President Clinton demanded Albania, respecting the Greek Minority based on the Convention of the Council of Europe

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Secret documents declassified emerge for Albanian Greek relation is 1995 of the White House.

The Albanian - Greek relation, in light of 20 years after the Clinton administration, still remain lower, settings and are not improved at all in the direction of freedom and human rights.



The Greek - Albanian Relations, especially in the years 1992 - 1995, have emerged for the first time, by the "under confidential classification documents" to be made public, how, the government Clinton undertook initiatives to stabilize relations which Greece, a country in NATO and the EU at front of Albania of Sali Berisha.

The report listed a series of factors, such as the conviction of five leaders of the Greek Minority, the Albanian courts under Berisha influence, as well as "Peshkëpia" incident, to come in a normalized relationship, after visits of Foreign Ministers Papoulias and Sereqi, in Tirana and Athens.

But despite the efforts, today, after 20 years, with Albania in NATO and a candidate for membership in the EU, the situation of the Greek Minority in Albania, particularly in Himara, remains in stagnant.

No improvement in the areas of Freedom and Human Rights, the properties were abducted by oligarchs and Mafia, while the Albanian government is using the method of "ethnic cleansing", changing some laws and constitution, to encourage the Albanian population from the north, and built in lands belonging to Ethnic Greeks, in Southern Albania.

Albania has not met the obligations of the Council of Europe, to activate in practice, the Convention of the rights and freedoms as well as minorities, while all the indicators have worsened in the economic and democratic country.

Specific is the case when two political leaders of Albania, Sali Berisha and Edi Rama, exchanged accusations of mutual, for favoring the geopolitical movement of the Albanian population, to the South inhabited by Greek Etnic popullation by confronting a new phase, regarding the relations with Greece.

Albanian political leaders have signed a few years ago, a memorandum, classified secret for "national interests of Albania" to encourage through the adoption of laws, a series of government decisions, to change the composition of the population in the south of Albania, for which Greece has blocked the opening of negotiations with Albania to the EU. The issue of human rights and property remains a decisive factor Albania - Greece relationship.

Meanwhile, despite continuous efforts, USA citizenship by descent from Himara, have not had still access, to obtain properties, although during 1995 a Friendly Memorandum signed by Mr. V/ Prime Minister of Albania, Dylber Vrioni and US Ambassador, in Tirana Joseph Lake, on the right of ownership, has not been achieved.

The Albanian - Greek relation, in light of 20 years after the Clinton administration, still remain lower settings and are not improved at all in the direction of freedom and human rights.

Albania has not met the obligations of the Council of Europe, to activate in practice, the Convention of the rights and freedoms as well as minorities, while all the indicators have worsened in the economic and democratic country.