The draft law on genocide will be voted on tomorrow Dokle: We will not obey the laws of Pjetër Arbnori’s spies The PD draft law: yesterday’s politicians must wait until 2003 According to Article 3 of the draft law, “Those who, up to 31 March 1991, were: members of the Political Bureau; members of the Central Committee of the PPSH (or PKSH); ministers; deputies of the People’s Assembly; members of the Presidential Council; presidents of the Supreme Court; Prosecutors General; first secretaries of districts; and state security employees; collaborators of the state security; informers and witnesses against defendants in political trials, cannot hereafter be elected to central or local organs of power, nor appointed to the senior administration of the state, in the judicial system or in the mass media, until 31 December 2002, except in cases where they acted against the official line and publicly withdrew on their own. ——— page 3 ——— PD deputies and government officials in front of Parliament: “We also need to pass a law that allows only PD members to engage in politics”

Today at 2:00 p.m., the Constitutional Court will issue its ruling in the court case seeking to declare unlawful and unconstitutional the activity of the President of the Court of Cassation, Zef Brozi, in the phase of enforcing final court decisions. As is known, the lawsuit against Brozi was filed by the Council of Ministers. It is expected that, with this activity being declared unlawful, further measures against Brozi will be taken by Parliament.

They are protesting the failure to open some classes in Greek Yesterday the PBDNJ deputies Thoma Miço and Kosta Makriadi [?] left the parliamentary chamber. “The failure to open some classes in Greek in the minority area” was the reason for the two deputies’ protest. Miço declared before Parliament that “as a sign of protest against the government, which has not implemented the law on the education of national minorities, we are forced to leave for an indefinite period, asking that the government and the relevant Ministry, albeit belatedly, decide to open some minority schools.” After Miço’s statement, the chairman of the PD parliamentary group, Ali Spahia, considered deputy Miço’s declaration to be “an attempt to hinder that spirit of cooperation that is being increasingly observed in relations between Albania and Greece and that aims to misinform public opinion inside, and especially outside, Albania about minority rights. The right of the Greek minority in Albania to education in the mother tongue is fully in line with all the most advanced standards of Europe,” Spahia added. According to the chairman of PBDNJ, Mr. Vasil Melo, the deputies’ action was taken after a discussion within the party leadership. Melo says that the protest is within the rules of democracy, and is a warning to the government that does not implement constitutional laws which state that minorities have their undeniable rights. The opening of classes in the mother tongue, Melo continues, also stems from Albania’s signing of the Convention on Minority Rights on the occasion of the country’s admission to the KËE. Likewise, the approval of the education law and Berisha’s statement that classes in the mother tongue will be opened wherever conditions exist made this act favorable, yet it remained unimplemented in practice. But, strangely, a second, verbal order confirmed that these classes would not be opened and Greek children would have to go from Gjirokastra to the villages of Dropull, Sofratikë or Dervician to learn. If the situation does not change, Melo says that PBDNJ will make every effort to ensure that the rights of the minority, even of a single individual, are recognized not only in declarations but in practice.

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After the publication of a tourist guide to Gjirokastra A photograph of Enver Hoxha has also been published GJIROKASTËR - The entire past and present of the stone city in a book that came out of print a few days ago. For the first time in the history of Albanian tourism, a tourist guide by Albanian authors has been published. With a laconic and literary style, reaching the boundaries of poetic prose, as well as 82 color photographs, the authors of this guide offer everyone who wants to visit the stone city its full history and the present reality of Gjirokastra. The authors of this venture are: Vladimir Qirjaj, archaeologist; Elvira Shabllo, historian; Jani Barko, photographer; and Thoma Ngjelo, manager. Although the intellectual circles of Gjirokastra have welcomed this work because of its high professionalism, the official circles have received it with extraordinary irritation. What is causing them to raise the alarm and mobilize SHIK as well is a photograph of the dictator Hoxha published in this tourist guide. In the last pages of this book about Gjirokastra, the authors of the book, alongside photographs of Çapi and Kalaja, have also placed a photograph of Enver Hoxha. “It is absurd to think that we did this out of nostalgia for the communist regime. We were simply guided by the idea that, when creating a guide with the characteristics of an encyclopedia for a city, one must also highlight the most famous people born in that city,” says the head of the group that prepared this guide, Vladimir Qirjaj. SHIK took it upon itself to play the role of censorship, which by law has still not been institutionalized in Albania. Moreover, the press law clearly states that censorship is forbidden from functioning. “One of the SHIK leaders in Gjirokastër ordered the immediate suspension of distribution and sale of the book,” says Elvira Shabllo, one of the authors of the tourist guide to Gjirokastra. ILIR BABARAMO

Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Çiller resigned yesterday, immediately taking up the role of interim prime minister assigned to her by President Demirel until the formation of the new government. Meanwhile, Çiller commented that the first thing to do is to begin work on forming the new government within a democratic timetable. Turkey does not need new elections, but new solutions.

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“Gruppo DIANBOILER” Italy Hydraulic materials It has changed address: from Qyteti Studenti it has moved to the trade warehouses near the refrigerator.