“Ohrid Agreement”, Albania will block’s Macedonia’s NATO membership

Albania vetoes Macedonia: The country won't enter NATO without guaranteeing the 'Ohrid Agreement'. The strong statement was made today by the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama during the second day of a regional counter-terrorism summit attended by interior ministers of the region.

During his speech, Rama said that recent events in Kumanovo are used to confuse the terms terrorist and Albanian and this is unacceptable for the Albanian state.

Despite the goodwill for Macedonia's membership in NATO structures, this cannot happen if Skopje will not implement strictly the "Ohrid Agreement".

Unfortunately in Kumanovo the terms Albanian and terrorism were used together, in an effort to give the ethnicity a terrorist suffix and it is unacceptable not only for us but also for the Macedonian state. 

For Macedonia it should be clear that Albanians remain a constituent factor in Macedonia. 

Nothing more dangerous can happen to us in the fight against terrorism than the use of the term terrorist when dealing with that event. 

Mixing these terms would be unacceptable to us like the terror experienced by innocent residents of Kumanovo. All we want is a stable Macedonia but not a country where people cannot live. We want a Macedonia part of NATO but not as a military coup. Macedonia cannot be part of NATO without guaranteeing the Ohrid Agreement," said among other things the Prime Minister during his speech.