Sebaneau,nice try! Using Alain Ducellier as desperate try to prove your point of Kosovo belonging to Albanians? Huh! Try again.
The same author is the one who stated There was no Albanian state before 1912…!!!!! Alain Ducellier proves your side wrong.
As for Albania itself, the views expressed by Alain Ducellier in Studies of Kosovo are of some relevance:
“In this context, the case of Albania may seem astonishing, since this country was the only national entity to emerge from Byzantium which…. never succeeded in pouring her strong ethnic, linguistic and cultural identity into the mould of a political structure. As is known, this failure persisted well beyond the Middle Ages, since there was no Albanian state before 1912.” (Alain Ducellier in Studies of Kosovo, edited by Arshi Pipa and Sami Rephisti, Easter European Monographs, Boulder, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1984)
Today, the Kosovo Albanians appear divided as to what they want – an independent state, autonomy or union with Albania. But it is put out that their ‘right to self determination’ will be protected for three years in the sense that it will be kept in ‘abeyance’. Meanwhile, the ‘international community’ wants to secure effective ‘independence’ for the Kosovo Albanians within the framework of the Serbian state.
