In comments introducing the annual report, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States will always stand against religious-based discrimination and persecution, but that it strongly disagrees with those who would combat such problems by curbing free speech.
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There are absolutely no religiousproblems amongst Albanians, therefore Albanians do not have problems with their Slav neighbours because of the religion.
"That was a very good appointment that really opened my eyes very well to the politics and challenges of the world in terms of religious extremism, religiousproblems and other social views, " he says.
In his principal address, Professor Devetak said that problems of co-operation and development in the Mediterranean are intermingled with religious fundamentalism and cultural misperceptions: "ethnic or religious connotation is given to problems that have nothing to do with ethnicity or religion".