Mukje Agreement

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Agreement signed on August 2 1943 in the Albanian village of Mukje between Balli Kombëtar and the Communist Party of Albania on how to regulate the Albanian resistance in World War II and how to prepare for the future of Ethnic Albania.

The agreement established a Committee of National Salvation which should take the lead over the Albanian resistance movement. One of its goals was the creation of Greater Albania. On the part of the Albanian communists, the agreement was signed by Imer Dishnica, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Albania. A dispute arose concerning the status of Kosovo. Whereas the National Front proposed to fight for the reintegration of Kossowa into Albania, the Communist representatives objected fiercely. A compromise was reached where the question of Kosovo would be decided in a plebiscite by its people at the end of the war.

Since the agreement did not contain any provisions on fighting the occupying German and Italian forces, but rather promoted nationalism and collaborationism, it was considered counterrevolutionary by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, whose delegate Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo exerted considerable influence over the Albanian communists. Consequently, the agreement was formally denounced several days later in a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Albania.

After failure of the agreement, Balli Kombëtar chose to openly collaborate with Italian and German troops, while the Communist Party of Albania continued to fight alongside the Yugoslav Partisans. Balli Kombëtar was eventually superseded by the Legaliteti movement led by Abaz Kupi, seeking to reinstate exiled king Ahmet Zogu.

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