23/02/1999
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Zëri i Popullit

23 February 1999

IMF: OUR EXPERTS IN TIRANA

ZËRIPOPULLIT business The income tax law; Angjeli seeks help with its implementation IMF: OUR EXPERTS IN TIRANA To ensure the best possible implementation of the income tax law, while taking into account suggestions from the business community, Finance Minister Anastas Angjeli has asked the IMF Mission in Tirana to send its experts to Albania to provide the necessary guidance on understanding and implementing it. Recently, various difficulties have been encountered and suggestions have been made by the business community; these are being taken into consideration and incorporated into the secondary legislation currently being prepared. Mr. Angjeli made the request several days ago, and yesterday the International Monetary Fund Mission in Tirana replied that it had been taken into consideration and that, at the end of this week, the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department would send its experts to Tirana for this purpose.

THE MASSACRE IS IMMINENT

Serbs will kill 200,000 Albanians The Serbs are preparing a major massacre against the Albanians. The objective is to slaughter more than 200,000 Albanians in Kosovo. Yesterday at midday, Serbian forces continued closing and mining the border with Macedonia. At the same time, they completed the mining of the border with Albania along its most passable stretch. Yesterday, this closure was accompanied by “Number 1” alert readiness among all 35,000 soldiers and 17,000 special police officers, tasked with guarding these borders against an incursion by NATO forces. The Serbs are insisting that the Albanians refuse to sign the Agreement negotiated in Rambouillet, in order to make them jointly responsible. Serbs plant mines along the border with Albania and Macedonia

DIARY

Durrës, earthquake at the water utility 400,000 residents of Vorë, Kavajë and Durrës without water PAGE 6

102 kg of cannabis seized

POGRADEC: At midday on Sunday, near the Ministry of Public Order checkpoints and close to the “Guri i Kuq” Mine, 102 kg of cannabis coming from Myzeqeja were seized. The shipment was accompanied by six young men from Lushnja and one from Korça. PAGE 13

Flag Square, rally for Kosovo

PAGE 7 FRUTË TË KOSOVA E LIRË

Two dead in parking lot

SHKODËR – Two people were found dead yesterday at 6:30 in the morning in a parking lot in the “Perash” neighborhood. One of them was the parking attendant, while the other was a person wearing a mask. According to the police, they are believed to have killed each other. PAGE 14

Gramsh: this is how disarmament is being carried out

Gramsh Police Commissioner Sinan Metaj speaks PAGE 8

The smuggling boats lie dormant at the prosecutor’s office

SMUGGLING CASE FILES, NONE HAVE BEEN TRIED PAGE 8

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