The Foreign Policy of Albania After the Break with China

Abstract

In his statement at the UN General Assembly in October 1979 Foreign Minister N. Nase of Albania summed up the view taken of the world situation by the makers of Albanian foreign policy:

the world situation is very complex and fraught with great dangers. This is the result of the intensification of the expansionist and hegemonistic policy pursued by the superpowers and their efforts to exercise their dictates, their arbitrariness and their interference in the internal affairs of all countries… The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union for domination and hegemony in the world has been and remains the main source of tension and conflict between different countries, as well as local wars, and is the greatest danger to the peace and security of the peoples… In the shadow of and in collaboration with the United States, social-imperialist China is seeking to create spheres of domination, to become the principal military power in that zone [the Far East], to establish its domination in Asia and throughout the Pacific.¹