At the invitation of the Sultan of Malaysia, Yang DiPertuan Agong, and the Sultan of Brunei Darusalam, Hassanai Bolkiah Mu’Izzadin Waddaulah, the President of the Republic, Mr. Sali Berisha, will make an official visit to Malaysia and Brunei from 24 to 29 January. This visit aims to further advance the spirit of fruitful cooperation begun between our two countries, especially following the visit to Tirana last July by the Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. The President of the Republic will be accompanied by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Selim Belortaja, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arian Starova, and others. Agreements on the Protection of Investments, Trade, Economic and Technical-Scientific Cooperation, as well as the Agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation, will be signed in Kuala Lumpur. ATSH

From the 3rd Conference of the FRPD Korçë Branch —We do not form coalitions with hidden criminals; we are people with clean hands, without sins... —The DP is pursuing things to the very end. Nano, Alia and company will answer before justice. There is no doubt about that... —The AD’s path—a path of scandals and sensations On 19 January, the 3rd FRPD conference for the Korçë branch was held in the science hall of the “Th. Mitko” library. Also present were the chairman of the PDSH, Mr. Eduard Selami; the secretary-general of the PDSH, Mr. Intan Shehu; MPs Bari Bregu and Sotiraq Strateberdha; the chairman of the Korçë DP, Mr. Isuf Salice; and other guests. The auditorium, filled with student youth, high-school students, young people from the city and countryside engaged in production or private work, interrupted the discussions, affirming the FRPD’s struggle against the socialists and their newly recruited pseudo-socialists. FRPD presidency member Olger Turtulli spoke briefly about the forum’s activities. Since most members of the presidency had left to pursue higher education, there had been a period of inactivity, which was criticized at the conference. Youth institutions with a cultural life, stripped of the phantasmagoria of the former BRPSH, its poverty, boredom, indifference and stress... Afterwards, an open dialogue began between the young participants and Messrs. Selami and Shehu. “The role of educating young people is decisive,” said Mr. T. Shehu, “because young people support democracy more than anyone; our main social support comes from the youth. Today Albania has the youngest average-age government in all of Eastern Europe. I disagree with the government’s current stance toward students. A certain reluctance must be overcome. More investment is needed. Let us focus more energy on the youth. Look at some countries, for example Southeast Asia. Israel. Focusing on young people has produced high rates of development...” “The AD’s accusations against the DP are vile, fabricated, intriguing and malicious toward democracy. On returning from Belgrade, where they had been cheek to cheek with Milošević, the AD delegation raised the infamous slogan: ‘A life-or-death struggle,’ while for three years we have been saying: ‘Opponents, but brothers.’ So who, then, loves and defends democracy?” [The supplied text is corrupted at this point.] “...down with the demand to destabilize order, to take responsibility for the situation in the country, and to make immorality reign as the pillar of their rule. We have faced Nano’s recent calls for lynching; we have also previously faced Kaci’s calls to crack skulls and drag people along the ground, and others’ calls for the working class to take to the streets, onto the battlefield! Now we are also confronting their close allies, the leaders of the Alliance, such as Arben Imami, a fellow fighter of Namik Hoti, who describe today’s democratic state as a criminal state and make other absurd claims, through which they seek to attack democracy in Albania and the rule of law, in order to make way for the kingdom of anarchy and the dictatorship of violence.” The passage about Arben Imami, fellow fighter of Namik Hoti, describing today’s democratic state as a criminal state and making other absurd claims, with the aim of attacking democracy in Albania and the rule of law dictatorship of violence, is repeated in the supplied text. “There is a noticeable coordination among left-wing forces, led by the far-left Socialist Party, against the Democratic Party. And there are reasons for this. They do not want to accept the fact that things have gone well for two years. The left-wing extremists are frightened by our determination to carry our promises through to the end, especially now that justice is having its say about its leaders, Alia and Nano. Alongside the Albanian communists are their allies in the Alliance, who are showing great zeal in coordinating their actions with the left-wing extremists of the Socialist Party. Recently, this chorus has been joined by self-proclaimed anticommunists of a confused, far-right kind, who until now have directed their fury solely against the DP. They are a worn-out group whose masters have them in hand and are moving them around. But we will not retreat. This is precisely why we received your vote of confidence; we enjoy the people’s support, and this gives us the certainty to remain steadfast on the path we have embarked upon.” EDUARD SELAMI ... the forum was briefly addressed by presidium member Olger Turtulli. Since most of the presidium members period of inactivity, which was criticized at the conference. On behalf of the provisional Presidium, Mr. Gjergj Dako presented the report to the conference... Mr. Dako said that the time for long meetings, politicized reports, and academic lectures had now passed. Young people now need more practical connections. The forum has its own program, no longer dictated by party influences. It feels free to dream and act on its own. Among the various events organized, Mr. Dako praised the help of young Korçë businesspeople, who had sponsored the activities of the democratic youth. The green light has been given for closer relations with young people in the Balkans, especially Macedonian and Greek youth... Representatives of the PD of Korçë, LDG, FRPD from Bilisht and Maliq, students of the University of Korçë, secondary schools, the Republican Youth Forum, the Social Democratic Youth Forum, and others greeted the conference. The FRPD Presidium’s delegate, Mr. Lorenc Ligori, said in his greeting that the democratic youth forum is now moving toward a new concept—not only to be a school for training young politicians, but especially to be a... ... every other generation. Let us not forget that 1.2 million people voted for the PD, but are just as many members? The strengthening of our traditions requires the youth forum to move beyond the city limits and extend into the countryside, where 65% of the population lives. The intellectual strength of Korçë has always been, and remains, on the side of the PD. Then Mr. Eduart Selami took the floor. “It has been two years since I left the lecture hall and the students,” he said, “and today I feel as if I have returned there. I think it would be even better if, in the future, you organized an FRPD center where all those who have joined could be welcomed. In other words, it could be a kind of club of your own. This may seem like a classic format, but there are other, more modernized forms as well. There is no shortage of experience from around the world. Much can be learned from the European Democratic Union, which includes around 30 countries. You can certainly find forms and ways to enliven your activities and realize your aspirations. The youth forum is our greatest responsibility, because every other generation, too..." This is one of the greetings by the Presidium’s delegate. This is a partial text of the article. ... political, division among Albanians in the name of religious hatred. Therefore, the PD calls on us not to fall for such provocations by careerists, who sell national interests for the sake of their own seats... The PD, Mr. Selami said, will not form a coalition with hidden criminals. We are people with free, clean hands and without sin... At the end, he also answered questions about youth emigration. Not everything depends on us, Selami said. But what makes us happy is the fact that now, for years, Albanians have wanted to settle in Albania and not leave it. There are reasons for this: the economic level, well-being, and public calm, which are undoubtedly much better than two years ago... Afterward, the conference elected its governing bodies. Mr. Gjergj Dako was elected Chairman of the FRPD for the Korçë district. PETRAQ KITA “RD” correspondent in Korçë

Tirana: “In my meetings with the Albanian minister, I observed an excellent political climate for Greece, and the development of cooperation in the economic sphere can help strengthen the good political relations between the two countries,” Greek Minister of National Economy Papantoniou told Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi at their meeting. He emphasized the need to put joint projects in various economic sectors into concrete form, and found the Albanian ministers ready and understanding. In setting out the two main sectors of cooperation: [the supplied text inserts here a passage about youth, students, investment, Southeast Asia and Israel, unrelated to this article and repeated from the previous article.] Prime Minister Meksi expressed confidence that the establishment of a joint Albanian-Greek commission on economic matters and meetings between the specialists who will implement the projects would be the key factors in making them concrete. The Prime Minister also spoke of support from the Greek government within the European Community, for which Mr. Papantoniou assured him. “As for making use of the EC’s infrastructure program and Greek investments in Albania, Mr. Papantoniou said that the use of part of these investments in the Balkans is a shared matter.” During the meeting, views were exchanged on the situation in the former Yugoslavia. Prime Minister Meksi once again reaffirmed the Albanian state’s position toward Serbia. “We are in favor of the embargo continuing, as well as of perhaps using force to establish peace,” Mr. Meksi stressed. ATSH

The far left has an innate tendency to cry out for blood, crime and violence, just like the far right. The minds and outlook of the leaders of these extremist factions are clouded by blood; they ask for nothing but blood, demand the lives of people, fellow countrymen, young people, in order to destabilize public order and the situation in the country generally, rule. We have encountered Nano’s recent calls for lynching; we have also previously encountered to the streets. [The supplied text is corrupted at this point.] For these nefarious purposes, among other things, they have chosen as a weapon the extreme politicization of every phenomenon, every event they consider suitable for their interests and for destroying the efforts now being made in every constructive cell of Albanian life to survive. These people, who have not hesitated to put even their own morality or that of their children up for sale, are today gambling with the fate of all Albania. In this vein, MP Pashko, who, for example, politicized even the shameful act of the rape of a girl, has no... [text corrupted]. There is only bloodshed among Albanians, to cut short their centuries-old dream of a free life in democracy. Fellow countrymen, be vigilant! Democracy can neither reconcile itself with them nor tolerate political mafia playing with its fate and with the fate of Albania. Let us support some Kastnec, such as Cesk u or Zef Cefa, Betin Kola, etc.; Shkodra knows well who these people are, and the day is not far off when it will learn what they represent—Dajtin, Tomorrin, Drishtin and others. It is Çefi and the Kasnecs, like hyenas, abusing even the duties entrusted to them, who stand behind the thugs and political thuggery that shook Shkodra. It is for the organs of justice to investigate all the allegations and the dirty role of these elements in what happened. THE OBSERVER ... to destroy the efforts being made today now playing with the fate of all Albania. In this vein, Deputy the rape of the girl, will not stop. Those who politicize everything to the extreme with their statements in the press and elsewhere have no reason to give up such slanders, which bring to mind those of the “white check,” aimed at creating confusion and despair and, at the very least, dissatisfaction, hopelessness, and destabilization. Honest citizens of Shkodër and all Albania, beware: stay away from those kinds of people who seek only...

All analyses of the events of 14 January in Shkodra—their timing, place and manner; the circumstances they call incidents and the victims on the other side; their logic; and all that came from the heated oratory of Imami and the other leaders of the “Alliance” concerning the crime, especially the comments and analyses of the “Alliance” leaders, who presented the event as “a political crime, propaganda of the state police,” as the imposition of a state-police curfew, as “the situation getting out of control,” etc.—as well as all the events that formed the aggressive spectrum of the PAD leaders, now collaborators of Milošević, before their trip to Belgrade and after their return to Tirana, and this anti-national, anti-democratic policy in coalition with the far left, allow us to draw several conclusions: First, the right wing is currently a desperate, embattled and antidemocratic coalition, with a history of crime and political accidents, which is presenting itself and “performing” for the organs of society and cloning a democratic social conscience; the coalition is now headed by the leaders of the PAD, especially after their trip to Belgrade with collaborators of the Serbian dictator Milošević. Second, this coalition is made up mainly of former State Security collaborators, unprincipled and untrustworthy people who have sold their souls to the anti-national mafia, to the machinery of terror, crime, physical liquidation and counter-revolution. Third, the whole PAD has been built on these principles, and for this it will bring misfortune in another respect. Fourth, the crime in Shkodra is the message brought to Albania by Milošević through the secretion of his party in the PAD, represented by Imami and Ceka. Anyone who knows even a little of the old and recent history of Albanian-Serbian relations knows very well the historical role of the Serbs in the Shkodra resistance and all the Serbian invasions of northern Albania, and knows the unbreakable national spirit of Shkodra very well. Fifth, the crime in Shkodra, immediately after Imami’s visit to Belgrade, makes us understand that Milošević has apparently still not pinned the epaulettes of promotion on Mr. Imami and his companions; for this, Mr. Imami and the PAD apparently need to provide more serious proof, and Mr. Imami and his companions must stain their hands with the blood of their compatriots. For this, Mr. Imami must sacrifice everything, indeed, as the orator of crime himself put it, “our necks too.” Mr. Imami, come to your senses: it is a disgrace to stain your hands with the blood of Albanians; it is a crime to place your values at the disposal of Belgrade’s well-known academic scheme for dividing Albanians and inciting violence and bloodshed among them. Albania and its traitors have known how history has treated our compatriots: when they were needed, they were given weapons themselves to kill their Albanian brothers, and were then promoted with heavy epaulettes; but they were also buried like leaves and twigs, without honor or glory, under the curses of an entire people in Kosovo. That is the end awaiting you too, Mr. Imami, on the road you have embarked upon. CORRESP. [illegible]

—Broka links Italian investigator Canale’s request to the “intensification of the political struggle” in Albania— —S. Broka summoned as a witness...?!— —Criminals and thieves, join the SP, because you will gain “political immunity”— As part of the ongoing investigations on both sides of the Adriatic into the scandal concerning Italian aid to Albania, as is known, G. Pashko and S. Broka were also summoned as witnesses at the request of Italian investigator Evelina Canale. Immediately, with the absurdity characteristic of all Enverists, Socialist Party MP S. Broka accused... the Italian justice system of serving the DP’s political agenda. His statement on the matter can only be understood in this way: “The attack against me is connected with the ‘intensification of the political struggle.’” So the Italian investigator Evelina Canale’s request to question S. Broka is connected to the political struggle the DP is waging against the SP. It seems the positions have been reversed: once, “the DP worked for the imperialists” (at the DP’s first rally in Gjirokastër, an Enverist accused them of being “sold to the Americans”); today the imperialists are “working” for the DP. All one has to do is look at the “logic” Broka uses to understand the “logic” behind the other cases as well, including the Nano case. In one way or another, through this policy the SP is inviting all criminals and thieves to join the SP, because that way they gain “political immunity” and will find the full support of its propaganda for any crime they may commit. Thus, if the police catch a thief who is an SP member, “ZP” will immediately treat it as a political act by the DP against the SP. Apparently, it was not without reason that Nano, in his latest interview, expressed his indignation “at the young people filling the prisons,” whom he calls victims of the state and the justice system. Previously, in the letter he sent to the “kombinats” workers, he too spoke of “many good boys” whom he “had met in prison” and with whom he had even formed an SP cell. It is not known how satisfied those who consider themselves intellectuals in the SP feel about standing alongside Nano’s “boys.” Let us return once more to Comrade Sabit. Relieved that the summons from the Prosecutor’s Office was only as a witness, he says that these things are done “for TV.” We do not know what questions he was asked at the Prosecutor’s Office, but it is not known whether this was a pretext for questioning S. Broka about his meetings in Rome. Did he meet Xh. Pernioleni there? Why did approximately one million dollars’ worth of medicines from the aid never arrive in Albania? Does former Health Minister S. Broka know anything about this? EDI PALOKA

280 new memberships Following the Second Congress of the PD, a strong inclination to join the PDSH has continued. During this period, 280 new members have joined the PD in the PD Korçë branch alone. This clearly speaks to the strong support the Albanian people are giving the PD program, and especially to the support of our intellectuals, who see their future in the PD’s political vision and in the democratic state. Correspondent of “RD”

Today, at the Palace of Congresses, at 11:00, a Press Conference by the Chairman of the PDSH, Mr. Eduard Selami