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Sarajevo Summit After three hours of discussions, the Bosnia Summit concluded with the signing of a declaration setting out the three main paths for the development of a region continually caught in a cycle of violence and ethnic hatred. On page 3

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Ilir Babaramо The American presidential plane was unable to land at Sarajevo airport. Is that surprising? It did not first land at a military base in Italy, from where it then continued by another means of transport to the Bosnian capital, where it stayed for only a few hours. The condition of Sarajevo airport is so catastrophic that Clinton clearly could not land there. Meanwhile, the delegations accompanying him to the Bosnian capital to decide to change the course of history in the region where all these events have taken place were in a more difficult position than ever before. They were almost without even telephones with which to contact their chancellery offices. These two commonplace examples are enough to understand what Sarajevo’s infrastructure is like, though it is more than that. It is indeed finished. After the Dayton Agreement, the world’s largest countries decided to do in Bosnia what they now want to do for the whole Balkans. An investment and reform boom was planned, through which Bosnia’s wounds were to be healed. Moreover, as soon as the first funds were disbursed, the donors decided to suspend everything. Continued on page 3

Yesterday at Pristina airport Rugova arrived with his family at Pristina airport at around 11:30, aboard a charter plane. With no security measures in place, the Albanian leader reached the city centre, passing unnoticed by everyone, and went straight to his private residence. All kinds of official meetings had been ruled out for yesterday, also because of the presence of most of the international authorities taking part in the Sarajevo conference. A joie among his fellow villagers, which Rugova also uses as a residence and representative office... On page 9