President Sali Berisha, invited to take part in the 23rd meeting of the World Economic Forum, left yesterday for Davos. At this gathering, for the 8th year in a row, 1,200 figures from world politics and economics are taking part. President Berisha’s participation demonstrates the place this year of the President of the Republic occupies, as well as the political respect and understanding of our country. The 23rd Forum meeting will conduct its work under the theme “New relations in the world”. Albania is facing a completely new but achievable economic perspective. The democratic reform of economic structures and favorable political conditions make Albania the country where foreigners can invest with confidence. For precisely this reason, taking part in the Davos Forum is of great importance for Albania. President Berisha’s meetings and contacts with high-ranking figures from politics and economics, with representatives of major firms from various countries of the world, serve to concretize cooperation with our country in all areas of the economy. Besides meeting with the Forum chairman, Klaus Schwab, President Berisha will meet with high-ranking figures from various countries of the world. As part of these meetings and talks, President Berisha will hold a special meeting with the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, Mr. Giuliano Amato. During this meeting, an agreement and an Italo-Albanian memorandum will be signed, which will mark relations between the two countries at a new level. This document is the result of the rapid and positive process of development in Albanian-Italian relations following Prime Minister Amato’s visit to Tirana. President Berisha’s meetings in Davos will be followed by talks and a working dinner with the Chancellor of Austria, Dr. Franz Vranitzky. This dinner will be attended by distinguished figures from European and world economics and politics. On 31 January President Berisha will go on an official visit to Zurich, where he will meet with the President of the Canton and with representatives of the city’s economic and financial life. That same day President Berisha will return to Tirana.

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The American daily newspaper “Washington Post” in its 28 January 1993 issue reports that US President Bill Clinton has asked for the resignation of the American ambassador in Germany, Richard Holbrooke, because of his unofficial statements, according to which German Americans are “primitive” people. According to the editor-in-chief of “Washington Post”, Richard Cohen, the newspaper has managed to obtain a 25-page memorandum in which Holbrooke called the German Chancellor Kohl “miserable,” not expressive and not well oriented in foreign policy. In this memorandum Holbrooke accuses the German Chancellor of lacking the proper diplomatic style and of having difficulties in leading negotiations regarding international conflicts. According to “Washington Post”, these statements by Holbrooke, as well as his remarks toward other members of the German government, were taken as a serious insult to important US allies. According to another report in this newspaper, President Bill Clinton has also expressed concern about American policy toward the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, calling for a tougher stance on Kosovo as well. (ATSH)

For the return of the socialists to the media To the editorial staff: “On the assessment of the writer and of art,” which I read a few days ago in the literary pages of the newspaper “Drita”, in its issue of 2 March 1992, I assess first and foremost as an article with a clearly opposing background toward the literature that is being created and published in Albania after the overthrow of the communist system. Secondly, I consider it such because it cynically and deceitfully gives echo to a certain period of the past, thus giving weapons to a dangerous nostalgia. In this text, the author not only fails to bring any convincing argument to prove that today’s literature is being “degraded”, but raises a general lament for the loss of the “values” that supposedly characterized the period of socialist realism. This is a well-known way of rehabilitating the old mindset, by sowing the doubt that creative freedom is bringing aesthetic ruin. It cannot be accepted that the name of socialism, socialist realism and censorship be presented as a serious basis for a free national culture. Anyone who knows even a little of the literary life of those years knows how many authors were silenced, how many works were banned, and how many talents were crushed in the name of an ideological “line”. I also feel this spirit in the ominous article I am speaking about, because beneath the guise of “care” for art and aesthetic criterion lies an attempt to blur the boundary between free creativity and dictated art. If this boundary is blurred, then the old commissioner’s right to decide who is “worthy” and who is not also returns. We have emerged from a system that used culture as an instrument of discipline, not as a space of freedom. Therefore any implied apology for that order, even when dressed in cultured language, must be denounced clearly. (continued on page 4)

Bandit attack in broad daylight, in the middle of TIRANA The victim is a retired police officer, the prime minister’s uncle “Our Albanians” The victim is a retired police officer, the prime minister’s uncle. On a quiet, well-known street in our capital, around 7:30 p.m. on 27 January, in an instant, a serious घटना occurred. At that time, the retired police officer, 62-year-old Xhemal Kërçiku, was shot and is in serious condition in hospital. The assassination took place in the middle of Tirana, in broad daylight, on the street near his house. According to the first testimonies, the perpetrators approached the victim and fired at him without warning. They then fled quickly. The event has caused great indignation in public opinion and has raised serious questions about order and security in the capital. (continued on page 4)

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