Berisha: We will topple the dictator’s living mummies

20 February ’91 – 20 February 2000, Tirana commemorates the toppling of dictator Hoxha’s monument on page 3

SP: We don’t care about Albright

The Socialists insist that the CEC should not be changed Luan Rama says one thing inside and another outside the meeting at the OSCE headquarters

Messages coming from Washington

Albright’s speech distorts the faces of government officials The visit to Tirana by the American Secretary of State, Ms. Albright, left them with a bitter taste

Another tragedy in Otranto. Speedboat departing from Vlora sinks

Another tragedy in Otranto. Speedboat departing from Vlora sinks

Commission for changing the ...

on page 2 PD Secretary General Bode stresses the need to reach consensus regarding the electoral process Commission for changing the

30 people missing

on page 7

Drivers: Shull stole the road money

The national road in Mamurras is blocked. The police also show solidarity. The Ministry of Transport is accused of 1.5 billion lekë on page 3

Customs: Smuggling blows the plan apart

According to official statistics: Customs collected less money than in 1998 on page 9

The government politicized the disarmament of the population

By Jozefina TOPALLI Deputy Chair of the DP Addressing the highly important subject of disarmament today is an interesting opportunity to exchange views and experience among representatives of the Parliamentary Political Parties, various associations, and the media world on page 5

The government protects the killers of Azem Hajdari

Today, 520 days since Azem’s murder Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and his successor in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The government of the former communists, which leaves free and undisturbed the criminals who took the life of the December Hero, shows Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and identities but are not touched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved Azem Hajdari and feel his loss cannot tolerate this fact under any circumstances. The government must either immediately capture its enemies—the criminals—or publicly declare that it was itself that committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.

from Washington

of State, Ms. Albright, left the authorities with a bitter taste, after they had prepared to present the visit as their own success. Tirana officials thought that with the gifts mentioned in “ZP,” their forced smiles, and the schoolchildren they had gathered by order as in Enver’s time, they would be able to “sweeten” the American Secretary of State, at least a little. But, just as expected, our rulers had miscalculated. Ms. Albright’s speech in Parliament and later at the press conference was far more than a diplomatic criticism of Albania’s power-holders. Well-informed about the problems currently troubling Albanian society, the iron lady’s words caused many distortions in the faces of Albanian judges, parliamentarians and government officials, who are ordinarily not a little distorted. Crime and corruption were not absent from Ms. Albright’s remarks, as they have not been from all the statements made by other figures or international institutions about Albania, governed by the meidans, nanos, gjirushët and metët on page 3

Commission for changing the electoral law

on page 2

Why does Pollo want to be called “Nano’s dog”!

on page 6