Brussels: Facts now needed more than words

14/05/2012 00:00

The majority and opposition reported in front of the European MPs of the
Foreign Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels were they
spoke in unanimity about the achievements reached after the November
agreement.

But their stances were divided at the still unfulfilled duties for which the Albanian Foreign Minister, Edmond Haxhinasto, declared that they are making efforts, while the Head of the Integration Commission, Ditmir Bushati, listed the problems.

“We believe that this year that marks the 100th anniversary of independence in Albania must be the year when Albania will take important steps in the EU integration road. 2012 is our year of opportunities and we are working together to turn this opportunity to reality”, Haxhinasto declared.

“We strongly believe that the electoral reform must end before the Parliament is engaged for the election of the new President. The work for the Parliamentary reform is of same importance, since it is not concluded yet”, Bushati declared.

Despite the positive words for sitting in a table and continue the dialogue between the political forces, the MPs asked Albania to give concrete results, besides the words, about the election of a consensual president.

“I will be brief, or I will have to repeat what I have said so far. It is good that we are receiving good news from Tirana. But today is the time – and time flies quickly, because the presidential election and the progress report is approaching – when we need concrete results”, underlined Eduard Kukan, chairman of the Delegation for Balkan.

“The Presidential election is before the presidential ones. It is not up to us to say who we need to elect, because this belongs to the Albanian people. I am joining the colleague in the recommendation that it would be better for the climate in Albania and in order to have progress, to find someone that will not divide the country, but someone that will unite them”, declared Libor Rucek after Kukan, as the head of the Working Group for Balkan at the European Parliament, S&D.

The few MPs that had decided to hear the session for Albania raised questions about the children’s rights problems, blood feuds and the difficult access to the judicial system, and also about Albania’s role in the region for the recent events.

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