Albanian Party in FYROM Threatens Majority
Posted by evdomada on March 13, 2008
The ethnic Albanian party Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) is threatening to destabilise the current FYROM coalition government if it does not agree to its demands. These demands include recognising the Kosovo independent state and its Albanian flag, as well as language recognition at all levels. There are others that I have not included but you can read it in the news story.
FYROM has been aware of this issue for a while and this is the reason why being admitted into NATO is such a big deal for them. They believe being a NATO member will help them with leveraging against a similar uprising as we have seen in Kosovo. This is also why the “name” issue with Greece is so important for them to be resolved with Greece threatening to use its veto to refuse FYROM entry as a NATO member.
The demands of the DPA on FYROM is an interesting situation for Greece as well. With an official minority growing at around 10% of the population – approx 1 million Albanians of an 11 million population – and that does not include how many are there illegally. With the advent of the independence of Kosovo in Serbia, now the demands being made in FYROM … what does the future hold for Greece?
For the official news story follow the link here … Albanian Party in FYROM Threatens Majority – dtt-net.com
