1. We would like the report of your mission to mirror the changes of the Greek minority situation in Albania after the establishment of the democratic regime, which you expressed in your letter dated September 10, 1993, sent to minister Serreqi, page 5 last paragraph: "since the communist regime collapsed in albania, the Greek minority has regained a measure of freedom unknown for decades". We consider it would be necessary to refer to the rights that this minority really enjoys today in the following fields:

• Persons belonging to the Greek minority have full freedom to express themselves in the Greek language as is shown, for instance, by the existence of three Greek-language newspapers in Albania and Radio broadcasts in Greek.
• In accordance with para. 32 of the Copenhagen Document, persons belonging to the Greek minority have the right freely to express, preserve and develop their ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious identity, in this comment, they have the right to establish and maintain political social or cultural organizations or associations for this purpose (para. 32.6) "Omonia" being one of them.
• Members of the Greek minority have ample opportunities to take part in the political life of Albania. In the elections of 1992 the Party for the Protection of Human Rights put forward candidates from the Greek minority and two deputies of this party were elected. In addition, in the Parliament there are four deputies from this minority belonging to the Democratic and Socialist parties respectively. Statistics shows that from the Greek minority there are 13 chairmen of communes, 59 communes council members, 32 city councillors, 53 district councillors. The chairmen of the districts of Gjirokastra, Saranda and Delvina and the mayor of Saranda are of Greek origin.

2. It would be relevant to quote in the report your recommendations which have been realized up to now by the Albanian government such as the opening of the Minorities office at the Government, the legal and practical improvements that have been made in the minority education system and so on.

3. The existence of ultra nationalist Greek minority individuals who stir up speculations on the situation of the rights of the Greek minority in Albania could also be mentioned in the report.

4. The Albanian request on the rights of the Albanian minority in Greece takes into consideration those who could remain in Chameri after the expulsion of thousands of albanians following World War II, as well as the Albanians living in other regions of Greece and the well-known Arvanites. Greece denies their presence and prohibits affirmation of their national identity in spite of the evidence provided by foreign observers, such as the Report of the Federal Union of European Nationalities - FUEN (May 25, 1994), the Report issued by the British Helsinki Human Rights Group - Oxford (May 1994), the Letter (October 1994) by the United States Department of State to the Coalition of the Albanian-American Religious, Educational, Cultural and Social Societies, etc.