Mejdani: Crime is challenging us
Zero customs clearances. Special army to fight smuggling
Page 5 Diplomacy on the rise BY ANDI BEJTA Because of suspicious shipments heading toward Yugoslavia, Kosovars are worried. Meanwhile, Russia continues to be Serbia’s “big godmother.” The USA cannot do anything alone for Kosovo. The four European countries maintain a somewhat evasive stance toward the Albanians of the three countries. America was bypassing the supremacy and the more radical ones. It seems to fear an unpredictable future for the native Albanian lands and an immediate change in the balance in the Balkans. Starting from a definitive diagnosis of the situation and the danger, four resolution leaders had arrived a few days earlier; the authoritative Serbian departures and the Albanian representations of the slapit have turned into real centers of espionage and disgust for the two camps. In the eyes of the Albanians of Milosheviç toward Europe of the coalition and, in the opposite cases, of the intervention of the UÇK toward the Albanians of Kosovo as well as of the US resolution. In this scene, many positions are awaited from the West, but none is letting go from the perspective of the American house. For this reason, according to diplomatic sources, a new coordination structure is being created for a possible war situation in Kosovo. The world is expected to react firmly against violence and smuggling.
From a second scan of the page, the text of the main column is partly unclear and some sentences are illegible. In the center of the page under the main photograph it reads: MEIKO - After Meksi and Zhulari, on the list are bank chiefs Weapons, prosecutors in China The 1997 scandal awakens, million dollars. Investigations in Beijing. The contract disappears mysteriously. President Rexhep Mejdani sent the heads of the anti-smuggling operation to the meeting yesterday