DOCUMENT/ “ALBANIANS ARE SUSPECTED OF BURNING DOWN A SERB’S PREMISES” VIOLENCE IN BELGRADE Foreign Ministry, “secret” report to Parliament Consequences of the 14 October incident, regional director Bashkim Rama reports to the Foreign Affairs Committee. Ministry: Closed correspondence between institutions The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday sub- mitted to Parliament a detailed material regarding the steps that have been taken by official Tirana concerning the issues that fol- lowed the in- cident in Belgrade, on the day the Serbia- Albania match was played. The news was confirmed yesterday by the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Re- lations, Arta Dade. Thus, only a few weeks before the official visit of Prime Minister Rama to Belgrade, the issue of tense relations with Serbia is also becoming an object of parliamentary work. In a statement to “Gazeta Shqiptare,” official sources near the Foreign Ministry stated that the voluminous ma- terial submitted to Parliament cannot be made public for the media because it is considered to be “closed correspondence between two institutions.” Meanwhile, at the tense meeting of the Committee on Foreign Policy, the director for Regional Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, Bashkim Rama, in- formed the deputies regarding... On page 3

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