USA: Fight corruption

Ollbrajt warns Albania and the countries of Southeastern Europe on page 2

Bode responds to Pollo

“Don’t worry about the Congress procedures” on page 4

A Bufi apparatchik challenges Germany

EDITORIAL An apparatchik from the Ministry of Public Economy and Privatization publicly challenged Prime Minister Majko yesterday and reduced to zero all the results of the first-ever visit to Albania by a German chancellor, reminding Mr. Schröder that the opposition’s claims that the Socialists are not governing this country are entirely true on page 3

Secret meeting of the “Friends”!

Mystery surrounds the announced meeting of the “Friends of Albania” Group on page 2

Pollo: I have no connection with Nano

Paloka: This is speculation on page 2

“Albania” reports on the Shkodra Conference

There was no clash between Berisha and Pollo on page 3

What the election campaign brought to the DP

The DP’s election campaign is nearing its end. The conclusion of the proceedings of the Tirana, Tropoja and Tepelena Conferences, and the holding of the assemblies in the city of Përmet and in Malësia e Madhe to elect the chairpersons of these two branches, bring the campaign in the DP’s sections, subsection groups and local branches to a close on page 5

Two killed and one injured by masked gunmen

Armed gangs control the national roads in the North on page 12

How the Krasniqi family was massacred

DP strongly condemns police violence in Fier on page 7

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers

Today, 377 days since the murder of the December Leader Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of the government of Paltos Nanos and his successor in the serious crime of murdering this Albanian man. The government of the former communists, who continue along the same line, and their insincere successors—who are rich in power and trample on Albanians, taking from them more than they earn through hard work, and who, moreover, do not hesitate to [the source text is unclear here: “nga pushteti demokratikë”]—cannot tolerate these facts under any circumstances, nor can all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari. The government must either abandon its criminal justice system or publicly declare that it itself carried out the murder of Azem Hajdari.

Notice

Members of the National Council of the PDSH are hereby informed that a meeting of the National Council will be held in Tirana on Tuesday, 28 September 1999, at 11:00, with the following agenda: 1- Report on the conclusion of the conferences and elections in the local bodies of the PDSH and on the preparatory measures for its 6th Congress. 2. Approval of the proposals for the agenda and the procedures for conducting the Congress.