President Berisha received yesterday the State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Siri Bjorke. Mrs. Bjorke conveyed to President Berisha her congratulations on Albania’s visible achievements, not only in building a democratic state, but also in the economic sphere. The interlocutors expressed their satisfaction with the progress made in developing bilateral relations, highlighting the areas of greatest interest for cooperation and efforts to increase Norwegian investment in Albania. The situation in the Balkan region and the necessity of resolving the Kosovo issue occupied an important place in the discussion. State Secretary Bjorke expressed to President Berisha her deep indignation and concern over the tragic event that took place in Tirana, emphasizing that this assassination attempt seeks to oppose democratic developments in Albania. In his remarks, the President stressed that this heinous crime would not succeed in destabilizing Albanian democracy and that we would guarantee free elections. Facts incontestably prove the political nature of this crime. Segments of the secret police have engaged in terrorist acts for decades, but we are determined to punish the organizers of this crime in an exemplary manner.

The center-right Democratic Party will render insignificant the dangers of the former communists coming to power The personal charisma and leadership skills—the essential traits of President Sali Berisha—stand in sharp contrast to the unformed socialist leadership and the far-right populists “European Security Analyst” magazine (July–August 1995) Berisha’s government benefits from the new stability The center-right Democratic Party will render insignificant the dangers of the former communists coming to power The personal charisma and leadership skills—the essential traits of President Sali Berisha—stand in sharp contrast to the unformed socialist leadership and the far-right populists p. 3

EDI PALOKA Who planted the bomb in the center of Tirana? Who is the criminal who extinguished four lives and terrorized an entire people? These are the questions many people are asking today. But let us ask some other questions: Who has an interest in destabilizing the situation in Albania? Who has an interest in sowing panic and insecurity among Albanian citizens? Who has an interest in portraying today’s public order as unsafe? Who has an interest in depicting democracy as the cause of crime, drugs and prostitution? Who has an interest in portraying the present government as incapable of protecting the lives of its citizens? And let us continue with the questions: Who terrorized Albanians for 50 years? Who killed, burned and destroyed in 1991, in democracy’s first steps? Who took Serbia’s 20 million dollars to destabilize Albania? Who has stoked tensions in Albania every day? Who calls for blood, civil war, skull-cracking, merciless and deadly revenge, a St. Bartholomew’s Night, the revival of the red Khmer, etc.? Who warns that bombs will be planted in Tirana? Read the statements of the socialist leaders and these questions will be answered. No one can be directly accused of an act committed without complete evidence, but no one can deny the truth that the statements of the socialist leaders are a direct incitement to terror. Even if the terrorists did not receive direct orders from Ruçi, Islami or someone else, their statements are enough to incite the agitated minds of left-wing terrorists to commit such acts. What can you expect from people who, just days after the bomb was planted, issue leaflets reading: “Long live Enver Hoxha, long live Stalin. We will hang...” when the opposition leaders themselves make statements like these? This is how crime rises against the backdrop created and prepared for it by the opposition leaders. KASTRIOT ISLAMI 30 July 1993 — At a rally organized in the square in front of the former “Dinamo” stadium, Kastriot Islami threatens his democratic opponents with the words: “WE WILL CRUSH YOUR HEADS UNDER OUR FEET,” “WE WILL DRAG YOU ALONG THE GROUND.” MOIKOM ZEQO In his parliamentary speech on 9 July ’95, after the adoption of the Criminal Code, Moikom Zeqo says in his remarks: “OTHERWISE, A NIGHT OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW WILL TAKE PLACE IN ALBANIA.” GRAMOZ RUÇI At a PS meeting in Sarandë, according to notes by journalist Fatos Vehut, Gramoz Ruçi said: “OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY FOR FOUR YEARS. THE PS’S FORCE WILL BE MERCILESS (DEADLY).” DRITËRO AGOLLI ZP 17 February ’96 “THE FRONT OF THE RED KHMER IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FORMED. THEN IT WILL COME, AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN WILL HAPPEN. THEY DO NOT WANT TO RECOGNIZE YOU AS EITHER PRESIDENT OR PARLIAMENT.” MUSA ULQINI At the PS conference in Tirana on 5 February ’96, Musa Ulqini declares: “WE WILL FIGHT PHYSICALLY AT THE POLLING STATIONS.” ILIR META Yesterday, at the meeting of the PS presidium, KJ 5 December ’95, p. 7. “Yesterday’s meeting of the PS presidium lasted around six hours... According to the youngest vice-chairman of the Socialists, Meta, yesterday’s meeting once again concluded that ‘TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, THE ALBANIAN ELECTORATE NEEDS THE PS. BERISHA CAN WIN THE ELECTIONS ONLY THROUGH CIVIL WAR.’”

Last night they were stirred in the minds of a church in Tirana to throw leaflets against the institutions of the Albanian state and against the state’s leading figures. Terrorists could not make a more absurd choice than to use the nave of a temple of peace and harmony to call for blood and hanging. But this is the logic of murderers who can profane even holy places where peace and love among people are preached. Terrorism as an Albanian phenomenon does not exist. It has appeared only in the form of communist dictatorship and Bolshevik ideology. Dictatorship ruled the state through terror and, precisely because of the scale of terror attained at that time, even its shadow has persisted in democracy. A month ago, some of Tirana’s streets were filled with red slogans containing more or less the same message and text as those incomprehensible leaflets. People will be held accountable for such actions, typical of bands of brutal terrorists. If elsewhere terrorism is driven by obsessions and conflicts that are not fundamental to society, in Albania terrorism represents an entire ideology that shaped this country’s image until four years ago. Albanian terrorists, also incited by forces hostile to Albania, seek power through blood, terror, fear, insecurity and violence. As such, it takes the form of terrorism directed against the institutions of the democratic state and the democratic means of transferring or holding power. Albanian fundamentalists have violence at their core as compensation for defeat. Extremists in Albanian politics have often spoken of the threat of terrorism and warned of taking power through terror. Without wishing to repeat what they themselves have declared, we can mention only its geophysical elements, such as the street, the police as a route, parallel police, physical conflict, etc. If on a clear day these might be dismissed as passion or an expression of an obsession with power, on the day of the attack they are seen as cold-blooded and carried out. In an interview, a poet and socialist deputy said that the red leaders are now being prepared as well. The analogy with the Slaughterhouse that came to the poet’s or politician’s mind at the moment of the interview became reality last Monday. If it was not the poet’s innocent premonition, then it must have been the politician’s prophecy. Monday’s terrorist act has been classified as political terrorism. Defined as such, it does not stand unsupported, but finds backing somewhere. This definition of the act has been given by politicians, experts, victims or their relatives who witnessed it, and those who suffered material damage alike. Unanimously, by classifying the crime as political, all sides show that terrorism was directed against democracy, against Albanians, against their future. Thus, on a hypothetical chart, the terrorists remain at its bottom, a point that reaches back to four years ago and has been carried along like a foreign body together with Albania’s moderators. The fierce and unrelenting antagonism toward democratic governance has undoubtedly been a cherished ambition to place the state at the center of terror. The fundamentalist rejection of democracy and its achievements has been a source of inspiration for the terrorists and a source of their belief that they could achieve something in favor of political extremism and Albania’s social regression. By creating space, democracy increases the possibility of believing in its opposite. But with its freedoms, democracy also increases the possibility of strengthening those who build against it.

Who planted the bomb in the center of Tirana? Who is the criminal who extinguished four lives and terrorized an entire people? These are the questions many people are asking today.

The terrorist’s identity reconstructed and made public The make of the car and the place it came from have been identified Monday’s terrorist act Monday’s terrorist act, in which four people lost their lives and dozens of others were injured, has a political character. This is what sources within the investigative group looking into the incident have stated. The investigations so far shed light on the fact that the perpetrator of this heinous terrorist act is Albanian. Nevertheless, these sources confirm that the possibility of the involvement of a foreign secret service cannot be ruled out. Sources at the Prosecutor’s Office informed us that yesterday Albanian forensic experts, in cooperation with their Italian counterparts, reconstructed and released the identity of the person who parked the car at the scene. He is about 1.75 m tall, with a dark-complexioned, oval-shaped face. His hair is short, black and brushed upward; his eyebrows are thick and prominent. His lips are thin, while his mouth, nose and ears are regular in shape. At the time of the attack, he was wearing a black leather jacket and black trousers. The identity was compiled by a group of Interpol experts on the basis of testimony from one of the supermarket guards, who was present and had contact with the terrorist moments before the attack took place. The origin of the car that carried the explosive has also been established so far. It is a “Fiat” Tipo brought from Italy, specifically from one of the cities in southern Italy. The Italian police verified this on the basis of the car’s chassis number, which was found among its remains after the explosion. Our competent authorities have established that this car is not registered with Albanian customs. “RD” correspondent

Z.Dule: “This is only the beginning of a bloody and ominous series” (“KJ” 27 February 1996) The newspaper “KJ” warned the day before yesterday that there would be more car bombs in Albania. Alongside some tragic reports, and the morning report about the tragedies, the loss of life of the chief...s and the explosions that have engulfed the country, this newspaper warned that such a thing would happen as a result of ... “This is only the beginning”. Zamir Dule, a correspondent who has followed the crime beat while writing for this newspaper, says that this is a warning that will be kept ... in Albania. ... the structures that exercised violence under the dictatorship, with dubious ties to the Sigurimi, can scarcely contain their joy that the car-bomb explosion ... of the chairman also brought him an interesting piece of news. He and his newspaper can hardly wait for other attacks to take place, if they had already announced them in their newspaper, and earlier for their gazelë. As this man of crime has concluded, “In any case, it is the curtain-raiser for events and concern that begin by ... doing ...”, by ... How does this journalist and his bosses know that “this is only the beginning of a bloody series”? This man threatens the future, this man spreads panic, this man strikes public opinion with bomb talk, seeking to blow up confidence in state institutions, in the law, in the police. The public, readers, politicians, intellectuals, journalists and state authorities already know very well that terrorism in the press, as practiced by Zamir Dule, paved the way for the car bomb in Tirana and even announced it months earlier. E.DRINI

Today, Mr. Federico Major in Albania Cooperation memorandum expected to be signed - And other important agreements between Albania and UNESCO Today, UNESCO Director-General Federico Major arrives in Tirana for a two-day visit, at the invitation of the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha. Major will meet with President Berisha, Prime Minister Meksi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Serreqi, Minister of Education Xhezair Toliçi, and Minister of Culture Teodor Laço. During this visit, a memorandum of cooperation between the Republic of Albania and UNESCO will be signed. UNESCO Director Major will also meet with representatives of international organizations at the UNDP representative office in Tirana. Federico Mayor CURRICULUM VITAE Director-General of UNESCO Born in Barcelona (Spain) on 27 January 1934 1956 Graduated in Pharmacy. 1958 Received a doctorate in Pharmacy. 1967–1968 Director of the Interfaculty Department of Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid. 1974–1975 Undersecretary of Spain’s Ministry of Education and Science. 1974–1978 Director of the “Severo Ochoa” Center for Molecular Biology at the Higher Council for Scientific Research; Autonomous University of Madrid. He was also a member of UNESCO’s Advisory Committee on Scientific Research, and a member of the Advisory Committee of UNESCO’s European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES) in Bucharest. 1977–1978 Member of the Spanish Parliament and Chairman of the Education and Science Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. 1977–1978 Adviser to the Spanish Prime Minister. 1978–1981 Deputy Director-General of UNESCO. 1980, 1981 Representative of the UNESCO Director-General on the United Nations University Council, Tokyo, Japan. 1981–1982 Minister of Education and Science of Spain. 1987 Spanish member of the European Parliament in Strasbourg; likewise, Director-General of UNESCO, on the eve of the elections for a second term on 6 November 1993. Mr. Major is a member of several academies and scientific societies around the world.

HEIGHT: Approximately 1.75 m tall. FACE: Oval-shaped, dark-complexioned. HAIR: Short, black, brushed upward. EYEBROWS: Arched and prominent. LIPS: Thin. MOUTH: Regular. NOSE: Regular. EARS: Regular. EYES: Regular. CLOTHING: Black leather jacket and black trousers (at the time of the incident). 5 million new lekë for anyone who helps capture this person Monday’s terrorist act The investigation brings