P. 5 Eid al-Adha was celebrated throughout the Albanian Community

OSBE WILL HELP EASE DISAGREEMENTS OVER THE ELECTIONS “We will have an important role in the choice of local government,” he says, arriving yesterday from Saliu of Kosovo. As in Tiranë. Anders has also discussed most recently with the president of the parties that signed the agreement on the electoral code. According to him, everything will turn out and are the promised progress of the Albanian political parties. “Besides in Tiranë he gave the first impressions of the talks with Albanian officials on the choice of local government. He appears clearer on this matter from the statement: ‘I find that it must be necessary to organize independent constituent pejsa[?] with an electoral character, which means one vote for one person.’ P. 5

MEDIANI, THIS PRESIDENT AT THE SERVICE OF CLANS It is President Mediani who does not even know what he is supposed to do; he has been and remains[?] in a sideline? note made yesterday by the chairman, Fatmir Mediu, at a press conference. According to the Republican leader, it is clear that the Presidency under these conditions is committing a betrayal. Or now in this war we have the beginning too. It must be so much, when there is calm, the whole electoral process must begin. Mediu explained that there may be a conflict, Mediu emphasized. P. 5

Today in the Supplement: Prose by Daniel Boulanger, poetry by Eduardo F[r]ipo and Klara Kodra, the speech of Father Anton Arapi in the High Council of Regency P. 3

Mediu: The President at the service of clans P. 3 Meksi: the Central Election Commission of Ramiz Alia better than that of Mediani P. 3 Presidential grinizëm for electoral manipulation P. 5

P. 21 Eid al-Adha was celebrated throughout the Albanian Community

Former Prime Minister Meksi speaks Former Prime Minister Meksi Overpopulation costs more P. 3

The new millennium with the curse “Albanian emigrant” P. 9

The weather favors clandestine trafficking P. 19

clandestine trafficking P. 7

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