë të vecantë për cështje që lidhen më mënyrë të vecantë me cështje të higjienës urbane. Shpesh herë është vërejtur dhe një tërheqje përpara presionit të disa bizneseve për të vazhduar shkeljen e rregullave”u shpreh Vasili.

Si reflektim për këtë situatë dhe rimodelimin e punës, ministri Vasili njoftoi marrjen e masave administrative si vërejte apo paralajmërim për përjashtim për disa nga drejtorët e shëndetit publik në disa nga qytetet kryesore turistike. Më tej, Vasili shtoi se do të ndiqen penalisht të gjithë ata që abuzojnë me detyrën.

(e.n/News24/BalkanWeb)

Gestern bei einer Kabinetts Sitzung, wurde beschlossen, neue Gesetze, wegen der Umwelt zu verabschieden, welche harte Sanktionen vorsehen, gegen die Geldwäsche Projekte der Internationalen Mafia. Praktisch gibt es einen Volks Aufstand, gegen die Mafiösen und fast immer illegalen Bauten, welche die STrände zerstören.

Aber es gibt auch erfreuliche Nachrichten, von Einheimischen welche viel Kultur haben. Die Fischer im “Porto Germane” bei Durres, überreichen dem beliebten Direktor des Ärchologischen Museums, einen im Meer gefundenen Antiken Anker, der 2.000 Jahre alt ist. Im Raum Durres, kann man sehr einfach auf alte Anker treffen, weil es ja auch im 1 WK und 2 WK eine wichtige Nachschub Basis der Marinen war.

Drogen Schutz Macht des Kosovo, tauscht die Leitung aus

Lupo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:32:30 +0000

General Bentler, war ohne Zweifel der beste KFOR Kommandant, aber ansonsten kann man mit so einer vermurksten Politik, einfach keinen Blumen Strauss gewinnen, wenn sich Alles nur noch um das Geschäft und Auslands Bestechung geht. Kommando Wechsel im Kosovo.

Nach den Lobbyisten Ministern, wird nun endlich mal versucht, das Betrugs System der Bundeswehr Beschaffung zu ändern.

Lobbyismus, Subventions Betrug, nur damit EADS Militär Schrott finanziert wird, wie der Eurofighter und die Murks Hubschrauber.

Oberster Soldat wirft Bundeswehr Milliardenverschwendung vor

BERLIN. „Ohne eine grundlegende Reform des Beschaffungskreislaufs ist auch in Zukunft die sachgerechte Ausrüstung der Streitkräfte nicht gewährleistet“. Zu diesem harten Urteil kommt der Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr, Volker Wieker, in einem vertraulichen Papier („Bericht des Generalinspekteurs der Bundeswehr zum Prüfauftrag aus der Kabinettsklausur“) an Bundesverteidigungsminister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU), das dem Handelsblatt vorliegt.

Zu Guttenberg informierte am Mittwoch Fachpolitiker aller Fraktionen des Bundestages, um sie über seine Pläne zur Reform der Bundeswehr zu informieren. Der CSU-Politiker will die Streitkräfte um ein Drittel verkleinern und die Wehrpflicht aussetzen.

Wiekers Schelte am Beschaffungswesen der Truppe könnte derweil nicht härter ausfallen: „Zersplitterte Zuständigkeiten, bestehende Verfahren und Prozesse, Einflussnahme von außen und unzureichende Finanzausstattung schränken den Handlungsspielraum der Streitkräfte seit geraumer Zeit ein.“

Sämtliche großen Rüstungsprojekte der Bundeswehr seien darüber hinaus von drei negativen Merkmalen gekennzeichnet: „Sie fallen aus dem Kostenrahmen, sie fallen aus dem Zeitrahmen“ und sie brächten darüber hinaus „nicht einmal das geforderte Fähigkeitsspektrum.“

Mit anderen Worten: Die Bundeswehr und der Steuerzahler zahlen jährlich Milliardensummen für minderwertige Rüstungsgüter, die dennoch keine sachgerechte Ausrüstung der deutschen Streitkräfte gewährleisten. Wieker lässt keinen Zweifel, wem er die Schuld zuweist: „Hierfür tragen Bundeswehr und Auftragnehmer in der Wirtschaft gleichermaßen Verantwortung.“

Deshalb schlägt der Generalinspekteur eine „grundlegende Reform des Beschaffungskreislaufs“ vor. „Ohne die ist auch in Zukunft die sachgerechte Ausrüstung der Streitkräfte nicht gewährleistet,“ so Wieker in dem internen Papier.

Der Generalinspekteur plädiert angesichts der „bestehenden Unterfinanzierung“ für radikale „Anpassungen“ im Rüstungsbereich. In „eingehenden Verhandlungen mit Industrie und Wirtschaft“ sollen „Eingriffe in laufende Projekte“ bewirkt werden. „Hier gilt es, die Interessen der Bundeswehr klar und deutlich zu artikulieren und den Auftragnehmern gegenüber nachdrücklich zu vertreten.“
Handels Blatt

Kommentar: Die Amerikanischen Drogen Verbrecher aus der Welt, wie Frank Wisner und Daniel Fried, haben den Kosovaren ausdrücklich das Straffreie Drogen schmuggeln zugesichert, genauso wie der AACL, mit Jo Biden: “für die Freiheit ist Alles erlaubt” und deshalb werden Ermittlungen in die richtige Richtung unterbunden und schon Ende 1999, beschlagnahmte Millionen DM beim Bruder von Hashim Thaci, zurück gegeben. Danach wurde jede Haus Durchsuchung und Strassen Sperre mit der Kosovo Mafia vorab abgesprochen.

Lazarati - Kolumbia shqiptare e drogës

Atahualpa — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:14:29 +0000

01.09.2010

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Pamje nga ajri - Lazarati

Lazarati vijon të mbetet “Kolumbia shqiptare e drogës” megjithë deklarimet e zyrtarëve të policisë. Trafiku i drogës e ka bazën e vet të furnizimit në këtë komunë, ku ende policia shqiptare nuk ka kontroll të plotë

Përkundër deklarimeve të zyrtarëve të policisë dhe politikanëve, në Lazarat edhe këtë vit janë mbjellë plantacione të konsiderushme me drogë. Lazarati është sot, do të jetë dhe në muajt e ardhshëm, destinacioni kryesor i furnizimit të trafikut. Flas me një mësuese, që natyrisht nuk identifikohet, rreth situatës sociale në këtë komunë. Ajo si e zënë në faj thotë: “Kemi bërë biseda me nxënsit në rradhë të parë, pastaj me persona të caktuar në fshat.”

Ndërkaq një nga ish maturantet e shkollës së mesme të fshatit që këtë vit dëshiron të studiojë për jurisprudencë më drejtohet me revoltë: “pse të mos përmendet emri Lazaratit siç është bërë pak kohë më parë, jo për të këqiat që mund të ketë, por për anët e mira të tij. Të shtyrë nga përfitimet materiale, prindërit tanë nuk e kuptojnë dëmin që na shkaktojnë ne.”

Sa më tepër të mbjellësh aq më i zoti dukesh në sy të fshatit

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Pamje nga një aksion i policisë shqiptare në LazaratPo situata në terren është krejt tjetër. Mbjellja e bimëve narkotike është thuajse një garë mes banorëve se kush të mbjellë më tepër. Sa më tepër të mbjellësh aq më i zoti dukesh në sy të fshatit. Ja si më përgjigjet një banor i kësaj komune: “E përditshmja është e rëndë, s’kemi asnjë të ardhur apo njeri në punë. Mbjellim, mbjellim dhe atë që mbase nuk lejohet. Sakrifikojmë. Çdo gjë e bëjmë nga e keqja. Jam pa punë, i kam të gjithë pa punë. Bëjnë të gjithë, do bëj dhe unë.”

E të njëjtit mendim është dhe një tjetër e moshuar aty pranë që pa ja bërë syri tërr të jep gjithë qytetarinë e statusin social të kultivuesve të hashashit. “…punoj, mbledh hashash, s’kam ç’bëj, punoj. Këtë mënyrë jetese kam.”

Pushteti lokal thirrje komunitetit të largohet nga ky fenomen

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Kryetari i komunës, Dasho Aliko në një konferencë rajonale për luftimin e drogësPërballë kësaj situate, pavarësisht konferencave rajonale, tregimeve publike, pritje – përcjelljeve të ambasadorëve e mitingjeve elektoralë, Kryetari komunës Dasho Aliko gjen rastin të bëjë apel: “I bëj thirrje gjithë komunitetit tim të largohen nga ky fenomen.”

Edhe Prefekte e qarkut Mimoza Como, si kryetare e Komitetit shtetëror antitrafik pohon një varg masash të ndërmarra: “Jemi të gjithë të interesuar e të impenjuar që ky fenomen të minimizohet.”

Por pavërsisht gjithçkaje, mediatizimit, thirrjeve, sensibilizimit, herë – herë dhe manipulimit, plantacionet e mbjella me hashash rriten sovrane në Lazarat. Helikopterët e policisë filmojnë, ndërkohë që nga poshtë vijnë breshëri armësh dhe policia ende nuk ka kontroll të plotë në brendësi të “Kolumbisë shqiptare të drogës”.

Ministri Basha dhe policia paralajmërojnë masa të ashpra

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Në foto, ministri BashaDrejtori përgjithshëm i policisë së shtetit Hysni Burgaj në një takim me drejtuesit vendorë të policisë: “Kam gjithë informacionin e duhur për parapërgatitjet që po fillojnë nga disa persona që po penalizojnë jo vetëm Gjirokastrën por mbarë Shqipërinë. Veprimet e policisë do jenë tepër të ashpra.”

Vetë Ministri brendshëm Lulzim Basha, që tashmë e njeh më në thellësi fenomenin, duke folur për baronët e drogës në Lazarat u shpreh: “Ai grusht njerëzish do të ndjejë peshën e fortë të ligjit dhe do të përballet me drejtësinë çdo ditë, çdo javë, në ditët e muajt që do të vijnë.”

Të presim deri sa grushti i shtetit të godasë seriozisht për të fshirë njëherë e mirë nga harta ballkanike, “kolumbinë shqiptare” të drogës.

Autor: Odise Kote

Redaktoi: Esat Ahmeti

http://www.dw-world.de

Dasho Aliko = Mafia Boss - Lazarate

Macedonian ‘Double-Office’ Holders Resign

Atahualpa — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:33:11 +0000

Der Anti Korruptions Chef Ilmi Selami, ein Albaner hat die Nase voll, weil er nicht genügend stehlen kann und verlässt seinen Posten in Skopje.

Das sind so richtig schöne Druck Posten in diesem Falle, wo man die dümmsten Partei Leute unterbringen kann. Luft Nummern Institutionen, wenn man sowas einem Partei Buch Ganoven der Tetova Mafia gibt. Ilmi Selami, konnte kaum schreiben und lesen, und hatte sich seine Schul Zeugnisse, wie es Tradition ist erkauft. Und weil das so ist, kapierte er nie etwas. Ein Original Produkt, des Dumm Menschen Ali Ahmetis und Bin Ladens Partner aus der noch dämlicheren Mafia Organisation DUI, welche sich Partei schimpft: Made in Tetova-Kumanova

Skopje | 01 September 2010 | Sinisa Jakov Marusic

The head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Ilmi Selami

Some of the most prominent ruling VMRO DPMNE party members have surrendered Macedonian state offices shortly before new rules banning the holding of more than one post came into force.

The party had ordered those holding double offices to resign one by Wednesday following a ruling by the state Anti-Corruption Commission that the long-held practice was illegal and against the law on Conflict of Interests.

Party member Vladimir Zdravev on Tuesday quit his post as head of the state-owned MEPSO company, which runs a high-voltage power supply grid for commercial consumers, after four years in office.

He will keep his post as head of the council in Skopje’s municipality of Centar.

Viktor Kamilovski also left his leading position at the Skopje General Hospital, St. Naum of Ohrid, but continues as head of the council of Skopje’s Aerodrom municipality.

Vladimir Bahcovanov kept his directorship at the Public Enterprise for Management of Residential and Commercial Properties and gave up his membership in a municipal council of Centar.

The last-minute wave of resignations came after many other office holders had already decided which offices to vacate.

The exact number of those who surrendered positions has not been disclosed.

But the Anti-Corruption Commission which first instigated the double-office inquiry said it had been ignored throughout the whole process.

Ilmi Selami said on Tuesday that, instead of reporting to the commission, the directors and other office holders had only communicated with their party headquarters.

Selami said: “No one informed me. I heard from the media.

“Imagine this situation where the institution in charge for the law [on conflict of interests] finds out from the media about the resignations”.

The double-office holders had initially denied wrong-doing and criticised the commission for misinterpreting the law when it asked for their resignations in June.

But their stances changed after their party’s head-office gave them until 1 September to choose only one post.

Wikileaks, Bankers Petroleum und die Öl Kathastrophe v. 12.10.2009 in Albanien

janmalte — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:07:56 +0000

Eine gigantische Umwelt Verschmutzung des Visoka Oil Feldes wurde praktisch in Albanien und überall in der Presse, fast total tod geschwiegen.

Es geht um dubiose Öl Geschäfte, der Politischen Mafia, um die Kanadische Öl Firma Bankers Petrol, welche wohl in Wirklichkeit sehr eng mit US HIntermännern liiert ist und mit dem Kriegs Verbrecher General Wesley Clark, um Stroh Firmen, Betrug und Korruption.

Mal abgesehen von dem Artikel hier, dessen Ursprung auch von der Konkurrenz sein könnte, dem dubiosen Anschlag, wohl um eine Beteiligung zu erpressen, ist die als Managerin auftretende Frau, eine unqualifizierte Dame, die keine Allgemein Bildung, Technisches Niveau, oder sonstige Qualitäten zeigt. Ich würde mal einschätzen, das die Frau Null Ahnung hat und für Dritte, wohl aus der Albanischen Mafia, über die Kanadische Firma Bankers Petrol hier unsaubere Geschäfte der Geldwäsche betreibt. Man hat ja noch andere Beispiele aus der Albanischen Politik.

12.Oktober 2009, gigantische Öl Mengen laufen aus den Pumpen des Visoka Öl Feldes, was wohl ein Anschlag war, wo Dritte am Traditionellen Öl Diebstahl, durch illegale Förderung mitverdienen wollten und so eine Beteiligung erpressen wollten.

Video heute im TV

Vor allem im TV, ist die gigantiche Umwelt Verschmutzung gut zu sehen und die Umwelt Minister machen kurz gesagt NIchts, was wieder Alles sagt: Als die Umwelt Kathastrophe eintrat, war schon Famit Mediu der verantwortliche Minister, dessen Korruptheit und Kriminalität wie auch Dummheit, eine Legende sind. Der Vorgänger Yhuhaeli (bis September 2009), war ja Vorsitzender der “Grünen Partei” und kapierte nicht einmal seinen Job. Dumme Leute und Kriminelle gründen gerne eine Partei im Balkan um Geschäfte zu tarnen, wobei man auch sich seine Schul Zeugnisse und Diplome zusammen kauft, um seriöser zu wirken und von seiner Verblödung abzulenken.
Bankers Petroleum and the Visoka oil field explosions 9 Oct 2009
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This memo, from an unamed company associated with the oil industry in Albania, details the apparently intentional and widespread contamination of land by Bankers Petroleum on and around the Visoka oil field site, Albania. The memo suggests that elements of the Albanian government are aware of, and are actively attempting to cover up, the damage caused.

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MEMORANDUM
RE: Summary of events surrounding environmental damage to Visoka oil field
DATE: October 12, 2009
For purposes of this memo the following terms will be used: Petroleum Agreement
between IEC Visoka, Inc. (“IEC Visoka”) and Albpetrol, SH.A. (“Albpetrol”) dated
December 3, 2008 (the “IEC Agreement”); License Agreement between The Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Energy, as represented by The National Agency of Natural
Resources (“AKBN”) and Albpetrol dated December 2, 2008 (the “IEC License”);
Heads of Agreement between Albpetrol and IEC Visoka dated April 29, 2008 (the
“Heads of Agreement”); and the Memorandum of Good Understanding between IEC
Visoka’s predecessor in interest and Albpetrol dated October 8, 2007 (the “MOGU”).
Here are the facts as we know them as of the date of this memo. The Timeline attached
hereto as Annex N, gives us a picture of the following events:
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Dinosaurier-Fossil in Rumänien gefunden

CrniLabudovi — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:36:39 +0000

“Stämmiger Drache”

31.08.2010, 10:06

Dinosaurier-Fossil in Rumänien gefunden

Paläontologen haben in Rumänien das Fossil eines “stämmigen Drachen” entdeckt. Der sechs Meter lange Dinosaurier lebte in der Oberkreidezeit. Damals war Europa größtenteils überflutet.

Die gefundenen Knochen sind der erste fast vollständige Skelettfund eines fleischfressenden Dinosauriers aus dem Mesozoikum, berichten die amerikanischen und rumänischen Forscher in dem Fachblatt “Proceedings” der US-Akademie der Wissenschaften (PNAS). Dieses so genannte “Erdmittelalter” begann vor etwa 125 Millionen und endete vor 65 Millionen Jahren. Der Dinosaurier mit Namen Balaur bondoc (zu Deutsch: stämmiger Drache) lebte in Europa. Damals war der Kontinent noch größtenteils überflutet. Rumänien, der Fundort des Dinos, war eine Insel.

Landverbindung zwischen Europa und Asien

Der Fund von Balaur bondoc in Rumänien lässt, so die Forscher, wichtige Schlüsse auf die Beschaffenheit des Kontinents Europa zu. Obwohl Europa gegen Ende der Dinosaurier-Dynastie hauptsächlich aus Inseln bestand, muss es eine Landbrücke zwischen dem asiatischen Festland und Europa gegeben haben. Balaur bondoc gehört nämlich zur Gattung der Velociraptoren. Und diese lebten und jagten hauptsächlich in der Mongolei.

krone.at

UNESCO: Romanian church joins world heritage list

30/08/2010

The tourism industry hopes for a boost following UN recognition of an eighth church at Bukovina’s famous Sucevita Monastery.

By Paul Ciocoiu for Southeast European Times in Bucharest — 30/08/10

The church was built in the Moldavian style — a combination of elements of Byzantine and Gothic art with features of the old local wooden churches. [UNESCO]

A 16th-century church in northern Romania has been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Meeting in Brasilia this month, the international organisation decided to inscribe 21 new sites on the list and approved extensions for several others.

One of the extensions was for the Sucevita Monastery complex in Bukovina. Seven churches at the site already received world heritage status in 1993, and UNESCO has now decided to add an eighth.

The Resurrection Church is the only one of the set not built by a ruling voivoda, or local administrative leader, but rather by the members of a powerful aristocratic family, the Movilesti, some of whom acceded to the throne of Moldova and Wallachia.

According to a legend, a woman trying to redeem her sins carried the stones necessary for the construction of the monastery in her oxen-drawn cart over a period of 30 years.

The church, with its striking green colour, was built in Moldavian style, which combines Byzantine and Gothic elements with features seen in the old local wooden churches. It also contains Ottoman themes.

Specialists have named it “the testament of Moldavian art” due to the complexity of its frescoes and architecture.

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Setimes

Die verbrecherisch falsche Beratung des IMF in der Welt

Lupo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:19:07 +0000

Kommentar zu den IWF-Nachrichten im August 31.08.2010

Unser Politikblog beleuchtet den offenen Brief von Davison Budhoo an Michel Camdessus.
Budhoo warf dem IWF vor, am Tod Millionen armer und unschuldiger Menschen schuldig zu sein. Und er wies dem IWF die absichtlich falsche Auswertung volkswirtschaftlicher Daten nach.
Außerdem wird betrachtet, was der Rücktritt des ehemaligen IWF-Geschäftsführers Horst Köhlers vom Amt des Bundespräsidenten mit dem IWF, dem Euro und der Staateninsolvenz zu tun hat.

Die falsche Beratung des IMF, im Balkan und in Ex-Jugoslawien, und die scharfen Auflagen von 1987 gegenüber Jugoslawien, führte zum Bürger Krieg im Balkan, mit über 200.000 Toden, was Geschichte ist. Ebenso die jüngste total falsche Beratung mit den Balkan u.a. Rumänien und Griechenland, was die Wirtschaft total runiert.

Radio Utopie

Vor allem entsendet man überall junge “Karrieristen”, welche mit der realen Wirtschaft Nichts anfangen können.

Ausland Berater des IMF (der Deutschen Entwicklungshilfe), gelten als Ratten und Parasiten im Balkan und in der Welt.

Innenminister Bajram Rexhepi sagt mit Blick auf Büros der Vereinten Nationen, dass die meisten dieser Organisationen “mehr wie Parasiten im Kosovo leben”. Sie würden irgendwelche Projekte beginnen und das Geld dann für ihre Angestellten verbrauchen. “Diese Art von Hilfe brauchen wir hier nicht.”

Auch Xhelal Sveçla, einer der Gründer der radikalen Bewegung Vetëvendosje (Selbstbestimmung), kritisiert die internationalen Organisationen: “Eulex schadet dem Land, hat zu viel Macht und steht über dem Gesetz.” Der ehemalige UÇK-Kämpfer lehnt die Präsenz der Mission ab, weil fünf EU-Staaten Kosovo nicht anerkannt haben. Im ganzen Land hat seine Vetëvendosje-Bewegung Spuren des Protests hinterlassen: An Hauswänden, auf Plakaten und sogar auf öffentlichen Blumentöpfen sind Unmik- und Eulex-feindliche Sprüche zu lesen, stehen Slogans wie “Keine Verhandlung” und “Kauft Albanisch”.

Albanisch kaufen – das ist jedoch in vielen Bereichen gar nicht möglich: Die meisten Produkte in den Läden stammen aus den nördlichen Balkanländern oder Westeuropa. “Wir können Wasserflaschen abfüllen”, sagt Kosovalive-Chef Hapçiu. “Und das nennen wir dann eine Wirtschaft. Ich sehe aber sonst nicht viel, was produziert wird.”
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http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2010-08/kosovo-hilfe

siehe auch der Betrug mit der “Schweine Grippe”, wo die Deutsche Ministerin Ulla Schmidt, Feder führend für diese Welt weiten Betrug war in Zusammenarbeit mit korrupten Deutschen Beamten, wie aus dem Robert-Koch Institut. Denn da käuflich, verbreitet man jeden Betrugs Wunsch, der Pharma Industrie. Auch die kriminellen Schweine Grippe Impfungen, führten zu dem Tod von Menschen und Kindern, durch die üblichen Neben Wirkungen, eines nicht geprüften Impf Stoffes, für Nichts.

Geheimdienste warnen, vor der Geldwäsche in den Tourismus im Balkan

CrniLabudovi — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:20:21 +0000

Secret Service SHIS, warnt in einem Parlaments Report, vor dem Ausverkauf der Kueste, durch die Russen-Italienische und Mafia aus Israel

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Secret service reports warn that organised crime syndicates are investing in real estate on Albania’s coast.

Aehnlich, wie in Montenegro, will man ueber Schein Firmen u.a. auf Zypern, ein grosses Geldwaesche System auch in Albanien ankurbeln und auch Grundstuecke an Sued Albaniens Kueste erwerben. Vor allem sollen Gelder aus dem Drogen Handel gewaschen werden und aus Waffen- und Treibstoff Geschaeften, was aber Nichts Neues ist. Haupt Grund, das sich die Grossen mit Hilfe korrupter Politiker und Richter freikaufen, vor Straf Verfolgung, wobei der Fall Hekuran Hoxha nur der Aktuelle ist und lt. Interpol, der Normal Zustand in Albanien.

Wie historisch bewiesen und dokumentiert ist, haben Deutsche Diplomaten und Politiker gezielt, die Drogen Netze in Deutschland aufgebaut, die Clans mit Visas ausgestattet und direkt u.a. mit VW, Medien, Mercedes und Siemens die Top Mafia im Balkan als Partner gesucht, inklusive bekanntlich der BayernLB mit der Hypo Alpe Adria. Juengst haben deshalb hohe EU und Interpol Beamte, Montenegrinischen und Albanischen Politikern die Verhaftung angedroht.

In Montenegro, hat diese Art von Politik und der Betonierei an der Kueste, zu einem Debakel gefuehrt.

Mafia ruse, italiane e izraelite mësyjnë ekonominë shqiptare
27/06/2010
Bledi Gilaj
HISH paralajmëron Komisionin e Sigurisë për kërcënimet kombëtare

Narkotrafiku i shqiptarëve

Gjatë raportimit, krerët e SHISH-it kanë vënë në dukje për deputetët e sigurisë kombëtare se disa trafikantë shqiptarë të drogës, rezidentë në vende të Amerikës Latine, po tentojnë të përfshihen në fusha investimesh të rëndësishme në Shqipëri, veprimtari që sipas SHISH-it krijojnë mundësi dhe terren për kamuflimin e trafikut të kokainës, si dhe riciklimin e produktit kriminal. Më tej, shërbimi sekret shqiptar vë dhe njëherë në dukje se produkti kriminal i përfituar nga narkotrafiku vijon të investohet në blerje trojesh, ndërtim, blerje të mjeteve të rënda që përdoren në industrinë e rëndë, por edhe në industrinë e lehtë dhe ushqimore.
Falsifikimet dhe pastrimi i parave

Veç narkotrafikantëve, një formë tjetër kriminaliteti e rrezikshme dhe e organizuar që po realizohet me efikasitet, për Shërbimin Informativ është prodhimi dhe falsifikimi i kartëmonedhave dhe bonove të privatizimit në vend, ose futja e tyre nga jashtë, me destinacion tregun shqiptar. Në raportin e SHISH-it deklarohet se në të shumtën e rasteve origjina e këtij aktiviteti është Serbia, Bullgaria e Maqedonia. Ndërkaq, një tjetër problem shqetësues për sigurinë kombëtare evidentohet edhe mashtrimi financiar. Sipas të dhënave në raport, mashtrimet financiare tashmë nuk evidentohen vetëm gjatë realizimit të kontrabandës, evazionit fiskal, prokurimeve publike, por edhe duke krijuar skema piramidale, kryesisht të kamufluara, si veprimtari në fushën e sigurimeve. SHISH është shprehur se origjina e këtij aktiviteti është edhe Shqipëria, por nuk përjashtohen Maqedonia dhe Kosova.

SHISH ka vënë në dukje më tej se mallrat që kontrabandohen po krijojnë realisht shqetësim për ekonominë e vendit. “Këto mallra kanë të bëjnë me ato të akcizës, kryesisht cigare, kafe dhe karburante. Gjithashtu është rritur tendenca e kontrabandimit të mallrave si konfeksione, elektroshtëpiake dhe mallra të tjera elektronike. Origjina e lëndës së parë apo e vetë këtyre mallrave është Kina”, shprehet Shërbimi Informativ Shtetëror.

Ndërsa Pastrimi i Parave është sofistikuar dhe rruga për evidentimin e këtij aktiviteti është vështirësuar, sipas SHISH, vepra kriminale e pastrimit të parave brenda Shqipërisë dhe në Ballkan po shkon drejt sofistikimit.

Neuer Artikel mit vielen Details, über Russische Immobilien Firmen in Albanien und Geldwäsche von Lukoil und Gazprom in Albanien

Treibstoff LKW der “Firma “Roksped (auch VW-Audi Vertretung)” in Durres, welche zum Mafia Clan Stanaj gehört, welche Lukoil Verträge hat und Lukoil Tankstellen in Montenegro.

URL: http://www.balkanweb.com/index.php?id=82908
Pronat e patundshme, ‘Harta ruse ne Shqiperi’
(Dërguar më: 02/08/10) Genci Kondi

aus Karl Kreilich Blog

Investimet direkte apo indirekte të produktit kriminal të përfituar po rrallohen, ndërkohë që grupe kriminale, kryesisht të huaja, po punojnë në këtë fushë përmes operacioneve të ndërlikuara bankare.
Mafia italiane, ruse dhe izraelite

Një tjetër shqetësim edhe më i madh për sigurinë kombëtare, i vënë në dukje nga SHISH, ka të bëjë me organizatat mafioze kalabreze, që po ndërveprojnë me shtetas shqiptarë nga një qark ndër më të mëdhenjtë e më të pasurit në Shqipëri. “Grupe kriminale kazaleze (napolitane) po shprehin dëshirën të investojnë në Shqipëri në drejtim të ngritjes apo blerjes së kazinove, ashtu siç është bërë në Mal të Zi dhe Maqedoni. Organizata mafioze, “Ndrageta”, nëpërmjet disa lidhjeve të saj, shtetas italianë të paraqitur në Shqipëri si investitorë të rëndësishëm, po synon investimin në fushën e ndërtimeve”, jep alarmin SHISH.

Më tej, ekspertët shprehen se informacione të shumta të mbërritura dëshmojnë se Shqipëria është tashmë në fokusin e investimeve të dyshimta ruse. “Konfirmohet interesimi për blerjen e tokave në bregdet dhe zona të ndryshme turistike. Gjithashtu disponohen të dhëna se edhe elementë të krimit të organizuar izraelit po synojnë tregun shqiptar të lojërave të fatit dhe investime në fushën e energjetikës”, raporton Shërbimi Informativ.
Paralajmërimet e shërbimit sekret

Nga analiza vlerësohet se gjatë periudhës së krizës financiare, por edhe më tej, qëllimi i grupeve të krimit të organizuar mund të jetë vendosja e kontrollit mbi aksionet e kompanive në krizë, ose pronësia mbi to. “Turizmi, biznesi i hotelerisë, pronat e patundshme dhe operacionet me to, ndërtimi dhe prodhimi i materialeve të ndërtimit, përpunimi dhe shfrytëzimi i teknologjive energjetike alternative, mund të jenë më të rrezikuarat”, ka vënë në dukje SHISH. Më tej vlerësohet se potencialet ekonomike shfrytëzohen në funksion të fuqizimit disa planesh me ambicie ndikimin në favor të politikave përkatëse. Më tej shpjegohet se rritja e aksesit politik dhe ekonomik konsiderohet si një ndër elementët prioritarë në realizimin e pretendimeve në momentin oportun, për dominim në dëm të interesave tona kombëtare.
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http://balkanblog.org/2010/06/28/albanischer-geheimdienst-schlaegt

Man kann jetzt auf eine reale Reaktion des Staates warten, denn aus Sarande kommen in diesen Tagen, beunruhigende Nachrichten, das weiter wild herum gebaut wird.

Die VW Vertretung in Montenegro, eng mit dem Drogen- Zigaretten- Treibstoff Schmuggel verbunden und auch in der Porto Romana Nord Durres im Oil Terminal natuerlich mit Lukoil aktiv.

Beim Aufbau dieser Verbrecher Kartelle, spielen prominete SPD Politiker, eine Schluesselrolle, welche von VW gekauft wurden.

Wir berichteten hierueber.

Die Task Force, beschlagnahmte erneut Bankkonten und Immobilien von Offiziellen, welche kriminellen Syndikaten angehoeren.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Albania, Hezbollah and the labyrinth of international illegal arms trafficking
Jun 13, 2010

By Ioannis Michaletos | The Balkan region has a colorful recent history regarding the existence of Jihadist and terrorist networks that are directly related to the ones in the Middle East.

The issue has gathered importance in the beginning of 2010 when the Israeli foreign minister, made explicit remarks on the issue, whilst an interesting aspect has emerged through many information channels that relates to the existence of direct Hezbollah ties in the Balkans and most specifically in Albania.

At a meeting with FYROM’s Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in January, the Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the Balkan states were the new target of global jihad.

“Current reports clearly indicate that the region of the Balkans is the new target of global jihad, which intends to establish infrastructure and recruit activists there,” Lieberman said.

“That is seen from the attempts of certain Islamists, in particular Saudi organizations that are transferring their funds to Africa and South America in order to bring them to the regions inhabited by Bosnians and Albanians,” he added…..

http://serbianna.com/analysis/?p=572

Ilir Meta, traf sich gerade mit seinen arabischen Partnern aus 1999.

SHIS Geheimdienst Bericht Teil 2 SHIS Geheimdienst Bericht Teil III

Die Legalisierung der illegalen Bauten auf gestohlenen Grundstücken ist Albaniens grösstes Problem und System der korrupten POlitiker und der Internationalen Mafia.

Konfliktet e pronësisë

Der Helden hafte Kampf der Freiheits Kämpfer gegen die NATO Terroristen

Lupo — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:36:47 +0000

Es weiss sowieso jeder Bundeswehr Offizier, das man nur zum Schutz der Drogen Produktion, des Drogen Handels und der Drogen Verteilung über den Kosovo, dort die Bundes Wehr stationiert hat und verheizt.
US Politiker, wie Frank Wisner, Jo Biden mit seinen Freunden der Drogen Mafia Prominenz und Daniel Fried, spannen für diese Geschäfte die NATO ein, und die korrupten Deutschen Politiker, Lobby Firmen, Diplomaten, und Entwicklungs Helfer der Aufbau Mafia aus Eschborn, Bonn und Berlin machen da gerne mit. Man muss nicht bis nach Afghanistan sehen, sondern nur in den Balkan, was da Politiker, in den letzten 10 Jahren drehten.
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… Das Islamische Emirat von Afghanistan weist die Unterstellungen der Amerikaner zurück, die diese Lügen publizieren, um die Aufmerksamkeit der Leute von ihrer klaren und schändlichen Niederlage abzulenken. …

Was die Geschichte von Aisha betrifft, so hat das Islamische Emirat von Afghanistan diesen barbarischen, inhumanen und unislamischen Akt verurteilt und erklärt, dass dieser Fall niemals an irgendein Gericht oder eine Person des Islamischen Emirates von Afghanistan weitergeleitet wurden. …

Nach dem heiligen Islamischen Gesetz ist es verboten, Menschen die Ohren und die Nase abzuschneiden, gleich ob der Mensch tot oder lebendig ist. In vielen Hadithen von Mohammed - Friede sei mit ihm - wird deutlich gemacht, dass es verboten ist, Nasen, Ohren und Lippen eines toten Ungläubigen abzuschneiden, so wie kann das Islamische Emirat von Afghanistan diesen Akt vollbringen, besonders wo die Person, der das angetan wurde, lebendig und Moslem ist. Nach dem Gesetz der Sharia wird diesem Kriminellen, der solch eine gemeine Handlung verübt, als Strafe das gleiche angetan, wie was er verbrochen hat.

Wir sympathisieren mit unserer Schwester Aisha und nennen diese fürchterliche Handlung ein Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit und gegen das islamische Gesetz. …

Soviel sei gesagt zu dieser dreisten Lüge der US-Propaganda. Und nun wollen wir mal einen Blick in die Realität Afghanistans werfen:

Wonach sieht das aus? Nach Feiglingen, die ihren Frauen die Nasen abschneiden? Oder nach einfachen und bitterarmen Menschen, die ihr Leben dafür riskieren und hergeben, eine Horde faschistischer Besatzungstruppen aus ihrer Heimat zu vertreiben? Diese Menschen kämpfen in ihrer Heimat um ihre Heimat, für eine Heimat, die frei ist von Massaker verübenden mörderischen radikal-kapitalistischen Besatzungstruppen aus den USA und Deutschland. Schauen wir uns noch ein Video an:

Mein Partei Buch

Zitat des Herrn Struck - Ex-Verteidigungs Minister: “wir dachten damals, das man nur max. 1 Jahr in Afghanstan ist” in einem Spiegel Interview.

Kommentar: Wenn kriminelle Geschäfte Macher, Lehrer, Dumm Leute Aussenpolitik betreiben, kommt halt Nichts Anderes heraus, wie solche dummen Sprüche.

USA und CIA, haben Taliban erschaffen und finanziert, mit noch mehr Videos u.a. von einem Holländischen Reporter, der mit den Freiheits Kämpfern unterwegs war, während kriminelle Berliner Politiker, War Lords, Drogen Bosse, Kriegs Verbrecher Schutz Gelder in Kundus zahlen.

Teil I, über den Helden haften Kampf der Freiheits Kämpfer, die sehr arm sind und ihre Heimat verteidigen.

Von oben bis unten korrupt, und pro Monat werden 1 Milliarde $ der Korruptions Gelder bzw. der unterschlagenen Gelder der Entwicklungs Hilfe, nach Dubai ausgeflogen. Angefangen von der Familie Karsai: vom CIA bezahlt und voll im Drogen Geschäft. Gut das man Joschka Fischer hatte, der solche Leute wie auch die Super Verbrecher im Balkan als “Reformer” ansah, was selbst Dämlichkeits Leute nie erkennen konnten. Aber was will man von einem Taxi Fahrer erwarten.

Nichts Neues an der Drogen Kampf Front, welche von der NATO und US Politikern dirigiert wird.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Balkan based organized crime activities gaining ground
Aug 28, 2010
By Ioannis Michaletos | The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report 2010 detailing the global drug trends and almost all European heroin originates in Afghanistan and is smuggled in through Turkey and the Balkans or via Central Asia and Russia.
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The US State Department International Strategy for Narcotics Control report, released on March 2010, says that the Balkan countries remain major transit points for Afghan heroin, while the war against traffickers is hampered by corruption and weak state institutions. According to the report, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are used by narcotics traffickers to move Afghan heroin from Central Asia to destinations around Western Europe. To a lesser extent Romania and Montenegro are also considered as staging posts for traffickers. Apart from being an important transit country for heroin and cocaine, Bulgaria is also a producer of illicit narcotics, the report says. With its geographic position on Balkan transit routes, Bulgaria is vulnerable to illegal flows of drugs, people, contraband, and money….
http://serbianna.com/analysis/?p=679

1958-1976 - Albania and China and the serb occupation in 1919

ctstmaser — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:43:38 +0000

Albania played a role in the Sino-Soviet conflict far outweighing either its size or its importance in the communist world. Hoxha and Shehu tapped the Albanians’ deep-seated fear of Yugoslav domination to remain in power during the thaw following the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union’s in 1956, when Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s crimes in his “secret speech.” Hoxha defended Stalin and blamed the Titoist heresy for the troubles vexing world communism, including the disturbances in Poland and the rebellion in Hungary in 1956. Hoxha mercilessly purged party moderates with pro-Soviet and pro-Yugoslav leanings, but he toned down his anti-Yugoslav rhetoric after an April 1957 trip to Moscow, where he won cancellation of about US$105 million in outstanding loans and about US$7.8 million in additional food assistance. By 1958, however, Hoxha was again complaining about Tito’s “fascism” and “genocide” against Albanians in Kosovo. By 1958 Albania stood with China in opposing Moscow on issues of peaceful coexistence, de-Stalinization, and Yugoslavia’s “separate road to socialism” through decentralization of economic life. The Soviet Union, other East European countries, and China all offered Albania large amounts of aid. Soviet leaders also promised to build a large Palace of Culture in Tiranë as a symbol of the Soviet people’s “love and friendship” for the Albanians. But despite these gestures, Tiranë was dissatisfied with Moscow’s economic policy toward Albania. Hoxha and Shehu apparently decided in May or June 1960 that Albania was assured of Chinese support, and they openly sided with China when sharp polemics erupted between China and the Soviet Union. Ramiz Alia, at the time a candidate-member of the Politburo and Hoxha’s adviser on ideological questions, played a prominent role in the rhetorical.

The Sino-Soviet split burst into the open in June 1960 at a Romanian Workers’ Party congress, at which Khrushchev attempted to secure condemnation of Beijing. Albania’s delegation, alone among the European delegations, supported the Chinese. The Soviet Union immediately retaliated by organizing a campaign to oust Hoxha and Shehu in the summer of 1960. Moscow cut promised grain deliveries to Albania during a drought, and the Soviet embassy in Tiranë overtly encouraged a pro-Soviet faction in the APL to speak out against the party’s pro-Chinese stand. Moscow also apparently involved itself in a plot within the APL to unseat Hoxha and Shehu by force. But given their tight control of the party machinery, army, and Shehu’s secret police, the Directorate of State Security (Drejtorija e Siguimit te Shtetit–Sigurimi), the two Albanian leaders easily parried the threat. Five pro-Soviet Albanian leaders were eventually tried and executed. China immediately began making up for the cancellation of Soviet wheat shipments despite a paucity of foreign currency and its own economic hardships.

Albania again sided with China when it launched an attack on the Soviet Union’s leadership of the international communist movement at the November 1960 Moscow conference of the world’s eighty-one communist parties. Hoxha inveighed against Khrushchev for encouraging Greek claims to southern Albania, sowing discord within the APL and army, and using economic blackmail. “Soviet rats were able to eat while the Albanian people were dying of hunger,” Hoxha railed, referring to purposely delayed Soviet grain deliveries. Communist leaders loyal to Moscow described Hoxha’s performance as “gangsterish” and “infantile,” and the speech extinguished any chance of an agreement between Moscow and Tiranë. For the next year, Albania played proxy for China. Pro-Soviet communist parties, reluctant to confront China directly, criticized Beijing by castigating Albania. China, for its part, frequently gave prominence to the Albanians’ fulminations against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, which Tiranë referred to as a “socialist hell.”

Hoxha and Shehu continued their harangue against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia at the APL’s Fourth Party Congress in February 1961. During the congress, the Albanian government announced the broad outlines of the country’s Third Five-Year Plan (1961-65), which allocated 54 percent of all investment to industry, thereby rejecting Khrushchev’s wish to make Albania primarily an agricultural producer. Moscow responded by canceling aid programs and lines of credit for Albania, but the Chinese again came to the rescue. After additional sharp exchanges between Soviet and Chinese delegates over Albania at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Twenty-Second Party Congress in October 1961, Khrushchev lambasted the Albanians for executing a pregnant, pro-Soviet member of the Albanian party Politburo, and the Soviet Union finally broke diplomatic relations with Albania in December. Moscow then withdrew all Soviet economic advisers and technicians from the country, including those at work on the Palace of Culture, and halted shipments of supplies and spare parts for equipment already in place in Albania. In addition, the Soviet Union continued to dismantle its naval installations on Sazan Island, a process that had begun even before the break in relations.

China again compensated Albania for the loss of Soviet economic support, supplying about 90 percent of the parts, foodstuffs, and other goods the Soviet Union had promised. Beijing lent the Albanians money on more favorable terms than Moscow, and, unlike Soviet advisers, Chinese technicians earned the same low pay as Albanian workers and lived in similar housing. China also presented Albania with a powerful radio transmission station from which Tiranë sang the praises of Stalin, Hoxha, and Mao Zedong for decades. For its part, Albania offered China a beachhead in Europe and acted as China’s chief spokesman at the UN. To Albania’s dismay, however, Chinese equipment and technicians were not nearly so sophisticated as the Soviet goods and advisers they replaced. Ironically, a language barrier even forced the Chinese and Albanian technicians to communicate in Russian. Albanians no longer took part in Warsaw Pact activities or Comecon agreements. The other East European communist nations, however, did not break diplomatic or trade links with Albania. In 1964 the Albanians went so far as to seize the empty Soviet embassy in Tiranë, and Albanian workers pressed on with construction of the Palace of Culture on their own.

The shift away from the Soviet Union wreaked havoc on Albania’s economy. Half of its imports and exports had been geared toward Soviet suppliers and markets, so the souring of Tiranë’s relations with Moscow brought Albania’s foreign trade to near collapse as China proved incapable of delivering promised machinery and equipment on time. The low productivity, flawed planning, poor workmanship, and inefficient management at Albanian enterprises became clear when Soviet and East European aid and advisers were withdrawn. In 1962 the Albanian government introduced an austerity program, appealing to the people to conserve resources, cut production costs, and abandon unnecessary investment.

In October 1964, Hoxha hailed Khrushchev’s fall from power, and the Soviet Union’s new leaders made overtures to Tiranë. It soon became clear, however, that the new Soviet leadership had no intention of changing basic policies to suit Albania, and relations failed to improve. Tiranë’s propaganda continued for decades to refer to Soviet officials as “treacherous revisionists” and “traitors to communism,” and in 1964 Hoxha said that Albania’s terms for reconciliation were a Soviet apology to Albania and reparations for damages inflicted on the country. Soviet-Albanian relations dipped to new lows after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when Albania responded by officially withdrawing from the alliance.

http://www.globalsecurity.org

1918-41 - INTERWAR ALBANIA

Albania achieved real statehood after World War I, in part because of the diplomatic intercession of the United States. The country suffered from debilitating lack of economic and social development, however, and its first years of independence were fraught with political instability. Unable to survive in a predatory world without a foreign protector, Albania became the object of tensions between Italy and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia), which were both bent on controlling the country. With the kingdom’s military assistance, Ahmed Bey Zogu, the son of a clan chieftain, emerged victorious from an internal political power struggle in late 1924. Zogu, however, quickly turned his back on Belgrade and looked to Mussolini’s Italy for patronage. In 1928 Zogu coaxed the country’s parliament to declare Albania a kingdom and name him king. King Zog remained a hidebound conservative, and Albania was the only Balkan state where the government did not see fit to introduce a comprehensive land reform between the two world wars. Mussolini’s forces finally overthrew Zog when they occupied Albania in 1939.

Albania’s political confusion continued in the wake of World War I. The country lacked a single recognized government, and Albanians feared, with justification, that Greece, Yugoslavia, and Italy would succeed in extinguishing Albania’s independence and carve up the country. Italian forces controlled Albanian political activity in the areas they occupied. The Serbs, who largely dictated Yugoslavia’s foreign policy after World War I, strove to take over northern Albania, and the Greeks sought to control southern Albania. A delegation sent by a postwar Albanian National Assembly that met at Durrës in December 1918 defended Albanian interests at the Paris Peace Conference, but the conference denied Albania official representation. The National Assembly, anxious to keep Albania intact, expressed willingness to accept Italian protection and even an Italian prince as a ruler so long as it would mean Albania did not lose territory.

In January 1919, the Serbs attacked the Albanian inhabitants of Gusinje and Plav with regular troops and artillery after the Albanians had appealed to Britain for protection. The Serb forces massacred some of the Albanians and forced about 35,000 people to flee to the Shkodër area. In Kosovo the Serbs subjected the Albanians to brutalities, stripped them of territory under the guise of land reform, and rewarded Serb colonists with homesteads. In response, Albanians continued guerrilla warfare in both Serbia and Montenegro.

In January 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference negotiators from France, Britain, and Greece agreed to divide Albania among Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece as a diplomatic expedient aimed at finding a compromise solution to the territorial conflict between Italy and Yugoslavia. The deal was done behind the Albanians’ backs and in the absence of a United States negotiator.

Members of a second Albanian National Assembly held at Lushnjë in January 1920 rejected the partition plan and warned that Albanians would take up arms to defend their country’s independence and territorial integrity. The Lushnjë National Assembly appointed a four-man regency to rule the country. A bicameral parliament was also created, appointing members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate. An elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, had one deputy for every 12,000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States. In February 1920, the government moved to Tiranë, which became Albania’s capital.

One month later, in March 1920, President Woodrow Wilson intervened to block the Paris agreement. The United States underscored its support for Albania’s independence by recognizing an official Albanian representative to Washington, and in December the League of Nations recognized Albania’s sovereignty by admitting it as a full member. The country’s borders, however, remained unsettled.

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http://www.globalsecurity.orgm

ALBANIA UNDER PRINCE WIED

History of the Dutch Military Mission to Albania, 1913-1914

Albania was part of the Ottoman Empire from the age of the Turkish conquest of the southwestern Balkan Peninsula in about 1390-1400 to the final collapse of the once mighty realm, then known as the Sick Man of Europe, in 1912. In the course of these five centuries, most of the originally Christian population had converted to Islam and adopted the customs and lifestyle of the Orient. Albanians also made a substantial contribution to the Ottoman Empire. Many viziers, grand viziers (prime ministers) and high administrative and military figures ruling the Empire were of Albanian origin……………

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