The “Bucharest Meeting” was held, a meeting of representatives of the Albanian colony of Bucharest chaired by Ismail Qemal Vlora and Luigj Gurakuqi, which determined the measures that had to be taken to save the homeland, for the preparation of the Declaration of Independence of Albania. The outbreak of the Balkan War and the quick victories of the Balkan allies had created a very complicated and critical situation for the Albanians. In these conditions, the patriots who were outside the homeland, decided to take a new political action. Bucharest was chosen, because there was an Albanian colony there that had given help in the national issue; also, Romania had declared its neutrality towards the Balkan conflict, so it created opportunities for securing this historic action. The first stage of this action was the meeting in Bucharest, where it was decided to form a steering committee as soon as possible in Albania, to take over the government of the country, to create a commission that would go to Europe to defend before the Powers of Greater national rights of the Albanian people and a committee in Bucharest that would coordinate the actions of other committees inside and outside Albania to help the homeland. The meeting in Bucharest mobilized the Albanian colony there to help in all ways the right solution of the “Albanian issue”. The idea of calling a general Albanian assembly, which would meet in Vlora on November 28, 1912, originated in the Bucharest meeting. (In the photo: Luigj Gurakuqi among the Albanians of Bucharest, 1912.)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1663-1664.
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