20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

National project for Aromanians in Albanyduring the interbellum.Voices of diplomacyViorel StănilăThe Embassy of Romania in Albania – TiranaI. The political-diplomatic contextAt the moment of its admission in the Nations’ Society on the 2 nd ofOctober 1921, Albania signed a statement in front of the Council of Societythrough which it took about itself to respect and bring into force the generalprinciples provided in the Treaties concerning Minorities, which hadalready been signed by all the other member states 1 . It was the conditionAlbania had to respect to become a part of the organization, fact whichguaranteed international recognition of the Albanian state. In the same day,the council adopted a Resolution through which Albania’s commitmentwas being vouched for by the Nations’ Society. 2Furthermore, a difficult trial of edification and consolidation of theAlbanian state structures had been initiated, in the lights of a serious internalpolitical instability and of intensive pressure from outside interest. 31N.N. Hiott, secretary of legation, in Antoniade, plenipotentiary minister,to N. Titulescu, minister of foreign affaires, telegram of the Romanian legation Geneva, no.206 from 12 February 1935, registration number MAS 9268 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).2Ibidem3Constantin Iordan 1999, Romania and international relationships in the South-East of Europe, 1919-1924, Bucharest: Editura All Istoric, 29: ”...the pre-emption ofItaly in the field of foreign affairs of the government in Tirana – decided through theAmbassador’s Conference in November 1921 – had become an impending reality after1925; the Italian quasi-protectorate on Albania, become almost official through treatiesin 1926 and 1927, practically allowed for Zogu and his acolytes no real freedom in thepolitics in the Balkans”.