Everything is ready for the deputy chairman of the PD’s wedding. Government officials are also invited The Shehu couple, face to face with Berisha for the first time since ’97 Page 2

At the moment in question, the Serbian police went to Mitrovicë to clarify the "danger" to Albanian journalists from Kosovo. In its statement, the Serbian Police of Kosovo says that it "cannot be called a police escort" but only the "questioning" of journalists. A Serbian democratic leader has reported, from the Vrajë district, that Serbs heading toward Kosovo are being harassed and driven around by the alleged opposition circles for the Serbs in the area. According to the Albanian leader of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, in this six-month period without instructions, voices from other democratic media accuse the Serbian police of arresting dozens of Kosovo Albanians. In a press release issued on Friday, the temporary American spokesperson for the government of Kosovo, Alush Gashi, strongly condemned the Serbs from Belgrade, as a result of which 5 members of the Serbian democratic opposition were detained for several hours and questioned by the police. "It was a senseless act by the Serbian police," Gashi stated. According to him, the government of Kosovo continues to treat these states as a burden of the failure of the government in Belgrade, and we cannot lump together individuals and institutional structures because of their behavior over the past 10 years in Kosovo. Addressing the Serbian government, spokesperson Gashi said it is not right to continue treating all Serbs only as representatives of the state apparatus. Only if you clearly distinguish the guilty from the innocent will we be able to help establish standards of coexistence, reconciliation, and the eradication of the divisions that have characterized our entire history. It is learned that Khinxhiç will seek a meeting with Rugova in order to clarify the disagreements within the Kosovo-Albanian opposition leadership. In Thursday’s statement, the Kosovo government said that Khinxhiç, after convincing Belgrade that he represents the useful opposition and not Kosovo, had changed his stance over the last two weeks toward the Serbian democratic leader, presenting Khinxhiç as a person with a future for Kosovo. In the statement released on Wednesday, Khinxhiç will meet Rugova and will have an agenda aimed at solving the political crisis between the two camps in Kosovo. Rugova’s supporters said that Mr. Khinxhiç will not come to Kosovo to meet Rugova. Sources confirm that the Serbian authorities will not allow this meeting to take place. However, Serbian officials in Kosovo have said that their government has so far allowed limited contacts between Kosovo-Albanian opposition leaders and democratic parties in Belgrade. Page 2

Inspection uncovers the scandal over the solidarity tax in Kakavijë Customs officers steal 1.5 billion from the police The latest discovery has once again shaken two institutions in Albania, customs and the police. The chaos brought by the exodus and the influx of Kosovars has left a bitter taste among some of these employees, who seem to have thought about how to secure staggering profits even in such conditions. While the Minister of Finance, Anastas Angjeli, and the Minister of Public Order, Petro Koçi, have sent inspectors to the Kakavijë border point, inspections from the capital have uncovered tens of millions of lekë in solidarity tax pocketed by them. At present, some of the officers denounced remain in the Kakavijë police force. Finally, state employees are reacting. It is the customs inspectors and, above all, the state accounting center that have managed to uncover one of the biggest thefts ever committed at this customs post. Au. Page 17

One hundred winners with 50,000 lekë (new) TELE-BINGO, 7,000,000 lekë (new) One hundred winners with 50,000 lekë (new) TELE-BINGO, 7,000,000 lekë (new) Page 9