22.6.2007 by admin.

Politische Blokade: Albaniens Dilemma
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22.06.2007 Das Dilemma der politischen Stabilität und der politischen Blockade in Albanien aus der Sicht eines Politologen.

Das albanische Parlament

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Ganz im Gegenteil: die acht Jahre der linken Regierung waren durch Aufbau eines korrupten Netzwerkes gezeichnet, dass als ein Parallelstaat fungierte. Ausserdem führten die Informalität und die Demontierung der Autorität der staatlichen Institutionen zum Schwinden der Bedeutung Albaniens in der Region. Die Zulassung und Unterstützung der nepotistischen Besetzung der Ämter führte zur Implikation von hohen Politikern in Finanzskandalen und zu einem unkontrollierbaren Verwaltungsapparat.

Mit dem Wahlsieg der PD im Jahr 2005 wurde das Ende dieser negativen Entwicklungen signalisiert, wobei die neuen Reformen nicht von allen Bevölkerungskreisen glücklich erwartet wurden. Seit dem Jahr 2005, als die PD zusammen mit einer breiten Koalition die Regierung bildete, strebt die PS nur danach, die Regierungszeit zu verkürzen. Sie versucht die Regierungsarbeit durch nichtdemokratische Mitteln zu verhindern und die Reformen, welche durch die EU im Rahmen der ASP (MSA) formuliert wurden, als schlecht und gesellschaftsfeindlich darzustellen. Die oberste PS-Führung dürfte Angst haben, dass die Regierung der PD grosse wirtschaftliche und politische Erfolge erzielen könnte und dadurch ein zweites Regierungsmandat gewinnen würde. Ein anderer Grund ist der Kampf der aktuellen Regierung gegen die Korruption und Informalität, welche zur Gefährdung der Finanzquellen von bestimmten Politikern der PS führen könnte.

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Die aktuelle Lage in Albanien sieht so aus, dass die Regierung in ihrer Arbeit durch die parlamentarische Mehrheit legitimiert wird. Auch die politische Stimmung in der Bevölkerung ist stabil und reformfreundlich. Solange der Wunsch des Volkes in Einklang mit der Regierungsarbeit steht, ist der Ruf nach frühzeitigen Neuwahlen nur ein destabilisierender Automatismus. Er ist unbegründet und würde die ohnehin fragile wirtschaftliche und politische Entwicklung Albaniens stark beschädigen……………..

Solange diese zwei Parteien ihre politischen Interessen über die Regeln der Demokratie und über die Verfassung setzen und sich nicht bereit erklären diese Interessen den Interessen des Landes unterzuordnen, wird es in Albanien keine Aussicht von Stabilität und Konsolidierung geben.

Ergys Metalija ist Student der Politikwissenschaft an der Uni Regensburg

http://www.albanien.ch/bb/article.php?article_file=1182463609.txt

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22.6.2007 by Lupo.

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Es gab 97.000 Tode im Bosnien Krieg, davon

Study puts death toll from BiH conflict at 97,000 waren Bosnier, 24.905 waren Serben, 7.788 waren Kroaten und die Anderen von anderen Nationen.

22/06/2007

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) — An independent study has established that at least 97,000 people died in the Bosnian conflict from 1992 to 1995. The majority of victims, 64,036 of them, were Bosniaks. Another 24,905 were Serbs, 7,788 were Croats, and the remainder were from other nationalities. Releasing the report Thursday (June 21st), the NGO Research and Documentation Centre said the figures could rise by 10,000 as research continues.

Previous estimates have been as high as 300,000, although the most widely accepted figure was 200,000. Prosecutors at the UN tribunal have put the number at 120,000. The centre launched its investigation in 2004 with financial help from several sources. (AFP, Nezavisne Novine - 22/06/07; The New York Times, AP, BBC, RTRS, PBS e BiH - 21/06/07)

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/setimes/newsbriefs/2007/06/22/nb-02

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22.6.2007 by Lupo.

EU says declaring Kosovo independence would create problems, not solve them

22/06/2007

Officials in Brussels have warned Kosovo against unilaterally declaring independence, warning that this would create “many more obstacles”.

By Blerta Foniqi-Kabashi and Bekim Greicevci for Southeast European Times in Pristina – 22/06/07

EU envoy for Kosovo Stefan Lehne (left) met with Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu on Wednesday (June 20th). [Laura Hasani]

EU officials made it clear Thursday (June 21st) that the bloc would not support a Kosovo independence declaration and warned the province’s leadership against any unilateral action in that direction.

Meeting on the sidelines of the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels, the foreign ministers of the 27-nation bloc reiterated their support for a UN Security Council resolution based on UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari’s plan to grant Kosovo internationally supervised independence.

“The baseline is still the same,” Brussels-based EUobserver quoted Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller as saying. The bloc wants the Security Council to make a decision as soon as possible, he added.

A similar message was delivered Wednesday by the EU’s special envoy for Kosovo, Stefan Lehne. Meeting with Kosovo officials in Pristina, he said a unilateral declaration of independence would be a “huge step backwards”.

“Unilateral action, or other irresponsible behaviour in Kosovo, would take away all the goodwill that you have received and achieved in the meantime. It will not help you to overcome the remaining obstacles, but it will build many, many more,” Lehne said.

Any decision on the province’s status “needs the best possible basis, the strongest legitimacy available. And this is a [UN] Security Council resolution,” he added.

Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, however, said there are other options. “We see that every day the chances of a joint resolution are being exhausted,” he said. “We would like to have a UN resolution, but if not, there are other alternatives.”

“We are in favour of a joint resolution, but we do not agree that Kosovo should remain hostage to those who can block the process and prevent a status solution conforming to the will of the people,” the president said.

The delay in the status solution could harm regional stability, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku said, warning of a potential “crisis of trust” among Albanians.

Russia has rejected the latest draft proposal from the West, which provided for a new round of negotiations between representatives from Belgrade and Pristina. If no agreement were reached within 120 days, the Ahtisaari plan would automatically go into effect.

Moscow has repeatedly threatened to veto any resolution that is opposed by Serbia, which wants to retain sovereignty over the province.

As the stalemate drags on, the EU is increasingly worried that Kosovo Albanians could take the matter into their own hands. That, in turn, could lead to divisions within the bloc.

“If we don’t have a UN resolution that the EU states can cluster around, we may have a repeat of the situation with [the invasion of] Iraq, when some countries went one way and some the other way,” Lars Erik Forsberg of the European Commission’s enlargement directorate was quoted as saying Thursday.

In a further complication, UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte called this week for a delay in resolving Kosovo’s status. Independence could negatively affect efforts to round up Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and the other remaining war crimes fugitives, she told reporters at a press conference in New York.

“It would be better if the decision on Kosovo is not coming out now,” del Ponte said.

Kosovo leaders reacted angrily. Skender Hyseni, a spokesperson for the Unity Team — composed of the main Kosovo political leaders — said del Ponte’s declaration “is absurd”.

“The government of Kosovo considers that del Ponte has violated in the rudest way her mandate as the chief prosecutor of The Hague tribunal, and that her interference on the issue of the status of Kosovo, particularly in relation to the co-operation of Serbia with The Hague Tribunal, is unacceptable,” read a statement released by the government.

The deputy UN chief in Kosovo, Steven Schook, said urged del Ponte to focus on her own business.
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2007/06/22/feature-01

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