Strong protest from the Albanian Foreign Ministry Tirana: «Athens is blocking us» Strong protest from the Albanian Foreign Ministry The 'visa war' begins Tirana: «Athens is blocking us» TIRANE — A new dispute has broken out between the neighboring countries of Albania and Greece, not over visas. On Sunday evening, an official communiqué from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Tirana had delivered a protest note to the Greek side in Albania — the chargé d'affaires Tulupas — condemning what it says are blatant violations of international conventions. According to the Albanian note, the Greek authorities have repeatedly prevented Albanian citizens from travelling through Greek territory even when they were equipped with regular documents issued by the Greek representation. Tirana's Foreign Ministry also cites cases of the blocking of Albanian diplomats or members of their families, who were asked for unnecessary obstacles when they wanted to pass through Greece in transit. According to the same source, one Albanian woman was also a victim of this attitude and was held at Athens airport for 24 hours even though her health condition was not good. A few days ago Parliament had withdrawn its approval of President Berisha's decree. According to this latest note, the Greeks are once again turning away crowds of citizens[?] and allowing other Europeans to travel through Albania without the relevant entry visa. In other words, the same as Albanians entering Greece. Before this measure, Albanian diplomats had repeatedly denounced the difficulties their citizens encountered in Greece even when equipped with visas. It seems that after the decree, such incidents resumed again, enough to force Tirana to protest vigorously. Meanwhile, at the UN Glass Palace, Albanian diplomacy continues to discuss regional difficulties with neighboring countries, including the dispute with Greece. Its head, Foreign Minister Alfred Serreqi, has so far met with several of his Balkan counterparts. The Albanian official news agency reports the content of these talks. According to this source, the countries that seem closest to the Albanian position are precisely those that have long been confronting conflict with Greece: Macedonia and Turkey. "Greece maintains these positions also with other Balkan countries" — Turkey's Foreign Minister Turgut said at the meeting with Serreqi in New York. It is with Albania when injustice is done to Albania. It seems that Serreqi's Macedonian counterpart held the same conciliatory stance. "Greece's actions in the region are worsening the situation" — said Janko Crvenkovski — "Greece is quarrelling with all its neighbors, but now the European Union wants United States has a different vision of its affairs". Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tirana

Marine accident KAVAJE — He was desperate to see his wife — who had been hospitalized for some time in an Italian hospital — but he was found dead at home. Thus ended in a highly tragic way the journey of the 25-year-old Xhevat Bekteshi from Buka in Kavajë. The motorboat[?] on which they were travelling — owned by Y.B. and Sh.B. from the village of Synej — capsized after a serious engine failure between Saturday and Sunday not far from Albanian shores. The passengers took the arduous road back. For one of them, fate was merciful. They managed, after great hardship, to return to the shore and one to the night's ice on their land. For the 25-year-old Bekteshi the adventure was an unbearable trial. His body was found after a few hours and, carried by the currents, it was brought for the last ceremony into the grief-stricken family bay. Bekteshi's wife had managed to obtain an Italian visa with the intervention of 'Caritas'. Her young husband, apparently worried about her health, had decided to take the dangerous path of a smuggler. Perhaps at the last moment he was thinking precisely of meeting his wife, a meeting that now, unfortunately, will never take place. c.g.t.

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Catastrophe averted DURRES — A huge fire swept through the Rrushkull forest around Durrës on Saturday evening. It was only the immediate intervention of the army that in time eliminated the damage that could have been colossal. The alarm was first raised by the fishermen of a naval post, who, being near the fire, had spotted the frightening tongues of flame. Their alarm put the nearby military units on alert. It was precisely the work of the soldiers — for seven hours straight — that limited the spread of the flames. The trenches dug by them saved the pine forest and the rare pheasant reserve located very close by. M. G. T.

TIRANE — Another senior Albanian official — after Deputy Prime Minister Kopliku — has ended up in a hospital bed. For the past 6 days, Safet Zhulali, Minister of Defense, has been under the strict supervision of the doctors at the government clinic. According to preliminary information, he suffers from pulmonary problems — inherited for a long time — to which a bronchopneumonia has recently been added. His health condition is not critical and appears to be improving. Although not fully recovered, Zhulali — who lives very close to the clinic where he is being treated — has got up from bed and gone out several times for very important work reasons. ar. me.

YESTERDAY IN ALBANIA The current market in Sarandë will apparently bid farewell to the city's residents. The official news agency reported that work will soon begin on the construction of a new, more convenient market, which will meet all the currently required standards, both in terms of increasing hygiene and other conditions. The news was confirmed to the agency by the Deputy Mayor of the city, Stauri Boci. The new market will be built with prefabricated elements and the construction cost will exceed 2 million lek. While the works are being carried out, the traders will be temporarily moved to another part of the city.

In Korçë, foreign specialists are sharing economic knowledge with commercial enterprises. In Korçë, foreign specialists are sharing economic knowledge with commercial enterprises have gone through the explanations of the leaders of the "Peace Corps" and the "SME" Foundation on the content of business and marketing. The seminar lasted for two consecutive days in one of the halls of the "Thimi Mitko" boarding school in the city.

Project ready POGRADEC — Soon the old building at the Qafë Thana border crossing will no longer exist. The Territorial Regulation Council has recently approved the project aimed at changing the appearance of this gateway to Albania. The customs facilities at Qafë Thana have been presented by an international firm and the funding for the works will be carried out by an American company. The construction of a modern road had long been a necessity because of the huge increase in traffic.

YESTERDAY IN THE WORLD An Indian family — mother, father and daughter — were massacred by a man who suspected they were infected with plague. The episode took place in a village in the state of Maharashtra, in central India. Police said the accused, whose name has not been made public, killed the woman with an axe and then her husband. London, an officer killed himself Major James Heath, admitting that he had been Princess Diana's lover, wrote as a diary in a butcher's shop, in London's intestine, supporting that the murdered officer had been denounced shortly before. Last Thursday Mark Stephen — is considered betrayed on the same grounds that it was 151, which predicted the use of war by the British army. The sentence was turned into hanging. Haiti thinks it will put Aristide's life at risk The return from exile of Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, scheduled for October 15, would not be recommended according to an American body for fear of security in a and the responsible parties guaranteed nothing. In the principality[?]

BEOGRAD — A UNPROFOR spokesperson has confirmed that the government army, mostly Muslim, has launched an offensive on Mount Igman. BEOGRAD — A UNPROFOR spokesperson has confirmed that the government army, mostly Muslim, has launched an offensive on Mount Igman, near Sarajevo. Meanwhile, news has arrived from the NATO base in Bagnoli (Naples) that a plane with NATO markings, a French "Mirage 2000" taking part in the "Deny Flight" operation in Bosnia, reacted against[?] because it may have been hit by a surface-to-air missile from Bosnian[?] forces[?]. The Bosnians with hope-bosnians in returned[?] with hope-bosnians[?] have seen truths for a long time return to base.

Arrests in Brindisi BRINDIZI — The shadow of the Chinese mafia over the trafficking of illegal emigrants. For the moment it may only be a hypothesis, but soon clear confirmation on this matter may be obtained. At this moment the Carabinieri of the Provincial Group of Brindisi have come into direct contact only with the tentacles of what is the great octopus of the notorious "Triad", the Chinese mafia known everywhere as bloodthirsty and savage. The Carabinieri, however, prefer not to speak of the Chinese mafia. But they are convinced they have come into contact with a very large organization, moreover well equipped, which manages the trafficking of smugglers at an international level. What in China Colonel Pietro Busi, Bullari, Romena[?], has identified in Albania. From here, thanks also to the recommendations of the country, they reach the Italian coast, especially the Apulian one, to continue onward, to recommended cities in the country, in various Italian cities, especially in the centre-north. On the same day, the Carabinieri arrested two Chinese and six Chinese for trafficking in illegal immigrants. The brothers Luigi and Andrea Esposito (both from Brindisi, respectively 28 and 30 years old, moreover previously known to the police) and six Chinese. In one Chinese man's pocket, among other things, a slip of paper was found with the name of a Chinese bank written on it.

VLORE — Two young Italians, representatives of the "Associazione Caritas", were threatened and then robbed in Vlorë. The Caritas agency had reported this incident to the law enforcement forces. In fact, both of the persons in support of whom, after being beaten, they were looking for the robbers and the vehicle. Now, for both Caritas workers[?], a complaint has been filed against the thief and the district police are searching for the suspected persons. c. [?] Ma.

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Kills at night for 'honor' — was at the appeal of (Mehmetaj hospital)[?] Vlora where he would have tried to cross in clandestine fashion. St. Ma. (M.A.) our deepest condolences for the loss of our colleague (R. K.) only the investigations currently being carried out through fast procedures will eliminate any kind of doubt. (O. T.)