Kadare says Albanians should love Albania more

TIRANA, Nov. 26 – Albanian long-time Nobel-laureate writer Ismail Kadare said that Albanians were displeased with politics and their politicians and also appealed to love more their nation and join their forces for the top national issues.
“Love for the nation is the most normal road through which the equality with other nations passes, for our European continent and for all the family of the peoples,” said Kadare, harshly attacking the ever-squabbling mentality among Albanians.
“With our lack of fair patience as a background for a fundamental improvement of the situation, the good thing is not noticed,” said Kadare in an interview to the Illyria newspaper published in the United States.
People need much more, strengthening and deepening of the democracy, said the writer, adding that Albanians’ consciousness and actions on politics have increased.
“Albania cannot bear immorality as a norm and corruption as a fatality,” said Kadare.
Kadare has also been always critical to the Albanian diplomacy, especially on foreign ministers as top diplomats.
“Albanian diplomacy has generally been weak,” he said, adding some embassies were without the ambassador like the Paris one and he called it a shame to the country as it was happening at a time of the most “fervent time of the European and world diplomacy on the Balkans and Kosova.”
Kadare said that Kosova was ‘free in essence’ adding it is time to find “its political, state, institutional suit which should not run counter to freedom.”
The writer said that some forces did not want Kosova’s freedom and were trying to hamper that. “But countries that do not want that have problems with their freedom” and instead of releasing themselves they are putting a heavier burden on themselves when creating obstacles to the Kosova freedom.
The writer said that Albanians not only in Kosova but everywhere would make a duty to themselves and the world by making known all the crimes committed in Kosova. Self-restraint in order not to promote hatred has not helped the world which should be released of crime.
“Serbia profited from that declaring itself as a victim,” he said.
Kadare has long been known as a harsh critic of the world’s failure to give an end to the Kosova saga by declaring it independent.