After an interview with Prime Minister Meksi -The government has organized the archives… the State Security registers… -On what legal basis did Mr. Meksi act this way?!… Tampering with archives, falsification and manipulation of files are legally punishable offenses. The failure to approve the law on opening the files of collaborators of the State Security and of foreign intelligence services, a deliberate action by the Democratic Party, the government, its parliamentary group and President Berisha. Read on page 2

Mortality rate every year until 1991 was 5.7 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world. In 1994, however, although the population had decreased by 400–500 thousand as a result of emigration, deaths increased by 2,126. It is striking that 72% of this increase in mortality concerns the 20–35 age group. Mortality rate every year until 1991 was 5.7 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world. In 1994, however, although the population had decreased by 400–500 thousand as a result of emigration, deaths increased by 2,126. It is striking that 72% of this increase in mortality concerns the 20–35 age group. Read on page 5

Note of the day: A new anti-socialist campaign, led by the newspaper RD, has broken out in recent days. Two factors have caused this: presidential inspiration, the head of state’s new harsh tones toward the SP, and a meeting of the General Steering Council of this party, a meeting that is being insistently portrayed as the greatest split in this party. We must say that we will not give our political opponents that pleasure; they will remain, as before, disappointed, and their applause will be sterile. The Socialist Party, the largest opposition party, is full of health, full of unity and diversity of thought, giving the example of a political force that does not “cut off heads,” but grows stronger every day through constructive debate, structural reform, and bringing fresh blood into leadership. Not only in the party press in power, but also in the independent press, the ordinary regular meeting of the SP GSC is being presented in sensational terms. This does not increase the newspaper’s sales. After the meeting, facts speak for themselves. The Socialist Party will continue to make such changes in the future as well; someone will be promoted and someone else demoted, but everyone will feel part of the rise of an ideal union of comrades. Names are being circulated, and the situation is being presented as if some kind of harakiri had been carried out against several members of the SP Presidency, who were hastily presented as “reformers,” those who would turn the Socialist Party into a party of salons, a party that would sing praises of PD rule. In two respects this scheme of principle-less struggle, of the struggle waged against the socialists, does not correspond to the truth. First, do you gentlemen really believe that anyone can swallow these new fables of yours, as if reformers are being targeted in the SP, when our comrades who are not in the Party Presidency today, you have called them the sons of criminals? Do you really believe anyone will swallow these positions of yours when some of those party leaders who are not in the Presidency today have also experienced the prison of PD rule? Second, from the declared and primitive position regarding the place of parties in the political spectrum, it is demanded at all costs that in every force, and therefore also in the SP, two wings be manufactured: one supposedly conservative and the other supposedly reformist. Only people who have made conflict the second nature of government, who do not think of democracy as the bed of understanding, dialogue and consensus, can fall victim to these schemes inspired by monism. The Socialist Party has neither been nor is it divided into wings. Its founders do not represent lobbies, neither through internal nor external inspiration, nor from wealth-related or regional motives. Such criteria are foreign to socialists. That is why this scheme of forcibly dividing socialists into two parts will not work. The political opponents of the SP, who in their own meetings are incapable of holding a secret ballot because they fear upheavals, new splits, and the breaking of orders coming from the highest offices of the state, hurried to find “some flaws” in the highly generous meeting of the SP GSC, a meeting at which no vote of confidence was requested for chairman Fatos Nano. Those who devise such a thing know very well that the party chairman is elected by the congress and that only it grants or withholds its confidence. But the illegal imprisonment and revenge against Fatos Nano has meant that, besides being the party chairman, he has also become a symbolic issue in the political struggle and in the battle for the establishment of real democracy. He has now become such a symbol. The new noise in this regard that the anti-socialist gentlemen are making is deliberate, so that they can once again throw a stone against the SP and Fatos Nano, since they have not grown tired of deceiving people about the anti-democratic and criminal stance taken toward him. On this occasion we will again say to the authors of these dreams: Fatos Nano and the Socialist Party are one, therefore you will not enjoy the pleasure of seeing the SP without its lawful chairman. No matter how difficult the possibilities of communication between Fatos Nano and his party may be, in the conditions of isolation in Bencë of Tepelenë, they understand each other in every respect. The latest attack by the PD government, its press, and all those who follow the current authorities with malicious intentions to strike at the Socialist Party, “its alternative,” adds to the series of attacks that have never ceased against this party since its creation in June 1991. Part of this attack is also the position of the offices of the presidency, broadcast on every radio and television program. People no longer believe in these crude backstage maneuvers. The Socialist Party is strong, clear-headed, and capable of taking on the major responsibilities demanded by the situation.

Vlorë: Police violence continues to prevent public activities of the opposition Gramoz Ruçi: “The situation created today in Kotë is a dangerous precedent… The Kotë precedent sends Berisha the message to free the country from tension, to allow lawful activities and free competition among political forces. At the same time, the Kotë precedent is also a lesson for socialists in greater determination, courage, organization and balance in order to achieve the objective: Victory in the 1996 elections” Read on page 3

-Dylber Vrioni at a press conference Page 4

-Agron Musaraj at a press conference Page 6

Who is blocking the privatization of the "Rozafa" hotel in Shkodër By Decision No. 12 Act, dated 31.07.1995, the Constitutional Court annulled the decision of the Council of Ministers No. 275 dated 05.06.1995 on the privatization of the tourism hotel “Rozafa” in Shkodër. However, as the employees of this hotel write, someone in the government is trying to favor those who unjustly seek to steal the sweat of the workers. Page 4