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REPLIQUE
At yesterday’s plenary session the Assembly was discussing about
the human rights issue in Albania. It was initiated by a request
that Mr. Pjetër Arbnori directed to the Prime Minister Mr Pandeli
Majko. On that case Mr Arbnori made the usual attack against the
Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) for which he said that since 1997
it has kept silence and it has not held its mission. Consequently
the Committee is remarked that it has been supporting the grouping
in power.
Mr
Arbnori totally ignores the activity of the AHC regularly reflected
in his materials, bulletins and reports that have come out
regularly. We may suggest to him to look at the annual reports from
the U.S. State Department and those of the International Helsinki
Federation that very often refer to the information and evaluation
made by this Committee for different issues of human rights in
Albania.
The
public opinion is aware that Mr Arbnori is the head of a forum of
human rights affiliated to a political party. In such a case he
mixes two principal issues. He does not distinguish between the role
of a non-governmental and non-party organisation and that of a
political party structure like the one he heads. With the quality of
a representative of a political party Mr Arbnori makes political
opposition using the issue of human rights.
There is a fundamental different between a structure that may be
created as a section of a party and the organisations that are
neither governmental nor political. The AHC is among the latter. It
is not designated to make political opposition by being affiliated
with one or other political party. The AHC makes opponence in the
sphere of the human rights and it makes that in two directions.
First by observing and denouncing human rights violations (once
again we suggest to Mr Arbnori to look at the numerous publications
coming out in public press releases). Second, by sensibilising the
broad public opinion but also different government institutions on
the respect of the human rights and the basic principles of the
legal state.
By
expressing a general opinion it should be said that in Albania there
are many problems of the human rights and violations of the human
rights and they should be identified and denounced without
hesitation. The AHC has committed and is committing such a mission
since its founding as the first organisation of the human rights in
Albania. But the issue of the human rights is a process and it
cannot be denied that with the years passing there have been
achievements in this sphere.
16.04.2002
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