Kosovo thanks Albania for solidarity shown in 1999

Under the organisation of the Catholic Church in Kosovo, at the solemn “academy, thank you Albania”, the 20th anniversary of the hospitality Albania had performed for the people of Kosovo during the 1999 edition.

Thanks to Albania, Thaci said she opened her doors and hearts in the days of Kosovo's worst tragedy, at the height of the 1998-1999 war.

The president added that without Albania Kosovo would not be free and independent.

We thank Albania for challenging the genocide of the state of Serbia that exercised against the Albanian population in Kosovo in the campaign for ethnic cleansing. This is Albania's greatness, this is its home in limitless spiritual and solid size. Kosovo forever is grateful to Albania. Without Albania Kosovo would not be free, it would not be free and, of course, we would not be independent”, Thaci said.

Thaci said Albania has strongly supported KLA, as the most sacred project of Albanians.

We thank Albania for having the many idealists from Kosovo as the man or father of Kosovo Independence for having our idealists free and uniting them with Albania and all other countries that were under the invasion of the former Yugoslavia. Albania, which always made us know that Yugoslavia and Serbia are not our state, we thank Albania for protecting, as much as it had capacity, the rights of Albanians in Kosovo and other Albanian-inhabited areas, in Macedonia, Presevo and Montenegro”, he said.

While Albania's president, Ilir Meta, said Albania was tasked with facing that extraordinary humanitarian crisis, which came because of Milosevic's genocide.

You can rightly say thank you to Albania, even though Albania was tasked with facing that extraordinary humanitarian crisis that came from Kosovo due to Milosevic's genocide. Even when we meet, even Mr. Majko and other colleagues of the time, we find it hard to believe how a crisis of extraordinary proportions can be coped with when I UNCR, who had been warned of this crisis for a year and provided guarantees that it had taken measures to cope with its escalation, was not more than a few thousand mattresses in Albania. And the crisis was faced with the commitment and commitment of every ordinary citizen. I would especially highlight the heroic solidarity of the people of Kukes”, Meta said.

Pandeli Majko, then prime minister of Albania, also spoke, under which they have already done their duty as a brother does for a brother.

Now, does your brother ever bother you, but he does, so brother. How about you in Kosovo when you bring your soul to the end of your brother's nose, your brother like it went down, but that's why we have to put up with each other, remember those tough days when we defined, determined who we are, where we're from and where we're going to go. Along with Ilir and many other colleagues, among whom today is prime minister of Albania, Edi Rama, were we so convinced, so strong, I assure you that we were afraid, and I made sure that we were worried, and I made sure that we thought that we would be reminded of the name from generation to generation of evil, but I can't let you say what President Meta repeated, that in those moments so difficult and defining all the Albanians of Albania, the right-left, the Communists of the Balkans, after the Recak massacre, we were called together to all opposition parties and a few sentences that were killed by Serbs, when we were told, Mike.

Kosovo Archbishop Dode Gjergji, at the solemn academy that was organised at the “Pierre Bogdani” centre in the Pristina Cathedral, said people in Albania deserve great praise in this united form.

Such thanks is not missing in the days we have walked, because the echo of this thanks has been in friendly contacts, family contacts, in the expression of various social organizations, hand in heart, this feeling of thanks has not been missed even at different meetings among governments that have occurred and many other levels. But this way that we've been meaning to say thank you together, solemnly and once again, is better, because it resounds more, echoes longer and is heard further from”, said Dode Gjergji.

As the leader became the Islamic Community of Kosovo, Naim Ternava said that at the most difficult time for Kosovo, the people found solidarity and love in Albania.

At these difficult moments for our country and our people facing an orchestrated Serb state violence our citizens faced in welcoming the rest of the nation, except that they found generous hospitality, they found the solidarity and love so needed for us that only brother for Brother” said.

We remember that during the Kosovo people's 1999 edition, Albania had opened borders by engaging people and institutions to help refugees from Kosovo who were violently expelled from the Serbs.