.: Kosova Montenegrins want constitutional recognition

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Kosova Montenegrins want constitutional recognition

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Senior Montenegrin officials asked Kosovo leaders on Wednesday (January 28th) to recognise the status of Montenegrin citizens and offer them the same rights as other minorities. During a visit to Kosovo, Deputy Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Rifat Rastoder said his focus was the issue of displaced persons and conditions for their return. At the same time, Rastoder stressed that Montenegro does not consider this a condition for enhancing diplomatic ties between the two countries. Kosovo Parliament Speaker Jakup Krasniqi said institutions in his country will make every effort to ensure Montenegrins living in Kosovo enjoy representation in the next elections.

In other news, Kosovo Security Force (KSF) Minister Fehmi Mujota admitted on Wednesday there have been mistakes in selecting former Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) members to join the KSF. Mujota said that in co-operation with KFOR, the KSF will review all applications, including those of KPC members already recruited for the new force. (Zeri, Koha Ditore, Express, Telegrafi, Kosova Sot - 29/01/09)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: How about those Montenegrins go back to their own state!!!!

They can enjoy all the rights they want there; 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Don't you just LOVE double standards?

Do you mean that it's perfectly O.K to drive ethnic minorities from their homes so long as they're not Albanians?

I'm guessing you wouldn't appreciate it much if Montenegrins start calling on Albanians to head back to their "home" state.

Tisk. Tisk.; 8:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Here's a lesson for Montenegrin in Albania to appease soem of the fuss in Malesia in the form of municipality construction ... taken form a former rebel !!!

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- The leader of the opposition Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, said on Sunday (February 8th) that he would integrate the divided town of Mitrovica within three months if his AAK wins local elections in November. During campaign stops in the villages of Vllahi and Vinarc, both in the Serb-dominated northern part of Mitrovica, Haradinaj presented a governance plan for all of Mitrovica. Haradinaj said the plan should include the municipalities of Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic.; 9:42 PM

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New York Times article published May 21, 1911

"ALBANIAN JOAN OF ARC: Handsome Heroine Takes Father's Place and Vanquishes Turks" – Cetinja, May 21, 1911 - A young girl, whose first name corresponds to that of the given name of the Maid of Orleans, is now being sung in the songs of the Montenegrin bards in the inns and coffee houses in Podgorica. When at the battle of Vranje last week, her father, the hereditary commander of his clan, fell, she immediately stepped to his place and led the Martinajs to victory against the Turks. Aside from the romantic phase of the affair, for Janitza Martinaj (Tringa e Grudes) is very beautiful, the battle is important as showing that the Montenegrins on the frontier had joined with the Albanians. According to a person who is well acquainted with her, this new Joan of Arc is “a tall, handsome, well-developed young woman. All the Albanian women are brave, and are trained from their girlhood to the use of firearms, and in times of war, as there are no mules, they carry the provisions and ammunition for their soldiers and go into the firing line to distribute them.” “And are sometimes killed?” “Yes, often that happens.” Janitza would probably have carried a Martini rifle; or, as many of the Marininis were collected last year by the Turks, her weapon may perhaps have been one of the old-fashioned Albanian rifles, which are handsomely decorated with silver and have very long, narrow barrels. Shooting is almost the only amusement of the young men and women in Albania. Both boys and girls learn to shoot when they are 12 years old. At weddings the parties amuse themselves by dancing and shooting: at christenings shootings is again the principal amusement – firing at large targets for some little prize – and at festivals there is shooting all day long. It’s one of the great difficulties that Turks have to contend with, for it is part of the national life; the people use their rifles by day and sleep with them by their side by night. The custom has grown up with the prevailing insecurity from vendettas at home and border troubles abroad. Physically, the Albanians are the finest race in Europe. Their women are handsome, with dark hair, though their eyes are sometimes gray. To see them walk is a delight. We like to see the ballet in Servia. The first time I saw the Albanians walk it gave me just the same pleasure. Their movements are so graceful, elegance and strength together. Yes, they are a very fine and very gifted race. They are like the Scots in the 17th century, and they will be by and by the finest race, intellectually as well as physically, in the Balkans. If you go to Constantinople you will find that many of the finest men, not only soldiers but also statesmen are Albanians. Their fault, due to their present degree of civilization, is that they cannot grasp the idea of State. The clan is their highest organization; they are unable to see the importance of combining the clan with the higher organization of making a state. But that will come.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Kosova Montenegrins want constitutional recognition

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