Europe and the US close all doors to the official Tirana
In 1996, Albania had $1.2 billion in financing guaranteed by the international community, whereas now, in March 2000, it receives only $112 million from the West’s most generous aid package, or 4 percent of the total amount
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Meidani breaks the consensus and leads the country toward destabilization
Ahrens: “There is nothing we can do about the CEC issue, neither the OSCE nor the international mediator. It is a political problem.”
The OSCE ambassador backs down in the face of the President’s and the Socialist Party’s stubborn insistence on changing the composition of the CEC
Ahrens sounds the alarm
At the Albanian border crossings, there is no...
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Ahrens sounds the alarm
By Shemsi PEPOSHI
Ambassador Ahrens yesterday warned the state authorities in Tirana of the responsibility they bear for organizing and conducting elections that are uncontested and accepted by all sides
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Meidani is killing the future of Albanians
The OSCE ambassador, Ahrens, yesterday urged political forces in Albania to continue political discussions among themselves in order to reach a consensus on the electoral law and the composition of the CEC, following the experience he had in negotiations with President Meidani on changing this commission
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Zela and Dokle drive Poçi’s police officers out of Morini
There is not even the slightest element of state authority at the Albanian border crossings
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The state mafia targets businesspeople
“Fines” imposed by criminal groups end up in government officials’ pockets. Businesspeople are leaving Albania
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The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers
Today, 557 days since Azem’s murder
Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the complicity of Fatos Nano’s government and its successor in the grave crime that shook the entire Albanian world.
The governments of the former communists, which were free and untroubled by the criminals who took the life of the December Leader, show Albanians that they have been and are the mothers of the murderers, who have names and surnames but are not touched by those in power. The Democrats and all the Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari can in no way tolerate this fact. The government must either catch and punish his killers, or catch and punish his killers, or publicly declare that it itself carried out the murder of Azem Hajdari.
Why is Meta hiding Pickering’s letter?
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Why is Meta hiding Pickering’s letter?
