The police and the army will intervene by force to disarm them page 2

Private RTV stations will be licensed Albania is perhaps the only bilingual country of this kind, with such a lack of pre-paragraphic activity and development; it gives rise, besides abbreviations and misunderstandings, to regulations that are intended for the private radio and television market. The commission that was supposed to draft the regulations, many of them, turns out to consist merely of general formulations and plain old baloney. For years Balla has calmly upheld the law on private and public regulators with the key fight in which operating rules, criteria, and even those strange kinds of formulations are laid down. The only commission established so far to grant the special licence for radio and TV, namely the National Radio Television Council, was created and operates under a special national regulation. The Council has representatives of all current political forces, keeps a general register, and, to guarantee media pluralism, organizes a public competition in which only the competing entities take part. According to the two draft laws, in order to keep frequencies under control the government is considering keeping them under private or state administration. In all cases, a special procedure will be applied to open the market for private radio and television stations. This legal change is drawing the attention of politics and the media business and will bring a new era in the functioning of the information market in Albania. All private radios and televisions operating to this day without a licence will have to appear before the competent bodies to obtain the necessary authorization. [?]

A UÇK unit disarmed yesterday by NATO American forces in Kosovo

Knife in hand in front of the president There is no change in the sentence. There was no weakened or limited punishment. For 15 such misdemeanors, dozens and hundreds of police officers and officials were set in motion. Ana Piriti “Mr. President, without your escort I am not allowed to board the plane,” said the airport security officer at Rinas airport, in front of the head of state. Then, just three or four minutes later, the same scene was repeated with the President of the Republic, Rexhep Meidani. After pressure from the escorts, he got on the plane. The situation became even more tense when another press version claimed that one of the escorts had been pushed by force. But the presidency rejected that version. At the aircraft entrance, the president greeted the Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema, but not before going through a rather unpleasant situation at the airport. For their part, the airport authorities insisted that they had applied the security rules. The presidency, meanwhile, considered the case a serious incident that damages the image of the head of state. It remains unclear why security had not been notified in advance about the special procedures. [?]