Meet the protagonists of the coup against the moderates of the SP EDI PALOKA “We will bring intellectuals closer” was the Steering Committee of the SP in the same statement in which it announced the dismissal of 5 members of the leadership, some of whom were considered the core of the intellectuals in the SP. The deceptive demagoguery of the SP Steering Committee statement becomes even clearer if you look at those who were accepted as members of the leadership. Equally empty is the attempt to show that Zeneli, Lakrori, Lloshi, Shaballari and Kumbaro remained outside simply because they did not collect enough votes. It has now been proven that their names had been predetermined to remain at the bottom of the voting list, even as “Berisha’s agents”. It has also been proven that Ruçi, Pellumbi and Dokle, the main contenders for the chair of the imprisoned Nano, were also the organizers of this small coup. The main conspirator in these affairs, the former Sigurimi chief Gramoz Ruçi, had a determinant role in the circulation at the end of the prepared act. But who was the designer of the dismissals in the SP leadership? What was Nano’s role? These “mysteries” are still unclear to the press. Nano’s letter from prison was used as a reason to demand a vote of confidence for the members of the leadership. But were exactly those Nano wanted dismissed? The press gives different answers. Some declare that some of those dismissed were Nano’s friends and others Lakrori’s, but (Continued on page 2)

Recent events revealed the illusions that the SP could reform itself, that Nano and Ruçi could forget their secret police practices in leadership, that Pellumbi could wake one morning distanced from Marx, and that the jesters of banter and genocide would ask their victims to account for themselves, that a deranged mind could one day find its lost conscience, half a century ago. Recent events revealed the illusions that the SP could reform itself, that Nano and Ruçi could forget their secret police practices in leadership, that Pellumbi could wake one morning distanced from Marx, that the jesters of banter and genocide would ask their victims for an accounting, that a deranged mind could find its lost conscience, once, half a century ago. The celebration of Alia’s birthday destroyed the illusion that one day the current leaders of the SP would turn against themselves by denouncing the politically appropriate act of the former Political Bureau of the PLA. The recent events in the SP not only disappointed the idealists, but severely struck them, sweeping from leadership the few moderate individuals who could make realistic efforts to reform the Party. Yesterday’s ZP, on the front page, says the words of the PLA self-reformed, and even calls this a “giant historic step in the Albanian political scene.” Somewhat as if this step had been taken by dictator Alia, master Lenka Çuko, driver Pali Miska, cartman Muho Asllani, proletarian Rita Marko, etc. The founding members of the Socialist Party “put into operation the empty to separate evil from good,” and through “pain” (for themselves) and “optimism” (for the new comrades Fatos, Gramoz), “they gave birth to the Socialist Party.” Individuals such as these, who even today dare to sell Albanians nonsense about the self-reform of the PLA, are at the very least irresponsible. With their stance over these three years they have completely unmasked themselves. Therefore, PS members, with Euro-socialist convictions, rightly no longer believe and hope in the current leadership. The reforming of the SP urgently requires an interruption by them, by Marxists, State Security, figures badly compromised with the past, authors of the massacres of ’91, the fatal decision of the former Political Bureau of the PLA. Majko, Lakrori, Zeneli, Lloshi, Shaballari, Kumbaro, etc., were “scorched” by their bosses, simply because they dared to think differently. Upon them fell mercilessly the 50-year consequence of cults and backroom dealings, of crime and the elimination of political opponents. But the “executioner” today may consider himself fortunate, because he is not in a period when the sheriffs are powerless to take things further, there where “enemy of the class,” “enemy of Marxism” end up. Therefore, no matter how much they try to cover up the truth about the serious crises of the SP, no matter how reckless and “rebellious” they are in order to frighten others, they will not be able to stop the great exodus from the Socialist Party. The illusions were lost, killed by force by the former yesterday’s bosses over Albanians. The Euro-socialists have only one road: denouncing and ending the cohabitation with all those who, through whips, dragged in the weight of crime. The moderates inside the SP paid the price of the fatal decision. Wider circles will pay soon.

Democracy and crime cannot sleep together Notice from the Spokesman of the President of the Republic The remaining leadership of the SP, sunk, soiled, of conservative communists, and the press it directs, have rooted and popularity, from a yesterday layer of alternatives and initiatives, from deep tears and total rejection from the Western world, and with aggressiveness, slander and blasts characterized by complete lack of respect, have been unleashed against the constitutional institutions, Parliament, the Government, the President, the judicial system, the media, in a murderous manner and against different opinions within their own party. In these efforts of theirs, the leadership of the SP is applying the practices and methods of the mother - the Political Bureau with the dreadful decision by which the PLA in June 1991 took the name SP. To cut the head off political dissent within it, it invented secret accusations among parliamentarians elected by free vote and the President elected by free vote. The President’s unfeigned respect for the opposition, his slogan “opposition but brothers” and his open stance toward the problems of Albanian political life, the conservative communists at the head of the SP today interpreted in their press as a call for the death of the opposition. The President’s successful visits to the West, the generous support and the high regard of these countries for Albania, the new democracy, and the reforms it responds to on the political roads that remind Albanians of Pellumbi’s vote in the IVth Central Committee. The President of the Republic, without wishing to interfere in the internal affairs of political parties, warns that no attack or trap by the forces of the past will hinder the cleansing of Albanian political life of elements mixed up in crime. It is not the democratic reforms and Albania’s determination to integrate into the West, but the participation of these genocidal forces against the Albanian people from 1944 to 1991, the persecution of hundreds of thousands of Albanians in prisons and concentration camps, the killings on the border, the massacre of February ’91, that have closed their political future. Democracy and crime cannot sleep together.

Gramoz’s mistake Somewhere it says 2 days, somewhere 2 weeks; in the corridors of the SP you find people who swear they had known for months; the “heads” learned from “Gazeta Shqiptare” that all this, when you think about it, brings to mind the medieval scenarios used so effectively in the period when Enver Hoxha’s PPSH ruled. But all the data, all the eager or brief accounts come together at one point: the main person in the practical implementation of the removal of the moderates from the SP leadership is called Gramoz Ruçi. There are many reasons to agree with this view, which originates in the internal circles of the SP; there are also sources that wish to remain anonymous and inform us that comrade Gramoz was one of the ideologues of the seventh electoral campaign of the SP. A campaign that in itself aimed to bring, naturally, the “job” that the conservatives of the SP did to the moderates. A propaganda noise was created, the socialists “took” the city, while Lakrori and his companions took the villages; the base noted a “detachment” from the center, at the same time its “representatives” had to be offered, a new Koço Tashko had to be found to discredit the “great leader” Nano, who found time and opportunity, through a secret ivory tower, to write the magic word, the word for which money and paper were spent, the extreme left-wing newspapers were set in motion, the word: CONFIDENCE VOTE. But the purpose demanded other commitments from Ruçi, which remind him of the “golden cobras” when he worked with full passion without taking the cigarette out of his mouth. Even this time he did not spare himself from putting his great experience at disposal. The Secretary General of the SP, everywhere, at home, in the office, in the corridors, in services day and night, using also the facilities brought by telecommunications and the system of coded abstract “signs”, conveyed Nano’s message with his companions: cross out the marked names. But Gramoz is not alone. It is precisely here, in the fact that his people are in all the structures of the PPSH and that they are professionals, that the easy and uniform opinions of certain circles are based, an opinion that somewhat “eases” Secretary Ruçi. According to this view, Ruçi did not have to work very hard to practically carry out the premeditated scenario. He has the merit of knowing, among the arsenal of schemes he knows, how to choose the most efficient one. In any case, easy, Ruçi is alone and acts in the air. Only, some babbling mouths have said that if the scenario’s name was read, if there are still alive people who knew the work, he erred when he showed his strength so tactlessly to other comrades like himself. A. DARA

Marx appeared to Pellumbi in a dream and... Bashkim Zeneli paid the price At the highest rank in the hierarchy of votes from the SP leadership meeting, with its 81 ballots, the Marxist Pellumbi appeared. This was in full accordance with the thesis that “leaders must be protected.” Satisfied with the predetermined and fixed results in the Benca prison, Pellumbi “denounces” his colleagues, justifying the elimination of the moderates with their declarations to domestic and foreign politicians that the SP is led by conservative communists. So Pellumbi does not deny such a fact, but it is implied that among the socialist comrades of the leadership it has been decided that the finding should not be made public. But according to Pellumbi, as stated by the newspaper “Koha Jone”, the dismissed and others who were spared did not keep the promise. Therefore Zeneli, Lakrori, Kumbaro, Lloshi and Shaballari have been condemned as “traitors”, as the “first revisionist group” in the pluralist history of the PPSSH. They were the first, because Pellumbi hints that other punishments are expected to be handed down to several others who have managed to escape. It is known that the unpleasant dreams of dictator Hoxha were followed by the elimination of his political rivals. The same dreams seem to be appearing to Marxist Pellumbi as well. It is said that only Marx in his misty vision said: “Outside us, rebels.” It is no wonder. Even Chairman Nano is often seen by strange figures with whom he converses by name about messages for the direction of the SP. Pellumbi removed Zeneli. While Marx and he falls within Pellumbi, the one who ordered. Majko, Zeneli... Who is next? B.K.

Yesterday morning, Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi received in a special meeting Mr. Anthony Cragg, assistant to the Secretary General of NATO for defence policy and planning. Mr. Meksi reaffirmed in his speech our country’s desire and will to be a member of NATO, considering this highly important for strengthening democracy in Albania. Our country was among the first to sign the Partnership for Peace, and at the same time we value NATO’s role in preserving peace and stability in the region, Mr. Meksi noted. I believe your visit will contribute precisely to strengthening our ties with NATO and will serve the ever-greater approximation of our armed forces to NATO standards. Mr. Cragg, noting the protective and peace-serving role of NATO’s stability in the world, said that the mission in Albania is related to the efforts being made to expand NATO with new members, as well as to identify NATO’s diplomatic enemies. In particular in Albania, from the contacts we have had in recent years, there is readiness and political will to be included in NATO. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Minister of Defence Luan Lazimi.

Meksi - Akashi Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi received yesterday in a special meeting Mr. Yasushi Akashi who for two years has been the UN envoy for the resolution of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. The former Yugoslav crisis and the latest developments, Mr. Meksi said in his speech, have shown so far that, in the interest of peace, security and the defense of the principles and of important international charters, one must not hesitate to use force against the aggressor with the aim of paralyzing (Continued on page 2)

Yesterday he left for Germany The Secretary General of the PDSH, Prof. Dr. Tritan Shehu Yesterday afternoon, the Secretary General of the PDSH, Mr. Tritan Shehu, left for Germany, Munich, to take part in the celebrations organized on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of the Christian Social Union Party. He was invited by the Secretary General of that party, Mr. Theo Waigel. In this event, Mr. Tritan Shehu will have various meetings with the heads of different party delegations, Chancellor Kohl, President Herzog, and other German and foreign political personalities.

PDSH spokesperson UZENEL BUÇPAPAJ The Christian Social Union Party of Germany The Christian Social Union Party, its first chairman was Joseph Müller. Since its founding until today, the Christian Social Union Party has shown that it is a truly popular, liberal, and conservative political force at the same time. Through its activity it does not gather around the center; it guides all that is tradition and history, the individual and the social community, differently from the dictates of boundless liberalism or the wars of socialist socialism. The Christian Social Union Party has great merits in both achievements that have transformed Germany today into one of the most developed and powerful countries in the world. The most notable among them remains its outstanding contribution to the fall of the “Berlin Wall,” which made possible the reunification of Germany. In addition, this party has given its nation distinguished statesmen and great politicians such as Joseph Strauss and Hans Zeidel, who have strongly influenced the conduct of correct national and international policies. In the last election for the German parliament, it won four point eight percent of the vote nationwide and currently takes part in the country’s co-government. It has forty-eight seats in parliament and four ministers in government: the Minister of Finance, the Minister for Development, the Minister of Health, and the Minister of PTT. PDSH spokesperson UZENEL BUÇPAPAJ

Dysentery often strikes comrade Dokle Every Albanian knows Namik Dokle, currently the second deputy chairman of the SP, first of all as the editor-in-chief of the main executor for 50 years of the language of hatred, Zeri i Popullit. The man Namik was known, from the fall of the dictatorship, for his blackness and inability to change (always a dog’s tail), and they put him at the head of “ZP” so that he could execute infant democracy, but he failed. (Continued on page 2)

The UN and the Security Council on their 50th anniversary On 24 October 1995, the United Nations (UN) celebrates the 50th anniversary of its life. Half a century has passed since the day when the 51 founding countries brought to life the international mechanism to pursue, among others, the signing of the founding document, the Charter of the United Nations, and the Statute of the International Court, in San Francisco. On 26 June 1945, as a guarantee of the serious commitments of mankind to live in peace and never again to repeat the catastrophe of the Second World War, metaphorically. The term “United Nations” should not be a confusion. It was used officially for the first time in the Washington Declaration, on 1 January 1942, referring to the allied countries in the war against the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis, and gathered the symbolic countries that won the Second World War. Since 24 October 1945, the UN has continuously added to its ranks, a result of many factors, among which decolonization stands out. Disintegration integration of states Albania has been a member of the UN since 13 December 1955, but it should be noted that its contribution and prestige in this world organization are developing as they renew themselves with the installation of democratic power on 22 March ’92. (Continued on page 8)

Top secret Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PLA on 8 October 1982 Ramiz Alia: “I am reminding you of a letter from Vullnet Thanas in 1975, and I have this letter here, in which it is specifically discussed not only Feçor Shehu’s immoral conduct, but also his suspicious political relations with the enemies Andrea Mano and Sami Muhameti...” Top secret Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PLA on 8 October 1982 Ramiz Alia: “I am reminding you of a letter from Vullnet Thanas in 1975, and I have this letter here, in which it is specifically spoken of not only Feçor Shehu’s immoral conduct, but also of his suspicious political relations with the enemies Andrea Mano and Sami Muhameti...” PAGE 5

Bashkim Zeneli “agent” of Berisha?! “RD” helps Pellumbi to dismiss Zeneli The Centre Pole, a new deception of the left Idriz Basha blows the trumpets for the SP Vrioni and Musaraj face to face with journalists (8.) “Financial Times” on Albania A tool for economic education By Jane Martinson