EDITORIAL The baby in Dayton President Clinton described as historic and heroic the peace agreement signed in Dayton by the presidents of the three former Yugoslav republics, representatives of the U.S. Vice-President Al.[?]zbetbegović, F. Tuđman and S. Milošević. The truth is that the signing of this agreement became possible only after the battlefield was flooded with a great deal of blood, decisively shaping the political scene of the world: the USA. When it seemed that the tragedy was exceeding humanly defined limits, when Europe appeared on the small screens blurred and humiliated beyond measure, with its hands tied while curses were hurled at the hucksters, where it touched and toppled, Europe began to move in a massive way and Geneva and Srebrenica were turned into an act of fratricide, Washington began to act. President Clinton put into effect precisely the strategy he had promised three years earlier in his ceremonial speech on the occasion of being promoted to the position of the Number One figure in the politics of the largest and most powerful democratic country on the planet. He had said then that for solving crises he would use diplomacy, and when diplomacy would not be fruitful, force would be used. In other words: diplomacy was used through force. Perhaps more than in any other region of the globe, this strategy will bear fruit in the Balkans. Only in the so-called discredited European “preventive diplomacy” could nothing be resolved in those Balkan capitals, such as Belgrade, where the clock has remained somewhere at the beginning of the century. The truth is that in this matter the White House was especially supported by Bonn and by Jacques Chirac’s Paris. But was peace really achieved? The so-called Kissinger of the Balkans, the negotiator with another dimension, the irrepressible Richard Holbrooke, and other politicians and analysts, have stressed that the hardest part now begins. Peace is on paper; it is not yet in life. The Dayton agreement is like a baby: the baby was brought into the light successfully, but it must be brought to life, that is, it must grow and come into life. The difficulties are of different kinds: constitutional, territorial, attitudes toward war criminals, economic recovery, etc. But the determination of the USA and its allies to take the process forward recalls a phrase of Pope John Paul II during his visit to America last month, when he said: America, you are great, show such...? we could say that in this case too His Holiness made a prophecy. Who lost and who won in Dayton? It is certain that peace is the winner, a victory for all, just as it is certain that Serbian President S. Milošević, initiator of the decade of darkness and of the greatest tragedy Europe has known since the Second World War, is the great loser. He began the battle in Kosovo Field, he ignited the fire in Croatia and then in Bosnia, with one single goal: the creation of Greater Serbia. It is precisely this Milošević who is now forced to bless peace, to order his Bosnian Serb political wing to withdraw, as well as the Karadžić faction, to pull back. Still, the Bosnian issue remains open. There is Kosovo, where the general conflict of the former Yugoslavia began. And this conflict can truly be extinguished only where it began. The Ohio agreement also represents a green light for the Kosovo issue. Otherwise, the clouds of war and the bloody Balkan spaces will remain forever entrenched and forever full of danger. And a unique experience is needed: all the wars in this region began in the Balkans, but they did not end there...

The perpetrators of the 2 Prilli massacre in the dock On 15.11.1995 a meeting was held of the leadership of the patriotic anti-communist association of April 1991 with the participation of those wounded on that date, at their request. During the meeting, the wounded raised the main issue regarding the trial over the 2 Prilli 1991 massacre, asking the governing bodies to place in the dock all those who planned and carried out this massacre. Specifically, the wounded of 2 April 1991 requested the legal prosecution of former President R. Alia and Prime Minister N. Bino, former Interior Minister G. Ruçi, former Director at the Ministry of the Interior Fadil Çani, former senior officials in the PPSH Committee in the district and former senior officials of the State Security organs, as well as of the block organs of the first phase, who prevented the sentencing of the criminals. “The implementation of the law on genocide cannot be considered complete without the punishment of the criminals of the 2 Prilli massacre,” it was stressed at this meeting. Another point of this meeting was the individual complaints from some of the wounded, mainly about permanent employment, housing and treatment. The chairman of the Union of All Anti-Communists presented to the wounded the results of many meetings with the local and central authorities, and stressed that some disagreements belong to the improvement (Continues on page 2)

Scientific symposium “Albpetrol '95” on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Oil and Gas Also attended by the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha Albpetrol, a competitive enterprise Scientific symposium “Albpetrol '95” on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Oil and Gas Also attended by the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha Yesterday in the hall of the “Bylis” theater in the city of Fier, the symposium “Albpetrol '95” was organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Oil and Gas here. Veteran specialists from the oil sector, members of the families of former oil specialists killed or sentenced by the dictatorship, etc. participated. At yesterday’s meeting the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, the Minister of Mineral and Energy Resources, Adyl Halli, the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Hasan Halli, deputies, and the prefect of Fier (Continues on page 3)

Press conference at the Polish embassy Empty analogies Press conference at the Polish embassy The Polish ambassador in Albania and the political editor of the newspaper “Politika” Mr. Krzystof Mbrożecz gave a press conference yesterday at the headquarters of the Polish embassy on the political situation after the victory of Aleksander Kwasniewski as the new president of Poland. In his statement to the press before Albanian journalists from TVSH and the press, Mr. Palas, among other things, declared: “With Kwasniewski’s victory, a fundamental turn took place in Poland because the left also took the post of President together with in parliament, but Poland will not give up the path it has long followed, the democratic reform both politically and economically. It will support the Western options of political development. In response to a journalist’s question as to whether there is a tendency among some Albanian political parties or newspapers to draw parallels or make analogies with the political developments in Poland that occurred with the presidential elections, the ambassador replied: “I said that Poland has strong specificities in political developments. It is not right for any post-communist country to make analogies between problems that are unique to Poland because in Poland communism and socialism no longer exist in either political or electoral terminology. As for a question about what the concept of the Polish left is, Mr. Krystof replied: “The concept of the Polish left is that of the left in Western Europe. These are social democratic concepts. Today the social democratic concept in the West is coalition[?] plus fear of the socialist revolutionaries and not socialism + democracy as may still exist in some post-communist country”. Mentor Shehu

The Apostolic Nunciature announces that His Holiness Pope John Paul II has appointed Reverend Don Mark Sopi, a Kosovo cleric who is currently carrying out his mission in the Catholic church of Durrës and Mllovë, and has appointed Reverend Nik Prela to the post of Bishop in Kosovo. His full title will be: auxiliary bishop for Shkup and Prizeren for the Albanian faithful in the diocese.

Division PS activists conclude: Thirdly, to choose between consumption today or consumption tomorrow, when high consumption today means lower consumption tomorrow, in conditions where high consumption today in the context of a high budget deficit affects and increases tomorrow’s consumption at a higher level for everyone Shehu: These phrases, taken from the conclusions of the PS activity on social issues, health and education, look as though they were transcribed from a recording in a madhouse. Sentences without connection, with deformed syntax, just like the whole activity, which with their alchemy of taking up duna? they evoke a ghost, a ghost that cries out, “Albanian people, rise up”, eat just enough to keep going while PD governs; otherwise tomorrow, if we come, we will leave you with your finger in your mouth.

Tadeusz Mazowiecki has arrived, who for several days will have a series of meetings with representatives of the parties, the press, religious communities and leading authorities of the Albanian state, including the President of the Republic and the Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly. He comes to Albania to become acquainted at first hand with the progress of democratic reform, the results achieved in establishing the rule of law and legality.

Another 60 thousand families as landowners The law already drafted by the Democratic Government and submitted to Parliament for improvement, concerning the granting of land ownership to the families of former agricultural cooperatives, which had had it for use, and to around 60 thousand other families, was announced to RD by Mr. Idriz Xhomara, Director of the Land Directorate in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. From this right, Xhomara adds, former agricultural specialists living in the city are excluded. D.K.

The law on the privatization of Telekom was approved Yesterday the law on the privatization of Telekom was examined and approved in the People's Assembly. With the approval of this law, another objective of the Democratic Party program has also been achieved by the Government. The approval of this law creates a broader and safer space for foreign investment, which will lead to the modernization of Telekom and to a rise in the efficiency of the service to citizens.

The leaders of the PS, as emerges from the material they have presented, call for a reduction in consumerism, thus attacking the growth of the level of well-being and progress, thereby returning to the old policy of austerity and restriction for the Albanian people, something that will no longer happen since the Albanian economy has been fully integrated into the market economy. Television seems in fact to constitute an alternative of deception and inflation for people, for Albanian democratic developments, for what the Albanian market economy has achieved in these few years, a process for which Albania has the right to be proud, having managed to win the admiration of the most developed European countries. Regarding this, the Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Albania, Mr. Tritan Shehu, stated that “this activity showed that the PS evaluates today’s Albanian reality, development and economic viewpoints through the psychological mentality and terminology it used against the imperialist-revisionist world 20–30 years ago. It seems that the way socialists deal with the Albanian economic and social truth is guided by the manipulation of the facts about what has been achieved in Albania during these years. This is clear, simply by looking at the illustration in the reports of the PS leadership, to show that in this period Albania has deepened its external debt and At the PDSH session an extended meeting of the Press and Information Department was held. Also taking part was the Secretary General of the PDSH, Mr. Tritan Shehu. At the meeting, the propagandistic content of the material presented by the PS was discussed, and it was noted that the PS gives totalizing priority, considering the achievement of progress and consumption and the development of meetings as PS activities in the country, the publication of declarations and proposals, articles and journalistic commentaries as basic assets that are linked to the growth of the people’s activity. “This activity, said Mr. Shehu, is a tracker of the theoretical and economic idea that brings Albanians back to a centralized social organization, where the main message is that sacrifice must be increased with no increase in well-being. The economic program of the PS is presented in contradiction with the market economy. By raising abstract slogans about social equality, it in fact attacks the current and future standard of living of Albanians.” (Continues on page 3)

“Top Secret” Minutes taken at the meeting of the Presidium of the People's Assembly on 9.9.1983, Friday at 9:00 a.m. PAGE 5

Kosovo - spare change in the hands of “ZP” PAGE 2 The future of the PS is with the f(I)uturologist Zeqo! PAGE 2 A strategic position in the Oil Industry PAGE 4

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