80 years since the start of the Bujan Conference
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The Bujan Conference began on December 31, 1943 and ended on January 2, 1944. A resolution was signed there, recognizing Kosovo's right to self-determination until secession and the realization of the desire of the Kosovo Albanian people to unite with Albania.

The Bujan Conference was held as a reaffirmation 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 Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom (the Bujan Conference), which was held precisely to oppose the decisions of the Second 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 the KAÇKJ.

Bujan as a place of reception for representatives of two nationalities (Albanians and Serbs) who were looking for an agreement to prevent further inter-ethnic conflicts. The meeting of the conference was held in the tower of Sali Man, the Bajraktar of Krasniqe, near the base of the Main Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Kosovo and the Provincial Committee for Kosovo and the Dukagjini Plain, where 49 delegates representing all the villages and social strata of Kosovo. Among the participants were communists, nationalists and other democratic patriots, representatives of the Armed Forces, youth and anti-fascist women, etc.

This conference was attended by 49 delegates representing the people of Kosovo and the political forces aligned with the Anti-Fascist National-Liberation Front of Kosovo. The conference examined the problems arising from the war against the invader for three consecutive days. She chose the chairmanship of 9 people: Mehmet Hoxha (chairman) former prefect of Elbasan, Rifat Berisha (vice-chairman), Pavle Jovičević (vice-chairman), Xheladin Hana (member), Fadil Hoxha (member), Hajdar Dushi (member), Zekeria Rexha (member), Milan Zeçar (member) and Ali Shukriu (member).

The Bujan conference came out with a final document, with a resolution approved at the conference, which states: Kosovo and the Dukagjin Plain is the province inhabited by the majority of the Albanian people, who, as always and today, want to join Albania. The formulation of such a position, as Hajdar Dushi said, was based on the declarations of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the KANC of Yugoslavia, in which the principle of self-determination of peoples until secession was recognized, this basic principle of the Atlantic Charter, solemnly announced by the allies of the anti-fascist coalition.

Below in the resolution, it was emphasized 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 for self-determination. over their fate, with the right to self-determination up to secession. The guarantor for this is the UNÇ of Yugoslavia and the UNÇSH of Albania, with which it is closely connected. In addition to these, the great allies, the Soviet Union, England and America (the Atlantic Charter, the Moscow and Tehran Conferences) guarantee this.

Kosovo and the Dukagjin Plain is a side, which is populated for the most part by the Albanian population, which, as always, still wants to unite with Albania. Therefore, we feel it is our duty to point out the true path that the Albanian people must follow in order to realize their aspirations. The only way to unite with Albania, for the Albanians of Kosovo and the Dukagjin Plain, is the joint struggle with the other peoples of Yugoslavia.

In 1946, Tito declared for the American Associated Press agency that Kosovo and other Albanian territories will 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 that were in the Yugoslav union.

The Serbian newspaper "Pravda" writes that in 1946 Tito almost "gifted" Kosovo to Enver Hoxha, but also other Albanian territories. It is little known to the world, where the former Yugoslav leader had openly said that: Kosovo and other territories with an Albanian majority will be returned to Albania, Shekulli reports the article of the Serbian newspaper.

"If the communists come to power in Albania, it (Kosovo) can be under the jurisdiction of Tirana", said the then Yugoslav leader to the Associated Press.

"The head of the Albanian state, Enver Hoxha has always said that Tito promised at the end of June 1946 that Kosovo and other territories with an Albanian majority 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, Edvard Kardel, according to some conspiracy theories, on the occasion of his visit to Moscow, had told Joseph Stalin that Kosovo would be given to Albania, with their fight against the occupier and his servants.


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