Yesterday, a meeting of the PD parliamentary group with Berisha in attendance The request to lift immunity is not approved The Parliamentary Mandates Committee was called upon to first examine and then submit to parliament the proposal for or against lifting the immunity of deputies Ruli and Uka Blerim Çela reads the report on the case of the forest and arrest. He refuses to declare new facts (page 2) Photo A. Babani

What would be the true balance sheet of Albanian foreign policy (page 3)

Strasbourg Yesterday the German police handed over to the French authorities 26 Albanian and Yugoslav youths who, through a border crossing in northeastern France near Mulhouse, had tried to enter illegally and used the false crossing. According to news made public by the border police in Mulhouse, they were caught on 25 December; sixteen of them were Albanian, 20 of Yugoslav nationality. The young people, 7 boys and 19 girls aged between 16 and 25, had crossed the German-French border on foot, in order to take the train to Paris. Fourteen of them were to be sent to the reception center in Arenc, 8 others to the special center for adults in Dieuze, while the four minors were to go to Colmar. On 24 and 27 December, a decision was taken to extend administrative detention by up to 12 days for 9,600 clandestine immigrants, evacuated on 31 December from the reception camp at the port of Marseille, where 3,000 immigrants had found shelter because of the cold. Among that crowd there were also 35 Albanians.

Italy More than 100 thousand Albanian emigrants Albania ranks second in the number of clandestine immigrants Only for 1994: 87,815 arrested and 520 convicted The published data place Albania in the scale of the Italian threat from clandestine immigration as identified by the Italian police. With 3,297 refusal decisions, it ranks third after Tunisia and Morocco. In total, at present, 26 countries are still in the ranking of more than 600,000 immigrants recorded in 1994 in Italy, of whom 87,815 are Albanian. Albania’s name appears highest as a country of illegal emigration, followed in the ranking by the countries of the former Yugoslavia. The number of people arrested in 1994 in Italy reaches 95,016, of whom 87,815 are Albanian citizens. The figures place our country first as a country of emigrants heading to Italy. Only this year, 520 citizens have been expelled from the country for trafficking in women and drugs, exploitation and prostitution. Spokesmen for the Italian police have declared that Albanian emigrants seek to reach their destination via three routes, using speedboats and ferries to the main Adriatic ports. On 31 December, the Italian police in Bari arrested 509 people, of whom 400 were Albanians, who were trying to enter Italy by sea. The clandestine entry of Albanians into Italy remains one of the most worrying phenomena for the Italian authorities. In recent days, clandestine passengers have also been caught on the Vlorë-Bari ferry line. On this line, the Italian authorities have not allowed the passage of several buses and ferries with Albanian plates that were transporting passengers to attend the annual pilgrimage in Brindisi to the sanctuary of Saint Francis.

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