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minorities into declaring
Albanian ethnicity, according to them the Albanian government has stated that it will jail anyone who does not participate in the census or refuse to declare his or her ethnicity. Genc Pollo, the minister in charge has declared that: "Albanian citizens will be able to freely express their ethnic and religious affiliation and mother tongue. However, they are not forced to answer these sensitive questions". The amendments criticized do not include jailing or forced declaration of ethnicity or religion; only a fine is envisioned which can be overthrown by court.
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nationalist critics are up in arms at efforts to provide an accurate picture of
Albania's ethnic breakdown, seeing a plot to weaken the state ... The group has denounced the ethnicity section of the national census, and Spahiu warns the results could upset Albania's "good model" of ethnic and
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Greek representatives form part of the
Albanian parliament and the government has invited Albanian Greeks to register, as the only way to improve their status. On the other hand, nationalists, various organizations and political parties in Albania have expressed their concern that the census might
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estimates the Greek minority to constitute 0.9% of the total population. The US State
Department estimates that Greeks make up 1.17%, and other minorities 0.23%, of the population. The latter questions the validity of the census data about the Greek minority, due to the fact that measurements have
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Macedonian and some Greek minority groups have sharply criticized
Article 20 of the Census law, according to which a $ 1,000 fine will be imposed on anyone who will declare an ethnicity other than what is stated on his or her birth certificate. This is claimed to be an attempt to intimidate
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and Jews. Regarding the Greeks, "it is difficult to know how many Greeks there are in
Albania". The estimates vary between 60,000 and 300,000 ethnic Greeks in Albania. According to Ian Jeffries, most of Western sources put the number at around 200,000. The 300,000 mark is supported by Greek
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stated that "the results of the census should be viewed with the utmost caution and calls on the authorities not to rely exclusively on the data on nationality collected during the census in determining its policy on the protection of national minorities.".
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Distribution of ethnic groups within
Albania, as of the 2011 census. Districts colored gray are those where a majority of people did not declare an ethnicity (the question was optional). The census was criticized and boycotted by minorities in
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and Greece formally annulled claims to North Epirus (southern
Albania), where there is a sizeable Greek minority. ... strained by concerns relating to the treatment of ethnic Greeks residing in Albania (numbering an estimated
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Albania. The Greek government, it is typically claimed, says that there are around 300,000 ethnic Greeks in Albania, but most Western estimates are around
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The
Albanian government claimed that there were only 60,000, based on the biased 1989 census, whereas the Greek government claimed that there were upwards of 300,000. Most Western estimates were around the 200,000
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Albania recognizes nine ethnic or cultural minorities, which are the Aromanian, Greek, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serb, Roma, Egyptian, Bosnian and Bulgarian peoples. Additional minorities are the Gorani and Jews.
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Issues of ethnicity are a delicate topic and subject to debate. Contrary to official statistics that show an over 97 per cent Albanian majority in the country, minority groups (such as
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206:. INSTAT (Albanian Institute of Statistics). Archived from
589:"ÿþMicrosoft Word – Law Nr 10442 date 07.07.2011.doc"
483:"International Religious Freedom Report for 2014: Albania"
751:"Courts in Albania suspend changing nationality to Greek"
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Albania recognises nine national or cultural minorities:
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222:"Third Opinion on Albania adopted on 23 November 2011"
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315:The Balkans: A Post-Communist History
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255:4 December
190:References
137:Statistics
93:Macedonian
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687:7 January
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575:census.al
490:state.gov
458:"Albania"
436:"Albania"
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