Meetings with the Socialist Party, PSD, PAD, PBDNJ, PD PSE Secretary-General Zhan Fransua Vallin requests a meeting with political prisoner Fatos Nano in Bënça prison From 21 to 25 January, a mission of the Party of European Socialists in Albania Zhan Fransua Vallin, Secretary-General of the PSE, Akile Oketo, Vice President of the PSE, MEP Aksel Anderson, PSD MP from Sweden, Fridrih Roll, PSE coordinator, Janis Rubatis, Vice President of the PSE group in the European Parliament, MEP, are the highest-ranking representatives of the Party of European Socialists, who from Monday to Friday of next week will come and stay in Albania Read on page 3 Party of European SOCIALISTS Zhan Fransua Vallin

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The former deputy commissar of the partisan battalion “Hakmarrja,” Hasan Selenica, is treacherously killed Page 6

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Arben Imami, Paskal Milo, and Sabri Godo, speak on the election law Page 4

- Prime Minister J. Major embarrassed before his own Conservatives! - "The less serious side of relations between the Queen, Britain and Albania includes a considerable number of gifts that President Sali Berisha presented when he was on an official visit to England in 1994. On that occasion, Prime Minister John Major was given an antique pistol, while Douglas Hurd was given a ceremonial sword with a handle set with precious stones. Baroness Linda Calker received a heavy silver necklace, while the Queen was given an antique silver box. The fact that all the gifts that were made were instruments of death was discussed within Major’s Conservative Party, and he found himself in an awkward position over this matter. What could be seen in the baroness’s newspaper looks more like a precious gift with medieval historical value than a necklace. According to a director of the Albanian National Museum, all these gifts had been taken from this museum. For various reasons, this news has been considered by the Albanian president to be important, which means that the gifts and the fact that they were taken from museums is another matter. Albanians will not have this kind of information, and for this reason this news is important and will leave no doubt[?]" Pages 3-4 Messages from an Albanian highlander to the aristocrats: pistol, sword...! The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the European Secret Services police investigate “Shqiponja,” drugs, arms trafficking, and fuel smuggling

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NOW ALSO IN THE MORNING FROM TIRANA. WITH TRAINS FROM BARI, BY THE AFTER- NOON YOU ARE EVERYWHERE IN ITALY. THE WHOLE JOURNEY BY PLANE AND TRAIN ROUND TRIP ABOUT 299,000 LIRETAS. TEL. & FAX: 273 06