The Tuesday incident does not affect relations between the PD and UNMIK on page 3

By Saimir Pëposhi Today, everyone agrees that the country is in such a condition. Parliament, as President of the Republic Rexhep Meidani has made clear, has turned into a meaningless theatre. The basic criterion for selecting senior administrative posts, from the highest level to the lowest, for employment is militancy. And under these conditions in Kosovo, at least from next March, the building and consolidation of a new state will begin. The structure of power is moving toward completion and the existing ones will continue with governmental functions. Born after a bloody war, but with many chances for a real and functioning state and with an administration according to the models of Western countries, here in Albania there is still talk with suspicion about the role of the Prosecution, that it has served not for the coup d’état, but for organized crime and narcotics trafficking, and it is presented as the model of a dangerous pseudo-state, or it appears as decoration for a power for which now no distinction can be made any longer between crime and government. However much such demoralizing and unjustified tones, strengthened by Fatos Nano’s liberalism and that of his predecessors toward crime, banditry and corruption, may prevail, the healthy part of society and politics must understand that our country is in the greatest degradation it has ever suffered. on page 5

The special adviser from the State Department arrives in Tirana for the elections Frovik: Elections should be free on page 2

Leaders of the opposition parties condemn Bernard Kouchner’s absurd decision Selo: There is no change in the decision. Ulu? insistence for the minimum and devaluation-? right to the lobbies? propose to Tirana offic-? - on page 5

The PD chairman, invited to the congress of Chirac’s party on page 3

on page 7 KESH and Albpetrol, from corporation to workshop[?] on page 11 Here are the routes followed by the PROSECUTION on page 10

* Turkey and Sweden, a draw with no value * Netherlands: class, not luck against the Danes * France against the Czech Republic, “a test of fire” * Keegan - Ribbeck, the same dilemma * Nedved: “We will beat France” special on pages 8-9