The fiscal amnesty proposed by the President means legalizing all the illegal wealth accumulated by Socialist officials If Meidani’s proposal becomes reality, the money stolen through smuggling, the money stolen from pyramid schemes, trafficking and corruption, the theft imposed on the roads will be valued the same as savings, contribution, skill, effort and honesty. Its late writing threatens [?], even competitiveness, terminals, capability, the distorted flesh and the reasons of ... [?] Mejdani seeks amnesty for the mafia ON PAGE 3 Milo: We do not want lectures, but police! From the scuffle [?], he pretends to seek that the "Mafia of society" is a consolidated regime. It is enough to recall that criminal organization in Albania has surged under the blessing and encouragement of segments of the public administration, or under its deliberate inaction. In a country where this regime has been created and enforced, and where murder and executions, smuggling, trafficking in drugs, weapons and human beings with the involvement of the highest officials of the public administration are already fixed in the collective memory of Albanians, it is clear that the President’s proposal for a general amnesty of wealth is not merely political, but criminalized. It is an amnesty for the mafia. Speaking of sovereignty, the President seems to regard himself as privileged in relation to it, since he wants all those who have accumulated illegal wealth and all the corrupt and incapable people who have brought Albania to this state to go unpunished. If this project were to become reality, it would mark the imposition of yet another standard of injustice: it would equate money earned through honest work with money stolen through smuggling, pyramid schemes, corruption, trafficking and abuse of power. Under these conditions, not only would fair economic competition be destroyed, but public morality would also suffer a fatal blow. All the signals would be that this country does not respect work, sweat and the law, but rewards ties to power, impunity and crime. This would be a severe blow to every honest enterprise and every citizen who lives from his own labor. Moreover, such a general amnesty would reveal a deep state cynicism toward the victims of this violent transition: toward those who lost their savings in the pyramid schemes, toward the families of crime victims, toward emigrants who sustain the Albanian economy with their remittances, and toward the whole society that seeks justice and the rule of law. Therefore, this is not an initiative for development nor a policy for attracting capital, as its authors try to present it. It is, in essence, a political and moral legalization of criminal wealth. And as such, it must be rejected without equivocation by every democratic force and by every honest citizen.

Milo called it absurd [?], pretending to argue that the "Mafia of society" does not depend on the position of the government. Instead, police action and the response of law-enforcement forces remain a clear test of the state’s will against criminality. If today murders are happening with bread in hand [?], it means that the police structures are powerless or implicated. For this reason, the answer is not lectures, but police.

Berisha [told] the UN envoy for the Balkans, Karl Bildt Berisha told the UN envoy for the Balkans, Karl Bildt ON PAGE 3 Speaking of sovereignty, Berisha informed the State Department coordinator that the left-wing government is using the state administration to take control of all independent institutions. He said that the criminalization of the state and the toleration of crime are factors that are driving the country toward economic and moral ruin. Berisha stressed that the government is not only incapable of fighting crime, but in many cases gives it political and institutional protection. According to him, this climate of impunity is seriously damaging public order and Albania’s image in the eyes of international partners. At the meeting with the international envoy, the importance of building a professional administration and restoring citizens’ trust in the rule of law was also emphasized.

After overturning the "Law on the civil servant" of 1996 and dismissing political employees, the socialists are now forced to carry out administration within the PS bodies ON PAGE 2

Today, 311 days since the murder of the leader of the December movement ON PAGE 2 Today, 311 days since the murder of Azem Hajdari Even though the murder order for Azem Hajdari, like his execution, are now all subjectively part of the matter under investigation, the public and accepted accusation that the order for his killing came from the upper echelons of the state, or even from ... [?]

Against dialogue between the opposition ON PAGE 3 Nano opposes any kind of compromise with the opposition, accusing Prime Minister Majko of unnecessary concessions and of an approach that, according to him, harms the interests of the left. In his reaction, he uses strong political language and presents his opponent as disloyal to the party line.

The representative of the UN Secretary-General explains the regulations for the institutions of Kosovo’s administration ON PAGE 6

The members of the National Council of the Democratic Party are informed that its meeting will be held today, 27.07.1999, at 18:00 in the hotel bar at "Dajti". Agenda: at the proposal of the party chairman, election of the vice-chairman of the National Council of the PDSH Chairman of the National Council of the PDSH Bashkim Kopliku

Thousands protested yesterday in front of the Ministry of the Interior in Thessaloniki Thousands protested yesterday in front of the Ministry of the Interior of the Athens government in Thessaloniki

The condition will earn the money of the "Stamp of Albania"

Kosovo Democrats

Police execute two people. In the mountains of Tepelenë, the bandits are tracked by helicopter The first bloody scenes to follow? Clandestines? the police made attempts to stop the 24-year-old Arben Metaj. He is tracked by helicopter

ON PAGE 2 In a 60-year period it is at least 6 times more expensive

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