Valley Albanians: Autonomy, or new status

A Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) official demands autonomy or special status for the municipalities in the south.

Izvor: Beta

Monday, 02.04.2007.

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BUJANOVAC A Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) official demands autonomy or special status for the municipalities in the south. Sali Salihi, chairman of the DPA’s Bujanovac council, issued a statement calling on Serbian and international community officials to grant the municipalities of Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja a new status, “in order to implement international law and EU standards.” Valley Albanians: Autonomy, or new status Salihi demanded that the process determining Kosovo’s future status also deals with “securing the legal mechanisms guaranteeing the rights of ethnic Albanians,” in the region he referred to as, “Eastern Kosovo.” “Our political will has always been to unite with Kosovo and that is what we said in the March 1 and 2, 1992, referendum. We have a legitimate right to self-determination and demand that international peacekeeping factors be present in this area until the problem’s final solution,” the statement said. According to Salihi, any partitioning of “Albanian land” was unacceptable, while those who worked to that end would, in his words, “carry the historic responsibility for failure to preserve national unity and failure to implement the OVPMB (Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja Liberation Army) platform.” The Democratic Party of Albanians is one of the three Albanian parties in the Presevo Valley, southern Serbia, which boycotted the January parliamentary elections. The party’s leader, Ragmi Mustafa, is Presevo’s municipal president.

Valley Albanians: Autonomy, or new status

Salihi demanded that the process determining Kosovo’s future status also deals with “securing the legal mechanisms guaranteeing the rights of ethnic Albanians,” in the region he referred to as, “Eastern Kosovo.”

“Our political will has always been to unite with Kosovo and that is what we said in the March 1 and 2, 1992, referendum. We have a legitimate right to self-determination and demand that international peacekeeping factors be present in this area until the problem’s final solution,” the statement said.

According to Salihi, any partitioning of “Albanian land” was unacceptable, while those who worked to that end would, in his words, “carry the historic responsibility for failure to preserve national unity and failure to implement the OVPMB (Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa Liberation Army) platform.”

The Democratic Party of Albanians is one of the three Albanian parties in the Preševo Valley, southern Serbia, which boycotted the January parliamentary elections.

The party’s leader, Ragmi Mustafa, is Preševo’s municipal president.

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