Majko: He is free to leave Arian Çani Albania’s Minister of Public Order resigns; villagers in Lazarat threaten the Government that they will set the south ablaze after two residents are killed; Nano can hardly wait to return or to put his trusted men back at the head of the party; at the derby, players are badly beaten and the match ends with pistol shots; Durrës remains a suicide and is suffering from crime; assassinations and remotely detonated bombs among Albanians in the North... And all of this precisely now, when Albania is more than ever at the center of the attention of the whole world. Unfortunately, a country and a society like ours can be allowed to produce anything. But now, enough. Enough of responsible lies. Enough of militants, politicians, ministers, and ridiculous battles between parties and clans to gain one more head. Enough. Kosovo comes first now. And for Kosovo to be resolved, Albania must not go up in flames. Very little would be enough to blow everything up. In just a few hours—and nobody expected this now—one of the people holding the most delicate and important office in the country, the Minister of Public Order, resigns. Setting aside all the judgments and prejudgments surrounding this “surprise,” this act comes at precisely the wrong moment. Whatever reasons accompany it, the Minister of Public Order leaves at a time when Albania’s northern borders are being bravely defended, under daily Serbian threat, by ordinary police officers. Yesterday the Minister of Public Order said he could no longer remain in that post because the Prime Minister had not supported his actions and policies for some time. Such a rupture in the pyramid of a state that claims to be a major factor in the region’s future can only bring general destabilization to all the structures of the state itself. NATO’s arrival in Albania cannot mean anything other than that those who have undertaken to govern are giving up their responsibilities. In the face of Serbian crimes in Kosovo, the resignation of a minister in Albania sounds so wrong; in the face of the mass graves of innocent Kosovars, it is vile to be confronted with party clans and games to regain power; in the face of Kosovar children left without parents, it is repulsive to be confronted with the gangs of Lazarat, still threatening people as in the Middle Ages. MIOPËT

INTERVIEW / THE MINISTER REVEALS THE SECRETS OF THE TALKS Foreign Minister Milo On page 4

Serbs kill Fehmi Agani Meidani-Scalfaro divide Kosovo NATO accidentally kills 3 Chinese On pages 2-3-5

comment // NAZARKO On page 7

SPECIAL FOOTBALL Shots and violence at “Qemal Stafa” Tirana’s “Ishka” is bathed in blood by “Brisku” Tirana won a match and came very close to the title. It should have been celebrating, but unfortunately an unexpected bang erupted in the stand opposite the special police. Vëllazëria lost a match that takes it further away from the title, but it too should have been celebrating, since it played football worthy of champions, yet suffered the same fate as the blue-and-whites. A match that began like a celebration but ended in a gladiators’ arena, where pistol shots from the stand put the finishing touch to everything. A pity, because just 20 minutes later the footballers themselves understood that they were not enemies, but friends... On pages 21-22-23

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