{"id":86632,"date":"2014-11-26T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T10:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/?p=86632"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T10:58:30","slug":"albanian-nationalist-demands-montenegro-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/albanian-nationalist-demands-montenegro-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian Nationalist Demands Montenegro Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Koco-Danaj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-79926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Koco-Danaj.jpg\" alt=\"Koco-Danaj\" width=\"508\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Koco-Danaj.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Koco-Danaj-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a>Politician Koco Danaj, promoter of a campaign to create a pan-Albanian state in the Balkans, told the Podgorica leadership that the proposed entity should contain part of Montenegro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\"><strong>Dusica Tomovic<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"source\"><strong>BIRN &#8211; <span class=\"location\">Podgorica<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"source\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>Danaj on Sunday published an open letter to Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic which said that Albanians would regain their rightful territory in Montenegro &#8220;peacefully&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of an opposition party called the List for a Natural Albania and a former adviser to several Albanian prime ministers, Danaj is demanding the establishment of a state that he calls \u2018Natural Albania\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It would cover all territories in which Albanians live, including Kosovo and parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Danaj said he was simply being polite by informing Montenegrin leaders of the need to give up the territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did I send this invitation to them? Because they are our neighbours, and Albanians first call their neighbours. They are neighbours in countries that unjustly own Natural Albania\u2019s territory,&#8221; Montenegrin media quoted the letter as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, Danaj launched an initiative to collect a million signatures from Albanian expatriates living in Europe to convince Western governments of the need to unite all Albanians in one state.<\/p>\n<p>According to his plan, \u2018Natural Albania\u2019 should include all areas inhabited by Albanian-speaking people, both where they currently form the ethnic majority and areas where they were in the majority in the past but were expelled over the past century.<\/p>\n<p>His platform envisages that the southernmost Montenegrin town, Ulcinj, on the Albanian border, should be declared a \u2018free town\u2019 and shared between Tirana and Podgorica.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"community-tab\" class=\"publisher-nav-color\" href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/forums\/balkaninsight\/\" data-action=\"community-sidebar\" data-forum=\"balkaninsight\"><span class=\"community-name\"><strong>Balkan Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politician Koco Danaj, promoter of a campaign to create a pan-Albanian state in the Balkans, told the Podgorica leadership that the proposed entity should contain part of Montenegro. Dusica Tomovic BIRN &#8211; Podgorica Danaj on Sunday published an open letter to Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic which said that Albanians would regain their rightful territory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6950],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albanian Nationalist Demands Montenegro Territory - Lajme nga Ulqini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Politician Koco Danaj, promoter of a campaign to create a pan-Albanian state in the Balkans, told the Podgorica leadership that the proposed entity should\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/albanian-nationalist-demands-montenegro-territory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albanian Nationalist Demands Montenegro Territory - 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