Albanian Analysis: Why does the West support a Himara controlled by Albania and not by Berisha and Greece?

 


Dec 14, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

By Kreshnik Spahiu (former founder and leader of the nationalist Red and Black Alliance party)

The war between Greece and Albania is not about Fredi Beleri's 5 thousand leksh.
The EU's fight against the Athens veto is not against the 5,000 Leksh votes that Beleri bought.

Chancellor Scholz, President Macron are not declaring against Greece every day because they are worried about the 5 thousand Lek in Beler's pocket.
This whole clash doesn't happen for Beleri but for Himara.


Athens' problem or Greece's obstacle is not Edi Rama but the West.


25 years ago, Greece for the same reason isolated Albania in the stages of the Stabilization and Association Agreement in the EU for the same reason.


4 Greek minorities were arrested by Albanian justice, but in those years Greece had the USA and the EU on its side.


The years 1995-1997 were a fierce battle which was crowned with the opening of weapons warehouses and the violent overthrow of the Berisha government, which rejected Washington's demands for the release of 4 Greek minorities who were accused of murdering the Peshkipi massacre.


The question is asked: Why today Washington and Brussels are not on the side of Greece but are open to Albania?


The essence of the conflict is not Greece's demand for the liberation of Beler but for the Hellenization of Himara.


The intelligence services have informed the Albanian government and the Euro-Atlantic partners that Athens has a Hellenization project through the acquisition of the municipality of Himarë and requests for an association of Greek municipalities by joining Dropulli and Finiq.


America and Europe cannot allow Zajednica 2 in the Balkans.


The West has shown not only signs of fatigue but also nervousness with the north of Kosovo, a conflict created by Serbian nationalists that has been consuming a lot of time, energy, finance, human and military resources for years.


A Himara controlled by Athens would be a time mine for stability in the region.


Fredi Beleri fell into the net of justice, but the conflict is not 5 thousand Leksh but 5 thousand problems and 5 thousand ethnic Hellenic nationalist claims that Athens would create in the south of Albania.
Edi Rama is not the enemy of Greece because he also appointed a Greek as the head of the Municipality.


Edi Rama is not the obstacle of Athens because he has greatly favored Fredi Beleri.
Do you know that Rama is treating Beler better than the Albanian mayors of the municipalities he dismissed?


Why doesn't he assemble the government and fire Beler:


- just like Shukri fired Xheli in Dibër?
- just like Valdrin fired Pjetrin in Shkodër?
- Same as Lefter Allan in Bulqiza?
- just like Safet Gjicin in Shkodër?


And finally: Why do Prime Minister Rama and President Begaj not announce early elections in Himare but wait for the final decision from the court?


Why were the Albanian mayors not presumed innocent until convicted by the court?


For all these reasons, Greece must understand that Edi Rama is not Beler's prosecutor but his lawyer. Rama is petting the Beleri case a little too much by not announcing early elections.


Athens is nervous not because Rama imprisoned Beleri, but because the US and the EU have become Albania's advocates in this debate.


The answer is simple: America and Europe want peace and stability.


The West cannot allow Russian and Chinese services to penetrate the Albanian Riviera with investments in the tourism industry, as happened years ago in Greece, Montenegro, Serbia or Macedonia.


They are clear that Beleri did not win with 10 plus votes from the votes of the Greek minority, but from the votes that Berisha-Meta combined with Athens.


For these reasons, Washington and Brussels want a Himara that is controlled by the government and Albania, but not a Himara "occupied" by Berisha and Greece.


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