TIRANA, September 2 – The “Open Balkans” initiative is an anti-Albanian initiative and the treatment given to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is vassalage to Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic.
This was said by the head of the Democratic Party (DP), Sali Berisha in the weekly press conference on Friday.
“If you see the protocols, he (Rama) was treated as a vassal. Let’s say what it is. This should not be impressive that he is a vassal. Vucic does not need to express this. But what I want to say is that the Open Balkans is in every aspect an anti-Albanian initiative. Aleksandar Vucic, a Serb with schemes like those of Milosevic and Djordjevic, is using the ‘Open Balkans’ in every aspect,” Berisha said, adding that he is using it to oppose the Berlin Initiative and establish Serbian hegemony and Russian influence in the Balkans.
According to Berisha, a former premier, the initiative is being used by Belgrade to destroy production in Albania and North Macedonia since no rules have been defined in the free market.
In addition, Vucic is using the initiative to politically weaken Pristina, but this has failed. “It was a failure because the West is clear that its border in the Balkans is the border with Kosovo. I use it on the psychological level with the old doctrine that we are dealing with two Albanians, shqiptarci and albanci, the latter are good in Albania, while the Albanians are bad and they are in Kosovo. This has been used for decades by Belgrade. Rama has become the main argument of this dogma,” said Berisha.
Touching upon the issues of opposition’s anti-government protests he said the opposition does not yet have a date for the announced protests for the overthrow of the government, but the Democratic Party informs that it will not be alone but united with the Freedom Party.
“I met with Mr. (Ilir) Meta. We have not fixed a date for the protest. We have agreed on a powerful opposition action to confront this regime, which is tightening its monism in the country every day, the thefts and looting of Albanian citizens and the rule of crime,” Berisha said. /Argumentum.al
