Socialist leader Nano and Prime Minister Meta discuss change with the Euro-socialists • Nano and Meta stroll along the Vlora-Skelë waterfront boulevard, greeted by hundreds of people Socialist leader Nano and Prime Minister Meta discuss change with the Euro-socialists • Nano and Meta stroll in the evening along the Vlora-Skelë boulevard, greeted by hundreds of people Socialist leader Nano and Prime Minister Meta are accompanied by European representatives at the meeting with the Euro-socialists on change. • Nano to the Euro-socialists: Berisha can come to Vlora, let him talk exactly about your services, start, and show the safe where he stole last year. • Meta to the Euro-socialists: I am dissatisfied with the pace of change that has been adopted by the government, not only by one group of politicians or MPs, but by everyone together, and by you Prime Minister Meta, who yesterday worked with representatives of the Council of Europe; ra monitorët, Euro-MPs and local ones, businesspeople and socialists clearly with the prime minister's administrative opposition, at the meeting with the Euro-socialists, hundreds of people inside and outside the hall PAGE 3

The Prime Minister Meta, yesterday was presented in Korçë; ra monitorët local, businesspeople and socialists clearly with the prime minister's administrative opposition, at the meeting with the socialists, hundreds of people inside and outside the hall. Meta: The state will show bandits and bandit politicians, who go into delinquency with one another, their place • The Prime Minister takes part in the start of works on schools, water supply systems and roads in the city of Korçë The rulers of yesterday stole 57 million dollars from the "Gjallica" pyramid scheme 57 million USD disappeared between 20 November and 27 December 1999, an amount that was transferred to bank accounts, jobs and investments by three people. [...] PAGE 8 INSIDE AS WELL Soros is expecting Angjeli. Will he organize a donors' conference in Skopje?! Absurdity: The police are no longer the 'mother party's devil' but the devil of the opposition... Interministerial commission for solving the problems of the persecuted ...... 10 USA / 1 million dollars now for the Elbasan sanatorium

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The news about the special forces and the carrying of weapons in the capital during the period of PD rule Hundreds in prison before the Tirana career Accused of serious gains The deputy chairmen of the PD are arrested Lushnje and Fier PDS and Revenues Thousands of pensions in property In 37 convicted cases, the court orders indefinite prison for 4 Charges of serious gains

English and Italian rendering of extracted text ENGLISH: ZËRI I POPULLIT FRIDAY, 21 APRIL 2000 PPSH NEWSPAPER - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: ERION BRAÇE No. 17204 • 30 lekë Nano and Meta in Vlora, with the Euro-socialists for the pace of change. Socialist leader Nano and Prime Minister Meta discuss change with the Euro-socialists. Nano and Meta walk in the Vlora-Skelë boulevard and are greeted by hundreds of people. Meta: The state will show bandits and bandit politicians their place, those who go into delinquency with one another. The Prime Minister takes part in the start of works on schools, water supply systems and roads in the city of Korça. Yesterday’s rulers stole 57 million dollars from the pyramid scheme “Gjallica”. ISSUE OF THE DAY: Change. SIGMA joint-stock company, the first private insurance company. ITALIANO: ZËRI I POPULLIT VENERDÌ, 21 APRILE 2000 GIORNALE DEL PPSH - DIRETTORE: ERION BRAÇE N. 17204 • 30 lekë Nano e Meta a Valona, con gli eurosocialisti per i ritmi del cambiamento. Il leader socialista Nano e il primo ministro Meta discutono il cambiamento con gli eurosocialisti. Nano e Meta passeggiano sul lungomare Vlorë-Skelë e vengono salutati da centinaia di persone. Meta: Lo Stato metterà al loro posto i banditi e i politici-banditi, che entrano in delinquenza gli uni con gli altri. Il primo ministro partecipa all’avvio dei lavori per scuole, acquedotti e strade nella città di Corizza. I governanti di ieri hanno rubato 57 milioni di dollari dalla piramide “Gjallica”. QUESTIONE DEL GIORNO: Cambiamento. SIGMA società per azioni, la prima compagnia privata di assicurazioni.

A few days ago the Albanian media published news that Socialist leader Fatos Nano was going to the Netherlands for good from the private track of Fali to...? [? Meanwhile, in the QV-Ç, Albania was in a firing range and the car combine was used as a training ground for government cleanups with NGOs, some of them advisors to Berisha. Where did it stop? None of this has ever been written by the government; it has never meant that Albania should be governed with devilry and not with the people! Mr. Nano's own interest in consolidating the Albanian NGOs, especially the teachers of the English language, clearly speaks of a closeness to the developments of democracy and of society, as well as of an emancipation of his relations as a social democrat or as part of the Albanian left. To understand the mention of the 'concept' of change is not easy for closed minds, but this much can be said: in the logic of development, nothing matters except the inclusion of a large part of society and of all politics in it. This is why the fund for NGOs weakly undermines the organizations; the fund for NGOs is linked to the concepts of individual freedom, participation and the rule of law in order to better understand change. For the end of communism in Albania, from the one that had reduced life to living and state nature and turned it into a political barricade, this speaks of a new opening in the country's relations and way of governing. We are convinced that the new government led by Ilir Meta, through its work, is showing a new way of working and governing. Kali Aliu [?], USA [?] After all, following Wednesday's statement on overcoming the challenge of the bandits and bandit politicians, this government gave Albanians a strong signal that it will not be hostage to the permanent threats to the state and public order; but will stand by the side of people and the law.

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