There is no doubt that, for Albanians, especially those in Macedonia, the news is surprising, or at least debatable: President Kiro Gligorov has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. According to the English news agency ROJTER, which reported the news, the nomination was made by a professor at an American university and by a group of Macedonian academic institutions. ROJTER itself picked up the sensational news from yesterday’s issue of the Skopje daily “Dnevnik”. The newspaper quoted passages from a letter by Wiliam N. Dunn, professor of public and international relations at the University of Pittsburgh, who describes Gligorov as an “extraordinary man working for peace”. The 79-year-old Gligorov peacefully led his republic’s secession from the former Yugoslav federation through a referendum in 1991, avoiding the bloody conflict that engulfed other former Yugoslav states, such as Croatia and Bosnia. Born in 1917, Gligorov is serving his second term after parliament elected him the first president of independent Macedonia in 1991. He was wounded during an assassination attempt against him on 3 October last year. Thus, when the Norwegian Committee announces the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on 11 October, its 1996 recipient could be the Balkan politician and veteran Kiro Gligorov. There is no doubt that such a possibility will be met with discussion and dissatisfaction at the party headquarters in Tetovo. Most Albanian political figures in Macedonia do not deny Mr. Gligorov’s abilities and stature in Macedonian politics, but they are dissatisfied with his maneuvers concerning the national recognition of Albanians in the new and smallest Balkan republic. There are even forces that... VLADIMIR PIKRELA (continued on page 24) photo A. BABASANI

Following the appointment of the Electoral Commission. The parties’ division “The chairman of this commission, Tereska, should be in court today” page 3

Tomorrow’s presidential roundtable; PS and PSD not on the list Inami: “We’re not going; Berisha is interfering with the electoral law” page 4

ITALY/News about undocumented Albanians Petty crime, gang warfare, drug trafficking, prostitution, minors nearby page 5

Compromise and fear in art mean the writer’s complete demise page 20

Football, friendly Grepi–Albania 2–1 page 23

One of the two specialists who led the operation tells “KJ” Telephone tapping helped with the identification. The third man is being sought More than 10 residents of Brescia are ready to testify that on 26 July they saw the accused working as a dishwasher in a restaurant near Lake Garda. It is now up to the Court of Appeal to decide on Zydiu’s extradition to Albania and his handover to Albanian justice. The police managed to locate Dedja (and another man who is being sought) through telephone tapping and surveillance after they entered Italy. page 2