Haliti exposes Vinca: Thaci in 99 went to Kadare to seek protection for signing the Rambouillet Agreement, but to thank him

Xhavit Haliti, one of the founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, spoke of Ismail Kadare, the great Albanian writer who died on Monday, while exposing a statement by writer Agim Vinca.

Vinca said on Monday in Frontal in T7 that Hashim Thaci, who in 1999 led the Kosovo delegation at the Ramubije Conference held in France with the aim of establishing peace in Kosovo, had gone to the home of Ismail Kadare in Paris to seek protection from the writer before signing the peace agreement.

But Haliti said it wasn't like that. He said Thaci had gone to thank Kadare for the public stand for the signing of that agreement.

“Ismail Kadare came out with a public attitude to sign the agreement. Surely there were his contacts, his lines were what he had. Mr. Thaci went to have coffee at Kadare's house from our destination. And it went to thank you, not to beg him to save us from signing, as I read that some just want to mourn and not get what he is. He went on behalf of the delegation to thank him for the position and support Kadare has made to the delegation and his engagement in the circles of intellectuals and politicians in France and, by extension,”, Haliti said at Euronews Albania.

Haliti, who himself was a member of the Kosovo delegation at the Rambouillet Conference, said the “was not easy”.

We had a reaction. I would say no small against the delegation not to sign the deal. We've even been accused of being in Rambouillet for treason, what's going on there. I remember when someone, a protagonist who doesn't want to mention his name, got on the phone and told him we should sign the deal because they don't lose anything, see what we get next. And there was an answer, said if you sign, don't get out of Rambouille, stay there. These threats had a lot of”, Haliti said.

He said Kadare's word “had far greater weight than that of some other”. The “Kadare's word is and has always been words that, as the people say, take place”.

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