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Skopje, May 30, 2001
A political representative of the so-called
National Liberation Army (NLA), who lives in
Switzerland stated to the Australian state radio
yesterday, that armed Albanians
will take action in northwestern Greece as well!.
The FYROM (Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia) state news agency "MIA" reports,
based on a correspondence from Sydney, that the
political representative of NLA, under the name
Ahmeti, has maintained that in the specific Greek
region, he called "Chameria", live about one million
Albanians and stated that the members of the
so-called "Liberation Army of Chameria", (UCC),
which has already been created, are perfectly
trained and soon will be called to defend their
rights.
The Albanians from every Albanian country in
the Balkans must enjoy their rights and this is our
demand, stated Ahmeti, pointing out that the war in
FYROM will end only when the demands set by
NLA will be met.
He concluded that NLA will defend the rights of
the Albanians in Greece as it defends the rights of
the Albanians in FYROM which are being violated.
It should be noted that the Skopje magazine
"Zum" had published an article last week
mentioning that a detailed plan for the creation of
the Liberation Army of Chameria had been drawn up
in Switzerland since early this year.
The magazine, citing sources close to the
FYROM secret services, had written that initially
Albanian organizations will be founded in Greece
and then an armed struggle will get underway for
the annexation of part of the Greek territory to the
so-called "Greater Albania". The UCC will also turn
against the ethnic Greek minority in southern
Albania, mainly targeting Omonia organization
members.
FYROM's state-run news agency in another
news report mentions that the Albanian rebels' plan
concerning Greece is in a way confirmed by the
fact that on April 21 journalists had maintained that
about a week earlier the Greek authorities had
confiscated a truck full of weapons marked with
UCK initials at the Greek-FYROM borders.
However, the Greek authorities had denied the
information.
The FYROM news agency also points out that
in many non-Albanian speaking web sites on the
Internet there are messages that lead to the
conclusion that the creation of UCC is being
prepared. Those messages many times end with
the phrase "Greece is the next country from which
we will take back our land".
Macedonian Press Agency
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