With the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr. Bujar Bukoshi Kosovare - Kosovo without Serbian domination p. 4 With the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr. Bujar Bukoshi

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Today in Shkodër the trial opens against former policeman Pal Nika, one of the figures linked to the events of 2 April 1991. Ruçi and Nano are also witnesses April 2 on trial, or former policeman Pal Nika Today in Shkodër the trial opens against former policeman Pal Nika, one of the figures linked to the events of 2 April 1991. Nika is one of the four policemen who disappeared in an unknown direction on 3 April 1991, only a few hours after the gruesome killing of four innocent citizens had taken place. If the other two former policemen were caught and convicted in August 1994, Nika’s arrest became possible only after the investigation into the events of 2 April was launched for the fourth time. After returning from Greece in the spring of 1994, the former policeman lived in his village in Bogë, in Malësia e Madhe, working as a bus conductor disguised with a moustache. However, on 17 July 1995 he was arrested, charged, and accused of illegal possession of weapons and of disappearing after the 2 April massacre, further shrouding the event in mystery. In his trial, the former Interior Minister of the time, Gramos Ruçi, and former Prime Minister Fatos Nano, who today is serving his sentence in Bënca prison in Tepelena, are also expected to testify. Also expected to testify in this trial are Dilaver Paraja, Çapajev Gjokutaj, Xhemal Dymylja and the police chief of that time. Nika’s statements are expected to shed light on many of the mysteries surrounding these events, which, despite having been investigated five times, remain obscure. Bashkim Malo

Yesterday, at the meeting of the 15 EU foreign ministers, Albania was awarded $1.3 million as urgent humanitarian aid, The EU gives Albania $1.3 million Yesterday, at the meeting of the 15 EU foreign ministers, Albania was awarded $1.3 million as urgent humanitarian aid, according to the statement issued on this occasion, taking into account the worsening living conditions and the flow of refugees to the northern areas and around the cities. The aid will be distributed in cooperation with the British humanitarian association “Feed the Children” and another humanitarian organization. According to Deutche Welle

The socialists: why they should come to power 1. Because that is what Namik Dokle says, and his mother has died. 2. Marx will be included in school curricula. 3. There will be no shortage of textbooks in schools as there is now, since the old textbooks will be put back into circulation. 4. Extraordinary taxes will be imposed on all merchants who became rich during the transition on the blood of the people, and there will be more money for the poorer strata. 5. Administrative reform: the socialists will not do it like the democrats through laws, but by means of a town crier they will inform officials that from tomorrow onward they must go to work. 6. The article on agitation and propaganda will be introduced, and thousands of people will be employed in SHIK. 7. Cigarettes and galares will be saved, and they will be declared kulaks. 8. Fatos Nano, living like a dog today, will not allow the street dogs to be killed together with him. 9. American imperialism will be expelled (?) by placing a bomb in the embassy, and this will be used to settle scores with some opposition intellectuals. 10. PS, even though it will not have anything, will share it with the entire working people. 11. Namik Hoti will become Minister of Ecology. 12. The five (those who were expelled from the PS leadership) will be subjected to special interrogation. 13. After 5 years, Dosen Ruçi, Pellumbi, Meta, etc. will be sent to RD.

At yesterday’s leadership meeting, through a press statement, PS indirectly acknowledged for the first time the law on the vetting and control of the backgrounds of senior state officials. PS in search of new candidates At yesterday’s leadership meeting, through a press statement, PS indirectly acknowledged for the first time the law on the vetting and control of the backgrounds of senior state officials. “We have 104,000 members and thousands of other sympathizers capable of carrying out the tasks demanded by the times,” says the PS press release. So this time PS seems to be seriously thinking about the elections, and discussion of the elections and candidacies has been left to the “party conferences in the districts.” With the entry into force of the law on the vetting of officials, which sidelines until the beginning of the next century the old guard of PS (PP), which has been quite active and has directed the socialists, the remaining time is short to popularize new figures from the “members and thousands of other capable sympathizers.” The electoral campaign, begun a few months ago out of fear that early elections might be called, PS seems it will support by producing a biography of PD, the “success” in the local elections of July ’92, the results of the referendum on the constitution in November ’94... Although the upcoming electoral law is expected to have a majoritarian emphasis, from PS’s press release yesterday it appears that the socialists’ campaign will unfold as if the law were 100% proportional: the candidates will promise to fight corruption, support businessmen, remove Nano... The only concrete promise for now seems to be the decision of the PS leadership at yesterday’s meeting to “complete the drafting of the electoral program at an accelerated pace.”

Yesterday, the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, left for an official visit to the USA. Rugova in the USA Yesterday, the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, left for an official visit to the USA, where he is expected to hold important meetings with officials of the Clinton administration, in the US Congress and Senate, the Kosovo Information Center (QIK) reports. After the USA, President Rugova will visit several Western European countries. Details about these visits have not yet been given. The results of Rugova’s visit are being awaited with particular interest, now after the signing of the peace agreement for Bosnia in Dayton, USA, according to the analyses so far of a solution to the Kosovo issue as part of the overall settlement of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.

What the Italian army did in the summer of this year, our border-guard forces are now trying to do in our coastal waters 24 hours guarding the coastline What the Italian army did in the summer of this year, our border-guard forces are now trying to do in our coastal waters A lightning operation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and the Vlora police station to protect the Albanian coast from the departure of clandestine speedboats toward the Italian coast. Special units left Tirana yesterday to take part in this operation, considered the largest so far. The action was prompted by the recent incidents involving the sinking of two speedboats near the Italian shores. Unlike previous times, the operation will continue for a long time in order to restore a state of calm along our coastline. Although the operation has begun, according to the latest data there have also been cases of intercepting fast-moving boats and attempts on their part to change the departure base. The police have placed all Albanian marine vessels under full control and have been very strict with everyone who tries to violate border regulations. All clandestine departures happen at night, which is why the police have titled the operation “24 hours guarding the coastline.” Special forces from Tirana arrived because three speedboats stopped yesterday by the police not only defied the order to stop, but also attempted to overturn the police motorboat. In these attempts, one speedboat operator who did not obey the police stop order was injured. B.M