Edi Rama earthquake in Strasbourg: You found the compass helping Kosovo with its freedom you lost it on charges against the KLA

Part of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's word to the Council of Europe, Periscopi conveys and complements the following:

I represent Albania, but I have come to talk about Albania even though the topic of concern relates to Albania as the body to the soul.

However, it is worth starting with Albania, being that it wants to say it has to do with the relationship that a country with its past and development with the future is also related to reports between states in the Balkans and beyond.

Our relations with each other are mediated by our relations with European institutions. If they fail to offer justice, it's great.

The damage goes far beyond the plurality of individual tragedies.

It's a blow to our efforts to turn a page of our history, to write another story.

For you, war is a distant memory, for us a wound that still hurts.

Again, despite our experiences with war, under the great umbrella of this institution that defines itself as the governing organisation on the continent for human rights, the facts should not be violated by the games of power.

In recent decades, international institutions have been a key factor in mediating conflicts.

Albania continues to build the future, develop democratic institutions until it is persecuted by ghosts of authoritarianism.

Serbia not too far, It was considered an enemy to death, but now it is a partner in our open Balkan initiative.

Never before has history been good for us. Others decided for us, didn't ask us where we wanted to be.

Three decades ago we were able to change our course and look back from Europe.

Albanians as a whole do not imagine anything other than traveling to Europe, even if it results in turbulent roads.

At times like these, when the future is once again left in the mercy of the past and narrow - minded politicians are willing to leave the past for future fears of truth and justice issues to be highlighted.

At such times, trust in international institutions should be put in place.

At such times, small countries should not be abandoned.

In these three long decades, if we've learned something, democracy is always under construction, not a completed building.

Ukraine is being persecuted once more by the past - a vivid reminder of those who are persecuted by the past - of how easily history can be exploited by dark games.

In the Balkans, we continue to be aware of this.

The past is not a page that can be completely extinguished, as we call this past, what stories we tell, what truths we choose to point out, they are worth not only knowing who we are but also to know how to engage in the world.

Here I come to the main issue I wanted to take with you today and why it matters, not for those who are directly affected, but for all of us

For the ability of citizens to maintain confidence in politics and institutions.

There are nations in the history of the world that live throughout their lives defending their freedom surrounded by the violence, lies, and hypocrisy of the international community.

They hope to resist as long as the world finds a conscience.

This is the case of Ukraine now, this was the case of Kosovo decades ago.

You have noticed how diligent Putin is to pull the parliament between Crimea and Kosovo.

There is one between Kosovo and Ukraine, but not between Crime and Kosovo.

Wouldn't it be good for you here to start teaching other policy bodies to write Kosovo, not Kosovo.

Republic of Kosovo.

E PLOXED by Periscope: 

The living still seek their loved ones.

It all happened under the nose of the international community.

NATO's full military intervention on European soil recognised the KLA and its war, justice was imposed. The reconciliation could begin, or at least it seemed.

War is an ugly thing, it's in its nature that one assumes that there are symmetries of warriors, and both sides have caused damage.

War in Kosovo was not common, it was bloody.

Europe found its own moral compass.

But this compass then lost it in this building.

The same international institutions that granted Kosovo freedom rights, undermined their own actions, their principles.

They ended up questioning the integrity of Kosovo's freedom struggle, but also through actions that challenged how this happened.

Less than a decade after NATO intervention, Carla del Ponte published a book of memoirs “Prosecutor's Office, claiming that terrible crimes were committed by the leadership of the prosecutor KLA, including human organ trafficking.