80 years since the end of the Bujanovac Conference calling for self-determination
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The Bujan Conference began on December 31, 1943 and ended on January 2, 1944, in which a resolution was signed, recognizing Kosovo's right to self-determination until secession and the realization of the desire of the Albanian people of Kosovo for union with Albania.

The Bujan Conference was held on December 31, 1943 until January 2, 1944, as a reconfirmation of the new circumstances created after the Mukje Meeting, as well as the result of the non-inclusion of Kosovo and other Albanian provinces under the rule of the former SKS Kingdom, (Conference of Bujani), which was held precisely to oppose the decisions of the II Meeting of AVNOJ in Jajce (November 29-30, 1943) and the non-inclusion of Kosovo as an independent subject that until then had been represented through Montenegro in KAÇKJ.

Bujan as a host country for representatives of both nationalities (Albanians and Serbs) seeking an agreement to prevent further inter-ethnic conflicts.

The meeting of the Conference was held in the tower of Sali Mani, Bajraktar of Krasniqe, located near the base of the General Staff of the UNC of Kosovo and the Provincial Committee for Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain, which was attended by 49 delegates representing all areas and social strata of Kosovo.

Among the participants were communists, nationalists and other democratic patriots, representatives of the Armed Forces, anti-fascist youth and women, etc.

This conference was attended by 49 delegates representing the people of Kosovo and the political forces lined up in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Front of Kosovo. The conference examined for three consecutive days the problems arising from the war against the invaders.

She elected the presidency of 9 people: Mehmet Hoxha (mayor), former mayor of Elbasan, Rifat Berisha (vice-mayor), Pavle Jovicevic (vice-mayor), Xheladin Hana (member), Fadil Hoxha (member), Hajdar Dushi (member), Zekeria Rexha (member), Milan Zeçarin (member) and Ali Shukriu (member).

The Bujan Conference came out with a final document, with a resolution adopted at the conference, which states: Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain is a province inhabited by a majority of the Albanian people, who, as always, and today, wants to join Albania . The formulation of such an attitude, as Hajdar Dushi said, was based on the very statements of the KLP and the KANC of Yugoslavia, which recognized the principle of self-determination of peoples until secession, this basic principle of the Atlantic Charter, of solemnly proclaimed by the allies of the anti-fascist coalition.

The resolution further stated that the joint struggle with the other peoples of Yugoslavia against the Nazi occupier and his mercenaries is the only way to gain freedom, in which all peoples, including the Albanian people, will have the opportunity to self-determine. on their fate, with the right of self-determination to the point of secession. The guarantee for this is the UNC of Yugoslavia and the UNCS of Albania, with which it is closely connected. In addition, this is guaranteed by our great allies, the Soviet Union, England and America (Atlantic Charter, Moscow and Tehran Conference).

Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain is one side, which is populated for the most part by the Albanian population, which, as always, wants to join Albania today. Therefore, we feel obliged to point out the true path in which the Albanian people must walk to realize their own aspirations. The only way to unite with Albania, for the Albanians of Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain, is the joint war with the other peoples of Yugoslavia.

In 1946, Tito told the Associated Press that Kosovo and other Albanian territories would be returned to Albania. The leader of the former Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, promised Enver Hoxha in 1946 that he would return Kosovo and other Albanian territories located in the Yugoslav union. The Serbian newspaper Pravda writes that Tito in 1946 almost "donated" to Kosovo Kosovo and Metohija, but also other Albanian territories. It is little known to the world, where the former Yugoslav leader had openly said that: Kosovo and other Albanian-majority territories will be returned to Albania, Shekulli reports the article of the Serbian newspaper.

"If the communists come to power in Albania, it (Kosovo) could be under the jurisdiction of Tirana," the Yugoslav leader told the Associated Press at the time.

"The head of the Albanian state, Enver Hoxha has always said that Marshal Tito promised at the end of June 1946 that Kosovo and other Albanian-majority territories will be part of Albania. However, these statements were not given importance as the relations between Tirana and Belgrade have always been tense ", the Serbian newspaper further writes.

Tito's right-hand man, Edward Kardel, according to some conspiracy theories, on the occasion of his visit to Moscow had told Stalin that Kosovo would be given to Albania, with their fight against the occupier and his servants.


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