Berisha: Greater Albania is not an issue of concern

TIRANA, Dec. 6 – Prime Minister Sali Berisha assured the international community again that the world should not fear any move on creating a Greater Albania with the joining of Albania and now-independent Kosovo.
In an interview with Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger, Berisha said that Kosovo’s separation from Serbia has designed the final state borders in the Balkans, adding that Tirana was against the unification of Albania and Kosovo into a “Greater Albania.”
“The majority of the Albanians in the region are in favor of integration with the EU. We will be united in the EU, that is why no changes of borders are necessary,” the Albanian Prime Minister said.
He did confirm that earlier he used to believe in the idea of uniting all Albanians in the Balkans in one state but he has now rejected that, thinking instead that good-neighborly relations are the key for making borders obsolete and allowing people to move freely.
Berisha further stated that Macedonia needs to treat the Albanians as full-fledged citizens of the country.
Berisha said that Serbian President Boris Tadic will be visiting Tirana shortly, which will be a sign for the improvement of the relations between the two states.
Berisha’s statements that the government in Tirana does not want to aspire for forming a Greater Albania come in contrast with a recent survey, which found that the majority of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia favor the creation of a single Albanian state.