“TO BE GREEK WHEN THEY ARE SINCE THE HELLENISM HAS BORNED”

Athens gives “The Greek Citizen” about 1000 northern epirotes today (!) The last paradox of Greek burocracy is to give next months more 600 thousand northern epirotes the Greek Citizen. After 18 years they living and working in Greece they "became greeks", while in Albania they continue to prohibit the politic and civil rights. During Albanian dictature thousand of northern epiotes killed and persecuted by regime only because they where Greek. "A PARADOX"

While Sofie has given about 150 thousand Bulgarian passports to Albanian orthodoxies, since 2007, time that Bulgaria joint to EU, Greece, continues to forget compatriots in Northern Epirus.

Albania continues to give Albanians of Kosovo thousand passports every month for their compatriots in Kosovo demostring a great sacrifice helping economically and giving international politically support. While the greek politic parties are interessed to have thousand votes by northern epiriotes claiming interests in Albania only for investiments and bussines linked with greek politicans corrupted.

Photo: 1946, Northern Epirotes escaped by Albanian Regime, protest near Albanian borders after US Senate Resolute decided to unite Northern Epirus with mother Greece.

ΟΡΚΟΜΩΣΙΑ ΙΘΑΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ 1.131 ΠΟΛΙΤΕΣ

Παρασκευή 29 Φεβρουαρίου 2008
ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΥΠΟΥ

1131 πολίτες, ορκίστηκαν σήμερα ως Έλληνες, από το Νομάρχη Αθηνών, Γιάννη Σγουρό, σε ειδική εκδήλωση που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο Γήπεδο του Σπόρτινγκ, παρουσία του Υπουργού Εσωτερικών, Δημόσιας Διοίκησης και Αποκέντρωσης κ. Προκόπη Παυλόπουλου, της βουλευτή του ΠΑ.ΣΟ.Κ.κας. Συλβάνας Ράπτη, του Δήμαρχου Καματερού κ. Νικήτα Καμαρινόπουλου και μελών του Νομαρχιακού Συμβουλίου της Νομαρχίας Αθηνών.

Οι πολίτες που πήραν σήμερα την ελληνική ιθαγένεια προέρχονται από 17 διαφορετικές χώρες του κόσμου, από την Βενεζουέλα και τις Η.Π.Α., μέχρι την Αιθιοπία και τις Φιλιππίνες και το 98% από την Αλβανία .Το 48% είναι γυναίκες και το 52% άνδρες. Το 99% των πολιτών είναι χριστιανοί ορθόδοξοι στο θρήσκευμα, υπάρχουν πέντε καθολικοί και δύο μουσουλμάνοι, ενώ δύο δεν δήλωσαν το θρήσκευμα τους. Ασκούν 115 διαφορετικά επαγγέλματα (π.χ. ιατροί, οικονομολόγοι, αρχιτέκτονες, ζωγράφοι, ιδιωτικοί και δημόσιοι υπάλληλοι, οικοδόμοι κλπ), με την πλειοψηφία να απασχολείται στον ιδιωτικό τομέα και τις γυναίκες να ασχολούνται με τα οικιακά.

THE GREEK “NOBEL” CANTIDATE MIKIS THEODORAKIS CLAIMS HIS MANIFEST ABOUT CRITIC SITUATION OF GREECE AFTER KOSOVO INDIPENDENCE.

"THERE IS VERY CLEAR, THE RAISE OF BALKAN DOMINO EFFECT TO CREATE “GREATER ALBANIA” AND MY COUNTRY GREECE, MUST BE UNITED TO CONFRONT ANNY DESTABILISATION INSIDE OUR TERRITOR THRAKI, EPIRUS AND GREEK ISLANDS”

Mikis Theodorakis manifest, adresed to hellenic people of the world.

Επιστολή Μίκη Θεοδωράκη Τέλος στην προδοσία και την ασχήμια!Ανεξάρτητα από τα αποτελέσματα των αμερικανικών εκλογών, δηλαδή ανεξάρτητα από το ποιος θα είναι ο μελλοντικός πρόεδρος, η κολοσσιαία πολεμική μηχανή έχει ήδη μπει μπροστά με στόχο την εξόντωση όλων όσων θεωρεί εχθρούς της. Ακόμη και αυτών όπως η Ελλάδα που δεν υπακούνε τυφλά τις εντολές της, Ιράν, Κορέα, Αραβικός κόσμος, μη υποτελείς και φυσικά άμεσα η Ρωσία και στο βάθος η Κίνα. Μετά θα έρθει η σειρά των « ατάκτων» της Νοτίου Αμερικής. Ένας άμεσος και θανάσιμος κίνδυνος, πολυπρόσωπος, πολυπλόκαμος σαν χταπόδι κάνει αργά αλλά σταθερά την εμφάνισή του στο προσκήνιο της παγκόσμιας ιστορίας. Σημερινός στοίχος είναι τα Βαλκάνια με κύριο σύμμαχο την «Μεγάλη Αλβανία», ξεκινώντας από το Κόσσοβο με συνεργάτες τους υπεύθυνους για μαζικές δολοφονίες U.C.K.Και σαν να μην έφταναν όλα αυτά, γεγονός πρωτοφανές για τη χώρα μας, μερικοί « επιστήμονες» επέλεξαν το αμφιθέατρο του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου για να αναπτύξουν δημόσια την υποστήριξή τους σε ένα βασικό αίτημα της « Μεγάλης Αλβανίας», την κατάκτηση της Ηπείρου έως την Πρέβεζα, με την δικαιολογία ότι ανήκε στην Αλβανική Τσαμουριά, από όπου τους έδιωξαν με εγκληματικές πράξεις οι έλληνες.Ασφαλώς πρόκειται για οργανωμένη προβοκάτσια των Η.Π.Α, ώστε να μελετηθούν οι δικές μας αντιδράσεις και να προπαρασκευαστεί ψυχολογικά η εδαφική επέκταση της Αλβανίας μετά το Κόσσοβο και σε ένα μεγάλο τμήμα των Αλβανοφώνων των Σκοπίων και ακολούθως και σε δικά μας εδάφη.Από την άλλη μεριά η σύμπλευση της Τουρκίας με τις Η.Π.Α στο Κόσσοβο, που έσπευσε πρώτη αυτή να το αναγνωρίσει, προετοιμάζει το έδαφος για πονηρά σχέδια σε βάρος της χώρας μας με βάση όχι μόνον το Αιγαίο και την Κύπρο, αλλά κα τη μουσουλμανική μειονότητα στη Θράκη, που ακολουθώντας το παράδειγμα του Κοσσόβου μπορεί να διεκδικήσει την δική της ανεξαρτησία.Η πολιτική ηγεσία των Σκοπίων φαίνεται ότι γνωρίζει από πρώτο χέρι τα σχέδια των Η.Π.Α και για αυτό δείχνει αυτή την αλαζονική αδιαλλαξία.Και πράγματι σε αυτή τη φάση συμπορεύονται με την πολιτική που εκθέσαμε. Όμως τι θα κάνουν όταν ξεκινήσει η επόμενη φάση, αυτής της φολοαλβανικής τακτικής, οπότε το κρατίδιό τους θα κοπεί στη μέση, γιατί θα πρέπει να γνωρίζουν τόσο αυτοί, όσο και οι ΗΠΑ, ότι μπορούν να αυτοαποκαλούνται Μακεδόνες, όμως φυλετικά είναι Σλάβοι και ως εκ τούτου κατατάσσονται ουσιαστικά στη χωρία των εχθρών των ΗΠΑ μαζί με την Ρωσία, τη Σερβία αλλά κα τη Βουλγαρία που και αυτή δεν πρέπει να έχει αυταπάτες.Έτσι γυρίζοντας σε εμάς τους Έλληνες θα πρέπει να δούμε ότι η κατάσταση όντως εξελίσσεται όπως εξελίσσεται και είναι παραπάνω από τραγική δεδομένου ότι οι Αμερικανοί δεν πείθονται, όσες υποκλίσεις και αν κάνουν απέναντί τους οι ποικιλόμορφες αμερικανόφιλες ηγεσίες, και αυτό γιατί φοβούνται, μισούν τον λαό μας, για τον οποίο είναι βέβαιοι ότι στη μεγάλη του πλειοψηφία απορρίπτει τα φιλοπόλεμα σχέδιά τους, για αυτό θέλει να μας τιμωρήσει με κάθε τρόπο εκτός και αν αποφασίσουμε όλοι μαζί να γονατίσουμε και να φιλήσουμε τα πόδια τους κάνοντας όρκους ότι από δω και στο εξής θάμασε καλά παιδιά και πειθήνια όργανα στην όποια πολιτική τους.Όμως αφού το παιχνίδι είναι για μας έτσι και αλλιώς χαμένο, τότε ας πέσουμε με το κεφάλι ψηλά. Ας μην περιμένουμε βοήθεια από πουθενά. Ούτε έχουμε συμμάχους, είμαστε εμείς και εμείς, ας φροντίσουμε λοιπόν να είμαστε τουλάχιστον ωραίοι, περήφανοι και γιατί όχι χαρούμενοι, αφού θα έχουμε πάρει τη μεγάλη απόφαση να γίνουμε όλοι μαζί μια γροθιά ενωμένοι μπροστά στην προδοσία και την ασχήμια που χτυπάει την πόρτα μας.Γιατί είναι προδοσία η αναγνώριση του Κοσσόβου χωρίς την έγκριση της διεθνούς κοινότητας του ΟΗΕ, δηλαδή μιας επαρχίας που από αιώνες αποτελεί τμήμα της Σερβίας και τι θα νοιώθαμε εμείς αν μεθαύριο έπαιρναν με το έτσι θέλω τη μισή Κύπρο , την Θράκη ή την Ήπειρο;Όπως είναι ασχήμια να ανεχόμαστε να μας περιφρονούν και να μας εξυβρίζουν οχυρωμένοι κάτω από τα σκέλια των Αμερικανών οι Σκοπιανοί και εμείς να τους παρακαλάμε και να ζητάμε μεσολάβηση των Αμερικανών, χάνοντας κάθε μέρα όλο και πιο πολύ την αξιοπρέπειά μας και την υπερηφάνειά μας.Ας κλείσουμε τα σύνορα, ας σταματήσουμε τις οικονομικές και διπλωματικές μας σχέσεις και ας τους αφήσουμε να αυτοαποκαλούνται όπως θέλουν, κοροϊδεύοντας τους εαυτούς τους.Οφείλουμε να περάσουμε και από αυτή τη νέα δοκιμασία με το κεφάλι ψηλά. Μπορεί να υποφέρουμε, όμως το ζητούμενο για μας είναι να παραμείνουμε Έλληνες και θα παραμείνουμε Έλληνες αν δεν ξεχνάμε από πόσες δοκιμασίες περάσαμε ως τώρα, όμως στο τέλος πάντα βγήκαμε νικητές.Το ίδιο θα συμβεί και στο μέλλον.Μίκης ΘεοδωράκηςΑθήνα, 23/2/2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=icIXMhOq1io"

PUTIN PLAIN TO "DOMINO EFFECT" IN EUROPE AND BALKAN, AFTER THE PROCLAMATION OF KOSOVO INDIPENDENCE

Elefterotipia Newspaper Greece

http://www.enet.gr/online/dspphoto?id=212861

CHAMERIA, INSIDE NGO DEBATE ON GREEK TV CHANNEL IN ATHENS

Athina, 22.2.2008

Υπέρ των ισχυρισμών των Τσάμηδων τάσσονται Έλληνες ιστορικοί

«Άναψαν τα αίματα» σε παρουσίαση μελέτης ιστορικών του Κέντρου Ερευνών Μειονοτικών Ομάδων για τους Τσάμηδες στο Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο. Το ακροατήριο που αποτελείτο από φοιτητές και ιστορικούς μέχρι βορειοηπειρώτες και μέλη της «Χρυσής Αυγής», αντέδρασε έντονα, όταν οι επιστήμονες υποστήριξαν ότι οι Τσάμηδες στην Ήπειρο υπήρξαν θύματα του Ελληνικού στοιχείου, κάνοντας λόγο για 50.000 Τσάμηδες, ανάμεσα στους οποίους πολλοί εκδιώχθηκαν, δολοφονήθηκαν ή δημεύθηκαν οι περιουσίες τους.

Ένα τμήμα του κοινού άρχισε να αποδοκιμάζει έντονα στο άκουσμα ότι 75 Τσάμηδες εκτελέστηκαν στην Παραμυθιά από τους Έλληνες. Κάποιοι από το κοινό αντέτειναν ότι αποδεδειγμένα Τσάμηδες συνεργάστηκαν με τις κατοχικές Γερμανικές δυνάμεις, οδηγώντας στον θάνατο εκατοντάδες Έλληνες και βορειοηπειρώτες. Από την έρευνα τους οι καθηγητές του Κέντρου Μειονοτικών Ομάδων συμπεραίνουν, ότι οι περιουσίες των Αλβανόφωνων στη Θεσπρωτία δόθηκαν στους Έλληνες πρόσφυγες την διετία 1923-1925, προκαλώντας έντονες αποδοκιμασίες.

Ένας από τους ιστορικούς που μετείχαν στη συζήτηση, υποστήριξε ότι οι Έλληνες της Βορείου Ηπείρου συμμάχησαν με τους Γερμανούς και ακολούθησε πανδαιμόνιο.
Την ίδια ώρα, Αλβανοί εθνικιστές προβάλουν στο internet μαρτυρίες ανθρώπων, που ισχυρίζονται ότι είναι Τσάμηδες και ότι υπέστησαν διωγμούς και σφαγές από τους Έλληνες. Οι Έλληνες απαντούν αναρτώντας στο internet τα ονόματα των εκτελεσθέντων συμπατριωτών τους κατά τη διάρκεια της κατοχής, υποστηρίζοντας ότι αυτό έγινε από τους Τσάμηδες συνεργάτες των Γερμανών.

Παρουσιάζουν μάλιστα φωτογραφία-ντοκουμέντο με έναν Τσάμη αξιωματικό να φορά τη ναζιστική στολή. Η συζήτηση έγινε για πρώτη φορά στην Ελλάδα, σημειώνουν οι μελετητές του Κέντρου Ερευνών Μειονοτικών Ομάδων, για να προσφέρει υλικό για αυτοκριτική σκέψη. Το ερώτημα όμως που προκύπτει είναι όντως προσέφερε υλικό ή άνοιξε μια ακόμα πληγή στο ματωμένο κορμί της Ηπείρου.

http://www.alphatv.gr/index.asp?a_id=90&news_id=28322

Greece renews threat to veto Macedonia's NATO entry unless name dispute resolved

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's prime minister renewed a threat Friday to veto Macedonia's bid to join NATO unless the nations can resolve their dispute over the former Yugoslav republic's name.Greece argues the name «Macedonia» implies a territorial claim to a region in northern Greece with the same name. Macedonia denies the claim.«If there

is no solution, there will be no place for the neighboring country in NATO,» Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis told parliament.The warning came hours before senior diplomats from Greece and Macedonia were due to meet in New York with a special United Nations envoy, Matthew Nimetz, who is trying to broker a deal.«I appeal to the leadership of the neighboring country ... to work toward a solution that will benefit the stability, peace, and development in the region,» Karamanlis said.

«They are not well served by insisting on a historically false rationale and by displaying intransigence.Macedonia is hoping to be invited to join NATO in April. But Athens says it will block the its entry without a settlement.NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will visit Athens Monday to discuss the dispute.

MEETINGS OF PAN EPIRIOTIC FEDERATION OF USA WITH CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS IN WASHINGTON D.C..

THE NEWSPAPER "ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ" OF GREEK DIASPORA IN BOSTON PRESENTS A LARGE REPORTAGE ABOUT THE VISIT OF GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER DORA BAKOGIANI WITH REPRESENTS OF PAN EPIROTIC FEDERATION OF USA.

AGAIN NORTHERN EPIRUS IN AGENDA OF STATE DEPARTAMENT

Daily Press BriefingSean McCormack, SpokesmanWashington, DCFebruary 19, 2008

QUESTION: Mr. McCormack, why I was excluded from the yesterday’s conference call of Under Secretary Nicholas Burns? Is there any particular reason I received as yet nothing (inaudible) telephone call? It was on Kosovo. I’m wondering why this discrimination against the freedom of the press. I strongly protest and I demand an explanation.

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, protest noted. I don’t know if you got the e-mail or not. It was open to.

QUESTION: Nothing. Nothing. I received everything but this one.

MR. MCCORMACK: -- all the members of the press. I’ll have somebody follow up for you. It should have gone out to all members of our press corps that sign up for it. I – and I won’t ask for a show of hands in this room.

QUESTION: (Inaudible) indicated Albanians could never appear in any press briefing.

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, you know, like I said, we’ll have somebody follow up with you, Lambros.

QUESTION: I would like know if it was set up or how difficult it made the whole thing.

MR. MCCORMACK: Lambros, do you really think that this is the proper forum to get into housekeeping matters? Maybe we’ll have somebody to follow up with you afterwards.

QUESTION: Okay. On Kosovo, with the same token of your policy on Kosovo, do the Greeks in Northern Epirus have the same rights of self-determination like the Albanians in the Serbian territory of Kosovo? The (inaudible) of the Republic of Northern Epirus, Mr. McCormack, you know very well is pending since 1913 to the present with a signature to the United States of America. Your comment, please, in order to understand the double standard of U.S. policy.

MR. MCCORMACK: Lambros, you know well that the issue regarding Kosovo, in our view, is sui generis. It had absolutely no other impact on any other situation around the globe. It does not serve as precedent for any other situation.
Nicholas.

QUESTION: Still on Kosovo. Nick Burns yesterday talked about the NATO force and sort of mentioned some of its future responsibilities in training the Kosovars themselves to get ready to take over there on security. Can you tell us if NATO or you have more specific ideas about the force in terms of their daily duties now in terms of a timetable for potential withdrawal?

MR. MCCORMACK: I don’t. I’ll check with our folks to see what they have in mind, what they – what is their reasonable projection. There is – there’s a provision within the Ahtisaari plan and it’s something that the Kosovars signed onto that there would be this period of supervision or assistance as they stand up the institutions of a democratic state. I don’t know exactly what the timetable is for you. It’s a good question. I’ll see if people have been working on that.

QUESTION: And I’m asking partly because there was some violence today by some Serbs and, apparently, the Kosovar police just fled their posts. And so I guess the question is: Is the NATO force going to engage in trying to calm down situations like this or are they just going to be there purely for training?

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, no. The KFOR – KFOR has certainly responsibilities in terms of protecting populations and that is on both sides, both Kosovars as well as –
QUESTION: (Inaudible) change?

U.S. recognizes independent Kosovo

CNN) -- The United States officially recognized Kosovo -- the Balkan state which split from Serbia on Sunday -- as an independent nation on Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a written statement.

Kosovo Serbs wave flags in a protest against independence in the Serb-dominated Kosovo town of Mitrovica. "We congratulate the people of Kosovo on this historic occasion," Rice said. "President Bush has responded affirmatively to a request from Kosovo to establish diplomatic relations between our two countries."
European Union nations Monday were also starting to individually recognize Kosovo as the world's newest nation -- but had not agreed collectively on the way forward.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "Britain will now formally recognize Kosovo as an independent sovereign state."

France said it would recognize Kosovo, and is in the process of confirming that in writing. Germany indicated its support would come. But other EU nations including Greece, Spain and Romania have signaled that they would not follow suit amid concerns about the precedent that such a move would set. Spain -- where militants wanting a separate Basque nation have carried out a 30-year campaign of violence -- said it did not consider Kosovo's independence to be lawful.

Two pro-Russian separatist provinces in Georgia -- South Ossetia and Abkhazia -- were looking to use Kosovo's move to help them declare their own independence.
But the U.S. and EU say that Kosovo's move is not the precursor for a wave of declarations of independence.

Rice said: "The unusual combination of factors found in the Kosovo situation -- including the context of Yugoslavia's breakup, the history of ethnic cleansing and crimes against civilians in Kosovo, and the extended period of U.N. administration -- are not found elsewhere and therefore make Kosovo a special case. Kosovo cannot be seen as a precedent for any other situation in the world today."

Facing severe economic problems and high unemployment, Kosovo is banking on the support of Western powers including the United States and key EU nations. But while independence is broadly favored by the West, U.N. Security Council members Russia and China have expressed outright opposition and "grave concern" over Kosovo's unilateral decision.
Serbia insists it will not respond with violence to Kosovo's sovereignty claim, although it refuses to recognize the move.

In the Serb-dominated northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, scores of Kosovo Serbs took to the streets waving Serbian flags in a demonstration against independence.

ANYVERSARY OF NORTHERN EPIRUS AUTHONOMUS PROVINCE 1914 IN ATHENS

Athens, February 17, 2008

Αθηνών εορτάστηκε σήμερα 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2008, η 94η Επέτειος Αυτονομίας της Β.Ηπείρου

Παρ’ όλες τις δύσκολες καιρικές συνθήκες, αρκετοί ήταν οι Βορειοηπειρώτες και οι φίλοι του Βορειοηπειρωτικού Αγώνα οι οποίοι παρευρέθησαν στην εκδήλωση μνήμης του Αυτονομιακού Αγώνα του 1914.

Μεταξύ αυτών στη εκδήλωση έλαβαν μέρος βουλευτές διαφόρων κομμάτων, πολιτευτές, εκπρόσωπος του Δήμου Αθηναίων, εκπρόσωπος του Δικηγορικού Συλλόγου Αθηνών καθώς και εκπρόσωποι Βορειοηπειρωτικών Συλλόγων.

Μετά το πέρας της Δοξολογίας, ακολούθησε ομιλία του Προέδρου του Βορειοηπειρωτικού Συλλόγου κ. Χαράλαμπου Καραθάνου ο οποίος αναφέρθηκε στο χρονικό του Αυτονομιακού Αγώνα , καθώς και στις υποχρεώσεις που απορρέουν από τον Αγώνα αυτό, τις οποίες καλείται να αναλάβει η νέα γενιά.

http://www.greekamericannewsagency.com/gana/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2626&Itemid=83

The Greek American News Agency special report about escalation in Balkan Region.

Πιστεύετε ότι παράλληλα με το Κόσσοβο,
πρέπει να ανακηρυχθεί και η
ΑΝΕΞΑΡΤΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΒΟΡΕΙΟΥ ΗΠΕΙΡΟΥ;
ΝΑΙ ή ΟΧΙ

ΨΗΦΙΣΤΕ ΕΔΩ
και γράψτε την ιστορία!

http://www.noiazomai.net/

NATO peacekeepers on alert as Kosovo breaks away

Euronews

Ready to react should tension spill over into violence, NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo are on a state of alert.Security has been stepped up, not least in the ethnically-divided, flashpoint town of Mitrovica.

KFOR's commander Lieutenant-General Xavier de Marnhac said his troops "will react and oppose any provocation that may happen during these days, whether from the Albanian or the Serb side."

Serbs vow never to give up Kosovo, and, as the clock ticked away to today's independence declaration, protesters gathered in Belgrade.Steeped in history and the site of dozens of centuries-old Orthodox monasteries, Kosovo is considered a religious heartland by many Serbs.

Newspaper advertisements called for more demonstrations against what was dubbed this "punishment and humiliation." But, despite the strength of feeling and the backing of Russia, Serbia can now do nothing to stop independence or Kosovo's recognition by the West.

OMONIA, THE GREEK MINORITY TO BE TRANSFORMED INSIDE TO THE NORTHERN EPIRUS ISSUES

Athens, February 10, 2008

Photo, Reuters: The Greek Parliament Masoleum.

The Foreign V/Minister of Greece Theodoros Kassimis, met with “Omonia” delegation (The represent of Greek ethnic minority in Albania) as the first official contact of Athens with Greeks of Albania for challengers in Balkan Region. During the meeting Kassimis expressed the decision of Athens, Foreign Ministry and Greek Government to reorganize the Greek minority from “Omonia” to a large representation of all the peoples who are included inside Hellenic heritage in Northern Epirus Territory (Southern Albania).

The meting was organized by Foreign Minister Dora Bakogiani, in occasion of measures which obligate Athens to take in high consideration any escalation of Balkan Stability after self declaration of Kosovo Independence.

Kassimis said to be closed the époque of “Omonia” which since 1991 has been represent of Greek Minority of Albania, even “Omonia” has not part of politic pluralism of Albania, prohibiting by Albanian parliament to represent as politic party of Greek minority, considering the politic and civil rights of Greeks in Albania failed. Also the Albanian government never has realized a general population counting to be known officially since 1991 under the democratic individual declaration of the Greek minority who live in Albania an exactly number registered

However, “Omonia” is going to change the politic profile as the heard of Hellenic heritage, seeing for the big challengers in Southern Balkan Region with the self declaration of Independence of Kosovo. The territory when live the Greeks are the beautiful nature of dozens of Byzantine Churches and the oldest Hellenic culture even the people most part is emigrated in Greece and USA. Omnonia has been represented in Albanian parliament inside HRUP an Albanian Politic Party which has represented the minorities’ and ethnic group’s electorate in Albania.

Actually, the Pan Epiriotic Association of America which historically has played big international role for Northern Epirus Issue particularly for the friendly ship relations with State Department for the rights of Northern Epirus people has called Albania to respect the rights of Greeks in Albania. During 1994, when the relations between Athens and Tirana where in critic faze, the President of US Bill Clinton, urged a diplomatic mission the Ambassador Sheffer to go Tirana to liberate 5 members of Omonia, denied as “politic prisoner” of Albanian tribunals and the authoritarian system headed by ex President Sali Berisha. In 1995 the Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee of the House Represent of US Tom Lantos, visited together the represent of PAOKA the Southern Albania to be known in reality the critic situation of the human rights of Greeks in Albania.

The pressing of Washington continued with European Commission wich makes VETO by the Greeck decision , blocking the Aids for Albania.

The totalitarian system guided by ex president Berisha, brings the anarchy to the Albanian Civil War of 1997, after the Pyramids schemes collapse which had transformed the country. “Omonia”, continued to be the epicenter of friendly agreements between Albanian and Greece. But since 1997 exactly 10 years, “Omonia” has lost the historically identity of Hellenic heritage transformed as a NGO of Albanian making “never democratic elections” inside the Greek minority. Now is the time to be reflected may be to transform inside to the Northern Epirus issue as long as the Northern Epirus people, must want more, firstly to have the politic and civil rights in their territory………….

IMPORTANT MEETING OF GREEK PRIME MINISTER WITH ARCHBISHOP OF ALBANIA ANASTASIOS

Photo: Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, centre, is shown with officials of the ethnic Greek villages of Dermisi and Aliko, both in the Gjirokastr district of southern Albania, during a tour of the region in January 1999. Karamanlis, who was the main opposition leader at the time, was on a hand for the ground-breaking of a new aqueduct. Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania Anastasios is also shown standing to the right of Karamanlis. ANA-MPA photo / A. Voutos.

The Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamalis met Monday, February 10, with Archbishop of Albania Anastasios at “Great Maximus” in Athens. During the meeting Karamalis – Anastasios which spent tow hours, they spoken about the Orthodox Church and the Northern Epirus people seeing the big politic changes in South Western Balkan Region, says a report of Greek Public Television NET.

During his visit in Athens, Archbishop Anastasisos met also with leader of Opposition Papandreu and the Head of Parliament Shufias.

The Greek Orthodox Churches in Southern Albania when lives a large Greek ethnic community is passing a dangerous period of destructing and vandalizing many of Byzantine Churches. One week ago the necropolis of antic center of Apolonia was destructed while in Korista Region the cemetery of Byzantine church of Mborie, has been attacked by vandals.

Chronology, the International Court of Justice 1935

Photo: The first page document decision of the International Court of Justice addressed Albania, by The League of the Nations in 1935 for the Rights of Greek Minority.

Albania has been penalized by the International Court of Justice for the Greek schools in Northern Epirus Autonomous Province in 1935 which has been closed by Albanian authorities. The original document tells clear the obligations of Albania for the rights of minorities. The Protocol of Corfu May 5, 1914, gives a large autonomy of Northern Epirus Province in Southern Albania.

Actually, the Albanian authority continues to not recognize The Protocol of Corfu since 1940. The agreement witch was signed by Greece, Albania and the Great Powers recognizing Northern Epirus' Greek character and accept its autonomy. The religious, linguistic and educational rights of its population, military, courts and greek institutions are established.

GREEK REPRESENT ACCUSES ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT TO PENALISE GREEK BUSSINES

Photo: The Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha

Evangelos Tavos, the Greek Parliamentary Represent of Socialist Party, accuses today the Albanian government for disaster measures against Greek business and investments installed in Albania. Tavos wars financial authorities which make penalty to Greek economy particularly in Southern Albania when live the hard of Greek ethnic community.

Tavos also calls all the Greek business member of minority to protest against authorities which only last tow weeks are intensified penalties to the business.

Southern Albania community and Greek business are together the most important of public funds of Albanian economy. But the Albanian government wants to take funds to replace the finances of the “Patriotic Investment Tirana Pristina High Way” penalizing economy and private initiatives of Albanian citizens.

The Greek investments size about 650 million euro since 1999 and Greece is first country which has the most investments in Albania particularly to the fields of mobile telephony, banks, agricultural economy and industry.

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http://www.balkanweb.com/sitev4/newsadmin/video1.php?id=15907

ALBANIA, MORE EFFORTS TO JOINT NATO ALLIANCE

US AMERICAN EMBASSY TIRANA Press Release (February 8, 2008)

"As NATO Contact Point Embassy, we note media reports of February 5-6 which suggest that a decision has already been made by NATO Allies to issue an invitation for membership to Albania or other Adriatic Charter countries. We wish to clarify that no formal decision has yet been taken on possible NATO membership for Albania or for any of the A3 countries. For an invitation to be extended, all 26 Allies must agree.

Recently, we have noted significant progress in Albania’s efforts to meet NATO’s performance-based standards as outlined in the Membership Action Plan. More, however, remains to be done.

We are encouraged by the improved bipartisan attitude toward cooperation evidenced, inter alia, by unanimous passage of an opposition-introduced resolution in support of reforms to meet NATO criteria. Nonetheless, a significant number of reforms, specifically in the areas of electoral and judicial reform, remain incomplete. We continue to look for further progress on these reforms to ensure that Albania is the strongest possible candidate at the time final NATO decisions are reached".

http://tirana.usembassy.gov/index.html

NOTE: THIS IS A REACTION OF US REPRESENT IN ALBANIA SEEING THE MASOVIC ALBANIAN MEDIA ROLE SUPORTED BY NATIONAL POLITIC RETHOTIC AS "ALBANIA IS ALWAS READY TO JOINT NATO AND UE ALLIANCE", WHEN THE REALITY REPRESENTS CLEAR AN INSTABILLE COUNTRY.

Poll: Majority of Albanians demand "NATYRAL ALBANIA"

February 6, 2008

An unscientific telephone poll conducted by the Albanian TV Station Vision Plus indicates that vast majority of Albanians favor acquiring territories from their neighbors - Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Greece - and constituting them into a one Albanian state known as "Natyral Albania".

Over 90% of the viewers voted for territorial acquisition of what they believe are the Albanian lands into a state they refer to as "one, natural Albanian state."

Former Foreign Minister Paskal Milo and analysts Koco Danaj and Sokol Dervisaj also supported the position. Vast majority of Albanian leaders across Balkans are conditioning their ethnic kin that acquisition of territory from their neighbors is a just policy. In Kosovo, Albanian separatists demand that the Serbian province becomes a second Albanian state in Europe.

Albanian separatists in Kosovo have warned that if the international community does to acquiesce to their demands for independence that they will turn to violence in order to achieve their aims. Albania will recognize independent Kosovo Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha said after meeting with Kosovo's officials because that will promote peace.

HIMARA WARNS TIRANA FOR TERITORIAL AUTHONOMY

Tow project law about lands and proprieties proposed by Albanian government and waiting to approve by parliament next days, have provoked an mobilization of himara`s NGO including OMONIA the Greek Minority represent in Albania, to menace the Albanian government for an eminent autonomy of Himara Region says the albanian newspaper "Shekulli" today.

"If the Albanian authorities do not stop the assimilisation process against the people of himara, refusing to register our lands of Himara`s community, we will claim the authonomy of Himara Region" said the neswpaper.

The protest has been addressed to the President Bamir Topi by many NGOs of Himara Region. On the letter was warned clear the ultimatum “We the people of Himara region together with Diaspora would to be known for the escalation of the protests until total autonomy of our region which historically has protected the lands and proprieties by invasions including the Albanian government.”

The ultimatum for proclamation for autonomy has been a precedent after some protests of Himara Community addressing to Albanian authorities for under ground corruption of cadastres and other offices of land registration process against himara`s people.

Joint to ultimatum of Himara Community has been also the member of albanian parliament from Himara, Nikolas Nerantzis who adressed to Prime Minister Sali Berisha accusing the governament for 'black scenaries" against Himara people to conquest land and proprieteis of the Ionian Coast.

Photo: Nikolas Nerantzis speaking in Albanian Parliament

In 2004 Father Kosmas Karavelas an American citizen by Maryland, send a letter to US Secretar Collin Powel to be known the transparence about the rights of lands and proprieties of American citizen with proprietes in Albania which must have in observer by the US Embassy in Tirana to protect the American community of Himara Region.

Many of protests of himara community has made since 1991 the last end was in Athens a front of Albanian embassy in November 2007. The rebellion until the decision for autonomy of himara`s people is clear; the Albanian parliament is waiting to approve tow laws to conquest the most part of lands of Himara Region. But actually the himariotes are decised to protect their lands bu albanian mafia instaled both in politics and organized crime.

Independence for Kosovo: the domino effect

What borders for Albania?

By Jean-Arnault Dérens

In 1878 at the Congress of Berlin the German chancellor Bismarck declared that Albania was no more than “a geographical expression”. In the same year, however, influential delegates from the Albanian regions of the Ottoman empire gathered to found the League of Prizren, establishing the first modern claims to national status. Austria-Hungary defended the Albanian claims in the years that followed, in a standoff with Serbia and Greece who had entered alliances with Great Britain, France and Russia.

Ismail Qemal proclaimed a first, and ephemeral, Albanian republic at Vlora in 1912. But a year later the London Peace Conference created the Kingdom of Albania over only half of the regions with Albanian populations. The treaty also split Kosovo (predominantly Albanian) between Serbia and Montenegro. The Albanians have never accepted the prejudice to their people, and today its nationalists are intent on “rectifying” the “historical injustice”.

It is true that there was little guarantee of a future for the state of Albania at the time. It almost disappeared in the first world war, and there was no real settlement on its borders until the treaty of 1926, which was based on doubtful logic. The town of Gjakovë/Gjakova, for example, became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, despite the small size of its Serbian population. Similarly, territory that had always been part of the important municipality of Debar/Dibra was shared between the kingdom and Albania; today the city is part of the Republic of Macedonia, although its traditional hinterland lies in Albania (around the town of Peshkopi).

There are two issues intertwined here. The delicate balance between Albania’s neighbours (Montenegro, Serbia and Greece) and their powerful protectors had an influence on the definition of Albanian territoriality, as did Italy’s historical claims over the Albanian coastline. Also there are the problematic notions of an “Albanian region” or “Albanian cultural area”. Albanians have always lived in the midst of other national communities in these areas. Can we say that this or that town is part of the Albanian world because 50%, 60% or 80% of its inhabitants are Albanian? What percentage do we take and, more particularly, what scale of settlement do we include?

http://mondediplo.com/2008/02/11albania

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HILLARY CLINTON MAKES HISTORIC APPOINTMENT -- NAMES ELENI TSAKOPOULOS-KOUNALAKIS HEAD OF “GREEK-AMERICANS FOR CLINTON”

Photo: The Publisher of “Washington Monthly” Markos Kounalakis and his wife, Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2008 -- Leading Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) recently named Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis, President of the AKT Development Corporation, to head “Greek-Americans for Clinton.” This is the first time in history that a woman has been appointed by a leading Presidential candidate to that post.

Ms. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis is at the top of the list of Democratic contributors in California, a state known for its major political contributors. Both fundraising events she hosted for Senator Clinton in California were extraordinarily successful.

The combination of her fundraising skills and Senator Clinton?s record with the Hellenic and Orthodox community suggests a successful chairmanship for Ms. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis. She is known throughout the Greek-American community for many things including an issue close to the heart of Senator Clinton – the crisis facing the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the nearly 2,000-year-old spiritual head of the world?s second largest Christian Church, Orthodox Christianity.

Senator Clinton was instrumental in creating the first visit of a sitting American President (President Bill Clinton) to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. As well, Senator Clinton played a major role in beginning the practice of U.S. Presidents pressing the Ecumenical Patriarchate issue with every senior Turkish official visiting the White House Oval Office. That practice continued for over a decade and into the Bush Administration until it stopped during the last two such White House visits.This issue has also been a major focus of Ms. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis.

She secured more signatures of United States Senators for a letter to President George W. Bush on this issue than any other Orthodox Christian. The letter urged the Ecumenical Patriarchal issue to be raised higher on America?s agenda. As well, she personally escorted California Senator Diane Feinstein, along with a consequential delegation, to visit Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in 2005. She is also well known for the creation of numerous Hellenic Chairs across the country at some of America?s top Universities, among other such comparable achievements for the Hellenic and Orthodox community. She and her father, Angelo Tsakopoulos, were reported last year to have made an over $10 million “independent expenditure” in support of the campaign of Greek-American Phil Angelides for Governor of California. Such an expenditure, which is sanctioned by California state election laws, was repudiated to have played a significant role in Angelides? primary election victory.

When questions were raised about what the Tsakopoulos family was expecting to get from such a contribution, Andrew Athens, then head of the World Council of Hellenes, responded. He said in a statement to the media “all they expect from Angelides is to do a great job as Governor and to make them proud.”Ms. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis is undertaking this effort in addition to continuing in her role as President of AKT, the mother of two boys and wife of Markos Kounalakis, publisher of Washington Monthly and respected author and journalist.