Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted via Facebook regarding the presence at the anti-government protests in Tirana of Albanians from Kosovo and North Macedonia.
In his statement, he underlines that Albanians from these two countries do not constitute Albania’s diaspora, but are citizens of the states where they live, while also criticizing what he says is the use of national symbols and the KLA flag for political purposes.
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Rama accuses the organizers of these actions of damaging the image of Albanians and calls for the name of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti not to be linked to this debate.
Full post:
“I do not know the lady, but someone sent me this post, which prompted the note below:
Albanians of North Macedonia are not Albania’s diaspora on foreign soil; together with the North Macedonians, they are a state-forming people on their own land in the neighboring state!
The diaspora are emigrants in foreign countries, not them, and certainly not the Albanians of Kosovo, who have their own independent state.
When the blind foot soldiers of political caravans from Prishtina and Tetovo show up in Tirana as the ‘diaspora,’ with national flags turned into the décor of such a farce and white plis caps darkened by a disgrace like this, they are simply zealous victims who cannot ask themselves one simple question:
Does anyone who wants Albanians in conflict and chaos feel concerned or pleased when they see this ‘diaspora’ from North Macedonia and Kosovo charging toward Tirana like an invading horde on four-wheeled horses to bring down Albania’s government?
This is in fact a question their sponsors should ask themselves, and I assure them they are spending their money only to damage, nationally and internationally, the image of the Albanians of North Macedonia and of Kosovo itself. As for me and the Socialist Party government, they should keep paying for fuel, food and qeleshe caps until the day our unbreakable contract with 856,177 Albanian men and women, at home and abroad, comes to an end. May 2029.
And I will never be able to erase from my mind the desecration of the KLA’s liberation flag, raised as a banner of hatred for the overthrow of the government in Tirana! What a gift for those who do not know Kosovo and for those who have always mocked us as a people incapable of state-building. Such desecrators and mud-slingers have even brought to the tip of the pen of the Father of Albanianhood, Gjergj Fishta:
‘You hooligans and butchers,
tramps and buffoons,
filthy ticks, evil microbes,
who to poor Albania
have turned its bright lungs into ash…’
Post Scriptum. And let no one speculate by linking this note to the name of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, because under no circumstances can I hold him, or imply him to be, responsible for any of the hooligans of Vetëvendosje who have become involved in this devilish mess. I am not saying this at all as a matter of some protocol-driven lip service, but because I know full well that every broad political tent also has its own hooligans, and I would insult Albin’s intelligence if I thought he judged matters the way they do. So leave Albin Kurti out of this disgusting mess.”
