Greece, is going to Plan B: grant for 600 thousand Greek citizenship, at the Consulates

December 23, 2011 | Filed under: Geopolitics

Failure of the Census in Albania, apparently, has forced Athens, put in place, going to Plan B to its foreign policy, grant citizenship to all Hellenic Community of Northern Epirus (Greek passports) through three Greek consulates in Albania.

According to “The Albanian newspaper Gazeta Shqiptare”, in a statement issued by the Greek Consul in Argjirokaster, Nikolaos Kotroxois, will begin soon, giving the Greek passports to Albanian citizens of Greek descent, who have applied for years.

The decision is taken, after Athens, has used all diplomatic sources to have to Tirana, the same wavelength, particularly in geopolitical matters, particularly Kosovo. In his statement, the Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas, noted, that Tirana, continues to show towards Greece, feeling not sincere cooperation, while simultaneously calling for the right to self-determination of the Greek community in Albania.

Provision for Hellenic Greek citizenship of Albania, is thought be given in a shorter time, which will also be used as self declaration of its community (census of Greeks) in Albania. The approximate number of Greek citizenship in Albania, thought to be around 600 thousand, where only Albanians who have applied, are about 100 thousand.

Giving the tow citizenship for Greeks in Albania, was approved by the Government of Karamanlis on October 2006, but the Greek foreign national Commission, had blocked, since Albania, would hold free census process for the Greek community.

Source: SManalysis

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  • Phoevos

    Plain English please.

  • Ilirx

    this would have been successful a couple of years ago. Now stick those greek passports up your arse.

  • Tyroneez

    As those conducting the census , refused to accept the self identification as Greek , of any Albanian citizens outside the tiny / designated minority areas / the ethnically Greek people here were not being counted as Greek …
    If the Greek government grants them Greek citizenship , so as to be able to count how many there are …
    The fear is that they will just use the passports to flee to Greece …
    Thus counter- productively weakening the indigenous Greek communities of Albania