Serbian authorities have massively dismissed Albanians and carried out dramatic discrimination against Albanians in education and health care and public services.

Some Albanians claim that these allegations are Serbian propaganda.

The five Albanians were killed in the ensuing conflict.

Albanians in Kosovo have been deprived of all rights.

Kosovo s Albanians do not want a state tainted by such allegations.

Serbs and other non Albanians are deprived of all linguistic rights.

For Serbs and Albanians alike, Kosovo is a place haunted by history.

Every day they provoke the Albanians, thus enhancing tensions in this region.

Greek nationalism, too, is another growing threat to Albania and the Albanians.

Such measures had resulted in the increasing marginalization of the Albanians in Kosovo.

The above mentioned memorandum states that the Albanians in Kosova enjoy all rights.

Close to 80 per cent of the territory is now inhabited only by Albanians.

Noting the discriminatory policies, measures, and violent actions committed against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,

(a) Police brutality against ethnic Albanians, the killing of ethnic Albanians resulting from such violence, arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests, forced evictions, torture and ill treatment of detainees and discrimination in the administration of justice

quot Noting the discriminatory policies, measures, and violent actions committed against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,

The Serbian authorities have for years been carrying out ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosova.

Serb troops beat, killed, and jailed Albanians, whose leaders, following cues from Western embassies, urged nonviolence.

Additionally, 2.3 million Germans, 1.8 million Albanians and 1.1 million Bulgarians visited the country that year.

As a result, there were 466 schools for ethnic Albanians in Kosovo that were not used.

In that regard, the Committee noted that Albanians in Kosovo did not participate in public life.

Thousands of Albanians will protest against the colonial Serbian repression against the Albanian people of Kosova.

Over the last two years, more than 200,000 Albanians have left Kosova because of Serbian persecution.

Ethnic Albanians had been murdered, their farms destroyed and a huge number of people forcibly deported.

Now the BBC has broadcast interviews with Albanians who were imprisoned in secret UCK camps in Albania.

Albanians are outraged at the allegations that UCK members engaged in war crimes and other criminal behavior.

CIA World Factbook estimates the following ratio 88 Albanians, 8 Kosovo Serbs and 4 other ethnic groups.

Thirdly, neither Kosovo Albanians, nor the Kosovo Serbs, nor Belgrade is able to adopt more accommodating positions.

Unfortunately, the Kosovo Albanians, only interested in independence, have not budged an inch from their 1999 position.

We think that sound interethnic understanding between Macedonians and Albanians, established on the basis of the due recognition of the Albanians apos human and national rights, is indispensable for the domestic stability and prosperity of that Republic and the entire region.

Kosovo s ethnic Albanians have proclaimed that they will not accept any tie to Serbia, no matter how tenuous.

These Albanians fear that, in the absence of the rule of law, Kosovo will become a mafia state.

I shall just focus on an important large one tens of thousands of Muslim Albanians living in Chamiria.

These repeated and intentional acts have arisen a deep indignation among Albanians on both sides of the border.

In this context, CSCE has followed the deterioration of the treatment of the Kosovar Albanians with growing anxiety.

Furthermore, Sweden and Norway took the decision in 1993 to return Kosovo Albanians whose applications had been rejected.

(a) Police brutality against ethnic Albanians, arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests, torture and ill treatment during detention and discrimination in the administration of justice, which leads to a climate of lawlessness in which criminal acts, particularly against ethnic Albanians, take place with impunity

Aspirations for great Albania were confirmed also in the recent statement by President Berisha at Tirana who, speaking about Albanians outside Albania, said that quot 7 million Albanians constitute an ethnic and geographical continuity and a compact population on their own soil quot .

According to a recent BBC news investigation, however, UCK members abducted Serbs, Albanians, Roma, and others after NATO s arrival.

The Kosovo Albanians who want to enter that status process have understood that violence will be a major setback.

Non Albanians in the province continued to be attacked on ethnic grounds and did not enjoy freedom of movement.

Immediately after the shootings there was a strong reaction of the police forces against the Albanians inhabiting the area.

The interest Albania takes in the Albanians, wherever they are, has a legitimate basis, sanctioned in basic international documents.

Concerning the question of the Albanian immigrants in Greece, Albanians have always appreciated the generosity of the Greek people.

quot (a) Police brutality against ethnic Albanians, arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests, torture and ill treatment during detention and discrimination in the administration of justice, which leads to a climate of lawlessness in which criminal acts, particularly against ethnic Albanians, take place with impunity

References Greek Helsinki Monitor (2001), Minorities in Southeastern Europe Albanians of Macedonia (available online here) See also Macedonian Muslims Ashkali