6 hours agoMilosevic associate's testimony to agreement with Sali Berisha to help Serbia's Yugoslavia war
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(8 years ago)Sali Berisha today presents himself as one of Kosovo's biggest defenders. Wherever Kosovo is mentioned today, Berisha is not reluctant to pour bitterness on anyone who throws an idea about dialogue with Serbia. But we remember his ties and his co-operation with one of Slobodan Milosevic's closest men, Momir Bulatovic, in [...]
In 1992, Sali Berisha, also president of post-communist Albania, had signed an agreement with Slobodan Milosevic's subordinate, Momir Bulatovic, who held the position of Montenegrin president.
This deal has to do with the oil supply of the former Yugoslavia, which is headed by Milosevic along the Albania-Montenegro waterline. This was also the breaking of the international embargo on the former Yugoslavia because of wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Oil Berisha sold to Milosevic prompted the Serb-Yugoslav military forces to continue the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement in question has never been completely dawned, but has been indirectly accepted by Berisha himself on several occasions.
Bullatovic's testimony to ties with Berisha at the time:
In an interview that today can also be found on the YouTube channel, Momir Bulatovic declared:
“In the Belgrade suburb, we had nine large warehouses that stored cigarettes entering Montenegro and Albania. We did a lot to survive. We registered firms in South Africa. With smuggling money, we paid the workers, the pensions, kept the army, and so on. I went to Sali Berisha and begged him to close his eyes and allow smuggling”, Bulatovic confessed.
He says in this interview, even Sali Berisha helped Belgrade in wars in the former Yugoslavia, including Kosovo.
“Sali Berisha as the chief responsible helped the Belgrade government during the wars in both Yugoslavia and Kosovo”, he says.
Bullatovic visit in 1993 to Tirana
Bulatovic had visited Tirana in 1993. He describes his visit this way:
The “things are starting to move for the best after September 1993. At the time, I was at the helm of Montenegro's presidency, in the position I have visited Tirana and met with President Sali Berisha. An agreement has been reached and implemented to intensify cross-border co-operation. Many residents have exploited this, especially those Albanians whose members had not been seen with each other for 50 years. Co-operation in the economic plan has since begun, he says.
How Bulatovic responded to the Montenegrin media question, Vijesti for post- 1997 Albania.
At the end of 1997, Serbia's internal partnership began. A large number of problems at state borders have been reflected in the Federation Republic of Yugoslavia. And the biggest ones were those of arms smuggling and ammunition from Albania through Kosovo”, he says.
Momir Bulatovic is former Montenegrin president, known for his major ties with Slobodan Milosevic.
In his book with memories of the rules of silence, he had acknowledged that there was a verbal agreement between him and Sali Berisha for breaking the oil embargo. /Periscope.
