How Shuli burned through USD 28 million from the Port of Durrës Paskal Milo, saboteur of Corridor Eight on page 2

Clinton’s adviser: Vote against corrupt officials, against those who fail to maintain order and fight crime. The government should serve its people, not the party. Albania got off to a good start, but now it is doing very little. Now that the war in Kosovo is over, we will pay more attention to Albania The US reaffirm their concern over the crisis in Albania on page 5 Kristofer Hill

By Sali BERISHA These days, reports speak of the Albanian government’s complete failure and disastrous performance at the Skopje meeting. As the official announcement shows, Albania, which at the end of 1996 had secured 1.2 billion dollars in financing for dozens and hundreds of projects, received only 7% of the funds at the Skopje meeting, or one quarter of Macedonia’s allocation. Bearing in mind that funds for rehabilitating the Durrës–Kukës road were granted 4–5 months before this meeting, only a few projects by Albanian NGOs can have been included in Skopje. This latest total failure of the government was kept in complete informational darkness for more than 20 days, as though it were an intimate, private family matter of the heads of state clans, and not a vital issue for the future of every Albanian and Albania’s integration. on page 3

More killings in the middle of the capital Italy sounds the alarm over cooperation between Albanian traffickers and the Italian Mafia 28 Albanian traffickers arrested in Palermo on page 6 on page 7

By Halit SHAMATA Russian dolls are a rather original kind of life, also because they convey symbolism that is just as original. And playing with them here, despite being a distant, almost unknown thing for the older generations familiar with toys, is something almost incomprehensible to the generations of official Albanian politics. on page 4

By Mujë BUÇPAPAJ on page 4

Today, 522 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 has been relieved by the sentencing of the criminals who took this leader’s life. Yesterday, they showed Albanians that they were and are on the side of the killers, who have names but are untouched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate criminal justice, and must publicly demand that it was justice itself that killed Azem Hajdari.