The Albanian American Civic League (Albanian: Lidhja Qytetare Shqiptaro-Amerikane)is the only Albanian American lobbygroup in Washington, D.C., representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people in the United States and the Balkans. The Civic League was founded by former Congressman Joseph DioGuardi and a board of Albanian Americans in 1989. Since then, it has actively and effectively lobbied the United States Congress in an effort to influence U.S. foreign policy in the Balkans, which by their claim can only by achieved with the independence of Kosovo, something which has been their main task even before the break-up of Yugoslavia and the rise of Slobodan Milošević.
