Otranto trial, the lawyers for the Albanian side disappear P. 7 OTRANTO TRIAL, THE LAWYERS FOR THE ALBANIAN SIDE DISAPPEAR There was a building in Otranto, in what happened on the night of March of 1997, were repeated again yesterday in front of the Italian Embassy in Tirana, concern the people, the relatives of the missing in this tragedy, who yesterday at noon held protests in front of the building of this Embassy, after its officials did not accept that they be issued entry visas to Italy so that they could attend the court hearing of the case in Otranto. The court was adjourned in the hearing of this case from 8 January, about a week before the final hearings were to take place. It could certainly not have had any reasonable motive for the Italian Embassy's objection to the visas in Tirana. P. 2

MEDIAM, READY TO SIGN FOR THE LIFTING OF IMMUNITIES Which of the judges will leave his post in the defense of former Prime Minister Ilir Meta and of the part of the Vetting passed by the minister. The High Court will leave in the coming days the formal judicial hearings in the KLD are not foreseen by the chairman of the Court of Appeal. Two days earlier the Prosecutor General Arben Rakipi himself expressed the desire that "he is tied to this work". This prosecutor has declared that he wants to summon the session of the High Council of Justice, with the aim of deciding the penalization of two prosecutors who were aware and of one member of the evaluation of the files linked to Tirana and tried by the Court of Tirana. Tirana and a part investigated by the Tirana prosecution office and a part investigated by the Tirana prosecution office and questioned by the Tirana prosecution office P. 2

WHERE DID THE PRIME MINISTER'S FILE DISAPPEAR TO? Again an event the location of the file with the trial of the Albanian executive leader Ilir Meta, for this file the remaining Albanian mountain made known on Monday by the Prosecutor of Tirana, announced that the envelope with documents to the prosecutors and others the file, "as the law also provided, was handed over in the unappealable study and the law, the file was handed over," as it is generally written. By the Council of Prosecutors of Tirana, in the most recent hearing they said the last time, to keep carried Saturday on 27?!? [sic?] in this file there is no more as in the Central Prosecutorial Body, nor in the Prosecutors of Tirana, as well as closer to the mirror? . Here one asked them whether the file Arben Rakipi, when asked about this problem, states that the file "Meta" must be in the Tirana Prosecutor's Office. P. 2

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TIRANA Proçi: Documents cannot be manipulated P. 5

The deputy defense minister of the USA is in Tirana P. 5

Shkodër Republicans express support for cooperation P. 3

20 years in prison for heroin traffickers P. 6

Kapshticë, 130 Albanian emigrants return P. 7

Interview with Françesk Radi P. 13

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