Albright, message to Meta: I admire the progress you and your team have made in just a few months in office • Albright supports Meta on the concrete steps taken to adapt the emergency state: public order and growing respect for the law. • The path of reforms is the best way to achieve our shared goals: Albania’s progress and its integration into European and transatlantic institutions. DURRËS- During the meeting, the US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, praised the positive steps taken by the Albanian government to improve public order, restore calm and ensure respect for the law, giving full backing to the government’s initiatives in the fight against organized crime and trafficking. Likewise, in the conversation with the Albanian Prime Minister, Ilir Meta, Albright also expressed her full appreciation for the continuation of reforms, which at the same time constitute the best path toward achieving the shared goals of Albania and the United States, for the country’s swiftest possible integration into European and transatlantic institutions. DURRËS- During the meeting, the US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, thanked Prime Minister Meta for Albania’s role in the region, for the contribution and assistance it gives to the action and resolution of the crisis in Tropojë, for the continuation of reforms in the fight against trafficking and organized crime, as well as for efforts to achieve lasting solutions to the Kosovo crisis. TROPOJË- The special government force that had been concentrated for months to maintain order and unblock traffic on the road in the northern city of the country had gathered yesterday at the police station together with armed groups. As a result of their protest they stopped yesterday in Vigil of Korni and forced the prime minister to shorten the meeting with students and weapons. In one move yesterday their actions to

Series of killings DURRËS- During the evening, in the mysterious beach area of Durrës with unidentified people in the last neighborhood, a boy aged years was killed last night in cold blood. The crimes were seen at Trane. PAGE 4

The police continue the operation to collect weapons / Yesterday in Vlorë a branch of Berisha DURRËS- Yesterday in the village of “Saxalli” in a stationed polyclinic and with the means of the border police of the southern part of Saranda and the Konispol area, groups from the police and the Ministry of Public Order continued yesterday the operation of surrendering weapons and ammunition left over from the 1997 unrest by the population. TROPOJË- Special police units supported by RENEA units searched houses in the villages of Tropojë and seized weapons of various types, grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons, mortars, heavy machine guns and a considerable quantity of weapons. It was announced that by yesterday 26,500 bullets, 198 anti-aircraft rounds, 800 anti-tank grenades, two rocket launchers, 50 automatic rifles, 76 pistols, 10 mines, 14 anti-tank weapons, 18 anti-tank weapons, 5 machine guns, 12 thousand combat bullets, 540 detonators, 25 boxes of primers and a considerable quantity of weapons were surrendered under amnesty. It was announced that the weapons were handed over by Sulejmen Zeqiri Berisha, the doctor’s uncle, and from the villages of these areas.

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TIRANË- There are around 1,500 people in Albania who are monitored by the Albanian police and foreign police jointly in organized activities, focusing on suspected groups. In cooperation with the institutions, and with the interested authorities, the arrest and deportation of persons with a criminal past in the country has been carried out. (Sakali) and Vizitor Krenaj (Sakali) and Kastrati of Albania. Persons wanted

EU Prime Minister Prodi, President Guterres, Meksi at EIB The bank will provide important funding

Italian-Albanian Kosovars Italy: 97-99 791 Italian-Albanian good PAGE 8

"SIGMA" sh.a The first private insurance company Based in, Rr. “A. Toptani”, behind former hotel “Wilson” Tirana, Albania Tel. 355 42 58254, Fax. 355 42 58253 NATIONAL TELE-BINGO 19 March 2000 BINGO STAR 100 MIL. BINGO from 10 thousand 1 STAR - BINGO with 1.5 million 1 MAGIC BINGO with 500 thousand Mystery 500 Lekë SCRATCH AND WIN Mullomeni [?] KUP milicius with lotto veram 50 Lekë PAGE 3