The Macedonian prime minister’s car is pelted with eggs, 2 young men in handcuffs. Taulant Çapa: He is our enemy, we struck him because he discriminates against Albanians ARBEN ÇEJKU’S INTERVIEW IN “GSH” IRRITATES OFFICIAL SKOPJE “THE MACEDONIANS ARE TITISTS” Gruevski, complaint to Berisha about the ambassador The Macedonian prime minister’s car is pelted with eggs, 2 young men in handcuffs. Taulant Çapa: He is our enemy, we struck him because he discriminates against Albanians By TEDI BLUSHI Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski yesterday asked official Tirana to take a firm stance against the statements that the Albanian ambassador in Skopje, Arben Çejku, made during an interview with “Gazeta Shqiptare” on 3 October last year, where he raised concern that “there are still nostalgic remnants of the Titoist period in the institutions that draft school textbooks in Macedonia.” Official sources close to the delegation accompanying Gruevski on this visit confirmed to GSH yesterday that in his meeting with his Albanian counterpart, Sali Berisha, the Macedonian prime minister raised, among other things, the concern about “the contempt of a child who tries to damage excellent bilateral relations and, unfortunately, is embraced by Ambassador Çejku. His statements given about a year ago for ‘Gazeta Shqiptare’. Continues on pages 2-3

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