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For observation and monitoring of the parliamentary elections 2013

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For observation and monitoring of the parliamentary elections 2013/

Human Rights’ activist, Mrs. Kozeta Zavalani, together with the other observers, of IGFM Albania, is engaged in successfully fulfilling the mission of organizing, leading and managing the process of observation and monitoring of the parliamentary elections in June 2013. In the press conference held in one of the halls of Hotel Tirana International, on Saturday, April 6, 2013, she gave this press release:

PRESS RELEASE

International Society for Human Rights, Section Albania, is part of an International Human Rights Organization based in Frankfurt, Germany.

IGFM Albania is an NGO with membership from all strata of Albanian society, irrespective of their political views.

IGFM Albania was involved in the observation and monitoring of the parliamentary elections in 2009 with 217 observers, and in local elections of 2011 with more than 472 long-term observers.

We consider the elections of June 23, 2013 as crucial to democracy and Albania’s EU integration and the national government based on democratic standards and the establishment of law.

In the cadre of parliamentary elections in 2013, we are engaged with a particular interest in the work of the Central Election Commission and the two main Albanian political forces, DP and SP, to conduct free and fair elections.

We highly appreciate the great support which U.S.A., EU, OSCE, and NATO partners have given to Albania in the last two decades of transition, particularly for ensuring free and fair elections, the right counting of votes and acceptance of the elections’ result, as an essential condition for democracy and the state of law.

Our organization urges all the Albanian political parties not to see their close personal and party interests, but those which serve the welfare of the people, consolidation of democracy in Albania, and the Euro-Atlantic integration of our coutry.

The meeting of U.S. Ambassador Arvizu with the CEC members – has a tremendous impact in the spirit of understanding and awareness for relinquishing the narrow political interests and standing at the right level of their mission and the national interest’s.

IGFM Albania expresses its respect for this institution, which is working with dedication for an electoral process of the international standards.

We share our opinion, unlike some international and local organizations, and express our optimism and our firm confidence that this election process will be fair, principled and democratic.

As a part of civil society, we wish to maximally contribute to the process of monitoring and observation of the parliamentary elections in Albania, in order to fulfill the object of our mission. We aim to engage with our observers, who will monitor the electoral process in all polling stations, in the whole country.

We extend our special thanks to the U.S. of America for their great interest and concern regarding the free and fair election process in Albania and for the special fund they have awarded in disposal of the elections.

At the same time we urge the U.S.A, EU, OSCE and the civil society, to maximally contribute for the monitoring and observation of the elections, in order that they can be, fair, democratic and uncontested.

Kozeta ZAVALANI, Ramazan DERVISHI

 

“THAÇI I MADH”

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Ballina e numrit të fundit revistës beogradase NIN, e botuar më 4 prill, duket si një aludim shtesë dhënë bindjes që mbizotëron në opinionin publik të Serbisë – se raundi i tetë i bisedimeve mes Kosovës dhe Serbisë, në fakt, ishte një “knock down” për palën serbe.

Në ballinë shihen tre protagonistët kryesorë të raundit të fundit të bisedimeve: kryeministri kosovar, Hashim Thaçi; udhëheqësja e bisedimeve, Baronesha Catherine Ashton (në mes); dhe kryeministri serb, Ivica Dacic.

Por, fotoja ka një karakteristikë të dukshme. Në të, kryeministri Thaçi është dukshëm më i madh se homolog i tij serb, i cili duket sikur është tkurrur pas raundit të fundit të bisedimeve.(Kortezi Express)

 

LEGALISTET NE SHBA PERKUJTOJNE NGJARJET E PRILLIT

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Njoftim- Partia Levizja e Legalitetit per NY, NJ, CT lajmeron te gjithe bashkatdhetaret shqiptar se edhe sivjet, si cdo vit perkujton datat historike te Prillit qe jane:

1. 7 prill 1939: 74 vjetorin e qendreses se popullit shqiptar me ne krye Gj. Abaz Kupi, ndaj okupimit te Italise fashiste.
2. 9 prill 1961: Mbreti Zog mbylli syte pergjithmone ne Paris larg atdheut te tij te dashur
… 3. Perkujtimi i heronjeve dhe deshmoreve te kombit te te gjitha koherave, te cilet dhane jeten e tyre per liri, demokraci, mireqenie kombetare dhe Shqiperi Etnike
Tubimi do te mbahet te Shtunen me daten 6 Prill ne oren 12:00 PM
ne adresen 90-10 Grand Central Parkway East Elmhurst, NY 11369
tel. 718-446-4800
Te gjithe shqiptaret jane te ftuar dhe te mirepritur.
Mire se vini!!
Kryesia e Deges Partia Levizja e Legalitetit per NY, NJ dhe CT.

KRYETARI I VATRES, DR. GJON BUCAJ FTOHET NE FRASNITE, ITALI

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Frasnita, më 1 prill 2013/

I nderuari dr.Gjon Buçaj,/

Në ëmer të mons.Donato Oliverio, peshkop  në Ungër për arbëreshët në Italinë Kontinentale, jam i gëzuar të Ju ftoj në Frasnitë për të shtunën 11 maj 2013 për të mirrni pjesë në Kuvendin Kulturor, i kushtuar 100-vjetorit të pavarësisë së Shqipërisë (1912-2012).

Arbëreshët, si mirë na tregon historia jonë letrare dhe shoqërore, që nga Kuvendi i Lezhes (1444) deri në ditën e sotme kanë mbajtur gjithëmonë të gjallë ndërgjegjen kombëtare dhe kanë vepruar për pavarësinë e Atdheut.

Kuvendi jonë do të vërë në dukje lidhjet tona shpirtërore, kultuore dhe politike me Atdheun e parë, duke mbajtur të gjallë ritin bizantin, gjuhën  emtare , zaokent, traditat, vallet, rapsoditë dhe kujtimin e prindëve tanë të pavdekshëm, që kanë luftuar me Heroin Skënderbeun.

Prania juaj te Kuvendi do të na nderonj  shumë.

Me bindjen se do t’e pranoni ftesen tonë dhe çdo të na jipni një përgjigje, shumë të fala dhe nderime nga gjithë Komiteti organizator.

Papàs Antonio BELLUSCI

Prift famullitar në Frasnitë

Berlin Wall Fragment Joins Albanian Memorial

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A fragment of the Berlin wall, a mushroom-shaped bunker and some of the concrete pillars of a notorious formed labour camp are all parts of an installation inaugurated in Tirana on Tuesday to commemorate the victims of the Communist regime. The memorial named PostBlloku, is placed at the entrance of the former off-limits neighbourhood where Albania’s Communist elite used to reside.

The memorial is the work of writer and former political dissident Fatos Lubonja and the painter Ardian Isufi.

The 2.6-ton graffiti-covered slab fragment of the wall was donated by the city of Berlin. The concrete pillars come from the mine at Spac, where many alleged opponents of the Communist regime, including Lubonja, were incarcerated and had to perform forced labour.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Lubonja dedicated the work to former prisoners who perished under Enver Hoxha’s totalitarian regime.

“I want to devote this work to those that did not make it beyond the era of the dictatorship to live today,” Lubonja said.

Hoxha ruled Albania for nearly half-a-century with an iron fist, building a personality cult often compared to today’s North Korea. Paranoid about the dangers of a foreign invasion, he had the country covered in mushroom-shaped bunkers.

Albania’s Association of Former Political Prisoners believes that about 5,577 men and 450 women were executed for political crimes during the Communist era from 1946 to 1991. Tens of thousands of others were imprisoned or sent to labour camps.

Speaking also at the ceremony, the speaker of Albania’s parliament, Jozefina Topalli, said the monument was linked to three important symbols: the wall that divided Europe, the bunker that epitomized the mentality of Albania’s Communist regime and the pillars of a mine where hundreds of people lost their lives.

“The third element is the most painful.. Spac was Albania’s Auschwitz,” she said. “I heard that name since I was a little girl as the place where my family and many other Albanians were tortured,” Topalli concluded.(Kortezi: Besar Likmeta,

Botoi Dielli, Mars 2013)