After the trials in Tepelenë and the Court of Appeal, the petition is being prepared The petition will reach the Court of Cassation within two days Lawyer Sanxhaku: “There is no legal obstacle to a trial at the third level” After the trials in Tepelenë and the Court of Appeal, the petition is being prepared Nano to be tried in the Court of Cassation The petition will reach the Court of Cassation within two days Lawyer Sanxhaku: “There is no legal obstacle to a trial at the third level” “There is no legal obstacle to the trial of Socialist leader Fatos Nano in the Court of Cassation. The changes to the law on the entry into force of the new Penal Code, recently made by the People’s Assembly, have no bearing on the continuation of my client’s trial at this level of jurisdiction,” says the lawyer for the number one of the PS, Mr. Përparim Sanxhaku... According to Nano’s lawyers, the petition has been fully drafted and will be filed with the registry of the Court of Cassation within two days. page 2

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Godo at a press conference Godo stated at the very beginning of his press conference that President Berisha, at yesterday’s conference of the Tirana PD, once again repeated the familiar wish that the 2.300.00 Albanians should enjoy the land. Where did today’s government get the land it gave to Albanians? Was someone dispossessed so that someone else could acquire property? That cannot happen in a democratic state governed by the rule of law. page 3

Economic cooperation between the two countries is expected to be institutionalized page 2

Foreign Minister Papulias invited all Greek business owners and citizens to help the Serbian people. He told them that Greek aid to Serbia was being provided on the orders of Prime Minister Papandreu and with the support of the UN. page 10

How much does the land of Kosovo cost? Can a Balkans that continues to produce history and hysteria out of the raw material of the moment forget the exterminations? Heroes and antiheroes? Friends and enemies? Legends and demythologizations? Folklore and jazz? Politics and philosophy? Because in the Balkans, yesterday continues to kill today and tomorrow in the name of nationalism... Special - Balkans REUTERS pages 12-13 Special - Balkans. REUTERS

Cannabis competes creditably with tobacco FIER—Cannabis, the “Pandora’s box” that should never have been accepted, was opened for the villagers. Criminalized, mistreated, and unaware that with their own hands they would enrich other people and furnish their shop windows, today they find it difficult to understand why they are facing the police, the courts, and prison. The anti-cannabis operation, which resumed from the beginning in the villages of Fier in recent days, is trying to put the lid back on this scandal and, along with it, on the faint hopes of getting rich. Special forces returned to the villages of Radoshtinë, Metaj, Sul, Hamil, and Çakran and seized thousands of cannabis plants, just as they had three weeks earlier. “Cannabis will be completely eradicated in the areas where work began earlier, and later we will move on to the other villages,” says a police officer. The police are showing persistence in the areas mentioned above. Special forces visited the village of Radoshtinë several times in recent days, perhaps because it was here that the villagers—planners and by no means meek lambs—planted dynamite among the cannabis plants. The operation’s leaders have minimized the possibility of the police neglecting their duties by starting the work all over again. This time, even the village elders have not been spared. Their gardens have also been inspected. In the Hamil area, 2,000 cannabis plants were found on a village elder’s property, and for this reason he was held at the police station for 48 hours. Many other villagers have met the same fate, but the prosecutor’s office has so far taken action against only one person from Cakrani. Describing the spread of drug cultivation as alarming, an agriculture official who prefers to remain anonymous says: “The narcotic plants have certainly replaced tobacco cultivation creditably in Fier Prefecture. In fact,” he adds, “there are also several other types of narcotic plants, besides cannabis, currently being cultivated, which the police apparently have not known about.” Regarding the cultivation of narcotic plants, agricultural specialists are also considering the need to establish a new kind of police force, says the head of the Fields Police, Mr. ALUSHI.

“No engineer ever told us that we were extracting uranium. We wondered why we kept fainting. Gallery 115 in particular was hell. As soon as you went in, your whole body started hurting. You could barely stay inside for an hour.” “No engineer ever told us that we were extracting uranium. We wondered why we kept fainting. Gallery 115 in particular was hell. As soon as you went in, your whole body started hurting. You could barely stay inside for an hour. Nevertheless, I insist that we dig again and continue... After work began in the countless galleries, a macabre phenomenon began. Almost half of the children born after ’72 have mental and physical disabilities...” page 5