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NGOs

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NGO

• A key official from a remote prefecture in the Northeast corner of the country at Buzi advises the center that a major U.K. NGO has an official heading to work in the region who is impossible to work with.

• A few days later, the British Ambassador discreetly approaches the MFA registering complaints from the NGO claiming a totally uncooperative attitude toward his work, and threatening to “pull out and make a public stink.”

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NGO (continued)

• A day later, the prefecture advises that the NGO has so alienated the local populace that he fears for his safety.

• A daily telegraph reporter doing a story on the Balkans and traveling in Albania for only a few days approaches the press office of the MFA advising that he has picked up a hint of NGO/Government feuding in Buzi and plans to travel there for a day.

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NGO (continued)

• A French NGO working in the same area with close ties in the prefecture and in Tirana advises a friend and Deputy Minister that “the Brits have a wild man running the NGO in Buzi.”