Berisha is maneuvering with legal trickery The opposition denounces the draft law on verifying the backgrounds of public figures “To leave Albanian politics in the hands of 7 people whom this draft claims are the most honest, and who at the same time also have the right to draw up the lists of candidates for all parties, is one of the greatest absurdities that only the present power knows how to produce.” page 3

One month to carry out a medical expert examination Sensational trial in the capital page 2

The killing took place in the city center page 2

Shkodër - 24 hours after the UN Security Council decision By last night, no order had reached the border crossings with Montenegro Shkodër - 24 hours after the UN Security Council decision Embargo remains in force in northern Albania By last night, no order had reached the border crossings with Montenegro After the negotiations in Dayton, USA, where the peace agreement for Bosnia was reached, on Wednesday evening the Security Council decided to lift the sanctions imposed since May 1992 against Serbia. European observers declared that the embargo against the former Yugoslavia at the Serbian-Romanian-Bulgarian border had been lifted. Thus today no checkpoint will remain on the banks of the Danube River. But while for Romanians and Bulgarians everything seems to be over, no official notice has revoked the embargo on the Albanian border with the former Yugoslavia. Although the news of the lifting of sanctions against Serbia had been heard in Shkodër, late last night in the northern city nothing was different from other days. At the border crossings of Hani i Hotit, work continued as before. No convoy linked to the lifting of the embargo. “It may be true, but so far no order has come to us to revoke this embargo,” said an officer to “KJ”. Mr. Lul Nika, the chief police officer at the post, who had just taken the interim shift. Likewise, at the customs office of Hani i Hotit, its employees, Mr. Angjelin Nrecaj, checked and allowed the entry of the truck to Shkodër, before the main police officers as the road control squad. [?] fuel smuggling. In Shkodër, where a good part of the population lives thanks to trade with the condemned neighbor, the news of the lifting of sanctions was circulating in confusion. Behind the city library was also the headquarters of the UN observer mission. By last night, around 10:00 p.m., the UN mission had not received any notice of the suspension of the monitoring activity. One of the representatives of the mission, Mr. Rafaele Grandoni, explained last night to “KJ” that under the dictate of the UN Security Council decision, but that the mission installed in Shkodër had not received any official order for lifting the sanctions on the Albanian border with the former Yugoslavia. And if such an order were to arrive these days, the mission is likely to continue its work until the total lifting of sanctions; a few days after the UN decision, the arms embargo remains in force for the former Yugoslavia. In any case, sooner or later, the order to lift the embargo will also arrive at the Albanian border crossings. A few lines written on a piece of paper will announce the end of a four-year adventure that changed not a little of the lives of Albanians. Albania has been very close to the war in Bosnia, although it experienced it somewhat differently. The end of the embargo will also be the end of thousands of attempts to gain something. Many nights will no longer slide over the asphalt. Canisters, tankers and contraband will no longer appear. The embargo that shook the supply market, mobilized hundreds of police forces, took lives in the lake, enriched some but impoverished many others, will now remain only to be remembered. After it, the city of Shkodër is expected to change. Trade under normal conditions with Montenegro may develop, while those who made money can invest. Just as war began suddenly one day, so suddenly did the embargo come to an end. Many traders may go bankrupt. Smugglers will have to sell the lorries and tankers, while for a long time the markets will remain the black tents of the night on the asphalt and dozens of fuel stations that sprang up like mushrooms after the rain of sanctions. This whole great movement of vehicles and people seems to be coming to an end. But an end whose duration in the Balkans is never known. On Wednesday, in his speech to the UN Security Council, the Bosnian foreign minister said that Bosnian victims are still in Serbian concentration camps in Albania. “Have these living ghosts heard of peace? Will it bring them any change?” ARMAND SHKULLAKU Last night in Koplik, smuggling “bowed its head” photo DRITAN KABA

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Press conference at the Polish embassy Tolerance won, aggressiveness lost page 4

Albanian socialists in Moscow Russia as intermediary for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue page 4

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