Cham Albanians

One of the issues often raised by Albania, both at the bilateral and international levels, is the so-called “Cham issue.”

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Greece and Albania are heading for an agreement in the coming days to resolve their pending bilateral differences.

According to reports, both sides are looking to clinch a deal before the June 25 European Summit of foreign ministers.

Albania's Cham community, expelled from Greece after World War Two, asked Greece on Saturday to apologise for what they called a genocide against them and permit them to return to the area in northern Greece from which they were removed.

Albania's Cham community, expelled from Greece after World War Two, asked Greece on Saturday to apologise for what they called a genocide against them and permit them to return to the area in northern Greece from which they were removed.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that the issue of Cham rights remains one of the thorniest problems in talks between Athens and Tirana.

Speaking on Albanian TV, Rama dismissed recent remarks by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias according to which Greek and Albanian officials are not discussing the Cham issue.

The Party for Justice, Integration and Unity, PDIU, which lobbies for the rights of the Cham community in Albania, is fighting a battle with the Central Electoral Commission over its chairman's right to sit in parliament.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has denied his country is following an irredentist foreign policy with its insistence on discussing the issue of claims made by the Cham community to the property they left behind when they were expelled from Greece during World War II.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has again returned to the vexed issue of the exiled Cham community in a Greek TV interview broadcast on Tuesday.

Rama said it was a perfect Balkanic paradox that Albania and Greece remained "de jure" in a state of war despite signing a treaty of friendship in 1987.