Begeja and Çeku meet with the high-level delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe

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Barushi: The draft code has not been changed, but falsified

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Hashim Thaçi: Kosovo needs status

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The campaign of staged trials resumes

Super-trial against 144 Albanians accused of terrorism P. 4

Europe: Albania is putting its future at risk

“With this CEC, it is impossible to enter the autumn elections.” With these words, the deputy chairman of the Albanian Republicans, Maksim Begeja, once again made clear his own position at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the PRSH headquarters with the representative delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe at the Council of Europe, headed by the President of this Congress, Mr Alain Chenard, accompanied by the Secretary General of the Congress, Mr Lokatel, and the member of the Congress Assembly, Ms Remi. After giving them a detailed overview of the PR’s position on developments observed in Albanian political life... P. 3

Socialist MPs: We are more to blame than Berisha

In three years in government, we have done nothing worthwhile Former President Sali Berisha once again became the main topic at the meeting of the Socialist Party’s Parliamentary Group. Left-wing MPs insisted yesterday on isolating the chairman of the DP. “Why is Sali Berisha stronger than the current government?” This was the question raised at yesterday’s meeting of the Socialist parliamentary group by SP MP Halil Laj. According to him, this is a question that the SP electorate continues to ask repeatedly, without being able to get an answer. “Why is Sali Berisha not being held accountable?” MP Lalaj continued with his questions, asking for explanations about the reasons preventing the leader of the Democrats from being punished. Moreover, adding this demand of his, he said that only in this way would they also be able to win over their electorate. P. 5

Special police: “Embargo” on clandestine trafficking

Although the Minister of Public Order was busy yesterday with various inspections, he found a little time to meet his subordinates in the districts. He demanded quite a few explanations from them. At a meeting of this kind between the Albanian Police and the district police directors, many issues were discussed, while the Director of the Fier Police was asked to clarify the killing of the criminal police inspector, a crime committed several days earlier in the city of Lushnjë. P. 2

A trial against 144 Albanians accused of terrorism in 1999 during the NATO bombings and charged with terrorist activity began yesterday at the Niš Court amid extraordinary security measures. These Albanians, detained in Gjakovë, a city in southwestern Kosovo near the Albanian border, are accused of “organized hostile activity connected with terrorism,” committed in April and May 1999 during the NATO bombings. According to the indictment, the group is accused of attempting to carry out attacks in Gjakovë against police and army units, which resulted in one death and five injuries among the police, and two deaths and two injuries among military personnel. P. 4 “A political trial through which the Belgrade regime is trying to cover up the great tragedy it caused in Kosovo”

The Nano-Meta duel moves down to the grassroots

P. 5 AMC leaders threatened with murder P. 6 The border belt under threat from mines P. 7 Coordination agency for the fight against money laundering P. 8

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