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Albania lacks nothing except one thing: Kosovo
A few days ago I attended a very strange evening that I was not prepared for. I knew that at the dinner hosted by Pjerin Ndreu, the Mayor of Lezha, some friends from Kosovo and Macedonia were invited, but I had no idea that I would find more than 50 smiling men there who seemed to have gathered to celebrate an event that I did not know about.
I have known Pjerin Ndreu for years and since I have known him he has surprised me three times. The first time was when he won as Mayor of Lezha, even though he is from Puka. The second time was two years ago, when he organized the presentation of my novel Komploti and surprised me that he had read every book I had written.
The third time was on Saturday, when with the elegance of a diplomat he forced 50 men to each give a patriotic speech, including me, a shy and timid rascal. Pjerini's dinner was a gathering attended by politicians, mayors, deputies, ministers, former prime ministers, former assembly speakers, ambassadors, businessmen, writers, painters, singers, athletes, publishers and historians.
It looked like a pan-Albanian parliament led in turn by Pjerin Ndreu and Ramiz Lladrovci, his tireless assistant from Kosovo. In short, there was no shortage of anyone who could do good to the nation's affairs, and all those who could do harm were absent.
What I liked most was that everyone there was a believer, but there was no imam or priest. There was no need for an intermediary because everyone believed in Albania. Shown in this way, it seems as if a Masonic society was founded at the Lezha dinner where some men swore to change the affairs of the world by meeting from time to time with a glass of wine in hand.
To some extent it is true. With the only difference that there was no talk about world affairs but about the affairs of the Albanians of Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. The theme of the dinner was simple: Albanians have never lived better, have never been more integrated, more respected, stronger, freer and richer than they are today. But can they be even better than that? Of course.
Fired up by the atmosphere of the table and stung by Pjerini using the microphone as a stick, I asked my Kosovar friends why they didn't join us. Today's Albania is a beautiful country that has successfully defeated its main enemies.
Internal quarrels.
Savagery towards nature.
The communist administration.
Prejudice of foreigners.
I am convinced that no other former communist country has achieved more than we have in the last thirty years.
Kosovo is a new democracy, Albania is a democracy by the sea.
Albania has many mountains, many plains, many rivers, many friends and fewer and fewer enemies.
Albania lacks nothing except one thing: Kosovo
Kosovo is the only missing piece in the wonderful mosaic of Albania to become great. This was the reason for the assembly that Pjerin Ndreu called. How to make Albania a great country and Kosovo a democracy by the sea.
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