OSCE: PARTIES MUST ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS

AHRENS’ MESSAGE FROM DURRËS On page 16

NGJELA, POSSIBLE PD CANDIDATE FOR TIRANA

THE LAWYER: THEY HAVEN’T CALLED ME YET On page 5

THE POLICE’S SHAME

30 State officials held hostage in Kukës Hour by hour, the whole of yesterday’s battle in the northern city. From the blockade of the national road near the Morini customs post to the armed attack on the police station by 100 pseudo-traders. On pages 2–3 View of the city of Shkodër’s burned-out police station, in February ’98

Victory Through Statements Alone

the editorial The police lost another battle yesterday. The next battle is theirs. It wasn’t the first. And, as the “battles” show, unfortunately it won’t be the last either. What happened yesterday in Kukës resembled a military maneuver, a test of the police force now that the elections are imminent. Unfortunately, the result of this test was different from what they would have liked to read ... Continued on page 2

Pediatrics: No medicine for hemophiliacs

STATISTICS / 300 patients In the children’s hospital, on the many floors of the building, among the mothers one sees hurrying with children in their arms, there is also a ward where 5 children with hemophilia are suffering. They need to receive clotting factor, or, as we all know it, the factor that causes blood to clot, but the medicine, which is administered through the veins, is missing from our hospitals. “The factor they need...” On page 11

IOM: TO WORK IN ITALY

List of names of the people who will be interviewed On page 18

NOTICE

of the Consulate General of Italy in Vlorë On page 6