Interview of President Berisha given to the newspaper “Die Presse” Page 2

Socialists bloody one another at the capital’s conference Enverists’ coup Socialists bloody one another at the capital’s conference The Battle of Tirana is over. The motion supporters are defeated Enverists’ coup Albanian Socialists are heading toward a split, demonstrating an intolerance and clan warfare worthy of mafia organizations. They are not even sparing blows and bloodshed against one another, while still having the audacity to talk about “reforming” the party. Socialists have now begun massively boycotting one another, which also explains the reasons behind their recent boycotts in Albanian politics. Irresponsibility seems to have become an obsession and a means of survival in the largest opposition party. Yesterday’s conference of the Socialist Party for Tirana tragically and definitively sank[i?] hopes for a profound and comprehensive reform of this party. The Enverists and conservatives, using anti-democratic methods typical of Enverism, extinguished every hope of renewal and showed the Socialist membership and electorate that a clan war is under way in the Socialist Party, one of the fiercest and most ruthless since its founding in 1941. The Enverists whom Fatos Nano made from Benca guclëceve, mediocrities, the corrupt, sinners, epaulettes, petty-minded people who run this party today, not only failed to cleanse it of these elements, but unleashed the most barbaric clan war ever recorded in the black history of the Socialist Party, under its three different names. At this conference, the group of intellectuals with reformist ideas and a social-democratic orientation was entirely eliminated. The conference was dominated by party apparatchiks, the old nomenklatura of the Party of Labour, and the compromised. The conference turned into a chain of uncivilized clashes, a chorus of insults, slurs, screams, whispers—an unprecedented event in the history of a political force’s meeting. The organizers and executors of this scenario at the Socialists’ conference were the incorrigible Marxist and irredeemable dogmatist Servet Pëllumbi, who led the Socialist Party into the deep defeat it has suffered, its defeat in the May 26 elections. With exemplary Byzantine cunning, Servet Pëllumbi also struck the last hopes of the party’s social-democratic-minded electorate and membership for reform. With a typically Bolshevik political culture, Servet Pëllumbi managed to turn his personal future into a pitch-black tragedy for his entire party. What happened at the Tirana Conference clearly and definitively demonstrates that the PPSH, under a new name, is an unreformable party. Neither one or several motions taken together, nor the honest efforts of hundreds and thousands of honest social democrats throughout Albania can free its swamp and rot. Therefore, only its disintegration is the sole path to freeing the left-wing and moderate membership and electorate from the clutches of those who turned class struggle into clan warfare.

With the Minister of Justice, Mr. Kristofer Peçi It is “The New Organization of the Ministry of Justice and a New Law on Its Operation.” One of its fundamental duties is to ensure the freedom and rights of citizens through further improvement of the legislation that ensures the effective enforcement of these rights. Page 9

From the Tirana SP conference - The leadership puts forward two Enverists as candidates - Some delegates, in protest against the leadership’s actions, walked out of the hall, saying that these were like PPSH conferences. - Pëllumbi welcomed the resignation of the SP Secretary General, Gramoz Ruçi, saying that he too had prepared a similar statement and would keep his word. - The newspaper “Zëri i Popullit” was called dormant and extremely bureaucratic; it has lost its identity and its circulation has fallen significantly of the opposition. From the Tirana SP conference Islami below Ulqin - The leadership puts forward two Enverists as candidates - Some delegates, in protest against the leadership’s actions, walked out of the hall, saying that these were like PPSH conferences. - Pëllumbi welcomed the resignation of the SP Secretary General, Gramoz Ruçi, saying that he too had prepared a similar statement and would keep his word. - The newspaper “Zëri i Popullit” was called dormant and extremely bureaucratic; it has lost its identity and its circulation has fallen significantly

The construction of this complex has received an investment of 1.8 million dollars from the U.S. government through UNDP and the Albanian government

, A problem discussed at this meeting was also support for low-income families, individuals unable to work, abandoned individuals, and the treatment of individuals suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction, etc.

“Mis Europa ’96” in the government’s spotlight

“The beautiful poet” was born in that part of the world where people congratulate one another on only three occasions: when a boy is born; when he grows up exceptionally handsome; when a poet appears.

The Romantics head to Struga