The Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano after returning from Rome: there will be integration programs for all Albanians Yesterday at Rinas, Prime Minister Nano and Deputy Prime Minister Fino

Nano: We do not consider travel as a way to create jobs "The June 29 elections resolved the two sides of the voting harmoniously, while the international community is truly ready to help us get back on our feet." These are the words of Socialist Prime Minister Fatos Nano, spoken after he arrived late yesterday in Rinas to answer journalists’ questions. “These are the words of Socialist Prime Minister Fatos Nano, spoken after he arrived late yesterday in Rinas to answer journalists’ questions.” Regarding the trip to Rome and the meetings the Prime Minister had with the heads of the Italian government, Nano, and regarding the meeting he had with representatives of the population living in Italy, the Prime Minister said: “The Rome Conference, while also wanting the representatives of our community, hundreds of people, planned in advance and in fact meant to take place after the elections of June 29, to renew or not that meeting at the party headquarters, created by the current crisis in these 5-6 months, which postponed the conference for technically scheduled factors; thus we have rescheduled it for July 25”. "Coming from centers of citizens, but we are doing politics, including through the Italian governments, to find organized forms, because governments prefer institutional roads and forms in their means to help Albania and not otherwise. They are also welcome to help with small things and with other human and professional energies." "As for the reflective and calm way to create jobs, because of emigration, we would not consider building counters. These are forms of employment in Albania, which we consider and open as counters, because counters are opened for us. There are programs, but jobs." (Read on pages 2-3)

The Press and Information Office at the Council of Ministers announces that yesterday a meeting was held between the country’s Prime Minister and chairman of the Socialist Party, Fatos Nano, and representatives of the OSCE and foreign monitors in Albania. During this meeting it was agreed that in the 4 districts monitored with international observers on August 10, 1997, taking into account the calm in the country, which is one of the necessary conditions for the smooth conduct of free and peaceful elections, it was agreed with the international partners that this Sunday’s elections should be closed, in electoral areas No. 41 and No. 22, by the authority of the CEC and that the elections should be monitored without problems by the commission. In one of them, area No. 41, the postponement of the elections was made at the request of a group of residents from the 20th neighborhood, who asked that the elections be postponed because of the tension and the weapons in the hands of individuals. In the other, area No. 22, it was a request from the area’s citizens and their representatives. (Continues on page 9)

The President of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, in a telegram addressed to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Bashkim Fino, on the occasion of the office of Speaker of Parliament and Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, writes, among other things: Dr. Rugova, after congratulating on the formation of the new government in Albania, expressed his conviction that through its activity Albania will play an important role in the country’s democratic process, as well as in relations with Kosovo and other neighboring states. "Relations among Albanians and more broadly, especially with the democratic forces in Albania in connection with the solution to the problem of Kosovo and the Albanian people, remain in the future a basis for the prospect of stability in the region and further development," the message says. The Prime Minister

The Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano, as it is learned, has insisted on increasing public investment, law and order, in order to invigorate all economic capacities in our country. What attracted the journalists’ interest most, however, was the question of what government plan and strategy the government has built to overcome “this wave of unemployment” created after the 1997 unrest and mass emigration. The government’s answer was direct: “Our governing experience and these experiences of the European governments lead us to believe that the government’s priority is, through this unprecedented budget proposal, to give preference to public investments for the construction of infrastructure in the country. As a result, the creation of jobs for thousands and thousands of Albanians.” Nano, Minister of Defense of the “Fino” government, Avni Mula, Minister of Interior, Mevlan Shanaj, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Arben Malaj, Minister of Finance and Privatization, Arjan Starova, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Arta Dade, Minister of Culture, Rexhep Meidani, Minister of Education and Science, Ylli Bufi, Minister without Portfolio, Sabit Brokaj, Minister of Health [?], Anastas Angjeli, Minister of Economy, etc. (Continues on page 2)