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Gazeta Shqiptare

E martë, 5 enar 1999

300,000 USD worth of heroin seized

Italian investigators: “It is Made in Albania” The Fier gang is dismantled. Thirteen newly arrived Albanians are in handcuffs INTERVIEW / Speaks Pjetër Arbnori Forgetting the Constitution: Now a new formula? TIRANA - “If I could bring back to life all the interned and executed people of this country so that they could cast their vote in the referendum and prevent the opposition, if victorious, from coming to power, I would never do such a thing...” — explaining his refusal to vote in the referendum in favor of the draft Constitution, Spartak Ngjela said yesterday that he would justify his act with at least three sentences. So, if we are not taking yesterday’s statement, similar to a Ministry of Health circular written in the streets of Berat and not with the face of a lawyer of Parliament, but in an Albanian newspaper, as a counterpoint to this position? In some way, would it not be more natural to give this privilege to a personality or to a man who played a primary role in the case of pluralist parliamentarianism in Albania, a highly prominent protagonist of the first days of pluralism such as Pjetër Arbnori? According to him, the challenge of 28 November with 29 November did not serve Albanian society at all. The vote in the referendum was not the solution. Stating that in no democratic country is a referendum held on the constitution and that the future of a country is not put at risk by going to a constitutional vote, Arbnori says that on 29 November nobody won. “Political parties must understand that this vote was a moral setback for the country and a shock to stability,” he says. Arbnori calls for everyone to return, in the struggle to rebuild the state, to the memory of 22 March 1992 and to the PD program of those years. “In 1992 we made no reform and no fundamental change in favor of democracy,” he says. This force undertook no political or economic reform during its rule. “If we compare these things with Berisha’s successes in foreign affairs, then that is where the greatest contrast lies,” Arbnori says. He points out that “people with real contributions in elections and in the administration of policies must be revalued.” According to him, the arrival of the political class at new levels must be inevitable in order to get out of the deadlock. A citizens’ panel in Milan organized a protest march against drug trafficking on Saturday evening after the seizure near central Milan of 30 kilograms of heroin with a market value of 600,000 marks. More than 300,000 dollars fell into the hands of the Italian police, as the profit of the gang of 13 Albanian traffickers from the sale of the heroin quantity. According to the Italian police, the hard drug was found in a “Fiat Fiorino” van, while a bag hidden in a wardrobe contained 2,400 marks and 16,000 dollars in cash. Police said the 13 arrested Albanians were part of a “powerful organization,” active in Fier and in Italy. Italian investigators declared that the heroin was “Made in Albania”.
Namik Dokle Spartak Ngjela Berisha Fier Milano Itali Shqipëri Berat

Forgetting the Constitution: Now a new formula?

INTERVIEW / Speaks Pjetër Arbnori The great push to revive a constitution is taking on a new look through the radikulove? [sic] The great push to revive a constitution is taking on a new look through le which can be accompanied as a formula for the ease of the peninsula of the peninsula
Namik Dokle

Polio does not give up

The 28-year-old dies in hospital The number of victims of the dangerous epidemic rises to 14 TIRANA - The lack of vaccine has come from the carelessness of health institutions. This is the main conclusion of the investigation launched by the National Epidemiological Service, after 14 cases of poliomyelitis in the north. A 28-year-old man from the village of Mnelëz in the Shkodra district died yesterday at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Tirana as a result of this disease. He was its 14th victim. Doctors stated that the patient arrived at the hospital in very serious condition. Four years ago, this disease had been eliminated in our country, but negligence in vaccination brought it back again. PS of Tirana: “You know why we lost the local elections” TIRANA - The socialists of the capital explain the election defeat. The election of Mulleti to the post of chairman of the PS of Tirana has somewhat solved the many problems in the lives of the capital’s socialists. Yesterday, the spokesperson of the Socialist Party, Namik Dokle, defended the party’s recent actions. “The new leadership of the PS is trying to do the best possible for Tirana and the first results will be visible in a few months,” Dokle said. The socialists of Tirana have started work with a marathon meeting in which the causes of the defeat in the local elections were discussed. According to Dokle, the reasons for this defeat have to do with weaknesses in the functioning and organization of the party in the capital. “Work will continue, but now at a faster pace and with greater commitment,” he added.
Mulleti Milosheviç Tiranë Shkodër Mnelëz[?] Veri

To learn their fate, loses 2,000 USD

Woman reports to the police: “He lied to me!” To learn their fate, loses 2,000 USD The 54-year-old fortune teller ends up in prison TIRANA - Two cousins from Librazhd first arrived at the police in Tirana around 12 noon about a 54-year-old fortune teller. Worried about the disappearance of a friend of theirs, they went to the police station, where they began to file a complaint. But after a few hours the police found no missing woman. The report turned out to be false. The woman suspected of being missing was nothing other than a 54-year-old fortune teller who had taken 2,000 USD from two citizens with the promise that she would tell them their fate. When she did not return, they thought she had disappeared. The fortune teller was then arrested.
Aixhollka[?] Tiranë Librazhd

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