12 YEARS OF THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE
Working for the Albanian National Cause in Washington
Hon. Joseph DioGuardi, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Shirley A. Cloyes, Balkan Affair Adviser
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12 YEARS OF THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE Working for the Albanian National Cause in Washington Hon. Joseph DioGuardi, Chairman of the Board of Directors Shirley A. Cloyes, Balkan Affair Adviser |
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 DioGuardi with President George W.Bush |
On November 28, 1999, ten years after the beginning of the Serbian
occupation, in a free, but still not independent, Kosova, Joe DioGuardi, former
Congressman and founder of the Albanian Civic League, with his wife and Balkan Affair
Adviser, Shirley Cloyes, said at the rededication of the building where the league of
Prizren first met in 1878: "Tė gjithė
shqiptarėve nė Ballkan: The Civic League is the only registered grassroots lobby in Washington DC, representing the Albanian people. It expresses the concerns of over 500,000 Albanian Americans about the cause and human rights of seven million Albanians living side by side in Albania, Kosova, Western Macedonia, Southeastern Montenegro, Presheve, Medvegje, Bujanoc, Chameria. The Civic League is classified as a section 501(c) (4) non profit organizationunder the Internal Revenue Code and is registered to actively lobby the legislative and the executive branches of the U.S. Government. (It files semi-annnual reports with the Secretary of the U.S. Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives.) The Civic League was officially formed in January 1989 to continue the work of Congressman Joseph DioGuardi, an Albanian American who brought the issue of Kosova to the U.S. Congress for the first time in 1985.
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