Kurti glorifies the Bujan Conference of 1944, which annexed Kosovo to Albania

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, announced on his Facebook account this evening that the Bujan Conference, where the annexation of Kosovo to Albania was decided, was "an articulation of the political will of the Albanians at a crucial moment".

Kurti stated that today he met with the President of the Assembly of Kosovo Glauk Konjufca and several Albanian historians with whom he discussed the 80 years since the signing of the Bujan Conference.

"Complementing each other, we talked about the fate of Albanians and Kosovo during the Second World War, about different political currents and about political figures. We also talked about the state and trends of historical studies of Albanian historiography", stated Kurti and specified that the Bujan Conference began on December 31 In 1943 and during the next two days, a resolution was adopted that "Kosovo and the Dukagja regions are inhabited by the most Albanian people who, as always, as today, want to unite with Albania."

"The Bujan Conference supported the people's right to self-determination and articulated the political will of Albanians at a crucial moment. As such, this historic meeting played a decisive role in the political status of Kosovo and became a reference event in previous periods until today. For the study of the political history of Kosovo and for nurturing the historical dimension of politics", said Kurti.

According to historical data, at the Bujan Conference held in January 1944 in Bujan, in the north of Albania, the then National Liberation Committee of Kosovo made a decision on the annexation of Kosovo to Albania.

After the end of the Second World War, the new Yugoslav authorities rejected this decision, and the then president Josip Broz Tito assessed that act as an act of Greater Albanian reaction, that is, an attempt to create Greater Albania.