TIRANA, October 4 — At the European Union meeting taking place in Luxembourg, during yesterday’s discussions concerning aid to the countries of the former Yugoslavia devastated during the war, it was stressed that Serbia and Montenegro would return to the international community only when “Kosovo gains expanded autonomy.” The European Union called on the warring parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina to stop the ceasefires and reach an agreement to adopt, by the end of October, the action programme for post-war reconstruction. General humanitarian aid was proposed, to be provided subject to conditions. Croatia was asked to create the conditions for the return of Serbian refugees to their homes, in the areas formerly controlled by the UN, while the self-proclaimed Yugoslavia’s return to the international community is conditional on “Kosovo having gained expanded autonomy” and on respect for human rights and national minorities in Vojvodina and Sandžak being ensured.

For five months, 25 coffins containing the bones of executed political prisoners have been waiting to be reburied in an office in Tepelena Scandal from Tepelena Cases like today’s make you want to cry out, shattering the illusion—an illusion one might sometimes approach—that even the socialists are Albanians, that they too have the right to renewal. No! The descendants of those who once killed and slaughtered legally show not the slightest illusion of softening, even a little, their parents’ grave sins. They refuse, in the most unnatural way, the most natural and most basic human gesture: burial. The socialist council of the Tepelena district allocates plots for kiosks and car washes, provides funds for picnics, but does not provide funds for their reburial. In one of the offices of the Association of the Persecuted [?], led by Mr. Bedo Asllani, arrangements are awaited for the bones to be reburied together, but the ceremony has still not taken place. Despite the Association’s repeated requests, the district council has still not provided funds. The bones have been above ground for five months. The Association’s leaders and the victims’ families are told at the district council: “Those who disinterred them should bury them.” Referring to this macabre example, one gets the impression that such creatures as the socialists of Tepelena are ready to invest in killing these skeletons once again rather than do their duty: bury them at least like ordinary people, if they will not acknowledge them as martyrs… From “Sindikalisti,” October 4, 1995 The socialist council of the Tepelenë district provides plots for kiosks and car washes, allocates funds for picnics, but provides no the Association of the Politically Persecuted, 25 coffins containing the remains of people executed by firing squad under the communist dictatorship are stacked. According to the explanations of

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SKOPJE, October 4 — The doctors treating Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov, who suffered severe head injuries and underwent surgery on Tuesday after a car-bomb assassination attempt, are giving a guarded prognosis today regarding the course of his condition. A medical bulletin issued on Tuesday evening after the operation described Gligorov’s condition as “stable” and stated that his vital functions were intact. Gligorov underwent a six-hour surgical operation during which doctors removed numerous metal fragments and two hematomas from the patient’s brain, a medical source who asked not to be identified told AFP. Gligorov is in intensive care— Continued on p. 5

From December 1, 1995, there will be full control over the prices of medicines and drugs sold by all 536 pharmacies in Albania. The Albanian Parliament has also approved a law explaining why controls should be imposed on medical drugs. Following the liberalization of prices and the privatization of pharmacies and dentistry clinics in Albania, prices rose four to five times over the course of a year. Medicines that were difficult to find reached exorbitant prices. People with chronic heart conditions or diabetes found it very difficult to afford their medication. It also happened that price controls failed to cover the 170 types of medicines designated as specific and to be sold at a price set by the state. However, it has still not been clearly determined how they will be control- Continued on p. 5

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The Democratic Union Party is the first political entity to join the Albanian Right League. Its request was reviewed and unanimously approved at the plenary meeting of the ARL held in Tirana on October 3, 1995. At the latest meeting, which lasted about six hours, other current political issues were also discussed, and October 15 was set as the deadline for collecting signatures on the petition against the Land Sale and Purchase Law. The Right League, made up of five political parties and two associations (the National Front Party, the Legality Party, the Republican Party, the Democratic Union Party, the Christian Democratic Union Party, the Association of the Politically Persecuted, and the Association of Former Kulaks), is currently the largest and most serious grouping of political forces in Albania, and a contender for victory in the coming elections. The Right League was founded in February ’95. Its main goal is to prevent the former communists from returning to power and to build a democratic society in which order and the law prevail. The ranks of the Albanian Right League [?] are expanding

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According to politicians’ statements, only three parties will manage to reach two digits; the others will reach three or more digits in the upcoming elections. Now that Albania is becoming increasingly urban, the chances of the left-wing opposition winning the elections are improving. The influx of villagers into the city is part of the pre-election strategy of the anti-popular PD government to win in ’97. The bomb that blew Gligorov’s body apart has also opened the wounds of the Balkans. Who will benefit from the destabilization of Macedonia? The latest salary increase will solve everything, and those employed in today’s state will return. One expected a revolutionary initiative to erupt among ministry employees, bringing the salary increase down to 4%. This figure also corresponds to the political parties’ demand for the threshold for entry into Parliament. The opposition believes salaries can be increased by another 200%. But, speaking as a herald from experience, I say that whenever my salary goes up, I feel poorer and poorer. Now that the files are also to be opened for journalists, several newspapers are expected to be planted. The Helsinki Committee will protest vigorously against the restriction of press freedom and will take the case to the international court in The Hague in Athens. Long live Socialist Democracy, which is also true democracy