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	Ist das Ohrider Abkommen gescheitert? \| Fokus Ost-Südost \| Deutsche Welle \| 29.06.2006
		Arben Xhaferi: "Ich sehe die Quelle dieses Antagonismus in der Unfähigkeit der politischen Partei, die an der Regierung beteiligt ist.
		Ihre Einschätzung, Herr Xhaferi, stimmt nicht mit der Sichtweise der Vertreter der internationalen Gemeinschaft überein.
		Arben Xhaferi: "Die Vertreter der internationalen Gemeinschaft haben das Ziel, uns gute Ratschläge zu geben und auch keine nationalen Antagonismen hervorzurufen.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,2073458,00.html (764 words)

	Dnevnik, Arben Xhaferi attends commemoration of the KLA founder, Adem Jashari, 3/7/01, PDP responds to DPA attacks, ...
		Dnevnik, Arben Xhaferi attends commemoration of the KLA founder, Adem Jashari, 3/7/01, PDP responds to DPA attacks, 4/2/01, Josif Ilkovski, the host of the chalet in Kitka, beastly tortured and slaughtered, 4/2/01, Phone Line Skopje-Stockholm on Fire, 3/24/01, Extremists have been isolated.
		Arben Xhaferi, the leader of the DPA yesterday went to Pristina, to attend the commemorative academy in honor of three years since the death of Adem Jashari, one of the founders of the KLA.
		Yesterday the deputy president of the DPA, Menduh Thaci, confirmed that Arben Xhaferi was in Pristina, attending the commemoration of Adem Jashari's death.
	www.ex-yupress.com /mkdnevnik/mkdnevnik30.html (1918 words)

	Selective Democracy Comes to Macedonia
		The second reason has been the uncanny ability of the Albanian political leaders, in particular, Arben Xhaferi, to master Western political rhetoric.
		Xhaferi is also an ardent follower of Guinier.
		"Xhaferi is well aware of the Western concern for the issues of 'human rights.' Thus, he extensively uses vocabulary that triggers the Western conscience.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/deliso15.html (2989 words)

	Arben Xhaferi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arben Xhaferi is the party president of the Party for Democracy of Albanians in Macedonia (PPDSH).
		Xhaferi is an influential fighter in the battle between minority Albanians and the majority Slavic Macedonians in Macedonia and has been both vocal in calling for a change in the Preamble of the Constitution of Macedonia.
		Xhaferi's "The DPA Non-Paper", and "The Challenges of Democracy in Multiethnic States," accurately depict the beliefs of the PPDSH concerning the state of Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia and the solutions required to improve the quality of life for ethnic monorities.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arben_Xhaferi (299 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Use Words, Not Guns, Balkan Leader Tells Rebels, The NY Times, Mar 28 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TETOVO, Macedonia, March 27 - Arben Xhaferi, the leading Albanian politician in Macedonia, says he is "an optimist in a panic." He feels that he has no more than a month to show his constituents that they can improve their lives through political means, before more young Albanians here turn to the gun.
		Xhaferi (pronounced ZHA-ferry) is one of the most thoughtful politicians in Macedonia, a key but ailing figure on whom interethnic stability may rest.
		Xhaferi says he has had no direct contact with Ali Ahmeti, the apparent leader of the rebels, and he deplores their violence, but he is also trying to make use of the panic they have created in this society.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2001/Mar_28/10.html (925 words)

	Arben Xhaferi - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Arben Xhaferi is the party president of the Party for Democracy of Albanians in Macedonia (PPDSH).
		Xhaferi is an influential fighter in the battle between minority Albanians and the majority Slavic Macedonians in Macedonia and has been both vocal in calling for a change in the Preamble of the Constitution of Macedonia.
		Xhaferi's "The DPA Non-Paper", and "The Challenges of Democracy in Multiethnic States," accurately depict the beliefs of the PPDSH concerning the state of Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia and the solutions required to improve the quality of life for ethnic monorities.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1287024 (312 words)

	Southeast Europe Online
		Arben Xhaferi is the leader of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), the largest ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia.
		Xhaferi was originally a member of the Party for Democratic Prosperity (PDP), an ethnic Albanian party that served in the Macedonian government during the first half of the 1990s.
		Xhaferi was an elected member of parliament from 1994-1998, but refused to attend sessions in protest against the poor treatment of minorities.
	www.southeasteurope.org /subpage.php?sub_site=30&w_id=219 (453 words)

	AN OPTIMIST IN PANIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARBEN XHAFERI
		AN OPTIMIST IN PANIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARBEN XHAFERI Arben Xhaferi, president of the Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, a partner in Macedonia's ruling government coalition, explains to IWPR how immediate constitutional changes are imperative for a peaceful resolution to the current crisis
		Arben Xhaferi, president of the Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, a partner in Macedonia's ruling government coalition, explains to IWPR how immediate constitutional changes are imperative for a peaceful resolution to the current crisis
		Arben Xhaferi: I explain this as ethnic competition: to whom does the state belong?
	www.alb-net.com /amcc/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid986622756,32672, (1800 words)

	Macedonian Heritage - Opinion: Continuing crisis (Editorial - "Kathimerini")
		Arben Xhaferi’s Democratic Albanian Party staged a march of many thousands of Albanians in the center of Skopje.
		Even though the rally aimed to support the demands of the Albanian community and a peaceful settlement of the crisis, the climate was tense and the place overwhelmed by Albanian flags.
		It is indicative that the moderate Xhaferi reiterated the demand that Albanians be recognized as an equal nation and did not rule out the possibility of a future secession.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Opinion/comm_20010314KathimEdit.html (390 words)

	Macedonia: A Step Closer to a Peace Plan - 2001-09-06
		Xhaferi says the new recruits will not be in place for at least five months while they are being trained in the United States.
		Xhaferi counters that their objections are just a mask for attempts to avoid implementing the peace accord.
		Xhaferi denied that Albanians are trying to use NATO as their private army.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2001-09/a-2001-09-06-23-Macedonia.cfm (536 words)

	Electronic Map of Ethnopolitical Conflict
		Arben Xhaferi, who heads the governing Democratic Party of the Albanians (PDSH), and Ymer Ymeri, who leads the opposition Party for Democratic Prosperity (PPD), signed an agreement in Skopje on 20 March after meeting with EU security affairs chief Javier Solana.
		Xhaferi informed Trajkovski that that DPA has no intention to either withdraw from the Government coalition, or boycott the Macedonian Parliament, and that it plans to continue to participate on the meetings of leaders of political parties under the President's patronage.
		[Xhaferi] The UCK has not participated in these hypothetical talks, which have yet to start, for two reasons: first, the dialogue is conducted within a government framework, that is, with the forces participating in the government or the enlarged coalition.
	www.ecmi.de /emap/mk_C04_02b02.html (15572 words)

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		Xhaferi has succeeded in exploiting these mistakes, persuading voters the PDP is incompetent and that the DPA is the best alternative for the ethnic Albanian community.
		Xhaferi and Thaci have also been implicated in a series of scandals in recent months.
		Xhaferi is alleged to have taken bribes while Thaci has been accused of involvement in tobacco smuggling.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20000711_4_eng.txt (943 words)

	Qendra për informim Lajmet.com
		Xhaferi njihet si ndërtuesi i platformës për demokraci konsensuale, si një parakusht për parandalimin e tendencave margjinalizuese të aplikuara në atë kohë kundrejt shqiptarëve, por dhe si mjet që mund të ishte efikas kundër ndarjeve territoriale që sot e kësaj dite i kanosen Maqedonisë.
		Gjatë konfliktit të armatosur të vitit 2001, Xhaferi investohet tek faktori ndërkombëtar që motivet e luftës të mos kërkohen atje ku nuk ekzistonin, pra në Kosovë apo te animet gjenetike të shqiptarëve për rebelim, ashtu siç pretendonin faktorët maqedonas, por te koncepti i shtetit i cili nuk përputhej me realitetin.
		Në opozitë, Xhaferi që në fillim dha sinjale të qarta se qeveria e re, po devijon nga përcaktimet e marrëveshjes së Ohrit.
	www.lajmet.com /Njohtime/arkivi/Shekulli-19-Prill-03.html (460 words)

	[Nettime-bold] briefing 08.05.2001
		The statement made by the leader of the DPA (Democratic Party of the Albanians), Arben Xhaferi, that “we must immediately introduce changes in the Constitution, because it is the only way to stop the uprising in several parts of Macedonia”, provoked strong reactions in the state political circles.
		Xhaferi’s statement, continues Kraljevski, is flmail, because it leads to achieving changes in the Macedonian Constitution with military methods.
		“Arben Xhaferi’s statement is so extreme and pure flmail, that it leaves no space for dialogue for what the leader of the DPA allegedly stands for”, announces the representative of VMRO-VMRO, Zlatko Stojmenov.
	www.nettime.org /Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0105/msg00146.html (2635 words)

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		Arben Xhaferi played a role in Albanian student protests in 1968, and after concessions were granted to Kosovo in the 1974 Constitution, enjoyed a successful career in Pristina as an arts critic.
		Xhaferi has advocated instead for “multiethnic democracy,” which relies on consensus rather than majority voting, in terms reminiscent of Albanian struggles within federal Yugoslavia and which also evoke Arend Lijphart’s model of consociational democracy.
		It is not yet clear whether the Ohrid Agreement has changed that fundamental logic: the decision by Arben Xhaferi to resort to a more radical position since 2002 indicates that, in the reckoning of this shrewd politician, the old rules still apply.
	wwics.si.edu /topics/pubs/MR310Brown.doc (2367 words)

	Forums - Wahhabis at the Gate
		Arben Xhaferi (pronounced Jaferi), leader of the Albanian Democratic party, is considered both the main Albanian patriotic leader in Macedonia and the region's outstanding critic of Wahhabi influence.
		Xhaferi has paid for his forthright criticism of Islamist extremism, as have others who support him, such as the Skopje newspaper publisher Emin Azemi, whose Albanian-language daily Fakti (The Facts) is among the most professional in the region.
		But since the Wahhabis, notwithstanding their hatred of everything modern, use cell phones, Azemi was able to reply to their harassment by printing their telephone numbers in his paper and calling on readers to communicate their opinions to the Wahhabis.
	engforum.pravda.ru /showthread.php3?s=&threadid=47481 (1001 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Popular Albanian leader holds key role
		It is a measure of the widespread respect that Mr Xhaferi commands, though, that the guerrillas have shied away from direct criticism of him, saving their attacks for his deputy, Menduh Thaci.
		Mr Xhaferi opposes a federal solution for Macedonia, which the NLA say they want - but the fundamental disagreement is about means, not ends, about whether violence is justified in the pursuit of the ethnic Albanians' political aims.
		Mr Xhaferi has appreciated the crucial fact which the guerrillas, in planning their campaign, did not: that the international community would never support anything which looked like a new separatist war in the Balkans.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1256855.stm (659 words)

	Easily Led (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SKOPJE, Macedonia--"There should be an amnesty for all political prisoners," said Arben Xhaferi, leader of Macedonia's main ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), in a 5 April Reuters interview.
		Xhaferi had just come out of talks with British Foreign Minister Robin Cook in Tetovo and rejected Cook's description of the rebels as "terrorists." "They cannot be terrorists because they have uniforms, they have a front line, and they did not organize terrorist attacks against civilians anywhere in Macedonia," he said.
		According to Xhaferi, the process of the release of those "political prisoners" should start immediately, or else most of the ethnic Albanian politicians in Macedonia (including Xhaferi) are openly threatening a renewed cycle of violence.
	www.tol.cz /look/TOLrus/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=21&NrSection=1&NrArticle=722&ALStart=100 (574 words)

	(New York Times) Another Balkan Battle: Higher Learning
		Xhaferi's party is now the largest Albanian party and he is in a coalition with the current government, which has supported the new university and does nothing to block Mr.
		Xhaferi's own position and credibility with his voters is being undermined, one reason that he has warned the government that a large military offensive against the rebels would cause him to pull out of the coalition.
		Xhaferi, and called for dialogue with the political leaders of the rebels, which the government refuses to engage in, saying it will speak only to elected leaders.
	www.peacelink.it /webgate/yugoslavia/msg00771.html (1075 words)

	Slavs and Albanians Form Unusual Coalition in Macedonia - New York Times
		Xhaferi, they also agreed on a plan to give much more power to local governments and to settle a sometimes violent rallying point for both sides: a university where instruction is in the Albanian language.
		Xhaferi's; rather, he is determined to persuade them to join him.
		Xhaferi, who in the past has hinted that Albanians here may have to secede in order to secure political rights, now says they must learn to work with Macedonian politicians.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9D03E4DC1538F933A05752C1A96E958260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (650 words)

	CNN.com - Macedonian talks 'destined to fail' - June 2, 2001
		Arben Xhaferi, leader of the main Albanian party and a key partner in the ethnically-mixed national unity government, said the insurrection could only be ended once the guerrilla National Liberation Army (NLA) was brought to the negotiating table.
		Xhaferi, a widely respected moderate, defended a peace pact he signed with guerrillas more than a week ago.
		Xhaferi will participate in the talks, but he said the conflict would continue regardless of how much progress was made towards improving ethnic Albanian rights in the tiny Balkan state.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/02/macedonia.clashes.02 (420 words)

	Red hot leaders cooled as Macedonia smouldered: ThePost.ie
		Arben Xhaferi, the father of the Albanian minority in Macedonia and the leader of the ruling coalition party, Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) and Ljubco Georgievski, prime minister and Macedonian hawk, once offered extreme nationalistic dreams to their voters.
		Arben Xhaferi was once a journalist in Radio TV Pristina in Kosovo.
		Xhaferi promised his voters that Macedonia would change the constitution to recognise Albanians, that Albanians would speak their own language in parliament and that he would do everything for Tetovo University to become officially recognised.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2001/04/08/story526756928.asp (767 words)

	Balkan Political Club
		After completing his high school education in Tetova Arben Xhaferi worked for a year as a teacher in the village of Zheline.
		When Prishtina TV was founded, Arben Xhaferi became a coproducer and later editor of the cultural division.
		Arben Xhaferi became a columnist for the independent Albanian newspaper Koha and for Adem Demaci's magazine, Forumi, as well as for Fjala and Tema.
	www.balkanpoliticalclub.net /en/Arben%20Xhaferi.php (273 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		PDSH Chairman Arben Xhaferi subsequently said his party was obliged to return to the legislature because it was the only party representing the "real interests" of the country's 23 percent Albanian minority.
		Xhaferi recently raised another contentious issue that is likely to enrage the Macedonian public: the question of Macedonia's national symbols, such as the future of its coat-of-arms, flag, and national anthem.
		Xhaferi has argued that neither the flag nor the anthem reflects the country's multiethnic character.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/04/5-NOT/not-280405.asp?po=y (728 words)

	Wave of the Future
		Arben Xhaferi the leader of DPA has cited Lijphart's theories as the basis of his hope for the future societies in the Balkans.
		Xhaferi uses the West's post-colonial/apartheid guilt to attack the "ethnic state," by which he means the Slavic state.
		Xhaferi echoes these nationalistic claims: "The right to self-determination was given only to the state's Slav Macedonian population, not to its Albanian population, who against their will see themselves as separated from part of their national body."
	www.antiwar.com /orig/ilievski1.html (4529 words)

	LRB \| Jeremy Harding : Europe's War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The DPA in Macedonia, and its leader Arben Xhaferi, look to the West both for the prosperity of the Albanian minority and for a stand against the persecution of the Kosovars.
		The picture of an 'axis' pitted against an 'alliance' is one that Xhaferi shares with his fellow citizens in the Serbian party in Skopje, but the position is flawlessly reversed.
		I think Xhaferi - a gifted, attractive man, too attractive, perhaps, to be wholly trustworthy - had the refugees in mind when he produced his answer to the question of population growth.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v21/n09/hard01_.html (5269 words)

	Hundreds Flee Macedonian Town
		Amid the fighting, ethnic Albanian political leader Arben Xhaferi on Tuesday urged a resumption of dialogue with Slavic partners in the government but refused to renounce a deal with rebels that has led to a deep crisis within the coalition.
		The agreement was "a declaration of peace, not of war," Xhaferi declared, hours after talks with Solana.
		Xhaferi added that had the government accepted the deal fighting could already have stopped.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20010529/aponline085128_000.htm (637 words)

	back010406.htm Resolving the Crisis in Macedonia - The Albanian American Civic League, April 6, 2001
		But, as Democratic Party chairman Arben Xhaferi observed in an interview with the New York Times on March 27, while the reality of Macedonia is multiethnic, "the concept of the state is ethnocentric." "Which do we change?" he asked.
		While the DPA is not without its faults, and should undergo careful self-examination and change in this period, it is also the case that DPA leader Arben Xhaferi and his colleagues should receive credit and support for their numerous accomplishments in improving the present and future prospects for Albanians in Macedonia.
		Arben Xhaferi should also receive praise for his superb performance as a statesman on behalf of the Albanian people throughout this crisis.
	www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/back010406.htm (2099 words)

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