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Editorial: 10 years of NATO: the membership that changed Albania’s path for the better course

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL One could not overestimate and overvalue the importance, both symbolic and real, of Albania’s membership to NATO even if they tried. After five decades of the most aggressive and absurd isolationism practiced by the Stalinist regime of Hoxha, Albania needed desperately to reclaim its position among the members of the Western world, to be integrated in the Euro-Atlantic structures, to be anchored in the part of the world that aspires and works constantly at reaching the best standards of democracy, human rights and development. When Albania, a country so communist that it shunned the Warsaw pact for…

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