Statement of the Republican Party Press reports indicate that the PD parliamentary group, with the participation of President Berisha and the ministers, has decided by a majority vote to place on the agenda of the People's Assembly the approval of the draft law on the sale and purchase of agricultural land and building plots. This is an irresponsible act that will plunge the country into another maze of laws for compensating property owners; these are merely sugar-coated promises that cannot defuse the conflict. Mr. President! The implementation of Law No. 7501 and its culmination in the law on the sale and purchase of land are provocative. The present government does not abandon certain communist legacies and, while speaking of respect for human rights, warns of the danger of the social-communists returning to power. Property owners—and not only them, but all Albanians who want a democratic state governed by the rule of law—cannot follow the road down which the present government is leading them. It is clear that no argument will stop the government from implementing Law No. 7501 to the very end, the law bearing the signature in Strasbourg. The association is suing the state for failing to return properties seized by the dictatorship.

A delegation of United States government officials, headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Warren Christopher in July 1994. Topics include: a review of the current situation regarding European security architecture issues; discussions between Vice President Gore and Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin; the situation in Bosnia and Croatia; bilateral assistance; Central European arms transfer policy; military reform; and controls on dual-use items and arms exports. Mr. Newsom previously served as staff director of the Senate Budget Committee’s Subcommittee on Foreign Operations (1989–1994); legislative director and foreign policy adviser to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont (1987–1989); minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1985–1987); professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and foreign policy adviser to Senator Leahy (1982–1984). Earlier, he served in the United States Foreign Service in Montevideo, London, and Washington, D.C. Newsom holds a postgraduate degree in modern European history from the University of California, Berkeley.

The land ownership record begins in 1912. After the declaration of Independence, the Albanian state confiscated all the latifundia belonging to the Turkish state and the sultan, turning them into Albanian state property. The status of privately owned latifundia remained untouched. State property, which is also the largest share of land by area, was not affected. 45% of the 381,776 hectares of agricultural land nationwide remained in ownership recognized and legalized over the centuries. Page 4

Statement of the Albanian Right-Wing League ...People's Assembly for act that will plunge the country into another economic maze, fuel social conflicts, and set Albania against the Council of Europe. In Albania, even according to the government's misleading statements, land division has still not been completed one hundred percent, while the distribution of title deeds is at the 60% level. The rush to approve the sale and purchase law without even fully implementing Law No. 7501 once again proves that the government pays no heed to any legal or economic criterion when pursuing its own aims. The aim is, by putting land on the market, to erase the traces of inherited private property and to complete the criminal seizure inflicted on property owners by communist Law No. 7501. The “improvements” that are claimed will be made through the inviolability of property and the free market are contradicted by the government’s implementation of Leninist laws that drive the country’s economy in the opposite direction. It is claimed that the Democratic Party keeps its promises and implements its program. You promised Albanians from the very first days that you would return their properties. Can what you are doing be called keeping a promise? By approving the sale and purchase law, you are creating a new aggravation, at a time when, in fact, the Republican Party will gather its strength to oppose the seizure of land by every means of protest permitted by democracy. This is not a party struggle, but a struggle to establish democracy on a legal basis and pull the economy out of anarchy. The Republican Party will submit its proposals to the leadership of the Right-Wing League regarding the actions that should be taken. Page 3

The prices of water, Coca-Cola, and other soft drinks have fallen sharply since the heat began. In fact, traders decided to give them away for free, but the municipality would not let them. Fatos Nano has declared that he will not leave the Mercedes alive until Betino Kraksi returns from Tunisia. Kraksi has PS membership card number 3 and has expressed the wish to be one of the PS’s five deputy chairmen. Four lawyers were caught with crib notes during the exam. Seven had pulled strings with someone influential, while the suck-ups will take the exam in the autumn. After the law on the sale and purchase of land, the government will issue a mandate for the sale of seawater. It will keep the salt for itself. From now on, land will belong neither to the person who used to own it nor to the person who works it, but to whoever buys it. The Serbs do their work with shells, while the international community does its work with conferences. At the London conference, the Serbs were warned that if they continued the bombardments, the allies would gather and hold another high-level conference. The planes flying over PS headquarters were not among those pilotless aircraft that came from America. In fact, it was a pilot without a plane who had been seen dreaming that F. N. had been released. The MAVI terrorists who carried out the Peshkëpi massacre will be released because the new penal code does not consider the killing of an Albanian a crime. This was the condition for accepting Greece into the Council of Europe. Illustration with the caption “Foreigners.”

More Albanians live in Germany today than ever before With the German ambassador in Tirana, Mr. Vollers p. 5 History and

The government has sent to Parliament the draft law on the sale and purchase of land. This communist law, which sanctions the seizure of property, must be rejected. Sign the petition as soon as possible at the organizations of the Right-Wing League. In this way, you serve yourselves, the people, and the nation.