Awarded by Medal of Gratitude

He was awarded Medal of Gratitude by Albanian President, Bamir Topi. 

The award was given with citation "With gratitude and honor outstanding personality of the world art, great humanist and activist for the protection of human rights, which unmasked and the American public made known, and further, inhuman crimes, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, in 1999, the Serbian military machine against the Albanian civilian population living in its land"