OSCE spokesperson speaks At the initiative of the OSCE embassy, a seminar on the fight against corruption was organized yesterday in Tirana. Representatives of the government, parliament, political parties, the press and non-governmental organizations came together at a round tab
OSCE spokesman threatened with death The OSCE is removing its spokesman Xhovani Porta from Tirana today after a series of death threats, diplomatic sources say. Meanwhile, the next OSCE rotation On page 6
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Members of parliament, senior Socialist officials and former ambassadors of the communist dictatorship, implicated in an international tax scam Brano, the shield of tobacco traffickers on page 4
Yesterday, a delegation of the European Community arrived in our country, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Xhovani Toriçeli[?]. During its stay in Albania, the delegation will hold talks with representatives of Albanian institutions concerning the expans
FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY Midland: “Urgent declaration of judges’ assets” MINISTER OF JUSTICE XHOVANI RONDONO: The Court of Cassation has destroyed the files
Deputy Sadik Bejko, in an effort to make public and transparent the way the public media is being used, requested the holding of a question session with the director of RTV. According to him, television and radio should serve all political forces and citizens, not only one partic
With the help of social democratic delegates and delegations from other countries, on 15 and 16 February MP Rixh Xhovani of the PS and MP Fatos Nano of the PSSH held a series of meetings and discussions at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Parliament and the Mini
Today’s Opinion 32 years ago, on 23 May 1992, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra would kill Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, as well as bodyguards Vito Schifani... Continued on page 18
Opinion of the Day 32 years ago, on 23 May 1992, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra would kill Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, as well as the bodyguard Vito Schifani... Continues on page 18
Italian judicial authorities request information Only a few days after the Albanian justice decision over the 400,000-dollar scandal of “ZP”, another scandal involves the PS company “Progresi”. According to the newspaper “Albania”, this time it is the Italian judicial authorities
Sympathy and support from the European Parliament In the meeting he had yesterday with the Member of the European Parliament Giovanni e Sidoti regarding PS relations with ultracommunist parties with new names, Stalinist names, and with the Italian social democrats, the chairman
Porta: “Very serious investments” Yesterday afternoon, the head of press of the OSCE Office in Albania, Mr. Xhovani Porta, visited the media building of “Koha Jonë” and the investments of “Media ’99”, next to which the radio television “Koha Jonë” was also located. He was accomp
In the anti-government madness of the last days of the previous year, a smartly dressed man, accompanied by several other officials, was walking from the General Prosecutor’s Office of Albania to the Hotel “Tirana”. It was Pjer Luixhi Vinja, the Italian Anti-Mafia prosecutor. The