Ali Ahmeti: The Albanian language is in danger, we must take care of it – without Albanians, Macedonia’s days are numbered

The chairman of the Democratic Union for Integration, one of the main Albanian parties in North Macedonia, said that the Albanian language there is “in danger.”

During a panel discussion at the Diaspora Summit in Tirana, attended by, among others, the chief diplomats of Kosovo and Albania, Ali Ahmeti said that “we all need to master” the Albanian language.

“As for the Albanian language in Macedonia, it is a real danger that I think we should master the entire language that we all speak,” he said.

Ahmeti said that the Albanian language in the RMV is guaranteed by the Ohrid Agreement of August 2001, which ended the war in North Macedonia. That agreement ensured, among other things, that Albanian became an official language and that Albanian participation in government institutions, the police, and the army increased.

He said that that agreement was signed and “guaranteed” by both the United States of America and NATO and that it is a shared responsibility to protect it.

“We share the responsibility: Washington, Brussels, NATO, Albanian political forces, Macedonian political forces. Macedonia has a future in coexistence, in co-government only with Albanians. Without Albanians, Macedonia cannot survive and its days are numbered,” said Ahmeti.