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consistent with increased tensions across the border, often fomented by Greek forces.
Albania protested.
MID#4090
Dispute Number: 4090
Date(s): August 11, 1997 to September 17, 1997
Participants: 350 Greece/339 Albania
Outcome (and Settlement): Compromise (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: On August 11, 1997, two Greek soldiers entered 250–300 meters inside
Albanian territory near the border police station at Vidohove in the district of Devoll.
They opened fire on Albanians, killing one and wounding another. Two days later
Albanian Foreign Minister Paskal Milo summoned Konstandinos Prevendurakis,
Greek ambassador in Tirana, to protest. Then, on September 17, four Greek soldiers
entered the Trestenink village of Devoll 300 meters inside Albania and attempted
to kidnap a 14-year-old girl who was plowing the field with her mother. Nearby vil-
lagers ran to help when they heard screams. As the Greek soldiers began to retreat
they opened fire on the villagers and wounded a 13-year-old boy. On September 18,
the Albania Foreign Ministry summoned the chargé d’affaires of the embassy of
the Greek Republic in Tirana, Andrea Papakonstantinu, and handed him a note of
protest.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from September 17, 1997. Outcome changed
from Compromise. Settlement changed from Negotiated.
339 Albania/355 Bulgaria
MID#3348
Started in January 1916. See the narrative in the 300 Austria-Hungary/339 Albania
dyad dispute list.
339 Albania/640 Turkey
MID#3348
Started in January 1916. See the narrative in the 300 Austria-Hungary/339 Albania
dyad dispute list.
343 Macedonia/345 Yugoslavia
MID#4046
Started in April 1994. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/345 Yugo-
slavia dyad dispute list.