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The war also had one small “good” thing: it knocked Albanian politics out of the picture, politics which for 8 years has done nothing but divide Albanians and destroy Albania. While politics had been shouting for years about national reconciliation, the war showed that the people had nothing between them. Wherever the Albanians of Kosovo knocked; in the south or north of Albania, in the families of those who spoke Albanian in Macedonia and Montenegro, the doors opened and they shared their pain and tears. Where was the quarrel, then? Where else but in the heated arguments and deranged minds of politicians. What other mess will our hot-headed politicians contrive? Unfortunately, Kosovo’s politicians are also following in the footsteps of the politicians of the mother state. While the defenseless people are being slaughtered and burned, humiliated and raped, politics is squabbling as if life were peaceful! Is this the time to divide up the armchairs? The quarrel among themselves (Kosovar politics) is not enough, but Albanian politics also joins in to pour gasoline on the fire. And as if all this were not enough, we are also presented with the scandal of Kosovo’s funds appropriated by Albanian government officials. To put such nonsense on public display at this moment, when the civilized world is here with us, means that politics has learned nothing. It continues to act like a fool as before. For some time now, in the luxury hotels of our poor capital, emissaries have been staying and spending the night; grey eminences appear and disappear, pretending to mediate, but in reality making a mess of the Kosovo issue, which today faces the great test of a final solution. Precisely now, when Kosovo is— Continued, page 3

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Incident in the late hours of the night Page 7

[Signature on cartoon: A. Hys…?]

“Today I’ll wear jeans with silicone and a ceramic T-shirt” Page 13

• One dead, three wounded in Durrës Page 7 • Female traffickers visit the camps in Vlorë Page 7 • Two hotels closed, 10 others on the list Page 9 • Kosovars give and ask for addresses Page 15

Today, at 11:00, at the PR Headquarters, the Presidium will hold a PRESS CONFERENCE