As of last night, no serious assistance from neighboring countries By late last night, the number of arrivals from Kosovo had exceeded 90,000 people. Nikollë Lesi By late last night, the number of arrivals from Kosovo had exceeded 90,000. However, sources from the Ministry of Local Government said last night: “We have information about another large convoy from Kosovo, estimated at more than 100,000.” If the information released by this ministry is accurate, the total number over the next few days will reach approximately 200,000 Kosovars. Faced with this multitude of people, no matter how strong Albanian fraternal hospitality may be, the Majko Government will still find itself at a fatal crossroads: Where will it get the money to manage such a large group? Naturally, everyone will give up part of their bread, but this cannot go on. And if the numbers grow, if food and the most essential items run out, what will become of the Albanians here and the Kosovars, who are still here? Some may say: Mikovës, who are still here? Some may say: Mikovës,

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Kosovars. For the residents of this ... Albanian brotherly hospitality, the Majko Government will once again face manage— [the text at the top is cut off] ... finished. I will come to the palaces from Albanian customs ... to come, since war and panic have gripped foreign businesspeople, as well as local ones. Let us say things as they really are, and not as they ought to be said in front of television cameras to show who is more patriotic than whom. Naturally, the pointing finger turns toward the neighboring countries, Italy and Greece. But neither of them is taking it seriously, at least not as of yesterday. Even if they send anything, it is only enough to stem the tide of people heading toward the Italian shores and Greek soil. So where is the major aid from Italy and Greece? Where? Or is it “being prepared in their ports...”?! If these two countries hesitated or faltered over the war and NATO’s attack on Serbia, why are they not hurrying to bring substantial, concrete aid for the hundreds of thousands of Albanians from Albania and Kosovo? Albania needs new vehicles to transport Kosovars from Kukës into the country, but it also needs food, clothing and all sorts of things that, in everyday language, are said to be needed “to keep body and soul together.” Faced with a multitude of requests from every district, why doesn’t the Cabinet put pressure on the two countries that are basking in the spring sunshine—in other words, threaten them with a tide of people arriving by ship? Are these two countries not talking all day about “human rights in Serbia”? Of course the answer is yes, but why are they not sending anything to help Kosovars who are being killed or have no food? If 30,000 migrants arrived in Bari, Italy, chaos and an uproar would immediately break out, and D’Alema’s government might fall. If Italy, one of the world’s most industrialized countries, would have an economic problem with 30,000 people, what about Albania with 90,000 people today, and 200,000 tomorrow? If they do not bring aid for the hungry and for those sleeping under tents as in the Greco-Italian War(!), then Italy and Greece will face a massive exodus, so great that the exodus of 1992 would seem like a flower by comparison.

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Notice to readers Given the multitude of news and the full commitment of the newspaper “Koha Jonë” to the Kosovo issue; given the lack of pages to cover in detail what is happening in Albania; and given the desire to publish 16 pages every day about events in Kosovo and 16 pages about what is happening in Albania, the editorial office informs readers that within a few days the daily newspaper “Koha Jonë” will once again have 32 pages.