Albania has achieved the first victory in the race to be an Albanian in the post of Secretary General of the OSCE .
Sources from the OSCE in Vienna told tch that Albania defeated Turkey in an internal vote conducted the day after the meeting between Rama and Erdogan in New York .
37 countries expressed their support for Albania's package headed by Igli Hasan as the new Secretary General of the OSCE.
The same sources show that 10 countries, including Russia, the USA and Serbia ( Holy See, Russia, Belarus, Spain, Mongolia, USA, Serbia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan ), did not express themselves for one or the other package, leaving it is understood that they are ready to go with the candidate with the most supported package, which is that of Igli Hasan.
Only 8 countries expressed support for the Turkey-Greece package ( 5 Central Asia, Portugal, Turkey, Greece )
Under these conditions, the position of Turkey, supported by Greece, has become very difficult and the chances are that either Turkey has to make way for Albania's candidate or a third candidate can benefit if this deadlock lasts until the time limit.
The most interesting fact for all internal observers of the process in Vienna is that, despite Turkey's request to pave the way, Albania has continued to ask Turkey for the same, given that it has provided more support than Turkey.
Apparently, this attitude has not changed even after the face-to-face meeting between President Erdogan and Prime Minister Rama.
If Rama succeeds in this game of chess with his friend President Erdogan, then this will undoubtedly be another international achievement, which until yesterday would have been considered unimaginable for Albania.
However, this time we are playing a diplomatic and mostly lobbying game between the OSCE member countries, which is not easy at all.
In the conditions where Turkish-Greek relations have normalized, these two states decided to come up with a common candidate for the vacant position of the OSCE Secretary General. Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Georgia proposed former ambassador Feridun Sinirlioğlu as secretary general, while for the head of ODIHR the Greek Maria Telalian.
On the other hand, Albania with the support of the Netherlands proposed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania Igli Hasani for the post of number one of the OSCE and Christophe Kamp for the head of the ODIHR./ Tch