Zeneli: I have Nano’s mandate for China Berisha’s visit to China. Zeneli responds to the vice-chairman of the PS “For the visit to China I received the mandate from the party chairman Fatos Nano, and from the chairman of the parliamentary group Namik Dokle. I am expecting no other mandate from anyone,” Bashkim Zeneli replied yesterday to the statement made by the first vice-chairman of the PS, Servet Pëllumbi, who confirmed to “KJ” that Zeneli did not have his party’s mandate for this visit. In any case, Zeneli does not deny the fact that he himself did not inform Pëllumbi, who is the first vice-chairman of the PS. Pëllumbi’s statement also sparked Zeneli’s outrage and protest. Yesterday he was in contact with vice-chairman Dokle and with the party’s secretary general Gramoz Ruçi. Zeneli now insists that the party’s highest forum give him the legal mandate, and such a thing is expected to be done today. page 3

[?] is worth 40 thousand [?] [?] in “ZP” Xhixha demands acquittal in the Court of Appeal page 2

Berisha advises the Democratic Party “Face to face with the people” page 3

Today 14 parties meet again for the electoral law page 4

Strict measures at customs Fines for smugglers are increased page 5

Villagers occupy the Military Base Special forces intervene More than 300 villagers from Nivica — women, old people and children — attacked the barbed wire of the Saranda Military Fleet and for several hours occupied their property, until special forces from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, rushed urgently from the capital, intervened. Twenty residents of the village of Nivica have been detained, while others, according to them, have been brutally beaten. page 7

Zefi: “I accuse Berisha of the strategy of tension that he is sowing everywhere in Albania” Violence again against the Alliance leader page 2 Violence again against Gjergj Zefi, Chairman of the AD Assembly, who was injured in the head on Sunday evening in one of the alleyways of the city of Shkodër. It was a “shadow” that struck the politician of the alliance on the head with a stone at 8:00 p.m., seriously injuring him in the left temple.

France lost one of its greatest statesmen François Mitterrand, the former French Socialist president, who, like few other French statesmen, led France for 14 turbulent and decisive years (1981-1995), died yesterday, Monday, at 8:30 a.m. after a several-year battle with prostate cancer. His long political life gave him the opportunity, little by little, to shape the personality he had chosen to embody in History. More than any other French statesman of the second half of the 20th century, he was the architect and guardian of his own destiny; as such he entered the ranks of the most eminent political figures of modern France, perhaps comparable only to General De Gaulle, whom he clearly seems to have admired. page 10-11

The Right, a decisive factor in governing the country Perit Kalakulla speaks page 9

Reason: unpaid installments and the high fee RTSH risks being disconnected from the satellite Reason: unpaid installments and the high fee page 18

Yesterday the 230-thousand-dollar trial began Durrës, the “Teuta” Agency under accusation page 6

Another documentary Enver Hoxha on French TV page 5

Last night in Milan George Weah, the best footballer in the world page 21