TIRANA, April 15 – The leftist Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) and the Democracy for Unity Party )PDU) of the Cam community met Wednesday to discuss on their joint activities and cooperation in the future.
The cam party has been created recently and it has two lawmakers at the parliament. Their leader Shpetim Idrizi was formerly affiliated with the main opposition Socialist Party.
In his meeting with LSI head Ilir Meta, also deputy premier and foreign minister, they expressed their will for cooperation in the future.
Meta’s party joined the governing coalition of Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democratic Party after abandoning the Socialists
Meta said that the meeting served to lay the basis of the future cooperation but also give a clear signal of their cooperation in helping reforms in the country, the integration process into teh European Union.
Both leaders said that the country’s integration into the EU was the main priority to their political groupings.
The cam community has been an issue of contest, though not a formal and open one, between Albania and neighboring Greece Some 25,000 cam Albanians were driven from Greece at the end of the World War II by extremists Greek forces.
Smaller political parties start cooperation
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