High-level delegation of the Council of Europe calls for intensive debate in Tirana In recent months, Finsborg has seen the solution to the Albanian crisis as the easing of parliamentary elections after 14 months Representatives of the Socialist Party, Eirbom Ruha and Luan Hajdaraga, did not take part in the meeting that the delegation of the Council of Europe had planned yesterday afternoon with the parliamentary opposition parties. The Socialist Party continues to uphold its principled position of not recognizing Berisha’s legitimate Parliament Finsberg and Kolumberg, heads of the Council of Europe delegation

Page 5 The Albanian Helsinki Committee reacts to the vandalism of the frescoes in Voskopoje

PD does not guarantee free and fair elections At the PP meeting held on 26 August, it assessed the positive outcome of 26 May and decided to apply it also in the local elections of 20 October Page 8

The program of the PSSH clearly presents the directions of action and the PSSH up to the political resolutions until the elections. Dear comrades, In the 3 months of the PSSH program, political actions and PSSH elections until the resolutions Dear comrades, I will return to the committed collective effort and I am responsible for preserving the gradual rhetoric that we have and other reactions, especially these last two weeks. It is important to state that we must calmly prepare for the local elections, confronting with patience all the efforts being made to create confusion and public noise and, at the same time, strengthen unity with the PSSH and ensure that at 10:00 on 31 August 1996 at the headquarters of the PSSH an expanded meeting of the KPD of the PSSH will be held, in which all members of this committee and the chairmen of the KPD from each district will take part. It is necessary that at 12:30 on 31 August 1996 at the headquarters of the PSSH the initiators and sympathizers of the PSSH be invited to gather in the press office. The full clarification and the 12th decision of the PSSH to hold the meeting of the KPD and all political structures included within the framework of the activity of the PSSH up to the elections of 20 October Page 6

Corruption tied to the PBD Page 4

Page 3 Representatives of the Socialist Party, Erbon Ruha and Luan Hajdaraga, did not take part in the meeting that the delegation of the Council of Europe had planned yesterday afternoon with the parliamentary opposition parties. The Socialist Party continues to uphold its principled position of not recognizing Berisha’s Parliament