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Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
Carne Ross:Nje diplomat indipendent
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Mbas 15-vjetesh ne korpusin diplomatik Britanik, Carne Ross u be nje "diplomat i pavarur", duke drejtuar me kurajo nje organizate jo-fitimprurese qe jep, nje zhvillim dhe nje ze vendeve te pa njoftura ne marredheniet nderkombetare.Tek konferenca BIF-5 ai sugjeron per nje nje lloj diplomacie te re qe i ben te njohur vendeve te vogla, qe operojne me kufije te paqendrueshem dhe qe mirepresin risite.
Carne Ross - Diplomat
Carne Ross is the founder of Independent Diplomat, a nonprofit that offers freelance diplomatic representation to small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations in the complex world of international negotiations. Full bio
Carne Ross is the founder of Independent Diplomat, a nonprofit that offers freelance diplomatic representation to small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations in the complex world of international negotiations. Full bio
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My story is a little bit about war.
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Historia ime eshte pak rreth luftes.
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It's about disillusionment.
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Ka te beje me zhgenjimin.
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It's about death.
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Ka te beje me vdekjen.
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And it's about rediscovering
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Dhe rreth rizbulimit
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idealism
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idealizmit
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in all of that wreckage.
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ne te tere ate mbeturine.
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And perhaps also, there's a lesson
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Dhe ndoshta , eshte nje mesim
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about how to deal with
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se si te manovrosh me
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our screwed-up, fragmenting
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mosmarrveshjet tona , apo coptimet
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and dangerous world of the 21st century.
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e nje bote te rrezikshme te shekullit te 21-te.
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I don't believe in straightforward narratives.
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Une nuk besoj ne tregime te ndershme.
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I don't believe in a life or history
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Une nuk besoj ne nje jete apo histori
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written as decision "A" led to consequence "B"
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e shkruajtur me qellimin "A" te con ne konseguencen "B"
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led to consequence "C" --
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me pas ne konseguencen "C" --
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these neat narratives that we're presented with,
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keto tregime modeste qe ne prezantohemi me,
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and that perhaps we encourage in each other.
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dhe ndoshta ne inkurajojme njeri-tjetrin .
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I believe in randomness,
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Une besoj tek rastesia,
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and one of the reasons I believe that
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dhe nje nga arsyet qe une besoj ate
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is because me becoming a diplomat was random.
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eshte sepse une qe u bera diplomat ishte e rastesishme.
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I'm colorblind.
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Une nuk i dalloj dot ngjyrat .
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I was born unable to see most colors.
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Une linda me mundesi te kufizuar per te pare shumicen e ngjyrave.
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This is why I wear gray and black most of the time,
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Kjo tregon qe une vishem me ngjyre gri dhe te zeze gjate gjithe kohes,
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and I have to take my wife with me
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dhe me duhet te marre dhe gruan me vehte
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to chose clothes.
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per te me zgjedhur rrobat.
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And I'd always wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was a boy.
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Dhe une gjithmone kam dashur te behem pilot luftarak kur kam qene i ri .
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I loved watching planes barrel over
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Mbaroja per te pare fucite e avionit gjate
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our holiday home in the countryside.
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pushimeve rreth gjithe qytetit.
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And it was my boyhood dream to be a fighter pilot.
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Dhe ajo ishte enderra ime te behesha pilot luftarak.
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And I did the tests in the Royal Air Force to become a pilot,
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Dhe dhashe provimet ne Forcat Ajrore Mbreterore per tu bere pilot,
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and sure enough, I failed.
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dhe sigurisht , qe deshtova.
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I couldn't see all the blinking different lights,
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Sepse nuk mund te shikoja pulsimin e dritave te ndryshme ,
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and I can't distinguish color.
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dhe nuk mund te dalloja ngjyrat.
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So I had to choose another career,
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Keshtu qe mu desh te zgjedh nje karriere tjeter,
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and this was in fact relatively easy for me,
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dhe ishte ne fakt relativisht e lehte per mua,
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because I had an abiding passion all the way through my childhood,
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sepse une kisha nje pasion te qendrueshem gjate gjithe kohes se femijrise time,
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which was international relations.
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qe ishin marrdheniet nderkombetare.
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As a child,
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Si femije qe isha ,
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I read the newspaper thoroughly.
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e lexoja gazeten te gjithe.
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I was fascinated by the Cold War,
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U mrekullova nga Lufta e Ftohte,
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by the INF negotiations
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me negocimet e INF
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over intermediate-range nuclear missiles,
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rreth nje rreze te ndermjetme predhash berthamore,
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the proxy war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
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ne luften e prokuruar nga Bashkimi Sovjetik dhe U.S.
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in Angola or Afghanistan.
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ne Angola dhe Afganistan.
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These things really interested me.
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Keto gjera vertet me interesonin mua.
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And so I decided quite at an early age
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Keshtu qe une vendosa qe kur isha i ri
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I wanted to be a diplomat.
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qe do behesha diplomat .
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And I, one day, I announced this to my parents --
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Dhe Une, nje dite, ja shpalla kete gje prinderve te mi --
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and my father denies this story to this day --
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dhe babai ma mohoi kete histori deri me sot --
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I said, "Daddy, I want to be a diplomat."
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I thashe, " Babi une dua te behem Diplomat. "
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And he turned to me, and he said,
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Ai u kthue nga une, dhe tha,
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"Carne, you have to be very clever to be a diplomat."
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"Carne, duhet te jesh shume i zgjuar per tu bere nje diplomat."
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(Laughter)
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( Te qeshura )
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And my ambition was sealed.
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Dhe ambicja ime u vulos.
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In 1989,
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Ne 1989,
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I entered the British Foreign Service.
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Une hyra ne Sherbimet Britanike te Huaja.
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That year, 5,000 people applied to become a diplomat,
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Ate vit, 5,000 njerez aplikuan per tu bere diplomat,
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and 20 of us succeeded.
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dhe 20 nga ne dolen me sukses.
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And as those numbers suggest,
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Dhe sic ato numura premtonin ,
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I was inducted into an elite
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Une u rekrutova ne brendesi te nje elite
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and fascinating and exhilarating world.
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te nje bote te magjepsur dhe gazmore.
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Being a diplomat, then and now,
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Duke qene nje diplomat, atehere dhe tani ,
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is an incredible job, and I loved every minute of it --
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eshte nje pune e pabesueshme, dhe e admiroja cdo minute te saj --
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I enjoyed the status of it.
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Une e gezoja ate status.
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I bought myself a nice suit and wore leather-soled shoes
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Bleva nje kostum per vehte dhe vishja kepuce lekure
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and reveled in
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dhe isha entuziast
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this amazing access I had to world events.
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per kete qe qasje qe une kisha ne evente boterore
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I traveled to the Gaza Strip.
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Une kam udhetuar ne Ripin e Gazes.
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I headed the Middle East Peace Process section
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Une drejtoja Procesin e Paces ne Lindjen e Mesme pjese kjo e
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in the British Foreign Ministry.
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Ministrise se Jashteme Britanike.
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I became a speechwriter
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Une u bera nje perpilues fjalimesh
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for the British Foreign Secretary.
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per Sekretaren e Jashtme Britanike
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I met Yasser Arafat.
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Une takova me Yasser Arafat.
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I negotiated
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Une negociova
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with Saddam's diplomats at the U.N.
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me diplomatet e Saddamit ne Kombet e Bashkuara.
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Later, I traveled to Kabul
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Me vone, une udhetova per ne Kabul
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and served in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
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kam punuar ne Afganistan mbas renies se Talebaneve.
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And I would travel
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Dhe udhetoja me
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in a C-130 transport
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nje mjet tranposrti C-130
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and go and visit warlords
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per te takuar udheheqesit ushtarake
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in mountain hideaways
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te fshehur ne male
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and negotiate with them
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dhe te negocioja me ta
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about how we were going to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan,
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sesi do te shfarosnim Al Qaeda nga Afganistani,
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surrounded by my Special Forces escort,
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i rrethuar nga eskortat e Forcave Speciale,
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who, themselves, had to have an escort of a platoon of Royal Marines,
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te cilet, per vehten e tyre, i duhej eskorte e Marines Mbreterore,
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because it was so dangerous.
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nga qe ishte shume e rrezikshme.
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And that was exciting -- that was fun.
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Dhe kjo ishte emocionusese -- ishte argetuese.
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It was really interesting.
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Ishte me te vertete interesante.
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And it's a great cadre of people,
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Dhe eshte nje grup kuadrosh njerzish,
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incredibly close-knit community of people.
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shume te lidhur me njeri-tjetrin.
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And the pinnacle of my career, as it turned out,
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Pastaj, kulmi i karrieres time, sic doli me vone,
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was when I was posted to New York.
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kur me derguan ne New York.
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I'd already served in Germany, Norway,
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Une do te desha te punoja ne Gjermani, Norvegji,
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various other places,
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ne vende te ndryshme,
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but I was posted to New York
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por me derguan ne New York
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to serve on the U.N. Security Council for the British delegation.
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ne sherbim te Keshillit te Kombeve te Bashkuara per delegacionin Britanik.
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And my responsibility was the Middle East,
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Dhe pergjegjesia ime ishte Lindja e Mesme,
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which was my specialty.
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qe ishte e preferuara ime.
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And there, I dealt with things
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Dhe atje, une u mora me gjera
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like the Middle East peace process,
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si procesi i paqes ne Lindjen e Mesme,
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the Lockerbie issue --
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ceshtja Lockerbie ---
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we can talk about that later, if you wish --
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ne mund te flasim per kete me vone, nqse doni --
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but above all, my responsibility was Iraq
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por mbi te gjitha, pergjegjesia ime ishte Iraku
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and its weapons of mass destruction
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dhe armet e shkaterrimit ne mase
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and the sanctions we placed on Iraq
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dhe sanksionet qe ne vume ne Irak
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to oblige it to disarm itself of these weapons.
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per te detyruar per c'armatimin e keyre armeve.
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I was the chief British negotiator
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Une isha Shefi i negociatorit Britanik
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on the subject,
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per kete teme,
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and I was steeped in the issue.
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dhe une u ndala ne kete ceshtje.
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And anyway,
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Dhe gjithsesi ,
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my tour -- it was kind of a very exciting time.
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udhetimi im -- ishte shume intensiv per mua.
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I mean it was very dramatic diplomacy.
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Dua te them ishte nje diplomaci dramatike.
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We went through several wars
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Ne shkuam ne shume luftra
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during my time in New York.
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gjate kohes time ne New York.
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I negotiated for my country
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Une negociova per vendin tim
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the resolution in the Security Council
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per zgjidhjen ne Keshillin e Sigurimit
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of the 12th of September 2001
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te 12-te shtatorit te 2001
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condemning the attacks of the day before,
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duke denuar ashper sulmet e nje dite me pare,
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which were, of course, deeply present to us
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qe ishin, pa dyshim, shume te renda per ne
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actually living in New York at the time.
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qe jetonim aktualisht ne New York ate kohe.
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So it was kind of the best of time, worst of times
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Pra ishte nje kohe e mire por edhe e keqe
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kind of experience.
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per te tilla eksperienca.
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I lived the high-life.
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Une jetova nje jete jashte mase aktive.
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Although I worked very long hours,
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Megjithse, punoja me ore te zgjatura,
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I lived in a penthouse in Union Square.
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Une jetoja ne nje papafingo ne Union Square.
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I was a single British diplomat in New York City;
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Isha i vetmi diplomat Britanik ne New York...
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you can imagine what that might have meant.
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... mund ta imagjinoni cfare do te thoshte kjo.
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(Laughter)
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( Te qeshura )
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I had a good time.
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Une ja kalova mire.
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But in 2002,
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Por ne 2002,
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when my tour came to an end,
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kur udhetimit tim po i vinte fundi,
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I decided I wasn't going to go back
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vendosa qe nuk do te kthehesha prape
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to the job that was waiting for me in London.
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tek puna qe po me priste ne Londer.
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I decided to take a sabbatical,
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Une vendosa te bej pak pushim ,
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in fact, at the New School, Bruce.
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ne te vertete, tek Shkolla e Re, Bruce.
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In some inchoate, inarticulate way
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Ne menyre provizore, apo pa e ditur mire
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I realized that there was something wrong
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kuptova qe dicka nuk shkonte
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with my work, with me.
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ne punen time, me mua.
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I was exhausted,
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Isha i rraskapitur,
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and I was also disillusioned
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dhe isha gjithashtu i diziluzionuar
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in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on.
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ne nje menyre qe s'mund as ta mendoja.
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And I decided to take some time out from work.
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Dhe vendosa te marre sisa dite pushimi nga puna.
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The Foreign Office was very generous.
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Zyra e puneve te jashteme u tregua shume zemer-gjere.
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You could take these special unpaid leave, as they called them,
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Une mund ti merrja keto pushime speciale qe nuk paguhen, sic i quajne ata,
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and yet remain part of the diplomatic service, but not actually do any work.
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dhe ende jane pjese e sherbimit diplomatic, por jo per te bere ndonje pune.
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It was nice.
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Ishte e lezetshme.
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And eventually, I decided
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Dhe perfundimisht, une vendosa
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to take a secondment to join the U.N. in Kosovo,
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per nje pune te dyte prane Kombeve te Bashkuara ne Kosove,
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which was then under U.N. administration.
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qe ishte atehere nen administrimin e Kombeve te Bashkuara.
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And two things happened in Kosovo,
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Dhe dy gjera ndodhen ne Kosove,
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which kind of, again,
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te ciles , perseri
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shows the randomness of life,
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tregojne rastesite e jetes,
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because these things turned out to be
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sepse keto gjera u bene
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two of the pivots of my life
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dy gjera qe do te me kthenin mbrapa ne jeten time
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and helped to deliver me to the next stage.
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dhe me ndihmuan per te me cuar ne fazen tjeter.
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But they were random things.
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Por ishin gjera te rastesishme.
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One was that, in the summer of 2004,
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Njera ishte, ne veren e 2004-es,
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the British government, somewhat reluctantly,
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qeveria Britanike, disi pa deshire,
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decided to have an official inquiry
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vendosi per te bere nje hetim zyrtar
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into the use of intelligence on WMD
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ne perdorimin e inteligjences mbi WMD
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in the run up to the Iraq War,
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gjate luftes ne Irak,
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a very limited subject.
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nje teme e limituar.
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And I testified to that inquiry in secret.
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Une deshmova per ate hetim ne menyre sekrete.
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I had been steeped in the intelligence on Iraq
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Une u ndala ne sherbimin inteligjent mbi Irakun
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and its WMD,
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dhe Armet e Demtimit ne mase te tij,
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and my testimony to the inquiry said three things:
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dhe ne ate deshmi permenda tre gjera:
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that the government exaggerated the intelligence,
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qe qeveria e kishte ekzagjeruar me inteligjencen,
07:00
which was very clear in all the years I'd read it.
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qe ishte me se i dukshem ne te gjithe vitet qe kam lexuar une.
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And indeed, our own internal assessment was very clear
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Dhe ne te vertet, vleresimi jone i brendshem ishte shume transparent
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that Iraq's WMD
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qe WMDm e Irakut
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did not pose a threat to its neighbors, let alone to us.
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nuk perbente kercenim per komshinjte tane, por na ishte lene neve.
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Secondly, the government had ignored all available alternatives to war,
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Se dyti , qeveria kishte injoruar cdo lloj alternative per lufte,
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which in some ways
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qe ne disa menyra
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was a more discreditable thing still.
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ishte akoma dicka e turpshme .
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The third reason, I won't go into.
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Arsyeja e trete, Une nuk desha te hyja .
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But anyway, I gave that testimony,
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Por gjithsesi, une e dhashe ate deshmi,
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and that presented me with a crisis.
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dhe ajo me beri te ndihem ne siklet.
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What was I going to do?
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Cfare do te beja une ?
07:27
This testimony was deeply critical of my colleagues,
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Kjo deshmi ishte thellesisht kritike per koleget e mi,
07:30
of my ministers, who had, in my view
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e ministrive te mia, qe kishin, per mendimin time
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had perpetrated a war on a falsehood.
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kishim penetruar nje lufte e gabuar .
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And so I was in crisis.
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Dhe keshtu qe une isha ne krize.
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And this wasn't a pretty thing.
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Dhe kjo nuk ishte gje e mire.
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I moaned about it, I hesitated,
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Une renkoja per te, hezitoja,
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I went on and on and on to my long-suffering wife,
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Une vazhdova te torturoj gruan time te pervuajtur,
07:45
and eventually I decided to resign from the British Foreign Service.
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dhe perfundimisht une vendosa ta le Sherbimin e Huaj Britanik.
07:48
I felt -- there's a scene in the Al Pacino movie "The Insider," which you may know,
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Une u ndieva si -- eshte nje fragment tek filmi me Al Pacino"The Insider",nese ju kujtohet
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where he goes back to CBS
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ku ai kthehet tek CBS
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after they've let him down over the tobacco guy,
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mbasi e kishin abandonuar ndaj djalit te cigareve,
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and he goes, "You know, I just can't do this anymore. Something's broken."
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dhe shkon, " A e di , Une nuk mund ta beje me kete. Dicka eshte thyer."
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And it was like that for me. I love that movie.
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Dhe keshtu ishte per mua. Une e pelqej ate film.
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I felt just something's broken.
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Une u ndieva qe dicka eshte thyer.
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I can't actually sit with my foreign minister
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Une nuk mund me te ulem me ministrin e jashtem
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or my prime minister again with a smile on my face
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ose kryeministin perseri me ate buzeqeshjen ne fytyren time
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and do what I used to do gladly for them.
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dhe te bej ate qe beja me gjithe qef per ta.
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So took a running leap
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Keshtu qe bera nje kapercim
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and jumped over the edge of a cliff.
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dhe kerceva pertej kufirit te shkembit.
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And it was a very, very uncomfortable, unpleasant feeling.
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Dhe ishte shume, shume e pa kendeshme, nje ndjesi e pa kendeshme.
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And I started to fall.
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Dhe une fillova te bie,
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And today, that fall hasn't stopped;
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Dhe sot, kjo renie nuk ka ndaluar;
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I'm still falling.
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Une jam ende duke rene.
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But, in a way, I've got used to the sensation of it.
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Por, nje menyre, qe une jam mesuar me ndjesine e saj.
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And in a way, I kind of like
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Dhe ne nje menyre, me pelqen
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the sensation of it a lot better
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kjo ndjesi shume me teper
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than I like actually standing on top of the cliff,
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sesa te jem ne maje te shkembit,
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wondering what to do.
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duke menduar cfare te bej.
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A second thing happened in Kosovo,
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Nje tjeter gje ndodhi ne Kosove,
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which kind of -- I need a quick gulp of water, forgive me.
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e tipit -- me duhet te gllenjke uje, me falni .
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A second thing happened in Kosovo,
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Nje tjeter gje ndodhi ne Kosove,
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which kind of delivered the answer,
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nje lloj pergjigje percjellse,
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which I couldn't really answer,
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te ciles s'mund to pergjigjesha,
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which is, "What do I do with my life?"
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qe eshte, "Cfare do te bej me jeten time?"
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I love diplomacy --
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Une e admiroj diplomacine --
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I have no career --
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Une s'kam kariere --
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I expected my entire life to be a diplomat, to be serving my country.
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Une prisja tere jeten time per tu bere nje diplomat, ti sherbeja vendit tim.
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I wanted to be an ambassador,
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Desha te behesh nje ambasador,
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and my mentors, my heroes,
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dhe keshilltaret e mi, heronjte e mi,
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people who got to the top of my profession,
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njerez qe kane hipur ne majen e professionit,
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and here I was throwing it all away.
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dhe ketu une po i hidhja te gjitha poshte.
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A lot of my friends were still in it.
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Shume nga miqte e mi ishin akoma ne pune.
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My pension was in it.
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Pensioni im ishte ne te.
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And I gave it up.
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Dhe une hoqa dore.
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And what was I going to do?
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Dhe cfare do te beja ?
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And that year, in Kosovo,
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Dhe po ate vit ne Kosove,
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this terrible, terrible thing happened, which I saw.
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gjera te tmerrshme ndodhen, qe i pashe .
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In March 2004, there were terrible riots
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Ne Mars te 2004, aty ishin trazira te temerrshme
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all over the province -- as it then was -- of Kosovo.
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gjate gjithe provinces --sec ishte me pas -- ne Kosove.
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18 people were killed.
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18 njerez u vrane.
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It was anarchy.
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Aty ishte nje konfuzion.
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And it's a very horrible thing to see anarchy,
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Eshte nje gje e tmerrshme te shohesh kete konfuzion,
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to know that the police and the military --
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duke ditur qe policia dhe ushtria --
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there were lots of military troops there --
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aty kishte shume trupa ushtarake --
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actually can't stop that rampaging mob
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s'mund ta ndalonin dot kete turme te inatosur
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who's coming down the street.
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qe po vinte nga fundi rruges.
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And the only way that rampaging mob coming down the street will stop
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Dhe e vetmja menyre per te ndaluar kete tumre te inatosur
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is when they decide to stop
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ishte vetem kur donin ata te ndalonin
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and when they've had enough burning and killing.
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kur te mjaftoheshin me djegjet dhe vrasjet.
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And that is not a very nice feeling to see, and I saw it.
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Dhe kjo eshte nje ndjesi e tmerrshme per ta pare, dhe une e pashe ate.
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And I went through it. I went through those mobs.
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Dhe une shkova permes tyre.Une u futa ne turme.
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And with my Albanian friends, we tried to stop it, but we failed.
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Dhe me miqte e mi Shqiptare, u munduam ti ndalojme, por deshtuam.
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And that riot taught me something,
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Dhe ajo trazi me mesoi mua dicka,
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which isn't immediately obvious and it's kind of a complicated story.
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qe nuk ishte menjehere e dukshme dhe eshte nje histori e komplikuar.
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But one of the reasons that riot took place --
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Por nje nga arsyet qe ajo revolte mori shkas --
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those riots, which went on for several days, took place --
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ato trazira, qe vazhduan per dite me radhe, u zhvilluan --
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was because the Kosovo people
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sepse Kosovareve
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were disenfranchised from their own future.
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ju ishte hequr e drejta e votes per te ardhmen e tyre.
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There were diplomatic negotiations about the future of Kosovo
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Kishte disa negocime per te ardhem e Kosoves
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going on then,
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qe po vazhdonin,
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and the Kosovo government, let alone the Kosovo people,
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dhe qeveria e Kosoves, i la vetem Kosovaret,
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were not actually
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aktualisht mos
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participating in those talks.
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marre pjese ne keto bisedime.
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There was this whole fancy diplomatic system,
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this negotiation process about the future of Kosovo,
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ke proces negocimi rreth te ardhmes se Kosoves,
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and the Kosovars weren't part of it.
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dhe qe Kosovaret nuk ishin pjese e saj .
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And funnily enough, they were frustrated about that.
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Dhe me e forta ishte, qe ata ishin te irrituar per kete.
10:38
Those riots were part of the manifestation of that frustration.
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Keto trazira ishin pjese e manifestimit te ketij deshtimi.
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It wasn't the only reason,
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Nuk ishte arsyeja e vetme,
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and life is not simple, one reason narratives.
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dhe jeta nuk eshte e lehte me nje argument te vetem.
10:45
It was a complicated thing,
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Ishte dicka e komplikuar,
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and I'm not pretending it was more simple than it was.
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dhe une nuk pretendoj qe ishte me e lehte se c'ishte.
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But that was one of the reasons.
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Por ajo ishte nje nga arsyet.
10:51
And that kind of gave me the inspiration --
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Dhe ajo gje mua me frymezoi --
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or rather to be precise,
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ose per te qene me i sakte,
10:55
it gave my wife the inspiration.
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i dha gruas time frymezimin .
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She said, "Why don't you advise the Kosovars?
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Ajo tha, " Pse nuk i keshillon Kosovaret ?
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Why don't you advise their government on their diplomacy?"
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Pse nuk e keshillon qeverine e tyre rreth diplomacise?"
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And the Kosovars were not allowed a diplomatic service.
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Kosovareve nuk i ishin lejuar sherbimi diplomatik.
11:05
They were not allowed diplomats.
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Nuk lejohej te kishte dipllomate.
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They were not allowed a foreign office
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Nuk ju ishte lejuar zyra e puneve te jashtme
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to help them deal with this immensely complicated process,
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dhe per ti ndihmuar ata ishte nje proces shume i komplikuar ,
11:12
which became known as the Final Status Process of Kosovo.
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qe u be me vone si Statusi Final i Kosoves.
11:15
And so that was the idea.
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Dhe keshtu me erdhi ideja.
11:17
That was the origin of the thing that became Independent Diplomat,
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Kjo ishte origjina e kesaj gjeje qe me vone u krijua Diplomati Pavarur,
11:19
the world's first diplomatic advisory group
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grupi i pare ne bote me keshillime diplomatike
11:22
and a non-profit to boot.
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qe eshte jo-fitim-prurese ne zhvillim.
11:24
And it began when I flew back from London
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Dhe filloi kur une u ktheva ne Londer
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after my time at the U.N. in Kosovo.
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mbas kohes time tek U.N ne Kosove.
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I flew back and had dinner with the Kosovo prime minister and said to him,
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Une u ktheva dhe pata nje darke pune me Kryeministrin e Kosoves dhe i thashe atij,
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"Look, I'm proposing that I come and advise you on the diplomacy.
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Shiko, po ju propozoj qe te vij per t'ju keshilluar mbi dipllomacine.
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I know this stuff. It's what I do. Why don't I come and help you?"
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Une marr vesh. Kjo eshte ajo qe bej une.Pse mos te vij the t'ju ndihmoj juve?
11:39
And he raised his glass of raki to me and said,
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Dhe ai ngriti goten e rakise dhe me tha,
11:41
"Yes, Carne. Come."
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"Po, Carne. Hajde. "
11:43
And I came to Kosovo
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Dhe une erdha ne Kosove
11:45
and advised the Kosovo government.
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dhe keshillova qeverine Kosovare.
11:47
Independent Diplomat ended up advising three successive Kosovo prime ministers
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Diplomati Pavarur perfundoi me suksess me keshillimin e tre Kryeministrave te ardhshem te Kosoves
11:50
and the multi-party negotiation team of Kosovo.
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dhe grupin e shume partive te Kosoves.
11:53
And Kosovo became independent.
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Dhe Kosova u be e pavarur.
11:56
Independent Diplomat is now established
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Diplomati Pavarur tashme eshte themeluar
11:59
in five diplomatic centers around the world,
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ne pese qendra diplomatike neper bote,
12:01
and we're advising seven or eight
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dhe ne ofrojme asistencen tone ne shtate ose tete,
12:03
different countries, or political groups,
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vende te ndryshme, ose grupe politike,
12:06
depending on how you wish to define them --
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varet se si desheron ti ti percaktosh ato --
12:08
and I'm not big on definitions.
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une nuk jam per percaktime te medha.
12:10
We're advising the Northern Cypriots on how to reunify their island.
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Ne po keshillojme Qipron Veriore se si te ri-unifikojne ishujt e tyre.
12:13
We're advising the Burmese opposition,
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Ne jemi duke keshilluar opoziten e Burmes,
12:15
the government of Southern Sudan,
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qeverine e Sudanit te Jugut,
12:17
which -- you heard it here first --
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qe -- e degjuat per te paren --
12:19
is going to be a new country within the next few years.
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qe do te behen nje shtet i ri brenda disa viteve.
12:23
We're advising the Polisario Front of the Western Sahara,
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Ne jemi duke keshilluar Frontin Polisario te Saharase Perendimore,
12:26
who are fighting to get their country back
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ne po luftojme per ti kthyer mbrapsh vendin e tyre
12:28
from Moroccan occupation
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nga uzurpimi Moroken
12:30
after 34 years of dispossession.
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mbas 34 vjeteve shpronesim.
12:33
We're advising various island states in the climate change negotiations,
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Ne jemi duke keshilluar shtetet ishuj ne negocimet rreth ndryshimit te klimes,
12:36
which is suppose to culminate
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qe supozohet te arrije kulmin
12:38
in Copenhagen.
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ne Kopenhagen.
12:41
There's a bit of randomness here too
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Ka dicka te zakonshme gjithashtu edhe ketu
12:43
because, when I was beginning Independent Diplomat,
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sepse , kur isha ne fillimet e Diplomatit te Pavarur,
12:45
I went to a party in the House of Lords,
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Shkova ne nje feste me disa pjestare te larte te parlamentit,
12:47
which is a ridiculous place,
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qe ishte dhe vend qesharak ,
12:49
but I was holding my drink like this, and I bumped into
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por e mbaja ne dore goten kshu , dhe u perplasa tek
12:51
this guy who was standing behind me.
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ky djale qe po qendronte mbrapa meje.
12:53
And we started talking, and he said --
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Dhe ne filluam te flasim, dhe ai tha --
12:55
I told him what I was doing,
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Une i thashe atij se cfare po beja,
12:57
and I told him rather grandly
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dhe i thashe atij mjaft gjeresisht
12:59
I was going to establish Independent Diplomat in New York.
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Qe une do te themeloja Diplomatin e Pavarur ne New York.
13:01
At that time there was just me --
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Ne ate kohe isha vetem une --
13:03
and me and my wife were moving back to New York.
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dhe une dhe gruaja ime do te shkonim ne New York .
13:05
And he said, "Why don't you see my colleagues in New York?"
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Dhe ai the, " Pse nuk i takon koleget e mi ne New York ?"
13:08
And it turned out
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Dhe ja ku doli
13:10
he worked for an innovation company called ?What If!,
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ai punonte per nje kompani zhvillimi e quajtur? Cfare nese!,
13:12
which some of you have probably heard of.
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qe ndoshta disa nga ju mbase e kane degjuar.
13:14
And one thing led to another,
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Dhe punet moren drejtim
13:16
and I ended up having a desk
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duke perfunduar ne nje tavoline pune
13:18
in ?What If! in New York,
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ne? Cfare nese! ne New York ,
13:20
when I started Independent Diplomat.
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kur une fillova Diplomatin e Pavarur.
13:22
And watching ?What If!
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Duke pare? Cfare nese!
13:24
develop new flavors of chewing gum for Wrigley
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te gjeja nje shije te re cemcakizi per Wrigley
13:26
or new flavors for Coke
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ose shije te re per Coca Cola
13:28
actually helped me innovate
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actualisht me ndihmoje mua te sillja dicka te re
13:30
new strategies for the Kosovars
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strategji te reja per Kosovaret
13:32
and for the Saharawis of the Western Sahara.
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dhe per ata te Saharas te Saharase Perendimore.
13:35
And I began to realize that there are different ways of doing diplomacy --
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Dhe une fillova te kuptoje qe keto jane menyra te ndryshme per te bere diplomacy --
13:38
that diplomacy, like business,
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qe dipllomacia, si busnesi ,
13:40
is a business of solving problems,
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eshte nje bisnes qe zgjidh problemet ,
13:42
and yet the word innovation doesn't exist in diplomacy;
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dhe ende fjala risi nuk ekziston ne diplomaci;
13:45
it's all zero sum games and realpolitik
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eshte nje shumezim me zero ne politiken reale
13:48
and ancient institutions that have been there for generations
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dhe institucionet e lashta qe kane qene aty perpara shume brezave
13:51
and do things the same way they've always done things.
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kane bere te njejten gje brez pas brezi.
13:54
And Independent Diplomat, today,
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Dhe Diplomati Pavarur, sot,
13:56
tries to incorporate some of the things I learned at ?What If!.
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perpiqet te fuse disa nga gjerat qe une mesova tek? Cfare nese!..
13:59
We all sit in one office and shout at each other across the office.
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Ne te gjithe ulemi ne zyre dhe i bertasim njeri-tjetrit matane zyres.
14:02
We all work on little laptops and try to move desks to change the way we think.
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Ne te gjithe punojme me laptopa te vegjel dhe perpiqemi te zhvendosim tavolinat dhe te ndryshojme menyren e te menduarit.
14:05
And we use naive experts
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Dhe ne perdorim eksperta naive
14:07
who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with,
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qe ndoshta nuk dime asgje rreth shteteve qe ne meremi,
14:10
but may know something about something else
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por mund te dine dicka rreth dickaje tjeter
14:12
to try to inject new thinking
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per ty perpjekur per te injektuar menyra te reja te menduari
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into the problems
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ne probleme
14:16
that we try to address for our clients.
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qe ne perpiqemi ti adresojme per klientet tane.
14:18
It's not easy, because our clients, by definition,
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Dhe nuk eshte e lehte, sepse klientet tane, sipas percaktimit,
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are having a difficult time, diplomatically.
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jane duke kaluar kohe te veshtira, ne dipllomaci.
14:25
There are, I don't know,
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Ka disa, Nuk e di ,
14:27
some lessons from all of this,
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disa leksione nga e gjitha kjo ,
14:30
personal and political --
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personale dhe politike --
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and in a way, they're the same thing.
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ne nje menyre, qe ato jane te njejtat gjera.
14:35
The personal one
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Ajo personale
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is falling off a cliff
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eshte duke rene nga shkembi
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is actually a good thing, and I recommend it.
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eshte aktualisht nje gje e mire, dhe une e rekomandoj ate.
14:43
And it's a good thing to do at least once in your life
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Dhe eshte gje e mire pe te bere te pakten ne jeten tende
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just to tear everything up and jump.
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vetem sa te shkepus cdo gje dhe te kercej.
14:49
The second thing is a bigger lesson about the world today.
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Gjeja e dyte eshte nje mesim me i madh rreth botes sot.
14:52
Independent Diplomat is part of a trend
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Indipendent Diplomat eshte pjese e nje tendence
14:55
which is emerging and evident across the world,
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qe po zhvillohet dhe evidente pertej botes,
14:58
which is that the world is fragmenting.
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qe eshte ajo e coptimit te saj.
15:01
States mean less than they used to,
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Shtetet nuk jane me ato qe kane qene,
15:04
and the power of the state is declining.
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dhe fuqia e shtetit eshte ne renie.
15:06
That means the power of others things is rising.
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Kjo do te thote qe fuqia e gjerave te tjera eshte duke u ngritur.
15:08
Those other things are called non-state actors.
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Keto gjera te tjera quhen aktore jo-shteterore.
15:10
They may be corporations,
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Ato mund te jene korporata,
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they may be mafiosi, they may be nice NGOs,
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ato mund te jene mafioze, mund te jene NGOs,
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they may anything,
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mund te jene cfaredo,
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any number of things.
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cdo numer gjerash.
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We are living in a more complicated and fragmented world.
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Ne po jetojme ne nje bote me shume te komplikuar dhe te coptuar.
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If governments are less able
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Ne qoftese qeverite jane me pak te afta
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to affect the problems
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per te zgjidhur probelmet
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that affect us in the world,
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qe na prekin neve ne bote,
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then that means, who is left to deal with them,
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kjo do te thote, qe kush do me merret me me to ,
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who has to take greater responsibility to deal with them?
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kush duhet te marri pergjegjesine per tu marre me to ?
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Us.
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Neve.
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If they can't do it, who's left to deal with it?
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Nqs nuk mund ta besh , kush ka ngelur per ta bere ate?
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We have no choice but to embrace that reality.
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Ne nuk kemi zgjedhje per te perqafuar kete realitet.
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What this means is
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Cfare do te thote kjo
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it's no longer good enough
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qe nuk eshte me e mjatueshme
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to say that international relations, or global affairs,
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per te thene qe marrdheniet nderkombetare, ose punet globale,
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or chaos in Somalia,
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ose kaosi ne Somali,
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or what's going on in Burma is none of your business,
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apo cfare po ndosh ne Burma nuk eshte puna jote,
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and that you can leave it to governments to get on with.
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dhe ti mund ta lesh ate ne dore te qeverive per tu marre.
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I can connect any one of you
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Une mund te lidhe cdo njerin nga ju
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by six degrees of separation
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me gjashte marrdhenie ndarjeje
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to the Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia.
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tek milicia Al-Shabbab ne Somali.
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Ask me how later, particularly if you eat fish, interestingly enough,
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Me pyesni mua me vone, vecanerisht kur ha peshk, vertet majft
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but that connection is there.
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por lidhja qendron aty.
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We are all intimately connected.
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Ne te gjithe jemi te lidhur ngushte.
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And this isn't just Tom Friedman,
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Dhe kjo nuk eshte vetem Tom Fridman,
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it's actually provable in case after case after case.
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eshte e vertetueshem rast mbas rasti.
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What that means is, instead of asking your politicians to do things,
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Ajo qe do te thote eshte, ne vend qe te pyesesh politikanet te bejne dicka
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you have to look to yourself to do things.
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duhet te shikosh vehten se si ben gjerat.
16:24
And Independent Diplomat is a kind of example of this
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Dhe Diplomati Pavarur eshte nje lloj shembulli e kesaj
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in a sort of loose way.
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ne nje lloj menyre te humbur.
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There aren't neat examples, but one example is this:
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Nuk ka shembuj te qarte, por nje shembull eshte i tille:
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the way the world is changing
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menyra se si bota eshte duke ndyshuar
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is embodied in what's going on at the place I used to work --
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eshte misheruar se cfare eshte duke ndodhur ne vendin ku une punoja me pare --
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the U.N. Security Council.
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tek Keshilli Kombeve te Bashkuara.
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The U.N. was established in 1945.
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Kombet e Bashkuara jane themeluar ne 1945.
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Its charter is basically designed
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Akti themelues ne themel eshte i ndertuar
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to stop conflicts between states --
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per te ndaluar konfliktet mes shteteve --
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interstate conflict.
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ato ndershteterore.
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Today, 80 percent of the agenda
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Sot, 80 perqind e aktivitetit
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of the U.N. Security Council
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te keshillit te sigurimit te U.N
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is about conflicts within states,
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eshte rreth konflikteve brenda shteteve,
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involving non-state parties --
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duke perfshire partite jo legjitime --
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guerillas, separatists,
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guerrilasit, separatistiet,
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terrorists, if you want to call them that,
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terroristet, n.q.s doni ti thoni kshu ,
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people who are not normal governments, who are not normal states.
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njerez qe nuk jane qeveri normale, qe nuk jane shtete normale,.
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That is the state of the world today.
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Ky eshte shteti i botes sot.
17:04
When I realized this,
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Kur une e kuptova kete,
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and when I look back on my time at the Security Council
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dhe kur kthehem pas ne kohen kur isha une tek Keshilli i Sigurimit
17:09
and what happened with the Kosovars,
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dhe se cfare ndoshi me Kosovaret,
17:11
and I realize that often
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dhe e ate shpesh
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the people who were most directly affected
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njerizit qe ishin prekur me shume nga kjo
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by what we were doing in the Security Council
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nga cfare bente aty Keshilli i Sigurimit
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weren't actually there, weren't actually invited
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nuk ishte aktualisht aty, nuk ishin ftuar
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to give their views to the Security Council,
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per te dhene mendimet e tyre tek Keshilli Sigurimit,
17:21
I thought, this is wrong.
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Une menova kjo eshte gabim.
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Something's got to be done about this.
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Dicka duhet te bere per kete.
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So I started off in a traditional mode.
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Keshtu qe u vura ne levizje ne sipas menyres tradicionale.
17:28
Me and my colleagues at Independent Diplomat
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Une dhe koleget e mi tek Diplomati Pavarur
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went around the U.N. Security Council.
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u sollen rreth U.N Keshillit te Sigurimit.
17:32
We went around 70 U.N. member states --
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Ne ishim rreth 70 anetare te U.N
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the Kazaks, the Ethiopians, the Israelis --
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Kazaket, Etiopianet, Izraelitet --
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you name them, we went to see them --
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mund ti dini ato , ne vajtem per ti pare ato --
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the secretary general, all of them,
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sekretari pergjithshem, te gjithe ata,
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and said, "This is all wrong.
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dhe tha . " Kjo eshte e tera e gabuar.
17:42
This is terrible that you don't consult these people who are actually affected.
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Kjo eshte e temershme qe ti nuk i keshillon keta njerez qe jane aktualishte te prekur.
17:44
You've got to institutionalize a system
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Ti duhet ti institucionalizosh nje sistem
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where you actually invite the Kosovars
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ku ti ftosh Kosovaret
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to come and tell you what they think.
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per te ardhur dhe per te treguar vfare mendojne ata.
17:50
This will allow you to tell me -- you can tell them what you think.
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Kjo do te lente ty per te me thene mua --mund ti thush atyre cfare mendon ti.
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It'll be great. You can have an exchange.
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Do te ishte gje e madhe. Mund te kishe nje shkembim .
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You can actually incorporate these people's views into your decisions,
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Aktualisht mund te nderfusesh mendimet e ketyre njerzve ne vendimet e tua,
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which means your decisions will be more effective and durable."
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qe do te thote vendimet e tua do te jene me efektive dhe te besueshme."
18:02
Super-logical, you would think.
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Super-logjike, do te mendoje.
18:04
I mean, incredibly logical. So obvious, anybody could get it.
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Dua te them, teper elogjike. kaq dukshem, cdo njeri mud ta kuptoje ate.
18:06
And of course, everybody got it. Everybody went, "Yes, of course, you're absolutely right.
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Dhe patjeter, cdonjeri e mori vesh ate. Te gjithe iken duke thene," Po Patjeter, ti ke te drejte.
18:09
Come back to us
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Kthehuni mbrapa tek ne
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in maybe six months."
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ne ndoshta 6 muaj .
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And of course, nothing happened -- nobody did anything.
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Dhe sigurisht, asgje nuk ndoshi -- asnjeri s'beri gje.
18:16
The Security Council does its business
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Keshilli Sigurimit ben punet e veta
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in exactly the same way today
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ekzaktesisht sic i ben edhe sot
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that it did X number of years ago,
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qe beri x numer vitesh me perpara,
18:23
when I was there 10 years ago.
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kur une isha 10 vjet me perpara.
18:26
So we looked at that observation
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Keshtu qe ne pame kete mbikqyrrje
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of basically failure
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ne themel te deshtuar
18:30
and thought, what can we do about it.
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dhe menduam, cfare mund te bejme per te.
18:32
And I thought, I'm buggered
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Dhe une mendova, Une jam nje hajvan
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if I'm going to spend the rest of my life
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nqs do kaloja pjesen tjeter te jetes time
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lobbying for these crummy governments
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duke ndikuar tek keto qeveri te pa vlera
18:38
to do what needs to be done.
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per te bere ate qe duhej bere.
18:40
So what we're going to do
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Pra ajo cfare ne do te bejme
18:42
is we're actually going to set up these meetings ourselves.
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eshte qe ti bejme keto takime me vehten tone.
18:44
So now, Independent Diplomat
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Keshtu qe sot, Diplomati Pavarur
18:46
is in the process of setting up meetings
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eshte ne procesin e organizimit te takimeve
18:48
between the U.N. Security Council
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mes U.N Keshillit te Sigurimit
18:50
and the parties to the disputes
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dhe partive dhe konflikteve
18:52
that are on the agenda of the Security Council.
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qe jane ne axhenden e Keshillit te Sigurimit.
18:55
So we will be bringing
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Keshtu qe ne do te sjellim
18:57
Darfuri rebel groups,
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grupin rebel Darfuri,
19:00
the Northern Cypriots and the Southern Cypriots,
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Qipriotet Veriore dhe ata Jugore,
19:04
rebels from Aceh,
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rebelet nga Aceh,
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and awful long laundry list
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dhe nje liste e tmerrshme
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of chaotic conflicts around the world.
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e konflikteve rreth gjithe botes.
19:12
And we will be trying to bring the parties to New York
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Dhe do te perpiqemi te sjellin ata ne New York
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to sit down in a quiet room
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per tu ulur ne nje dhome te qene
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in a private setting with no press
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ne nje bisede private pa media
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and actually explain what they want
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dhe te na shpjegojne aktualisht cfare ata kerkojne
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to the members of the U. N. Security Council,
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nga pjestaret e Keshillit te Sigurimit,
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and for the members of the U.N. Security Council
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dhe nga anetaret e keshillit te U.N
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to explain to them what they want.
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ti shpjegojme cfare kerkojne ata.
19:27
So there's actually a conversation,
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Aktualisht kemi pasur nje bisedim ,
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which has never before happened.
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qe nuk ka ndoshur ndonjehere.
19:31
And of course, describing all this,
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Dhe sigurisht, duke pershkruar te gjithe kete,
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any of you who know politics will think this is incredibly difficult,
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cdonjeri nga ju qe merret me politike do te mendoje qe eshte shume e veshtirte,
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and I entirely agree with you.
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dhe une jam ploteshisht dakord me ju.
19:39
The chances of failure are very high,
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Keto shanse apo deshtime jane shume te larta,
19:42
but it certainly won't happen
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por nuk do te ndodhe
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if we don't try to make it happen.
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nqs nuk do te perpiqemi qe te ndoshin .
19:47
And my politics has changed fundamentally
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Dhe politika ime ka ndryshuar renjesisht
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from when I was a diplomat to what I am today,
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qe kur une isha nje diplomat e deri me sot,
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and I think that outputs is what matters, not process,
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dhe une mendoj qe rezultater kane rendesi , jo procesi ,
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not technology, frankly, so much either.
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jo teknologjia, sinqerisht, kaq shumer per kedo .
19:58
Preach technology
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Bej moral per teknologjine
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to all the Twittering members of all the Iranian demonstrations
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per te gjithe anetaret eTwitter-it te te gjithe demonstrueseve Iraniane
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who are now in political prison in Tehran,
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qejane tani ne burgim politik ne Terhan,
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where Ahmadinejad remains in power.
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ku Ahmadinexhad qendron ne fuqi.
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Technology has not delivered political change in Iran.
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Technologjia nuk ka shkaktuar ndonje ndryshim politik ne Iran.
20:12
You've got to look at the outputs, and you got to say to yourself,
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Duhet te shikoni rezultatet, dhe duhet ta thoni vete,
20:15
"What can I do to produce that particular output?"
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" Cfare mund te bej per te pasur nje rezultat te vecante?"
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That is the politics of the 21st century,
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Kjo eshte politika e shekullit te 21-te,
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and in a way, Independent Diplomat
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dhe ne nje menyre , Diplomati Pavarur
20:22
embodies that fragmentation, that change,
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misheron kete coptim , kete ndryshim ,
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that is happening to all of us.
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qe po na ndodh te gjithe neve.
20:29
That's my story. Thanks.
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Kjo eshte historia ime. Falemderit
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carne Ross - DiplomatCarne Ross is the founder of Independent Diplomat, a nonprofit that offers freelance diplomatic representation to small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations in the complex world of international negotiations.
Why you should listen
Carne Ross was a member of the British diplomat corps for a decade and a half -- until a crisis of faith in the system drove him to go freelance. With his nonprofit, Independent Diplomat, he and a team advise small and developing nations without a diplomatic corps, as well as unrecognized nations that would otherwise lack a voice in negotiations on their own futures. His group helped advise the Kosovars in their quest for recognition as a nation, and with Croatia on its application to join the EU. They're now working with Southern Sudan as it approaches a vote to separate (a vote that, on Sept. 8, 2010, US Secretary of State Clinton called "inevitable").
As Ross said to Time magazine, when it profiled him in a 2008 story called "Innovators/Peacemakers": "Our work is based on the belief that everybody has a right to some say in the resolution of their issues." He's the author of the 2007 book Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite.
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