The situation in the Balkan region could be ignited by Milosevic’s regime The US remains an ally in the strategies of the Albanians. Today in Tirana - Olivier, the US Secretary of State page 5

BY YLLI POLLINA LEKA On the eve of the visit by the American envoy to the land of the Albanians, the humanitarian scenario of Skopje, Belgrade and Athens has been cut off once and for all. Because otherwise! Madeleine Albright has recently politicized the Albanian reality. She has turned her gaze to the latest events, assessing them lucidly, as if seeing the scene for the first time. The latest events must be viewed from another angle. Warm hospitality must be preserved and wise people must be respected. Memory is a rare and very important human quality. Within it comes the constant anxiety of losing it. More often than not, ordinary citizens are jealous of politicians’ memories. At every table they “forget” that one is stretched toward the greatness of the other, that one is distinct through power and the other is “illiterate” in relation to the first. If before Madeleine Albright people, politics, the police, the opposition, and governance as they should be were still laughing, whispering, making blunders, keeping or announcing scandals, a brief notice of her arrival is enough for every mask to fall. Sometimes they say that Albanians are democratic, that they are in favor of democracy; sometimes they say they were freer and fiercely anti-communist and “wonder,” saying that no crimes have been committed in Albania and, for example, claim that things “happen,” while no one asks whether they were free and fiercely anti-communist. They are not. Madeleine Albright is the woman of the world. She is a “hurricane” who has brought to Albania an America without which nothing can be done. Without her, after all, there would be no Kosovo. And it is not only that the “guardian angel” and the American lady comes with many gifts. But she will come with a knife. I hope it will be bitter for each one of us. Only then can it save us from ourselves. [The text of the lower part is partially unclear and cut off in the photo.]

Berisha: Tomorrow the square is mine Tomorrow, the democratic leader having come immediately once in a row where he will take part in the rally for the occasion. The American envoy will address the PD is coming into the space of the square. Meanwhile, from the morning, all the movement of the government of the P- formed by the group of 40,000 people in the “Skënderbej” square. For the democrats, the long-awaited hour has arrived since Saturday. The rallies today and tomorrow have been carefully prepared. Referring to the agenda of the head of American diplomacy, the capital city will be in motion from the early hours of the day. “Skënderbej” square is reserved for 20 February, dividing it with Berisha’s PD. In the square, shouting “Skënderbej” according to Berisha, he will show it in a democratic way, the rally of the socialists.

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