Prime Minister Majko will meet President Clinton Shelton: Thank you! We really appreciate the invitation for our troops Prime Minister Majko will meet President Clinton MAJKO: WE WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS Shelton: Thank you! We really appreciate the invitation for our troops Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, Henri Shelton (REUTERS)

William Kohen, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Uesli Klark, Supreme Commander of NATO forces, visited KFOR forces in Kosovo yesterday. PAGES 3, 5

Minister of Public Order Poçi in Gjirokastër yesterday GJIROKASTËR- The Minister of Public Order, Spartak Poçi, was in Gjirokastër. To bring about a rapid change in the situation, the Minister stressed, the relevant structures need to be reorganized, and those who have failed to perform their duties or have become corrupt must be removed. PAGE 2

Personal oddities at the Tirana Directorate There is no water meter, no electricity meter, and no license from the tax office PAGE 2

LATEST NEWS TIRANA- Sources at the Ministry of Defense said yesterday evening that the much-discussed forces of Bujar Bukoshi began withdrawing yesterday from the positions where they had been concentrated. They also left their central command in Laprakë, Tirana. Under the agreement reached earlier, which has been followed to the letter, before moving, Bukoshi’s troops handed over their weapons or any Albanian authority. Ministry of Defense sources said that all the heavy weaponry had been handed over, including even the military police rockets of Tirana.

Two murders committed within one hour PAGE 2

"abc" After three months of NATO’s war against Serbia, a number of problems relating to developments in Albania have come to light, and our impression is this: the prosperity of our country is a determining factor in stability in the region. It is no coincidence that, in the plans being drawn up for the future Balkans, the international community’s aid to Albania is taking concrete shape day by day, beginning with the involvement of powerful financial institutions, the IMF and the World Bank, and with contributions from the USA, the European Union and Japan. This assistance also carries the democratic world’s confidence that this money will be used properly. Albania put everything at the disposal of victory in the war against Millosheviç, even its modest budget. In this context, Germany, regarded as Europe’s locomotive, has generously and forcefully extended the hand of friendship to little Albania, supporting it with concrete projects in a wide range of fields. Even an analysis of relations between the two countries over the past month shows the unprecedented scale of German aid to Albania. The Stability Pact for the Balkans, signed in Bonn with the participation of our foreign minister Milo, laid the first markers for postwar recovery throughout the region. But behind the word “stability” lie billions. This does not mean that in Bonn they have opened their purse and are saying: “Please, you Albanians and others, take as much as you want, whenever you want!” That is the most generous interpretation of the concept of aid, as opposed to the idea that there can be no peaceful Europe without a stable Balkans. Meanwhile, German aid to us is not determined by the fact that this country holds the EU’s rotating presidency. The concrete projects being drawn up in Bonn for Albania see our country no longer as isolated or marginalized, but as a center of intensive development for the whole region, with a special place for the corridors that will cross it. The recent visit to this friendly country by Prime Minister Majko served this purpose, followed by the visit of Meksi, Minister of Economic Cooperation and Trade, during which programs for water supply, roads and other infrastructure were specified, and most recently the visit of President Meidani, which represents the culmination of bilateral cooperation at every level. In these circumstances, does it make sense to say that the assistance coming to our country from the international community is supposedly spontaneous (!!).