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Prime Minister Edi Rama delivered his speech at the Peace Board event. He highlighted the Kosovo\u2013Serbia conflict and also addressed the trial currently taking place in The Hague against four former KLA leaders.<\/p>\n

Greeting address by Prime Minister Edi Rama at the inaugural meeting of the Peace Board<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for inviting me to be part of this journey, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

The fully aligned bipartisan vote of support this initiative received in our parliament speaks for itself about how honored Albania is to be a founding member of this new organization.<\/p>\n

Many in Europe say the Board of Peace is meant to substitute the United Nations. It does not look to me like an attempt to replace the UN, but if it helps shake that agonizing giant and inshAllah wake it up, then God bless the Board of Peace.<\/p>\n

Mr President,<\/p>\n

We commend your decisive role in bringing a halt to the heartbreaking conflict in Gaza, and Albania has confirmed its participation in the stabilisation force with our troops.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I propose that this Board invite all countries to contribute directly by building a dedicated public facility for Palestinian children, and in doing so, the world would help the children of Gaza, who are the most innocent hostages of the lunacy of Hamas, to grow within the tangible presence of the largest chain of hands humanity has ever joined together.<\/p>\n

By not only putting the<\/span><\/span> money, but bringing their own architects in this, so the world will transform a wound of history into an oasis of hope, where compassion takes concrete form, and the future is shaped around those who deserve it most, the next generations of Palestinians. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Albania would be privileged to stand in that chain.<\/p>\n

Allow me very briefly to draw your attention to another open conflict closer to home, where President Trump’s leadership during his first term brought Kosovo and Serbia closer than ever to a final peace agreement.<\/p>\n

The President of Kosovo was then brutally prevented from traveling to the White House to sign that agreement in the presence of President Trump. And this was the doing of the very same s<\/span><\/span>icario <\/span><\/span>prosecutor that went after President Trump himself, and for that became worldwide famous.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the Kosovo President has now spent six years in pre-trial detention before a special court in The Hague, sponsored by several democratic states, some of them present here that should be shamed of that type of international justice. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just last week, Mr President, another prosecutor founded by this great country and its taxpayers requested 45 years of imprisonment for him, a request that sent a shockwave of humiliation through an entire peace-seeking nation. At this moment, only a few months stand between a man who rose from resistance to ethnic cleansing to become a peacemaker, and a potentially devastating outcome in a court that has so far failed at every step to uphold the standards of democratic justice.<\/p>\n

For the sake of God, Mr President, let’s do something before, as you say, very bad things might happen again. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And again, thank you so much for including Albania in this noble initiative.<\/p>\n

By being close friends of Israel and of the Arab countries, we very much hope to be an added value in your amazing vision.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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