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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
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C00123268 DR. WIXMAN: I think that's very crucial to under- toward the Serbs is growing throughout the area. If the standing why the Albanians never claimed Kosovo. Serbs really attempt to annihilate the Kosovar Alba- Of the 5 million Albanians in the Balkans, 3 million nians as they did the Bosnian Muslims, can Albania are Gegs. But two-thirds of Albanians in Albania are sit back and maintain any credibility? Tosk, and one-third are Geg. If Albania incorporated Kosovo with its Geg majority-and, by the way, the I think Albania thinks that it may be backed by Tur- Geg and Tosk dialects are not close enough to be key, which in reality may be the case. The Turks are mutually understandable, and the two peoples have improving their relations with Albania and are making very different cultures-Albania would have been it clear that Kosovo is where they draw the line. dominated by Gegs. This is one reason why Albania as a state and as a nation is cool toward the idea of incorporating Kosovo. However, that said, the hatred 4 41
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.