This area was channeled to a part of the artistic exchanges and cultural groups , which began in Greece sent starting then. Paradoxically , the core of the Cham issue appeared , even in an atmosphere extremely irritated by the last communist leader , President Alia , during the meeting that he had with Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis , in Tirana on 13 January 1991 . Although increasingly under a "charter reserve" , the Cham issue was taken by surprise R. Alia , after Greek Prime proudly presented two basic requirements : that the establishment of a Greek clergyman in charge of After Effects , and the return of the Greek minority in Albania that had crossed the border illegally . " Yes to the return of the Chams , what do" interrupted also boast Greek Prime Alia monologue . And continued : " We have 100 -plus requests from families Cham who want to return to their lands , but they are not given a visa ." Precipitate thus entered the Cham issue at a meeting of high- level Albanian-Greek . The debate turned to one of the main issues , and it appears from the record , Alia must have come out the winner in that debate .
At a certain moment , Mitsotakis lost and claimed that the problem of minorities was different from that of the Chams , as they pulled people from Greece , as Nazi collaborators . Then , he added , they were not Greeks , were another nationality . Seized the moment properly Alia , which positions a defender of human rights , turn Mitsotakis : " So , those who belong to another nationality përzikeni you " ! Another culminating moment emblematic of this meeting , and it is another to claim that followed Mitsotakis , it recognition as those Greek villages , which he wanted to be so, and opening it to the churches of the Greek schools .
Alia replied cut this time , the issue of nationality is not a matter of personal choice , but a matter of history , language , culture : not everyone who says to him in Greek is really Greek . Then , Alia said , how can I talk more to a village called Greek kërkoka us , you own a word here Shuan 30 thousand people called collaborators of the Germans , along with the elderly and children ?
As Alia indirectly confirms this comeback Cham issue , even through the last communist leader of Albania , who already owed pressure after the advent of pluralism , had begun to exert itself Cham community and his organization "Chameria " on Albanian institutions . In that conversation Alia made two fundamental problems Cham issue , representing two levels of resolution to her problem and the restitution of their return to their lands .
I consider it very important that the President Alia replication Prime Minister Mitsotakis in 1991 , after he was also a representative of Albania old , dictatorial , dear inadvertently set a standard Albanian foreign policy : henceforth , the Democratic leaders will come to power , could not ignore the Cham issue . So much since November 1990, the Greek side had made it clear through its ambassador in Tirana , Athens problem that the Greek minority in Albania would be the basic parameter in relations with Albania . In no parameter based , at least the main or important parameter should be the problem for the Albanian Cham relations with Greece .