ALBANIA AND KOSOVO IS UNIFICATION THE COMMON FUTURE?
Albania and Kosovo Is Unification the Common Future?

Author(s): Albert Rakipi
Contributor(s): Ledion Krisafi (Editor)
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Politics and Identity
Published by: AIIS Albanian Institut for International Studies
Keywords: Foreign relations; National question; History; Bilateral cooperation; Integration; EU; Albania; Kosovo
Summary/Abstract: During the last twenty years these have been the only two proposals coming from Albanian state institutions, following the Platform of the Academy of Science made public in 1998. In that platform, labelled a treaty of Albanian nationalism for the ‘realization of a Greater Albania’, to the question of what should be done to resolve the drama of the Albanian national issue, the Academy of Sciences replied: ‘The only solution is urgent intervention by the International Community to oblige Belgrade to recognize the Republic of Kosovo as an independent state and… one open to both Serbia and Albania.’4 At that time, twenty years ago, the Academy proposed an independent Kosovo as the maximal objective in the resolution of the national issue, including that reference to openness in both directions.

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