INDIA REJECTS ALBANIAN CLAIM

India has rejected a demand by the Albanian govenment for the return of the remains of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, buried in the city of Calcutta. Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is resting in her own country, her own land, Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said.

Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian, was born in Skopje, now part of Macedonia. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother Teresa arrived in India as anovice in 1929 and dedicated herself to working among the sick, dying and destitute. After her death in September 1997, Mother Teresa was buried at the Culcutta headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity (MoC), which is now a pilgrimage site.

It is believed that the now over her resting place could develop into a three way squabble between India, where she worked most of her life, Albania where her parents camefrom and Macedonia where she lived the first 18 years of her life. The row is expected to intensify by August next year the 100 anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth by which time many commentators expect her to havebeen canonised as a saint.

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