Page 4 Monitoring, help for the Opposition EDITORIAL The closer election day for local government gets, the more questions arise about whether these elections will be free. No, this concern is not only that of the opposition. Thus the indignation also comes from the international community. The president of that opposition, which cared more about taking power than about defending national interests, is saying that the conditions he set for the elections are not being respected. This is not only a problem for us Albanians but also for foreigners. If those who sought the legalization of the government that brought down the state in 1997 and are applying the worst standards for running the country consider Albania a country that should be monitored by the international community, that means that after 3 years all their propaganda about claims that the country has achieved stability has failed. Or, in the most extreme case, if attention is given to their monitoring, then it should be understood that the situation in Albania is very serious. So in any case Albanians must draw the conclusion that the presence of foreigners is essential. With care in publishing assessments about the distorted fate of the elections, and also in signing declarations of the CEC type, with care regarding violations of the law, and on the other hand: administrative pressure, police interference, the machinery of the state against the government’s opponents, the running of election commissions in open violation of the rules. After this, or even considering the responsibilities that the international community has in relation to the despotism of these last three years, they are such that the arrival of a 50-year-old monitoring group to tell Albanians that the elections will be trusted is not only unnecessary but also the making of a fraud. If that monitoring group truly is such, it must prove that the elections are not only impartially clear but also that any police interference has stopped. The public has the right to demand this insistently. We cannot accept that, in the name of monitoring, all violations and manipulations are covered up. By these standards, monitoring is only a means to justify elections and not to make them honest. This is precisely what should be Albanians’ first fear and not an interest in learning what some international figure says on television.

USA - The state’s upper echelon is corrupt In yesterday’s issue, FBI voices of hope, the voices that in the end have mostly come with all the concerns of the curve? toward yesterday’s government and today’s? This has to do with the administration and the lack of will to fight the mafiosi who have overshadowed the government. The number that makes up what? Triang? the past two months, took in a special way under protection a well-known criminal in the region. This showed all Albanians that the head of anti-corruption is capable of playing the role of servant, in order to keep power under the mask of reform. Americans view the problem of trafficking in people and narcotics with such concern. “The crime committed by the Albanian mafia is exceptional and a bad example for others,” a senior FBI official told the American ambassador’s envoy? “They have penetrated all levels of the state and are trying to make Albania a bad example. There can be no tolerance for such a phenomenon.” Page 7

1,500 Albanians are released from prisons Of the 2,100 Albanians arrested since the beginning of this year in Italy, more than 1,500 of them have been released, and the authorities of Italian justice are benefiting at the top of the Italian prisons for? f? Kobs? in handcuffs. But what will be the status of these Albanians? Italian justice? For this week they were again? Alban? If they are released for those? Albanians? who have prison proceedings and in? prosecution? handcuffs? what happens? B? They have preced? This? Pro? one? Italian justice? S? T? ? ? Page 15

Court secretary, prostitution business The acting head of Albanian justice exploited the minimum of prost? exploited the minimum of prostitut? had earned more? ? Pro? began an order for citizens? ? but? of? then? Sandër Çoku from Last? worked as secretary in the Court of the Krujë District. The latest offer of? of public sex? of? two? male? se? of? The Fire Service? employee? was? sh?e? employee? with? ? prostitut??? business? caught in the act the Romanian citizen Dumitrascu Maria Simona. Page 5

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Medical examination: she was pregnant NOTICE Today, 11:00 a.m. at the Central Headquarters of PRSH, the Presidency holds a press conference Page 9

“Kaparici”, the key week that changed the Government’s decision. No. 65, dated 24.02.2000, point 3 of paragraph b, and opened the way to abuse in the tender for the privatization of Fushë-Krujë Cement Page 2

ON THE COMPANY OF THE SOCIETY DECISION SOME CHANGES ON 9.5.1999 FOR THE PRIVATIZATION BY TENDER OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE, AND THE LEASING OF KOSESIRE RUSE-KRUJË Pursuant to Articles 100 of the Constitution and Law No. 7512, dated 10.8.1991, “On the sanctioning and protection of private property, free initiative, independent private activity and privatization”, as amended, and Law No. 8098, dated 28.3.1996, “On the privatization of the agricultural sector”, as amended, upon the proposal of the Minister of Public Economy and Privatization, the Council of Ministers DECIDED: In Decision of the Council of Ministers No. 431, dated 29.9.1999, “On the privatization of the Mechanical JSC and agricultural services”, the following changes and additions are made: 1. The letter item 1/ in the content heading; Is replaced by: Of Decision of the Council of Ministers 492, dated 20.3.1998; 2. Item 1 is changed as follows: Basic criteria for selecting the tender winners are: a) the offered value for the sale of shares, b) investment in production of cement in point 5/e, c) investment in self-employment and after? 57 million of its funds. Page 4

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