Mediu denies Albania aiming at Greater Albania

TIRANA, Sep. 25 – Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu said that Albania did not intend to create any Greater Albania country following Kosova’s independence.
Mediu gave an interview to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, during his visit to the Iberian country last week.
“We shall respect our borders and there will never be a Greater Albania together with Kosova. We intend to have very good relations with our neighbor Kosova, like we do have with Greece and Macedonia. We will continue to work together with all our neighbors,” he said.
Mediu also warned that any delay in Kosova’s status would provoke tensions in the Balkans.
He also expressed doubt that Russia would withdraw its threatened veto against Kosova’s independence or any resolution on that.
Official Tirana considers that Ahtisaari Package as the solution for the Kosova problem. That package forecasts supervised independence, which allows NATO forces to continue to remain there and the European Union would also have a mission.
Mediu said that it would be beyond common logic that Kosova turns back to a situation before 1999 when NATO bombing forced then-Serbian head Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from the province.
“What we should avoid is the country partition between Albanians and Serbs,” he added.