Four fishing boats blocked in Vlorë, carrying illegal trafficking Oil vessels seized, two police officers also jailed Midnight operation, ship owner in police custody page 6

BY LLAZ META Prime Minister of Albania All statements in this country have the right to be concerned about smuggling and corruption, especially when they openly say the words “without customs” and “without post.” There is so much of this “axe” and “customs” now emerging. Some have called, sometimes legally, sometimes by force, for things to be given more fairly. When crime, smuggling and corruption are allowed to take hold, without taking into account the money and the scoundrels and the petty profiteers, they turn the state’s breadbasket into wealth and into the whole world[...] the old interests of this country. This is in no way on the side of the second lali[...] of administration and neither is it a special sclerosis. The magic of corruption and vileness above all else. An effort to peck around the house, Soli[...] indeed with words like never before. Through it I have the carbine of words like never before. Through it I see more clearly, in the misgovernment they are aiming for a government of zealots and to bring public optimism to an end, while paying only the contrivance of some other governments and others. But what about Korçë? How? Berisha said that the government was entering the words directly. He knew and knows, he had clearly understood that the money from the gambling project decided its own path and entered the belly of the government, to whom pleasure was given only for a day. Of the pyramids; it was also the year of artificial consumption of the untimely. The face of Albania was to be heard before customs; whether these 668 tons of coffee, while in 1999 2366 tons of coffee were cleared through customs. So, if you want to speak in government terms, in 1996-1997 2466 tons of cigarettes were cleared through customs, while in 1999 2196 tons of cigarettes were cleared through customs. So apparently more than twice the amount. As for fuel, at times Saliu’s mad shouting over large quantities. In 1996, 800,000 tons were customs-cleared in Albania, whereas in 1999 778 thousand tons were customs-cleared; so apparently, compared with 1996, it was almost twice as much. Meanwhile, this figure was calculated on over 5 thousand than 10 km[...] with the full will of our employees; in 1999 this amount of the total of January 1999, this is the indicator of the displeased levels of 1999, which were sparse in 3 billion lekë. And as is the case in a healthy economy, one hundred percent with customs revenues higher than January 1999, which went and amounted to the sum of the possibilities and the will to achieve it; January 100 percent. Meanwhile, this figure is 30 percent higher than the sum of January 1999, 4e 8 is the state of forgiveness of January 1999, 4e 8 compared with January 1998 of Mrs. Bufi banaşa. (continued on page 3)

page 5 The gambling project creates a monopoly Billionaires by state order The EU delegation was received yesterday at a press conference

Tirana “Myslym Peza” Street Building 2 Tigjenti 35151 3494 35138 A FROM TIRANA TO: Bologna 2 flights a week Forlì 2 flights a week Istanbul 4 flights a week Milan 6 flights a week Rome 2 flights a week Zurich 3 flights a week TELEBINGO 6 February 2000 5 TELE-BINGO OF 10 MILLION 1 TIRAGE-LINEO 5 MILLION 1 STAR-BINGO 1.5 MILLION 100 MINI-BINGO OF 100 THOUSAND LEK