Albania To Adopt Law Boosting Minorities' Rights

[Crn Volk]

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/albania-to-adopt-the-first-law-on-minorities-09-27-2017

NEWS 28 SEP 17
Albania To Adopt Law Boosting Minorities' Rights
A new law boosts the status and rights of minorities in Albania and names two more recognised minorities - Bosnians and Egyptians – although Bulgaria is unhappy that their minority has been left off the list.
Fatjona Mejdini BIRN Tirana


Albania is expected to adopt a new law on minorities in mid-October that gives them more rights in line with the best international standards.

The draft law was presented as a joint document of four ministries after a working group worked on it for almost three years.

The first presentation of the new law was given on Tuesday to the parliamentary committee by the Foreign Minister, Ditmir Bushati.

"The lack of this law was a concern, as it was scheduled to be adopted in 2006 and 2007 but never become a reality," the minister said.

The document also follows a request from the European Commission, at a time when one of the five criteria that Albania needs to fulfil in order to start EU accession talks is "respect for human rights and protection of minorities".

Under the draft, Albania will officially recognise eight national minorities, instead of six, adding Bosnian and Egyptian minorities for the first time.

The six other traditional minorities, Greeks, Macedonians, Vlachs, Roma, Serbs and Montenegrins, will remain.

However, the draft does not mention a Bulgarian minority, although Bulgarian MEPS pushed for this in a February 2017 European Parliament resolution on Albania.

A diplomatic source told BIRN that the Bulgarian ambassador was meeting the head of the parliamentary committee to convince it to reopen the consultation process and listen to the arguments about why Bulgarians should be registered as a minority in Albania.

A petition from the Bulgarian community over the issue is on the way to being delivered to parliament in Tirana.

For the first time, the draft law lays down the rights of minorities to use their language officially in interactions with the local authorities, if they make up 20 per cent of the local population and there is a real need for it.

The new law also allows the eight minorities to name roads and administrative sites in their languages, alongside the Albanian names, when the minority makes up over 20 per cent of the local population.

The draft also obliges the government to allocate extra funding in support of minorities and create official Committees for National Minorities.

[Geni]

This is good , very good...

[Herr Abubu]

There's no Egyptian minority, they're insecure Gypsies. Good job shoving the EU cock deeper down the throat though.

[The Destroyer]

Bosniaks in Albania are quite an enigma, almost nothing is known about their numbers and whereabouts, mostly due to forgetting their language (similar to Bosniaks in Turkey). They are mostly descendants of people who left Bosnia for the territories who were still controlled by the Ottoman Empire after Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia in 1878. Most of them went to Turkey, but a part of them settled in Albania, Kosovo and FYROM (since these were still Ottoman territories at the time).

[Crn Volk]

Bosniaks in Albania are quite an enigma, almost nothing is known about their numbers and whereabouts, mostly due to forgetting their language (similar to Bosniaks in Turkey). They are mostly descendants of people who left Bosnia for the territories who were still controlled by the Ottoman Empire after Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia in 1878. Most of them went to Turkey, but a part of them settled in Albania, Kosovo and FYROM (since these were still Ottoman territories at the time).

Alot of Bosniaks settled in Macedonia during Yugoslav times (in the 1950s). They are also a recognized minority in Macedonia.

[Egyptian]

Egyptian minority in Balkan should get their own state.

[Crn Volk]

Egyptian minority in Balkan should get their own state.

Sure, a nation of 20,000 people, why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkali_and_Balkan_Egyptians

PS, their native language is Albanian...

[Albobalboa]

Egyptian just a nicer way of saying gypsy. But I guess it's a smart move for possible relationship with Egypt or some shit. Bosnians I don't know why they weren't recognized earlier.

[Egyptian]

Sure, a nation of 20,000 people, why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkali_and_Balkan_Egyptians

PS, their native language is Albanian...

Albanian language or any language, no problem..they can have a piece of land and establish their state , something like the size of Bahrain.

[Egyptian]

Egyptian just a nicer way of saying gypsy. But I guess it's a smart move for possible relationship with Egypt or some shit. Bosnians I don't know why they weren't recognized earlier.

Good we can send them money and build great relation with them,probably arm them.. Turks support turkic people in every state and we should do the same with Egyptians in Balkan.

[Crn Volk]

Good we can send them money and build great relation with them,probably arm them.. Turks support turkic people in every state and we should do the same with Egyptians in Balkan.

I think Christian Egyptians should have closer relations with Christian states. They should be armed by Christian states to defend themselves from the Islamic hordes around them. They too should have their own state in Egypt...

[Egyptian]

I think Christian Egyptians should have closer relations with Christian states. They should be armed by Christian states to defend themselves from the Islamic hordes around them. They too should have their own state in Egypt...

why not? they can take piece of land, probably in the west and establish their christian state.. but as i told u, Egyptian government should recognize Egyptians in Balkan and arm them.

[Albobalboa]

Good we can send them money and build great relation with them,probably arm them.. Turks support turkic people in every state and we should do the same with Egyptians in Balkan.

You're the worst troll ever :D

[Egyptian]

You're the worst troll ever :D

https://i.imgflip.com/1aok2n.jpg

[Petros Houhoulis]

Egyptian minority in Balkan should get their own state.

"Egyptian state in the Balkans":


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI0kmlTxQY8

Anyway, you have to subscribe Mortimer to your cause, and dancing would be a nice way for him to lose weight too!

[The Illyrian Warrior]

Albania is an Albanian state, others make up no more than 1% - gypsies excluded, so how much more the fuck you need to give thus comfort these minuscule part yet highly unreliable people, specially talking of greeks who despite making up a small segment remain to be a fifth column of greece within Albania......fuck edi rama for turning into a cuck while greeks remain stubborn on their unwillingness to recognize Albanian minority also cham genocide.

[Mihail Nikoloff]

Good news guys! Albania has decided to finally recognize the ethnic Bulgarian minority in the country. Just few days ago, here's a link: http://www.novinite.com/articles/184224/Albania+has+Recognized+the+Bulgarian+Minority+in+t he+Country

''The Bulgarian minority was officially recognized by Albania, local media reported.

This was after the amendments to the Minority Protection Bill, approved by consensus in the country's parliamentary legal committee.

The official position of Tirana until recently was that the Bulgarians living in Albania for centuries have no special status. The European Parliament has called for the ethnicity of the Bulgarians living in Prespa, Golo Bardo and Gora to be recognized, estimated at some 50,000 people, BTV said. They have remained since the time Albania was part of the medieval Bulgarian state. Before Communism came to Bulgaria, Sofia was taking care of its compatriots, but then they were forgotten.

In September, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told his Albanian counterpart, Eddie Rama, that he expects the new law to contain texts that would protect the rights of the Bulgarian minority in the country. For its part, Rama has committed that Albania will not harm the interests of the Bulgarians. The minorities now recognized in Albania will become 9: Greek, Macedonian, Wallachian, Montenegrin, Serb, Roma, Egyptian, Bosnian and Bulgarian.''

[Ujku]

Good news guys! Albania has decided to finally recognize the ethnic Bulgarian minority in the country. Just few days ago, here's a link: http://www.novinite.com/articles/184224/Albania+has+Recognized+the+Bulgarian+Minority+in+t he+Country

''The Bulgarian minority was officially recognized by Albania, local media reported.

This was after the amendments to the Minority Protection Bill, approved by consensus in the country's parliamentary legal committee.

The official position of Tirana until recently was that the Bulgarians living in Albania for centuries have no special status. The European Parliament has called for the ethnicity of the Bulgarians living in Prespa, Golo Bardo and Gora to be recognized, estimated at some 50,000 people, BTV said. They have remained since the time Albania was part of the medieval Bulgarian state. Before Communism came to Bulgaria, Sofia was taking care of its compatriots, but then they were forgotten.

In September, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told his Albanian counterpart, Eddie Rama, that he expects the new law to contain texts that would protect the rights of the Bulgarian minority in the country. For its part, Rama has committed that Albania will not harm the interests of the Bulgarians. The minorities now recognized in Albania will become 9: Greek, Macedonian, Wallachian, Montenegrin, Serb, Roma, Egyptian, Bosnian and Bulgarian.''

50.000 Bulgarians ?? gtfo

[Drawing-slim]

50.000 Bulgarians ?? gtfoI have couple albanians firends here in US, pure albanians but they studied at university in Bulgaria and they claimed they are bulgarians in order to get the EU passport to enter USA
Albanians are survivors so the number wouldnt surprise me.

[Ujku]

I have couple albanians firends here in US, pure albanians but they studied at university in Bulgaria and they claimed they are bulgarians in order to get the EU passport to enter USA
Albanians are survivors so the number wouldnt surprise me.

Oh no , 1991 all over again. From the 30.000 Greeks in 1984 of the Greek minority it went to 300.000 in 1991.

Albanians are Albanias worst enemy.