Dokle: “We talked... but we were always criticizing each other” Hyped by left-wing newspapers as the meeting of the day for Albanian politics, it degenerated into statements by the leaders of the SP “Work meeting” (Hajdaraga). “It was a working meeting. The others speak at other meetings” (Meta). For this (the Congress of the SP was...? ) Meanwhile the sullen faces did not fade, in contrast to them Ruçi, Brokaj and especially Iedi Nano challenged themselves to appear. Their emotions are conveyed by Brokaj, when he declares for “Populli Po”, after the meeting: “We had fun.” They do not say in vain “the drowned person... the editor) will be discussed at the next meeting of the Steering Committee” (Pellumbi), etc. But the meeting marked a new development in the history of the PPS, marking its great split. Although one of the main decisions of the meeting was “silence, keeping the secret” (not even the journalists of “ZP” were allowed to follow the proceedings of the meeting), the PS leaders waited only a few minutes before disclosing the latest developments. Dokle, accused of hypocrisy in his stance toward the law on genocide, declares: “We talked... but we were always criticizing each other.” Unlike on other occasions, this time the former extension of A[?]duciotik, known for “unity”, was at war; they made war with a meeting. What were the causes of the rumors heard during the summer that the PS leaders were vacationing together but not speaking to each other, and that the situation of truth had been revealed? If we were to list them, they would include: the deep crisis gripping the PS, Marxism, the law on genocide, the thirst for power, the clan struggle, etc. The deep split in the PS was brought into his speech by the former minister of secret police, Gramoz Ruçi, when he admitted pseudonyms and admissions in the hall. Their variety (Shkenca, Tomorri, Gaforrja, Çibuku, Iriqi, Gjinkalla, Debatiku, Portokalli, Limoni, Vreshta, Sazoni, Kitara, Qyqja, Kalemxhiu) enriched the hall and the office with the expected filling of the November committees “December ’94. The committees of 29 September will be set up again in December and will bring nothing new to the Albanian political scene. Socialists and windmills Likewise, the men of the former security, Ruçi, Brokaj and one other, in their rush to seize the squares, are undermined by the summer practice, when 5 gathered only a few dozen people (for example fewer than 15 in Prrenjas), and when, disappointed, they headed to the beaches and abroad. Dokle’s calls to get the people to their feet can be answered with the popular saying “with August the heat also goes away.” Such calls will share the fate of those for skull-cracking (Islami) and for Saint Bartholomew’s Night (Zeqo). Socialists against wage increases Another important decision was the one presented by Pellumbi, directing the socialists also against wage increases. Thus Pellumbi said: “What stands out is the restraint of economic policy in function of the victory of the DP in the forthcoming elections. Typical in this sense is the law for increasing the budget deficit presented these days in parliament. It must be understood that the heavy burden of social costs will fall on the broad mass of people. The consequences of such economic measures, which are expected to have visible effects, are simply electoral actions” (“ZP” 30.09.1995). “drowns”. This inconsistency accelerated it into flames. The tragedy of the dossier was posted, etc., or the tragedy of the past, shook a hall whose foundations cannot for long bear the weight of the crime committed. The speeches delivered were not criticisms but assessments of the real thoughts of the speakers. Thus Pellumbi and Dokle spoke against the law, but they also spoke about the “merits” for those affected by the law. In other words, they assured them that the PS would keep them in the mud of its history. Marxism and anti-Marxists was another point where, alongside changes in the official papers, those behind the scenes and in the background also erupted. Hajdaraga and Zeneli on one side, Ajazi, Koçi and Majko on the other, refused to be crucified by Pellumbi & Co. with the Marxists Pellumbi, Brokaj, with match boxes with the phobia from the previous meeting. But they know well that the reaction of domestic opinion and that of European social democracy against Marxism has put them in the position of being “with one foot in the grave.” Conflicts erupted, the clan war made it so that a few stale formulations failed to reach any important conclusion. September committees will be set up in December The decision to set up electoral committees, district committees, etc. is only a repetition of... Likewise, they also failed in their efforts to break PS’s international isolation. The field of mediation was left to Zejneli and Meta, who, rather than presenting different values, presented different clans of the PS. The quarrels, an old merit of the new, apparent apologies without meaning toward one another, split the PS yesterday. How far will this split in the PS go? Let’s wait, not in vain Meta: “We’ll talk at the next meeting.” A. DARA

The Anti-Communist Association of former persecuted Democratic Political victims is created The new association will play a role in achieving the following: 1. To compensate those who were executed. 2. To be interested in the privatization of securities. 3. To work so that as many children of the persecuted as possible are educated in the country and by correspondence. 4. To fight for housing and to prevent the injustices committed by persons of the association. 5. For the employment of persecuted persons who have completed higher education. It will also support any democratic, nationalist, anti-communist political force, while upholding all independence and its own line. It will contribute to reforms for the consolidation of democracy in our state of freedom. It will strive to preserve and strengthen our solidarity and unity, especially in the face of the suffering inflicted by masked or open communism. It will support and insist on the real and concrete implementation of the law on Genocide approved by parliament recently. The association that is being created is not divisive but a sincere unification of all those who have suffered together in a dignified and deserving organization. We call on all those who have suffered with us to show solidarity and join us. p. 3

Statement by the PDSH Spokesman The fear of PS leaders toward the West - a serious risk for the future of democracy in Albania Recently, the SP, in the complete absence of a stated alternative, has presented itself as the only alternative—an anti-DP alternative. A main line of their anti-alternative toward the DP is also their ungrateful and insulting stance toward Western countries, institutions and personalities. This campaign of vile attacks, slander and insults is taking on chauvinistic proportions. It spares nothing, not even Albania’s cooperation with NATO, Congressmen, Senators, senior US officials, the IMF, the World Bank and the leaders of the CDU, the party of Chancellor Kohl, the Chairman of the “Adenauer” foundation, Gert Landau, the Italian CDU and its chairman Rocco Buttiglione, the President of the National Alliance Party Gianfranco Fini, who was elected to support Albanian emigration and is now also to be attacked, and D’Alema, leader of the Italian left, because he refused to receive Dokle in Rome. The DP declares that these attacks remind Albanians of times gone by. They show that, for the Albanian left-wing extremists and their satellites, the great and generous political and economic assistance that these friendly countries have given Albania deserves no gratitude simply because it made possible the success of the DP’s alternative in building democracy in Albania and earned the authority of the DP, the Government, Parliament and the Albanian President. Likewise, in their anti-alternative against the DP, cooperation with NATO, the security of the country, and the extraordinary help of the IMF and the World Bank deserve only condemnation, because this help made possible the cooperation through which the DP’s alternative demolished the country’s and the economy’s guarantees and proved and consolidated itself as one of the most successful in Eastern Europe. By denouncing these positions and considering the phobia (fear) of some PS leaders toward the West as a serious risk to the future of democracy in Albania, the DP today addresses all members and activists of the PS, but also all Albanians, regardless of their party affiliations, asking them to consider in time the following questions: Why has today’s leadership of the SP turned fear and attacks against countries, institutions and personalities of the Western world and the leaders of the main political forces of the West into the main line of its foreign policy? Why, despite all these warnings from leaders, major political parties, Senators, Congressmen, senior officials, heads of international institutions, and friends of Albania in the Western world, about the great danger looming over Albania from the return of a power made up of former communists? And finally, why have the European left-wing parties and the Socialist International closed their doors to the Albanian SP? The answers of the party leaders concern not only the lineup of the SP, but also Albania’s future image, the development of democracy and our integration into Western civilization. Tirana, 30.9.1995

President of the Republic Sali Berisha received the Minister of Defence of Malaysia President of the Republic Sali Berisha received the Minister of Defence of Malaysia, Mr. Dato Syed Hamid Albar. Expressing his pleasure at the visit, the President thanked Prime Minister Mahatir and friendly Malaysia for the help given to Albania and highlighted the very good relations and the friendship that exists between our two countries in all fields, stressing the need for even closer economic and military cooperation. Press and Information Office at the President’s Office

Justice is not softened against former GDR officials Comment Berlin, 30 September, Jean Luc Testot of AFP writes: Five years after the incorporation of the GDR into the FRG, sixty prosecutors assigned to a special unit in Berlin continue to work without interruption to corner the former rulers of the East German communist regime. The main targets of justice in reunified Germany are judges, the dreaded officers of the state security service (STASI) and especially those responsible for the killings at the Berlin Wall. Since October 1990, more than 17,000 people have been the subject of an investigation for aiding in the consolidation of the dictatorship. “We believe it will take another ten years for the work to be fully completed,” declares Uta Foelster, spokeswoman for the regional justice ministry in Berlin. However, the biggest difficulty still lies ahead, she adds. More than 8,000 files have been classified, but the persistent prosecutors have managed to bring former number one Erich Honecker, an old Stalinist nostalgic, the terrible Erich Mielke, minister of the Stasi, and the strongman Markus Wolf, head of the foreign intelligence services, before the dock. Since August, eight generals have gone on trial accused of shooting at the Berlin Wall and at the German-German border, where around 600 people were killed. Before them, dozens of border guards have been sentenced, most often to suspended prison terms. Since 13 November, the main late communist figure Egon Krenz and five former members of the political bureau of the East German Communist Party (SED) will answer for the killing of 47 people who had tried to cross the Wall. The temporary general secretary of the SED and head of state, Egon Krenz, 58, was accused in June of responsibility for the opening of the Wall on 9 November 1989. Even the German Gorbachev, former Prime Minister Hans Modrow, a kind of passing communist, was brought before the court. He had been sentenced to nine months’ suspended prison for electoral fraud by the communist regime. This trial, like that of Markus Wolf, has drawn criticism both in the East and in the West. “Justice of the victors,” comments Hans Modrow, directed at the West German judges, annoyed by the condemnable passivity, that (Continues on page 2)

Tomorrow in Tirana Austrian Education Minister Gehrer Today the Federal Minister of Education of Austria, Mrs. Elisabeth Gehrer, arrives in our country. During her stay in our country from 1 to 5 October, Mrs. Gehrer and the group accompanying her will hold working meetings with our Minister and the staff of our Ministry of Education, and will also visit several schools in the districts of Tirana, Mat, Durrës and Shkodra. Minister Gehrer will also be received in an audience by the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha. She will also visit scientific institutions and private production facilities sponsored by Austrian companies, etc.

A delegation of German parliamentarians From 1-3 October 1995, a delegation of German parliamentarians who are members of the Bundestag sports committee will make an official visit to our country. The delegation is headed by Engelbert Nelle, chairman of the committee and vice-president of the German Football Federation. As Dr. Dhimitraq Dhaku, director of the Department of Organization and Promotion of Sport at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, informed ATSH, the German guests will be received in all places by the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, the chairman of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly, Pjeter Arbnori, and by other senior officials. They will also have working contacts with other high-ranking Albanian sports officials.

The representative of Albania chairs the proceedings of the General Assembly in its 50th session As was made known by the Director of Press and Information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Republic of Albania was elected this year for the first time as vice-president of the 50th session of the UN General Assembly. At one of the sessions of the UN General Assembly, Pellumbi Kulla, Ambassador of Albania to the UN, presided. Another session of the work of the Assembly will again be chaired by Albania next week.

Albanian Cardinal, Mikel Koliqi celebrates his 93rd birthday The Albanian Cardinal, Mikel Koliqi, celebrated his 93rd birthday the day before yesterday. Cardinal Koliqi is currently hospitalized in a clinic in Italy, where he has undergone a leg operation. On the occasion of Cardinal Koliqi’s 93rd birthday, Pope John Paul II sent him a telegram, expressing his best wishes on this anniversary. Cardinal Mikel Koliqi also received a congratulatory telegram from the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Sodano.

Starting on Wednesday with RD, the first-ever publication of the Secret Dossier of Kadri Hazbiu The dossier sheds light on the elimination of the former member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSH and former Interior Minister Kadri Hazbiu. Through the Hazbiu dossier, readers will become acquainted with Hazbiu’s self-criticisms, with the Secret Minutes of the Political Bureau meeting dated 8 October 1992, etc.

Has there been genocide in Albania? The SP says “NO” E. PALOKA Sea of Friendship V. ZHITI Conversation with Lec Gjeka No. 46 in the list of deaths in Shkodra Tragic political end of Gjinushi... Where were you then... you Prof. Mejdani? p. 8 - Everything from the Albanian football championship, sports from around the world, etc. p. 7 - Super crossword of the week p. 3