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VATRA, DIELLI HONORED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF KOSOVO WITH THE GJERGJ KASTRIOTI – SKENDERBEU AWARD

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Editorja e Diellit per gjuhen angleze Rafaela Prifti duke marre Medaljen”Gjergj Kastrioti-Skenderbeu” akorduar Gazetes “DIELLI” nga Kryeministri ne detyre i Kosoves z. Ramush Haradinaj/

Nga Rafaela Prifti/

The Consulate General of the Republic of Kosovo in New York hosted an evening for the Acting Prime Minister of Kosovo to greet the community. Mr. Haradinaj is attending the UN General Assembly meeting that is taking place in New York. Kosovo’s Ambassador Teuta Sahatqija welcomed all the participants to what she referred as ‘the most important meeting of Kosovo’s dignitaries given the sustained and unwavering support by the diaspora.” Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, who came promptly at 6 pm, related to every one in a personable manner. He stated that his main goal for meeting with the community was to extend his gratitude and appreciation. Drawing a comparison between his two visits in the United States, Mr. Haradinaj said: “One year ago, i was here. The visit was very difficult, and the arguments regarding the ways of proceeding with our dialogue with Serbia got heated. In question were the implications for the future of Kosovo. This year’s visit is different. The approach has shifted towards anticipating the next issues and steps rather get bogged down at every turn.” Speaking candidly and confidently, he said that politicians come and go but the country is forever. Then, he laid out a quick list of challenges that Kosovo faces specifically in the arena of the foreign policy, which makes the need for the support from our friends in Washington a great priority. The next point was the work towards a legally-binding bilateral agreement with Serbia, regarding the existing borders of the two countries. Then the Acting Prime Minister of Kosovo. turned his attention to the contribution of individuals, organizations and associations that devout their work towards the advancement of Albanians. “Tonight’s awards from the office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo are a small token of our appreciation,” said Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, who quickly remarked that “if any one is left out, we apologize in advance and assure you, that it is not intentional.” Among the individuals honored last night was Mr. Agim Rexhaj, Vice Chairman of the Pan-Albanian Federation of America, Vatra who received the Gjergj-Kastrioti Skenderbeu medal for his role in support of the Albanian cause and strengthening of the relations between the United States and the Republic of Kosovo. Mr. Haradinaj noted that the dispora has raised awareness with regards to the rights of the Albanians of Kosovo and has educated the American people to increase their understanding of the issues. “The diaspora has not ceased to carry out these tasks and I am very grateful to all of you.”

Vatra Federation was one of the organizations to receive the same honor. In the course of the evening, several activists and influential members of the community were recognized. (please read the report filed earlier online). Dielli Newspaper was recognized for its work for enhancing the relations between America and Kosovo. The Editor of Dieli Dalip Greca was out-of-town on assignment. The English Editor Rafaela Prifti, accepted and thanked Mr. Haradinaj for the award.                       

The Consulate General of the Republic of Kosovo and Ambassador Teuta Sahatqija were honored with the Skenderbeu medal.

At the end of the evening, Dielli congratulated the Head of the Consulate General and asked her a question:

The UN General Assembly is holding its sessions in New York. If you were given the podium today, what would you have said to the world leaders gathered there?

Ambassador Teuta Sahatqija answered: Becoming a member country of the United Nations is a dream of a peace-loving people and the opportunity that has been denied to them for centuries. Kosovo would be an added value to the world security, the world economy, and the world peace. 

“GJERGJ KASTRIOTI -SKËNDERBEU” PER VATREN & DIELLIN

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VATRA DHE DIELLI NDEROHEN ME MEDALJEN” GJERGJ KASTRIOTI -SKËNDERBEU” /

-Me Medaljen “Gjergj Kastrioti-Skenderbeu” u nderuan edhe nënkryetari i Vatrës z. Agim Rexhaj, anëtari i Këshillit të Vatrës z. Rrustem Gecaj dhe Ramadan Gashi…

Kryeministri Haradinaj ka nderuar ditën e Martë, 24 Shtator 2019, Federatën Pan-Shqiptare “VATRA” për kontributin e saj për mbrojtjen e të drejtave të shqiptarëve në Ballkan dhe forcimin e marrdhënieve mes SHBA-së dhe Qeverisë së Republikës së Kosovës.

Medalja”Gjergj Kastrioti-Skenderbeu”iu dorëzua nënkryetarit të Vatrës z. Agim Rexhaj, nga kryeministri në detyrë, z. Ramush Haradinaj. Z. Agim Rexhaj falenderoi edhe në emër të kryetarit të Vatrës z. Dritan Mishto dhe në emër të gjithë vatranëve për vlerësimin e lartë që i bëhet organizatës më të vjetër të shqiptarëve në botë, Federatës Pan shqiptare të Amerikës “Vatra” që aq shumë ka kontribuar dhe kontribon për Kombin shqiptar.

Në ceremoninë e organizuar të martën në Konsullatën e Përgjithshme të Kosovës në Nju Jork në drejtimin e ambasadores Teuta Sahatcia, u nderua me medaljen “Gjergj Kastrioti-Skenderbeu” nga Kryeminsitri Haradinaj edhe gazeta “Dielli”, më e vjetra gazetë e botës shqiptare. Dielli u nderua me moticionin:” për kontributin e saj për mbrojtjen e të drejtave të shqiptarëve në Ballkan dhe forcimin e marrdhënieve mes SHBA-së dhe Qeverisë së Republikës së Kosovës.”.

Medalja iu dorëzua mbrëmjen e djeshme, 24 Shtator 2019, editores së gjuhës angleze të gazetës Dielli, gazetares Rafaela Prifti. Gazetarja e falenderoi Kryeministrin edhe në emër të kryeredaktorit të Diellit Dalip Greca.

Po ashtu me Medaljen “Gjergj Kastrioti-Skenderbeu” u nderua edhe nënkryetari i Vatrës z. Agim Rexhaj me motivacionin:” për kontributin e saj për mbrojtjen e të drejtave të shqiptarëve në Ballkan dhe forcimin e marrdhënieve mes SHBA-së dhe Qeverisë së Republikës së Kosovës”.Z. Rexhaj e falenderoi Kryeministrin për vlerësimin që iu bë Vatrës, Diellit, atij personalisht dhe vatranëve të tjerë. Dy vlerësime të tjera me Medaljen “Gjergj Kastrioti-Skenderbeu”prej Kryeministrit Haradinaj iu akorduan edhe vatranëve, anëtarë të Këshillit të Vatrës zotërinjëve Rrustem Gecaj dhe Ramadan Gashi.

VATRA U PRIT NE DEPARTAMENTIN E SHTETIT

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Federata Panshqiptare e Amerikes Vatra u prit ditën e martë,24 Shtator 2019, në Departamentin e Shtetit, ku zhvilloi një takim të rëndësishëm me përgjegjësin e zyrës për Shqipërinë, z. Keith E. West.

Kryetari i Federatës Pan Shqiptare të Amerikës”VATRA” z. Dritan Mishto shoqërohej gjatë takimit nga zonja Merita B McCormack, z. Zef Balaj dhe kryeredaktori i Gazetës”Dielli”, Dalip Greca.Takimi ishte i një rëndësie të vecantë,ku Vatra përmes kryetarit të saj z. Dritan Mishto, pasi ekspozoi historinë dhe veprimtaritë aktuale të Federatës dhe gazetës së saj Dielli, parashtroi vizionin dhe opinionet e saj për zhvillimet në Shqipëri, Kosovë dhe rajon.

Çmimi “Gjergj Kastrioti – Skëndërbeu” për Gazetarin Shaqir Salihu

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Ish- gazetari i Zërit të Amerikës është nderuar nga kryeminsitri Ramush Haradinaj me çmimin “Gjergj Kastrioti – Skëndërbeu”/

Të martën në New York figura emblematike e Zërit të Amerikës  u nderua për kontributin në çështjën shqiptare. Kryeministri Haradinaj në profilin e tij në facebook shkruajti Shaqiri nderohet: “Për kontributin e madh për çështjen shqiptare dhe forcimin e marrëdhënieve mes Kosovës dhe ShBA-së, kam ndarë për shoqata e veprimtarë të shumtë medaljen “Gjergj Kastrioti – Skëndërbeu”. Shqiptarëve të Amerikës, ata që ishin krahu më i fuqishëm në shtetkrijim dhe shtetbërje”, tha Haradinaj.

Kohë më parë Shaqir Salihu publikoi librin “RRËFIME LIRIE” – Shtegtimi i një mësuesi shqiptar nga burgjet serbe te Zëri i Amerikës

Dhe në këtë libër autori thotë: “ Jetova vetëm 27 vjet në Kosovë. Atje nisa hapat e parë të jetës sime në fshat. Në Kosovë linda, por nuk do të vdes atje. Dora-dorës eca mbi truallin e saj vetëm për 27 vjet, sepse e braktisa. Por edhe pse larg saj, unë eci me të dora-dorës. Kosovën e mora me vete. E mora me vete si mall. E mora me vete si dhimbje. E mora me vete si amanet dhe si dëshirë të flaktë për ta ndihmuar dhe për ta nderuar, siç ndihmon e nderon biri nënën e vet.

Për shumë vite gazetar i “Zëri Amerikës”, ndërsa tash pas moshës 75 vjeçare vazhdon të kontribuojë  në veprimtaritë patriototike e atdhedashurie me  komunitetit shqiptarë, në Washington, New York, dhe kudo tjetër.

Shaqir Salihu, e filloi punën në Zërin e Amerikës, në fillim të viteve ‘80-ta, pasi kishte shkuar në Amerikë, si refugjat politik nga Kosova.

Ndërsa doli në pension pas një karriere të pasur 30 vjeçare.

The U.N. General Assembly This Week

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By Rafaela PRIFTI/

The annual United Nations General Assembly unfolds this week against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, increased pressure for environmental laws, rising tensions and threats of military actions from the United States in the volatile Middle East.

Trade wars, migration, energy supplies, climate change and the eradication of poverty underpin the basic themes of the 193-member General Assembly agenda. The actions of the Trump administration, which has sometimes expressed disdain for international institutions like the United Nations, have created a common denominator.

Converged at the UN Headquarters – on the world’s most prominent diplomatic stage – about two hundred leaders will hold five days of speeches and hundreds of meetings. Notably some leaders are not attending: President Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Benjamin Netanyahu, the embattled prime minister of Israel. Also not expected is President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, regarded by the Trump administration and about 50 other governments as an illegitimate leader.

The list of speeches on the floor that begin on Tuesday goes as follows:
Mr. Trump will be preceded by President Jair M. Bolsonaro of Brazil, a polarizing figure at home who is compared with Mr. Trump, in two areas: dismissal of science behind climate change and taunting of critics on Twitter.
After Mr. Trump comes President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, the former general who has come to symbolize the repression of the Arab Spring revolutions, who is facing recent protests at home. The next speaker is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, an autocrat who has bullied critics and whose government is a leading jailer of journalists.
The president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, who speaks on Wednesday will assert that Mr. Trump set off recent conflict by withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement and reimposing sactions that are crippling its economy, while the U.S. and Saudi Arabia will press their case against Iran.
American officials are expected to present what they have described as evidence that Iran carried out the attack with drones and cruise missiles. Iran has denied the accusation. Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who are supported by Iran in their fight against a Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing their country for more than four years, have claimed responsibility.

The United States is trying to build a coalition to deter Iran, although the details on the form of the deterrence are unclear.

CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT

At a climate change meeting, American leadership will be absent.
The climate crisis is at the top of the General Assembly’s agenda. About 60 heads of state plan to speak at the Climate Action Summit on Monday, and officials aim to announce initiatives that include net-zero carbon emissions in buildings.

President Trump announced in 2017 that he was withdrawing the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. But some state governors who have formed the United States Climate Alliance said they would attend the summit on Climate and meet with other delegations.

US AND CHINA

The U.S. and China will hold talks about resolving their trade war. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was expected to meet with his Chinese counterparts on the sidelines, suggesting that the administration was seeking to create a more productive atmosphere for resumed trade negotiations after weeks of acrimony. The two governments recently paused their escalating tariff battle. Some administration officials are pushing for Mr. Trump to address other issues considered sensitive by China, including the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the repression of Tibetans and the detentions of more than one million Muslims, mostly ethnic Uighurs.
While lawmakers from both parties have pressured the president to take a strong stand as they put forth bills on the Uighurs, Tibet and Hong Kong, Mr. Trump has never spoken strongly about human rights, and he has openly expressed admiration for Mr. Xi and other authoritarian leaders.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, left, and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea are not expected to meet with each other. America’s key Asian allies are not on speaking terms.
A protracted feud between Japan and South Korea, rooted in the legacy of Japan’s wartime occupation, has led to downgraded trade relations and the end of an intelligence-sharing agreement. A shared objective by all three — North Korea’s nuclear disarmament — is not likely to see much progress if any.

While Mr. Moon is expected to urge Mr. Trump to renew his push for diplomacy with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, no senior North Korean official plans to attend the General Assembly.

VENEZUELA, TURKEY, AFGHANISTAN

Europe will be pressured to penalize Venezuela’s government.
Foreign ministers from 18 nations in the Western Hemisphere, including the United States, planned to meet on Monday to discuss what can be done regarding Mr. Maduro, who has presided over the biggest economic collapse in Venezuela’s history and a regional crisis caused by the exodus of millions of his people.
Reports from news agencies state that the push will focus on convincing the European Union to expand economic sanctions against Mr. Maduro’s loyalists, including freezing assets they have in Europe. The Europeans may also be pressed to penalize smugglers of Venezuelan gold into Europe.”
Mr. Maduro, who claimed victory in disputed elections last fall, has retained power despite nine months of demands to resign by a stubborn opposition movement led by the president of Venezuela’s Parliament, Juan Guaidó. Negotiations between the Venezuelan rivals collapsed last week.
Mr. Trump and President Erdogan are expected to meet on the sidelines, but the outcome is unclear at best. There are a range of difficult issues that have pit the governments against each other.
The Trump administration is considering sanctions to punish Turkey, a fellow NATO member, for buying a Russian S-400 missile defense system instead of American-made Patriots. And Mr. Erdogan has expressed growing anger at the United States over their joint operations in the northern part of war-ravaged Syria that borders Turkey.
Mr. Erdogan says the Americans have failed to establish a safe zone large enough to keep Kurdish fighters out of Turkey, which regards them as terrorist insurgents. On Saturday, Mr. Erdogan warned that his forces would take “unilateral actions” along the border if the United States did not act by the end of the month.
Afghanistan will speak last
Last in the list of national delegations addressing the General Assembly this year is Afghanistan. A few weeks earlier talks between the Taliban and the United States that were aimed at ending the 18-year-old war collapsed.
President Ashraf Ghani who is facing national elections next Saturday is not expected to attend. Instead, Afghanistan’s delegation will be led by Hamdullah Mohib, Mr. Ashraf’s national security adviser.Mr. Mohib infuriated the Trump administration in March, when he predicted that peace talks would not end in peace.