Prime Minister Meksi meets his counterparts at the Graz Summit Prime Minister Prodi stated that Italy would develop cooperation with Albania at a new level, higher than with other countries, since we are destined to be close and to help one another PAGE 2

The CEI meeting concludes with a call for more assistance to Bosnia and Croatia Meksi, explaining Albania’s veto of the membership of what remained of Yugoslavia, stressed that this point encompasses two issues: treating what remained of Yugoslavia like the other states of the former Yugoslavia, and its respect for international norms and, in this context, resolving the Kosovo problem. Prime Minister Meksi once again made known the critical situation in Kosovo and Albania’s official position on this problem. PAGE 2 Prime Minister Meksi welcomes the Graz Summit CEI, the common path towards integration into the EU Albania considers the initiative a highly valuable regional grouping, an initiative that promotes economic growth and stability on a broader scale, strengthens cooperation and helps our countries integrate into European processes, and strengthens relations with other international organizations and institutions.

Albanians under torture by the Serbian security service LDK youth secretary mistreated

The PS’s crushing defeat cannot implicate Albanian politics It is not the absence of the Socialists and the decline of their status in Albanian politics that determines whether pluralism is institutionalized in Albania; rather, it is precisely the existence of this pluralism and its dynamism that managed to reduce the PS’s former majority to the level of a marginal party. The accusations made by the few Socialists still left in Albania, that the political annihilation of the PS amounts to the elimination of pluralism, constitute one of the weakest elements of their political struggle. If the Socialists regard their departure from politics as an indication of the state of pluralism as an institution, then they themselves bear the blame for this. In May of this year, they had only just found a strong response in parliament compared with the previous year, while in the local elections the setback was even greater. So everything has followed a straight-line graph, and however closely you look, you cannot find anything artificial in how this graph was drawn, except for its nature: a straight line heading downwards. PAGE 3

The union presidential hopeful and his supporters enter the Estradë Xheka dismisses the danger posed by Hajdari to the BSPSH The union presidential hopeful and his supporters enter the Estradë Hajdari: I will divorce the PD Xheka dismisses the danger posed by Hajdari to the BSPSH This story is over Rejecting the assumptions made a few days ago about an alleged “threshold of dictatorship” in Albania, Xheka praised the stance of the state and its various sectors in defending the institutions and their legitimacy PAGE 3

The history of the virus (‘54–’96, 605 cases) 1. Among children aged 5–6, wild form 1954–1859 257 cases 1960–1969 147 cases 1970–1979 140 cases 1954–1979 544 cases 2. Among young children, vaccine-associated form 1980–1985 approximately 20 cases 3. Among adults aged 20–35, vaccine-associated form 1996 approximately 50 cases Tomorrow, the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign PAGE 9

The food business in three years 300 production enterprises PAGE 9

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Prof. Kolodko, arrived in Tirana Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Prof. Grzegorz W. Kolodko, arrived in Tirana in the morning for an official visit that will continue until 11 November. Finance Minister Ridvan Bode, along with other ambassadors of this cabinet, had come to meet him at Rinas Airport, as well as... During his talks with his counterpart, Mr. Bode, Prof. Kolodko’s visit schedule includes separate meetings with senior Albanian state officials, with President of the Republic Sali Berisha, Prime Minister Aleksandër Meksi, and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tritan Shehu. During his stay, the Polish guest will visit the Gdanski shipyard in Durrës and the University of Tirana, where he will give a lecture and speak with the audience, and will also visit historical sites.

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