The Balkan Dimension of Migration

Constantinos Holevas
Geopolitical Annalist

The discussion of the bill promoted by the government to regulate aspects of the immigration issue has caused many conflicts and it is obvious that the issue is highly sensitive and complex. The value views on "Human Rights" have begun to crumble, and after the clear view of the Greek Ombudsman C. Kamini that the provision of nationality is a human right of the immigrant, but a sovereign right of the nation state and touches the hard core of national and state sovereignty.

It should also be paid to this aspect of national security, which stressed elegant but clearly the UN High Commissioner for Immigration Antonio Gutierrez said during his meeting with his Greek counterpart in Athens.

I think it would be useful and relevant to highlight the Balkan dimension of the migration problem, always trying to combine the principles of democracy and humanism with the requirements of our national security and territorial integrity.
This combination also seeks any European country that respects its laws, its citizens and long-term interests of its own and Europe in general.

First item on the Balkan dimension is the very group that drafted the bill, which the Government seized then. As we read in the press everyday prepared the text came from an NGO, some members of which we sympathize with the demands of minority Skopje and Albanian nationalism.

Second item must be special attention is the fact that the Albanian presence in our country is disproportionate to other ethnic immigrant groups. Of course no one can ignore the majority of Albanian workers who are peaceful and labor.But it is not reasonable in terms of national interest to legitimize or to acquire a large number of Albanian nationality, where we have continuing challenges irredentism, expansionism and historical distortions of the neighboring country.

Who can exclude that the massive Albanian Greek citizenship would lead to a minority issue, especially in areas of Northern Greece? I recall some recent actions that concern us:

In early January the President of the Parliament of Kosovo and the former spokesman of the armed separatist UCK, Jiakoup Krasniqi, supported the unification of all Albanians in one country, promoting the well-known idea of Greater Albania. He said that every year comes closer to the quest for the unification of all Albanians and indicated by name as areas where "the Albanians have the majority of the population" of southern Serbia, parts of Greece and Montenegro. There is in Greece currently such areas does expect the implementation of the legislation under discussion?

In addition to the Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary, released recently by the Academy of Sciences of Tirana with state funding, Ioannina, Igoumenitsa, Arta and Preveza presented as Albanian national territories and Marco Botsris and Pyrros Dimas characterized genuine ... Albanians. For the scientific elite of the neighbor region of Epirus is Albanian territory which "captured" militarily by Greece in 1912-13.

The same dictionary vindicates the propaganda claiming the Chams Thesprotia and remember that 1900 of them were sentenced in 1945 by the Court of Ioannina Prefecture as partners of German-occupiers. Also, the dictionary describes them as settlers Northern Epirus, writing that is not native, but came to work in fields landowners. They write the first two volumes that have been released. The project will be completed by the end of 2010 and expected new surprises!

It is not wise policy to ignore the dangerous aspirations of Albanian nationalism and create our own imported from a naive minority in our country. The Russians do not border with Albania have already expressed their concern about the "mega Albanian" projects. A public statement made in mid-October 2009 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, visiting Belgrade.

The third Balkan point of interest is this: Some people acquire Greek citizenship is likely to be fanatical Islamists. Again it is useful to separate the majority of law-abiding Muslims from the minority of fanatics, but they exist. The issue is safety not only of Greece and given the presence of extremists in various parts of the Balkans such as Bosnia. Israel is usually good information already made sure to warn the Skopje Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, when he visited Jerusalem on 8/1/2010. The Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman told him to watch the presence of supporters of Jihad in the Balkan Peninsula. Perhaps some of our compatriots consider excessive assessment, but a sensible security policy must take this into consideration.

And let us not forget that blind naturalisations fanatical Muslims will create problems in neighboring Bulgaria, which will enter the EU free and which has a significant Muslim minority, which is represented by a dynamic filo turk party.

The emigration problem in our country is the most important national issue for the next generation and stability.