Thursday, January 17, 2008

BIN LADEN INVESTIMENTS IN ALBANIA

More scandals about Bechtel Investiment in Albania

The newspaper “Korrieri” of Tirana publics on January 6, the head article about the joint partner of Bin Laden to “Bechtel” an American - Turkish Company which is building the patriotic investment “High Way” of Albanian to link Kosovo 170 km. According to “Korieri” which referred to CNN 2003, that “Osama bin Laden family members invested $10M in an equity fund run by former Bechtel unit”.

Last December, the Albania's parliament stripped the foreign minister of immunity Thursday, paving the way for the public prosecutor to charge him with corruption and abuse of power. The lawmakers voted 107-12 in favor of investigating Lulzim Basha over allegations of improperly favoring a U.S.-Turkish joint venture in the awarding of a highway construction contract while he was transport minister.

Basha, who has not yet been charged, denies the accusations and says he is willing to answer any questions about his handling of the highway project, which he said was proud to have been part of.Addressing the parliament before the vote, Basha urged the lawmakers to remove his immunity, saying the move would be a break with the country's past of shielding officials.Basha, who was transport minister from September 2005 until becoming foreign minister in April of this year, could be tried for abuse of power, corruption and causing the budget to swell by some €385 million (US$548 million).The allegations against Basha are related to an October 2006 deal the state signed with the Bechtel-Enka consortium, made up of San Francisco, California-based Bechtel International Inc. and Istanbul-based Enka. The consortium was awarded a €418 million (US$595 million) contract to build a 65-kilometer (40-mile) section of road.

Bechtel Corp., a private construction firm based in San Francisco, recently was awarded a State Department contract, potentially worth more than $600 million, to help rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the recent U.S.-led war there.
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THE CURCH AND THE GREEK COMMUNITY CIMITER OF TIRANA OF 1908

The photo made by Albanian legend photograph “Marubi” about the Hellenic Community presence in Tirana In 1908. Actually Tirana is became “metropolis” of Albania with 800 thousand people to about 3.5 million inhabitants of Albania.

Anyway never the Albanian state has not make a counting population process during 17 years of transition to build the democratic institutions and integration to Euro Atlantic alliances.
According to Greek estimates the Greek Community who lives in Tirana (including Hellenic Diaspora) begins from 50 to 70 thousand people.

The Orthodox Church in Albania continues to be autocephalous since 1922 when the Orthodox Patriarchal of Istanbul knows the independence of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Albania. In Tirana which live thousand Greeks is prohibited to make the Greek orthodox spiritual rite, even the Archbishop of Albania is Anastas Janullatos, a Greek citizen, who never known the Albanian citizen by Albanian authorities.
The Hellenic National Council met for Balkan Issues

Athens, January 16, 2008

The Hellenic National Council met under ‘Clouse Doors” to discus about ulterior developments on Balkan Region, particularly with Kosovo Independence and after, considered as process which begins to change the borders in Balkan Region.

After the meeting has not any comment about debate which was focused on the new measures to protect the national interest issues and putting the strategy to the next faze.


Photo: The Hellenic National Council, Karamanlis, Mitsotakis, Simitis, Papandreu, Benakis, Kaklamanis, Shufisa, Karatzaferis, Papariga and Alavanos.

Monday, January 14, 2008

ALBANIA AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS
Foreign Press May Stop Distribution Published:

TIRANA, Albania International press distributors threatened Friday to stop sending overseas newspapers and magazines to Albania because of a new tax approved by parliament. Peter Emod, managing director of the Zurich-based agency Distripress, wrote a letter to Albanian President Bamir Topi urging him not to ratify the law, adopted by parliament last month, levying a 20 percent tax on all imported press products.A copy of the letter was faxed to The Associated Press.


"The new law (would) force the companies dealing with the distribution of foreign press products to stop their activity. This would mean the end of the presence of foreign press in Albania," Emod wrote. The law could also seriously affect foreign book imports, according to Distripress' Albanian affiliate Adrion Ltd.All foreign news media were banned in Albania during decades of Communist isolation that ended in 1990.


Among Distripress board members include Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. Inc., a New York subsidiary of Hachette Filipacchi Medias, DPV Worldwide and Dogan Media International.
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