The President of the Republic received those forcibly returned from Bari Prodi will ask for the opening of an investigation into this problem President Sali Berisha, Mr. Fino and the Italian ambassador in Albania, On this, he said, we had a telephone conversation with Prodi. President Sali Berisha, who yesterday met with those forcibly returned from Bari, denounced the inhumane policy of the Italian government toward Albanian citizens and considered Prime Minister Fino responsible for this drama. President Berisha regarded the position of the Fino government as not only anti-national, but also inhumane. Speaking about the return of Albanian emigrants by ship to our country, President Berisha said that the Fino government is sending dozens and hundreds of Albanians back to Albania as if they were cattle. “It is profoundly inhumane and anti-national to treat Albanians like animals,” President Berisha said. President Berisha also held Mr. Fino responsible for failing to take measures to accommodate these people. “The Fino government,” the President said, “has not only taken no measures, but at the very least it should not have treated them in such a cruel and anti-national way.” Accusing the Italian government as the main responsible party for this problem, President Berisha declared that he would ask Prime Minister Prodi to initiate an investigation into the specific case. “If the Italian government has started to implement such a policy toward Albanian emigrants,” the President said, “this is condemnable and unacceptable to us,” he said. President Berisha said that those returned from Bari were received by him so that he could see first-hand their condition and the problems they had encountered. Prodi will ask for the opening of an investigation into this problem

Secretary General of the PD, Pjetër Arbnori after a statement by the socialist prime minister The leader of the opposition of the Alliance for the Defense of Democracy, Mr. Arbnori, called the attack on the Albanian journalist in Rome, who was interviewing Mr. Fino, a fascist protest. “It is unacceptable, he said, that leaders of the Italian Socialist Party organize a brutal attack on the Albanian journalist of the “Voice of America” simply because he was doing his duty.” Calling the prime minister’s statement a “diplomatic disgrace,” according to which only honest Italian politicians who visit Albania will come to Italy, Mr. Arbnori said that Fino had thereby insulted the Italian political class and had placed himself in a difficult position before Albania’s friends. He said that Albanians are grateful to those Italian politicians who have helped Albania and condemned attempts to divide them into honest and dishonest.

Final statement of the National Forum for Democracy and the Coalition for Free Elections. Prime Minister Fino is today the main obstacle to holding free and fair elections in Albania and with the participation of all political forces. This is emphasized in a statement by the National Forum for Democracy and the Coalition for Free Elections published yesterday, which sheds light on the anti-democratic and illegal activity of the socialist prime minister of Tirana. The statement says that the Fino government and the Minister of Defense of this government responded with hatred to the nationwide protest of March 4 against the pyramids and to the revolt against this government with the unconstitutional order to open the weapons depots as well as with the other constitutional order to use heavy weapons against the civilian population of the South. The statement of the National Forum for Democracy and the Coalition for Free Elections strongly condemns the Fino government for usurping the right of the President of the Republic to set the date of the elections and for having taken unilateral decisions that make it impossible to hold free and fair elections. The statement says that with his actions Mr. Fino is hindering the creation of normal conditions for the elections and is strengthening the climate of insecurity and arbitrariness. The statement demands the resignation of Prime Minister Fino and the creation of a political climate suitable for free elections. Albania has survived only thanks to foreign aid, because no foreign government could officially receive in its own country the corrupt prime minister tied at least to mafia-related activities for which our country is known. This is how the commentary in yesterday’s issue of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” began, entitled “Albania is living on aid.” Further on, the well-known German press organ writes that in Albania “it is not only the economy that is at its lowest point in recent times. The clash within state structures has created such a vacuum that today everything that is standing is being held up only by foreign aid.” Page 4

Two days before a new visit to our country, the former Austrian chancellor, special envoy of the OSCE A he will have meetings with the senior state president and with the political parties. The former Austrian chancellor, the special envoy of the OSCE Franz Vranicki, the undersigned [?] special envoy of this organization for Albania, is coming again to Tirana. His secretary in Vienna confirmed yesterday that Mr. Vranicki will arrive in Tirana on Saturday and will hold talks both with the president of the country and with the chairmen of the main Albanian parties. Although the date and purpose of this visit were not officially made known, sources close to the OSCE said that it is related to efforts to find a political solution to the Albanian crisis. Also, Mr. Vranicki is expected to discuss the preparation of elections and the creation of conditions for the participation of all political forces. It is understood that in this meeting with high-ranking personalities of the state and political parties.

Boundless immorality of “ZP” President Berisha in opposition to his visit The President of the Republic Sali Berisha firmly condemned a discrediting and defamatory article in the daily “Zëri i Popullit”, which has gravely insulted the figure of the “Hero of the People” Ali Demi. In his statement President Berisha describes this attack as a low act of public morality and an attempt to defile the symbols of the national liberation war. Ali Demi’s family members reacted immediately, considering the “ZP” article a serious insult to his memory and to the sacrifices of the family. They stress that Ali Demi’s name cannot be used for political purposes and that his memory must be respected by everyone. The response says that any such speculation harms patriotic feelings and damages civic coexistence. Page 2

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The socialist Finance Minister against the “full transparency of the guilty” Bulevardi, 1994, cadre fund. - Well then! Under what circumstances was the activity of these pyramid companies legalized? - At first it was said that they are charity companies, then it was decided that they are non-profit foundations, commercial companies and so on. Page 2

Using as an example the interdistrict bank [?] in Monza (Italy), after that “obstacle over” “deposit insurance” and finally the “fueling of the banking law in 1992, Sandri Coraore came up with the suggestion and the closure of the pyramid scheme company By Jack Anderson, Andrès Politis, USA Page 3

A bomb exploded in the city center, the government and the destruction of any scenario [?] in the royal guards [?] Page 2