NO ONE SHOULD COMPLAIN ABOUT INHERITED FAILINGS...

Important government meeting. Prime Minister Fatos Nano drew the cabinet members’ attention to the matter “From now on, the failings are ours alone; they are the result of each of our irresponsibility, incompetence, or lack of purpose and method.” PAGE 2

Many things have evolved for the better

Britain’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Tony Lloyd, in Tirana Lloyd condemns the DP’s boycott of the Albanian parliament and welcomes the assistance provided by the European Troika to engage this party in the country’s legitimate processes. Kosovo is not an internal matter of Serbia German Foreign Minister Kinkel in Tirana tomorrow Germany calls for the stabilization and normalization of the situation in Albania PAGE 3

POISONOUS SUBSTANCES TO DROWN VLORA

One year after the protests began that brought down the gangsters Officers testify: 600 kg of chemical warfare agents were transported to Vlora on the morning of February 10 Everything was done under the full supervision of Berisha and former Interior Minister Halit Shamata. General Agim Shehu was at the head of the criminal operation PAGES 4–5 From the first day of the protests in Vlora, 5 February 1997 (Photo: ROJTER)

SPECULATIONS WITH NO BASIS WHATSOEVER

Socialists in Vlora react sharply to speculative articles published in several newspapers of the [?] PAGE 7

Defence Minister Sabit Brokaj in Shkodër

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THE UN’S PRESENCE IN ALBANIA HAS NOT BEEN REQUESTED

...but an increase in the UN’s influence to reduce tensions in Kosovo President Meidani’s press office clarifies PAGE 3