The recent bread-supply problems in Albania were preached by the Socialists as a problem that arose because of the government. Their suggestion to public opinion was that the abuses and provocations are there. The Socialists threaten the social wage The recent bread-supply problems in Albania were preached by the Socialists as a problem that arose because of the government. Their suggestion to public opinion was that the abuses and provocations are there. Social tensions have never been stirred up through completely temporary causes and without political roots. The alarmism that the Socialists tried to create around these problems, suddenly arising not only for Albanians but for many Eastern countries, aimed at destabilizing social calm. The bread problem arose because of the rise in the price of grain on the world market, a price that in some cases has even doubled. Under these conditions, for Albanian traders the risk to profits was obviously reduced to a low level. The government, notified of this price increase, reduced the price of electricity and fuels in order to lower the cost of bread production, while for flour traders it acted on taxes, reducing or eliminating them. All this was done with the aim that the rise in grain prices on the world market would not affect the citizen, but would be absorbed by the state, thus keeping the price of bread stable and at the same time respecting the profits of bread traders and producers. Despite all these reforms to ensure a regular supply without affecting the traders’ profits, some of the latter deemed it appropriate to create irregularities in the supply of flour, using this also as a pretext against the government to secure the highest possible profit margin. Even before this problem had arisen, it was inflated by the opposition press, creating the effect of scarcity before the scarcity itself. Thus there have been cases in which a family, driven by such effects, has bought more bread than it needed. Only yesterday, in a bakery in Tirana, twice the usual amount was produced for the same amount of money as a week earlier. Likewise, another citizen told a journalist that he had taken bread from his home after buying three times the amount needed for his family’s consumption. If these examples are examined carefully, one reaches the conclusion that a good percentage of people will remain without bread because of the fear of some that bread may run out. These days Albanian citizens found themselves under the great pressure of the Socialist press to queue up even when they could have avoided it with a little less panic. It is not fair for any political force in Albania to abuse citizens and psychologically torment them for the sake of political interests of a force that is not at all clean in the eyes of these citizens. The Socialists have continually preached the so-called social pact, which, as they themselves proclaim it, is intended to protect the citizen from political transition. It takes only one opportunity to realize the citizens’ desire for calm, and they exploited it to the fullest. Their ewspaper published for days on end full 16-page issues of its own venom to disrupt that social calm and provoke protests and unrest. Their game with bread is well known. They have tried to exert pressure on people by using what is most sensitive, bread. They too have victims of their game, the listeners of Psh?-Arrezi. But when it comes to power, they spare no ordinary people and do not spare their dignity either. They exploit every kind of pact. Their theory of the social pact has always been that it is supposed to open, and they have done so before, and especially these days. They show that they are for the devastation of the country’s stabilized situation, for creating abnormal conditions of Albanian life, hoping that through an abnormal trick of power they will become political. Today’s Socialists have not changed at all, even on the human level, from the Communists of ’91. They cannot change when in their objective they have those same people who were terrified by the bread scare that year. The bread effect, stimulated by the Socialists, this time produced neither victims nor effect. People are used to the Socialists’ preaching and are also able to boycott any kind of provocation coming from the past.

About a pseudo-poll A miserable provocateur is reactivated The political will of the Democratic Party is anti-genocide and anti-corruption BY DR. BLERIM ÇELA About a pseudo-poll A miserable provocateur is reactivated p. 3

President Sali Berisha met with the President of Austria, Thomas Klestil On his return from his visit to China, President of the Republic Sali Berisha stopped yesterday in Vienna, where he met and held an important conversation with the President of Austria, Thomas Klestil. Further concretization of Albanian-Austrian relations President of the Republic Sali Berisha, on his return from his visit to China, stopped yesterday in Vienna, where he met and held an important conversation with the President of Austria, Thomas Klestil. After the talks between the two presidents, press statements were issued. President Berisha, in his statement, thanked President Klestil as a friend of Albania and of his own. He considered the meeting very friendly and also very important. Berisha said that the meeting with his Austrian counterpart was an analysis of relations and cooperation between the two countries, which in the current situation are very good. Berisha expressed his gratitude to the Austrian President and the Federal Government for the generous assistance Austria has given to Albania, assistance which Berisha described as very efficient for the Albanian economy and as having brought quick results to the reforms in Albania. Further on, the Albanian President thanked Austria for the assistance it has given Albania in international organizations, the firm support it gives to Kosovo in resolving the Kosovo issue, and he requested Austria’s backing for the opening of negotiations on the association agreement with the European Union. Berisha underlined the particular interest of President Klestil in strengthening cooperation between the two countries, while pointing out the fact that during the talks specific areas were also defined where Albania would be helped, especially in the field of infrastructure. The success of Austrian companies that have settled in Albania, such as Rogner, OMV, etc., was noted. The Austrian President Klestil in his statement expressed that relations are at a very good level between Albania and Austria and committed himself to their further concretization. He said that Austria will support Albania in opening negotiations with the EU, and also invited President Berisha to visit Austria. This meeting was given great attention by the Austrian media and major world agencies. Present at the press conference of the two presidents were journalists from Austrian television and radio, from the newspapers “Curier Standard”, “Di pres”, “Vjena Cauting”, reporters from the a gencies APA, Reuters, AFP, etc. The journalists present asked President Berisha about the economic situation in Albania, his opinion on the Dayton Agreement, the results of his visit to China and the atmosphere of the talks, the Kosovo issue and the resolution of this problem, the opinion of the Albanian President on the third plane in the talks, etc.

Prime Minister Meksi sends greetings to the newly elected Prime Minister of Greece His Excellency Kostas Simitis Prime Minister of the Republic of Greece Athens His Excellency Kostas Simitis Prime Minister of the Republic of Greece Athens Honourable Excellency, On the occasion of your appointment as Prime Minister of the Republic of Greece, I have the pleasure of conveying to you my most sincere wishes for success in fulfilling this highly responsible duty. Your election to the post of Prime Minister of the Government of Greece, this neighboring and friendly country, gives me the opportunity to reaffirm to you, Your Excellency, the will and readiness of the Albanian Government to strengthen our friendly and good-neighbourly relations and the desire to raise and consolidate them at the highest level. I hope that Albanian-Greek relations, through joint efforts, will become a model of cooperation in the region and beyond, for the good of peace and stability. ALEKSANDËR MEKSI Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania

PS and “ZP” have always stood out for their enthusiasm when they see that there is some problem in Albania that is not going well. The nostalgia of “ZP”: “We were reminded of the queues” PS and “ZP” have always stood out for their enthusiasm when they see that there is some problem in Albania that is not going well. Their calls can never be forgotten: “Albania is aid” or “Albania cannot manage to join the Council of Europe” which in the end have remained only at the level of the dreams of socialist ambition. The same enthusiasm is now being shown by these kinds of politicians with the so-called “bread crisis”. “We were reminded of the queues”, writes “ZP” nostalgically in yesterday’s editorial, but forgets to write what queues it is referring to. The phrase might well have been: “we were reminded of the queues from the time when we were governing”. In fact, “ZP” hurried to remind people of those times first by publishing photos from 1991 when people were rushing through the iron-barred closed shops to grab a piece of bread, and now with an editorial precisely about the queues of their own era. For this, “ZP” should be thanked, because it is helping us remind Albanians of the time when Albania was governed by Nano, Pellumbi, Ruçi and Doko. “ZP” has reminded us of the queues but has “forgotten” to remind us of those poor Albanian people who have been victims of the policy pursued by the socialist rulers, has forgotten to remind those who were burned alive for a piece of bread and made the statement of the former socialist prime minister Bufi. It has forgotten those thousands of emigrants who rushed to the ships to escape the hell into which those who today claim power again had plunged the country. The politicians of hellishness are trying with all means to use the bread problems to draw parallels between the two governments. This is the only consolation left to the Socialists for their bad word: the people themselves are the ones who make the parallels worse. Today no one thinks that one can simply remain without bread, despite the Socialist leadership screaming in order to make people think so. Albanians now know who gives stability in their lives and do not expect some Secret Pellumbi to come out at a congress to declare that his party ensures bread production in the country. E.P.

- Wheat supply from Macedonia begins - The border crossing point of Vrakë with Montenegro opens (REPORTAGE) In front of the Tirana flour factory, several groups and queues are counted. The situation seems calm. Further improvement in the supply of wheat and flour - Wheat supply from Macedonia begins - The border crossing point of Vrakë with Montenegro opens (REPORTAGE) In front of the Tirana flour factory several groups and queues are counted. The situation seems calm. In the yard armed police officers move around and check the documents of traders and bakers who come to buy flour. The same is observed in the courtyard of the Bread Factory. In the kiosks that have been set up near the factory there are no people. The rise in the price of wheat on the international market and the maintenance of the bread price at 40 lek by the government cause not a little (Continues on page 3)

Pages from the PS’s war against American imperialism The Socialist Party continues to severely insult one of the most prestigious institutes in the democratic world, such as the American International Institute. “ZP” attacks the American Republican Institute The Socialist Party continues to insult severely one of the most prestigious institutes of the democratic world, such as the American International Institute, by calling into question the results obtained from the poll carried out a few days ago in Albania. Especially the fact that only 3% of the population thinks there is a need for more human rights, while only 2% of them think the country is in urgent need of a constitution. It goes so far in its attack on the American institute as to state in yesterday’s issue of “ZP” that “The result of the survey may serve too much as a goal to stimulate one of the pre-war PD promises”. In fact, such attacks on the USA have been made several times in the high- volume violent press of the Socialist Party, attacks that recall the former accusations of the communist dictator Hoxha “Against the American danger for Albania”. It should be emphasized that in this pre-election period the party has escalated in an unbearable way its attacks against the West. After several declarations against NATO’s presence in Albania, the socialists have not hesitated to attack and insult many personalities of present-day European politics who have seen in the party a true monster of communism under a new name, which by no means should be allowed to gain power. This may also be the main cause of the PS’s anti-Europeanism. MUJË BUCAPAJ

These photos that depict the case of the crisis into which the Socialist government had plunged the country in 1991 were published these days in “ZP” and “KJ”

Balluku file Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labour, dated 25 and 26 July 1974 From the legacy fund of the Socialist Party Balluku file Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labour, dated 25 and 26 July 1974

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