From the press conference of the PDSH leaders Following a successful working visit to Italy, the Secretary General of the PDSH, Mr. Tritan Shehu, and the deputy chairman of the party, Mr. Tomor Dosti, held a press conference yesterday in one of the premises of the QNK. At the opening of the conference, Mr. Shehu informed the journalists present about a press release which stated: “On 21 and 22.07.1995, a PD delegation was in Italy, invited by Mr. Roko Butilione, National Secretary of the PPI, to take part in the proceedings of the PPI’s extraordinary congress. The congress was being held in connection with the latest commitment of these parties in Italy to define their political lines for the coming period. The congress supported an alliance between the PPI’s centrist forces and those of the centre-right, such as Forza Italia, Alleanza Nazionale, etc., as the most important solution for confronting the threat of crypto-communism, as Butilione called the left. On the other hand, the congress expressed support for the idea of constitutional changes in Italy towards a presidential republic, as well as for holding new elections. At the invitation of Mr. Fini, our delegation also took part. Messrs. Shehu and Dosti greeted this assembly and the AN Party as a centre-right political force with which bilateral cooperation should be pursued. At the meeting with Mr. Fini, the desire and need for such cooperation, and for more concrete coordination in the future, were expressed. Mr. Fini also expressed his sympathy for the development of reform in Albania and his party’s support for the PD. Mr. Fini will visit Albania in September at our invitation. On 22.7.1995, at the invitation of Mr. Berlusconi, our delegation took part in the meeting of the National Assembly of Forza Italia, held behind closed doors at the Hilton Hotel under the chairmanship of Mr. Berlusconi. After Mr. Berlusconi invited Messrs. Shehu and Dosti to the presidium, he introduced the Albanian delegation to the Assembly, giving brief information about developments in Albania during these years of democracy and expressing great appreciation for what has been achieved in our country. Next, Mr. Shehu and Mr. Dosti delivered greetings, who DULO [?] OF THE PARTY TO THE S[?] CITIZENS ROME SHEHU, BERLUSCONI, DOSTI The Congress was also greeted by Mr. Shehu. Many delegations from European political parties with which meetings were held also took part. A separate meeting was also held between Mr. Butilone and our delegation. At this meeting, as well as at others held with the leading figures of this party, common political views and positions were expressed. Both our parties are members of the EUCD, the European People’s Parties. A clear desire was also expressed for more concrete and broader cooperation in the future, which will undoubtedly also be important for relations between our two countries. At the end, the Congress decided that the party’s name would no longer be PPI but CDU. Mr. Butilone will visit our country very soon, at the invitation of the PD. Meanwhile, during the two days, the delegation also met with Mr. Cosini, Chairman of the CCD Party, with whom it held a fruitful meeting on cooperation. Mr. Cosini and Mr. Shehu shared the same views on the main issues and assured one another of their support and cooperation. In September, Mr. Cosini will be a guest of the PD in Albania. On 21.7.1995, a meeting of the National Assembly of the National Alliance Party was held under the chairmanship of SH EHU GREETS THE PPI CONGRESS [on] the need for close ties between our two parties, as (Continued on page 3) HOTEL ERGIFE PAL[?] LIBERTAS (Continued on page 3)

[Photo: PDSH leaders at a press conference]

[Photo: the delegation at the Forza Italia event; background inscription: FORZA ITALIA, PARTITO DEI CITTADINI]

The Nano file from Rome to Tirana Perniola innocent: “I acted in accordance with the requests of the Albanian government” The links between Alia, Nano, Perniola and Sejdia The bombastic headlines in large letters in “ZP” are the result of an attempt to present as strong evidence in Nano’s favor a ruling by the Rome Court which, without exaggeration, could also be an accusation against Nano, contrary to what is being propagated. Why? Albanian justice has now established through facts, testimony and documents that Perniola prepared in Italy the orders which were subsequently sent to offices of the Albanian state bearing Nano’s signature. It has been established that all the requests which the Albanian judges addressed to the Italian state—both for the appointment of the supplying company (Lev. Co.) and later concerning the goods and their prices—had first been prepared in the offices of Lev. Co. and then in Nano’s offices. Furthermore, regarding the document published by “ZP”, there are two points that cannot go unnoticed. First, the case has been archived—note, archived—which means that, for lack of evidence, the guilt of the accused was not established, but neither was their innocence established. In any case, under the principle that everyone is innocent until their guilt is proven, no one can be convicted. Second, “ZP” writes that, as regards the Italian accused, “the facts do not prove relations of assistance, friendship and cooperation between individuals holding different positions...” Can the same be said of the relations between Alia, Nano and Perniola? Certainly not, especially when Hajdin Sejdia is added to this trio. The facts are stubborn. On Nano’s orders, a request was sent to the Italian government for Lev. Co. to supply Italian aid to Albania, adding—at Perniola’s request—the false claims that Lev. Co. had worked in Albania before, etc. Furthermore, Perniola turns out to be a friend of R. Alia’s son, through a private fax in which the “business” of the Nano government was noted, and at the same time a partner of Hajdin Sejdia, for whom Nano signed two falsified documents in his favor. And finally, let us not forget Nano’s more than 40 trips to Bari. Does this indicate an absence of cooperative relations between these people? And so, the Italian justice system—one of whose key positions is now held by Claudio Vitalone, the first accused on the list in this case and most recently accused in the Moro case in Italy—could not take into account these relations, which were simply relations between Perniola and the principal representatives of the Albanian state. This is why the archiving of the case in Italy does not absolve the convicted Nano in any way. Even after this, he remains just as guilty of the violations listed above. F.PALOKA sent to Albania, instead of essential foodstuffs, drugs and weapons at high prices, since Perniola could very well have swayed the Albanian government’s demands concerning the relations between Alia, Nano and Perniola? Certainly not, and all the more so when this…

Brozi sought the acquittal of the ordinary criminal Nano. According to the law, the Plenum of the Court of Cassation will decide. Each member of that body has the right to one vote, and the vote is equal for all members of this plenum. The number one man in the justice system has taken a grave position in this case. The law is not made according to one’s whims. I am warm, it is summer; I have fallen out with someone, I am cold, it is winter. The law is both summer and winter, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Whom should we believe?! Yesterday, Mr. Brozi was a member of parliament, chairman of parliament’s Committee on Laws, and chairman of the Court of Cassation, declaring not only in Parliament but also in the press: Nano is guilty; or today, as chairman of the Court of Cassation, “declaring” “Nano is innocent.” Back then, Mr. Brozi, you not only raised your hand but were also among the first to speak out. Back then you spoke responsibly, having familiarized yourself with the material. Mr. Brozi, chairman. Let us quote two statements: “I cannot sit on the trial panel because I have expressed my opinion as a jurist and member of parliament on Nano’s guilt.” So we pose a question, which we draw from your statement: What about now? (Continued on page 3)

Fatos Thanas Nano, a graduate of the V.I. Lenin Higher Party School, collaborator and adviser to N. Hoxha at the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies, author and promoter of the conservative line of the PS in the policy of cooperatives and plots, aide to Prime Minister A. Çarçani, then Prime Minister under Ramiz Alia in 1991, responsible for the catastrophic destruction of the economy during this period, responsible for the February massacre and that of April 2 in Shkodër and elsewhere, known for his statements in Switzerland in defense of E. Hoxha. This, in brief, is the résumé of the “great chairman” of the PP-PSSH, Fatos Nano. A black record for which he and his satellites from that period must answer before the law. And yet, not one of these crimes of 1991 appears in any part of the justice system’s indictment against Fatos Nano. Fatos Nano, chairman of the PS, is accused and convicted precisely for the ordinary crimes of misappropriation, abuse of office, and document forgery committed when he was Prime Minister. The PS leaders did everything possible, and continue with their propaganda, to distort the grounds for his imprisonment, converting

On the day socialists in Tirana sought a motion against the Minister of Defense, their allies in Belgrade signed an agreement to lift the embargo on Serbia. No one can speak of coincidence in these recent anti-Albanian actions. In Tirana, the PS is seeking a motion of no confidence against the Minister of Defense, clearly aiming to strike at the national defense institution; at the same time, Nanik Dokle’s statements showed that the attack was also aimed at the now extremely close relations—especially in the field of defense—between Albania and the US. On the same day, the Serbian criminal Milošević was making moves over Kosovo, and at that very same time three so-called Albanians, Ramadan Ndreu, Nanik Hoti and Petrit Franku, signed a resolution in Belgrade calling for the lifting of the embargo on Serbia. Can this be called a coincidence? Absolutely not. Even if someone were to portray N. Hoti as a clown and charlatan in an attempt to minimize this act, the same cannot be said of Dr. Ramadan Ndreu, a close ally of the PSSH. “...the left of the Balkans must unite in order to prevent foreign powers from penetrating this region,” Dr. Ndreu said in Belgrade, referring especially to Milošević’s Socialist Party. “Serbia has always been the center of the Balkans,” says Hoti, who also recalls the “aid” Yugoslavia gave Albania in Enver Hoxha’s time. There you have what these “Albanians” are aiming for, some in Tirana and others in Belgrade. E.P.

The Government of the Republic of Albania is following with attention and concern the developments of recent days in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It expresses its indignation at Serbian policy and aggressive actions, which have led to an intensification of violence against the Bosniak civilian population. The continuation of genocide, violence and ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica and Žepa, as well as the current air-bombing attacks in Bosnia and Krajina to seize the enclave of Bihać, are greatly increasing the danger of a wider conflagration in the former Yugoslavia, with unpredictable effects throughout the Balkan region. The support provided by what remains of the Yugoslav army to the Serbs of Bosnia and Krajina in troops, ammunition and equipment is an open violation of the so-called embargo that official Belgrade claims to be applying against them. The Government of the Republic of Albania believes that this is now the moment for the international community, alongside continuing diplomatic efforts for a political solution to the conflict, to take vigorous and practical measures to end Serbian aggression and violence. Such decisive action would contribute to resolving the conflict in Bosnia and the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and would also serve as a means of preventing the conflict from spreading south.

The Government of the Republic of Albania, seriously concerned about the extremely grave situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, created by Serbian aggressive actions, expresses solidarity with the Bosnian government, while also conveying the Albanian people’s feelings of sympathy for the unprotected, martyred Bosnian population, which for a long time has been subjected to massacres and systematic ethnic cleansing by the Serbian aggressor. Notice from the Spokesperson of the Republic of Albania, seriously concerned about the extremely grave situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, created by Serbian aggressive actions, expresses solidarity with the Bosnian government, while also conveying the Albanian people’s feelings of sympathy for the unprotected, martyred Bosnian population, which for a long time has been subjected to massacres and systematic ethnic cleansing by the Serbian aggressor. In this difficult situation, the Albanian government, within its means, is allocating a humanitarian aid fund to the Bosnian government, thus joining all those governments, countries and organizations that have offered and are offering humanitarian aid to the martyred Bosnian population.

-Agapi fails to achieve his aims Yesterday, the Constitutional Court rejected Gjinushi’s request for the unconstitutional decriminalization of “RD” and for declaring unconstitutional the silence of the head of SHIK and the President of the Republic. The Constitutional Court ruled that the claims concerning the President of the Republic do not fall within its jurisdiction, because the only body before which questions of the President’s responsibility may be raised is the People’s Assembly. The President of the Republic bears no responsibility for inaction in relation to other bodies. The Constitutional Court also considered the claims concerning the head of SHIK and “RD” to be unfounded. Violations of an individual’s rights are protected against by the courts. Thus Agap Prosi got his answer. He knew that the Constitutional Court had no jurisdiction over his claims, but with his lawsuit Agapi aimed to kill two birds with one stone: to make a commotion and put himself at the center of attention, and, on the other hand, to cover his tracks and convince people that he supposedly had not committed the sins of “RD.” Yesterday, Agapi failed on both counts. RD Correspondent

SHEHU GREETS THE PPI CONGRESS

SHEHU, BERLUSKONI, DOSTI