News: "Gazeta 55", 7.5.1999,
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Does Thaci listen to what Nano says?
By Fahri Balliu
In a declaration for the Albanian media, Fatos Nano states that Albanians
can co-exist with the Serbians and then follows by mentioning a phrase for
the so-called democratic Balkans according to the Nano-Dimitrov model. Nano
thus, runs contrary to the option of the Kosova independence, against the
protectorate and even against the declarations made by the socialist-led
government. Now the question comes up: this Thaci who is fighting gun in
hand in the front, does he listen to what Nano states? Here a serious
question mark hangs on Thaci proper and for what he tries to represent,
because he and his group feel so close to Nano, not only now but even in
the past. While we say Nano, in the mind immediately occurs even Milo, who
is Nano's close follower. Then, when we say Nano-Milo sure, we come to the
Crete option about Kosova. After this fact, it is worth and normal
mentioning that the Crete meeting was held under the Russian-Greek
initiative. Meanwhile the declarations of Nano in Lisbon, in Crans-Montana
are known. They are a disgust for the liberation Kosova war, for the misery
and the tragedy of the Kosova Albanians. What about now? Does Thaci listen
and know what Nano talks about? It would be very serious that precisely
here stated the consolidation and the respect for the self-being and for
the nation.
Nano's declaration was that he himself is one of the soldiers of the
democratic front that will besiege Milosevic. This is not one of the
smoke-firing phrases to come out of the interview situation. Nano has not
cared a fig about the Kosova massacres in Recak, or Drenica, even now when
thousands of refugees in order to moderate his vocabulary in favor of
Kosova and the Kosovars.
He has always been the smoothest stance on Milosevic. Even Greece has not
managed to be so smooth as Nano to its old friend.
Thaci must listen to all this staff, otherwise he will be forced to
articulate the same phrases. But here is where the film gets cut.
The Koha Jone editor-in-chief dismissed for being pro-American
In the "Koha jone" issue of may 2, page 13, an article entitled Russian
lob , an article that honoured the paper and was written with a good
professional quality. The article was singed under a nick name, which left
the taste of an insecurity by the paper, or fear. Still in any case, the
nickname was the "Diplomaticus", a signature that has appeared even other
times in this known paper of the country that has treated delicate
political problems.
Sure, the article although it analysed an adviser to President Meidani for
his reports with the thesis of the Russian politics for the events of the
day, was not an easy attack for the president proper, to not say that this
adviser to mask aesthetically the very grave political attack against the
president proper. The actual president of Albania was silured neither more
or less like pro-Russian. The tittle of the article was very prestigious
and was deep in content. For the sake of the truth it must be said and
repeated by us that the electronic media or the printed Albanian press,
even the true papers, but also the renting persons that have filled in the
papers for gastric- sexological motives have not dared a little bit to
touch the Russian politics. The Russian lob, who has a powerful
inheritance, exactly say the Soviet lob, is not only with its
characteristic features. This is why its identification is difficult. This
is the reason that the members of this lobby, not rarely put on the
uniforms of the strategic and historic allies of Russia, let us say Serbia,
Greece and even the most sophisticated one that hold a French T-shirt,
which even France has forgotten about, which with the excellent policy of
Chirach has take France out of the traditional orbit of the Slav content in
a very modern and dignitary orbit from the viewpoint f morale and interest.
In any case, the article was a serious value because it was edited in a
paper that has on its back the bill of the time, of the complicated
Albanian pluralism. But, the editor-in-chief who dared edit this article
was dismissed. Thus on the basis of a simple syllogism, the Russian lobby
was attacked by a pro-American. The only contradiction that we do believe
exists in this theatre of disgust of interests, is the contradiction that
we are seeing in Kosova, where Russia has sided by Serbia and not by America.
Thus, Mr. Andi Bejtja is just wasted exactly like in the period when the
Harry Fultz technical school were condemned.
Clinton travels to Germany to boost Nato morale
President Clinton has been in Germany meeting US pilots taking part in the
Nato air strikes.
It is the first time the American president has visited Europe since the
start of Nato bombings in Kosova on March 24.
Clinton made some of his toughest statements yet about America's
determination to defeat the Serbs - including calling the situation in
Kosova "an affront to everything we stand for".
"We must stand in Kosova for the elemental principles of the common
humanity of every breathing, living person in this continent," he told the
massed military personal.
The visit, however, was overshadowed by the news that two crew members of
a US Apache helicopter were killed during a training exercise. "Today, we
grieve with their families and pray for them," Clinton said.
Surveying the airplane hangar overflowing with members of the armed forces
and their children, Clinton reiterated that the Nato mission in Kosova is
to defeat ethnic hatred and intolerance.
"I know this is hard. I know too many of these pilots are flying long hours
with too little rest. I know the stress and anxiety must be unbearable," he
said.
"But next time you are in a meeting of American service personnel, look
around at your differences, at your racial differences ... the differences
of religious faith and thank God that you live in a society that honors
that."
He thanked American personnel for having helped end the war in Bosnia.
"And I'm sorry you have to do it all over again," he said.
American armed forces are fighting to prevent world war in the future,
Clinton said. "If we don't want your successors to have to come to this
continent and fight another bitter war, then we must stand in Kosova for
the elemental principles of the common humanity of every breathing, living
person in this continent."
President Clinton will end his tour of Europe by visiting some of the
600,000 ethnic Albanian refugees as well.
Italy's D'Alema Hopeful After Meeting Rugova
Reuters
By Gideon Long
(Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema said Thursday he saw a
glimmer of hope for peace in the Balkans after meeting Kosova's moderate
ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova.
The two men met for an hour and 40 minutes over lunch at the prime minister's
offices in central Rome.
They then strolled to the vast ancient portico of the Roman pantheon and walked
the squares and narrow streets surrounding the lower house of the Italian
parliament, speaking in French.
``There is a glimmer of hope. We can do it. We are near,'' D'Alema told
reporters as they returned to his offices.
Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations meeting in Bonn said they
had
agreed to a strategy for resolving the Kosova crisis, but Germany said NATO
would not halt its air war yet.
``There is still a lot to be done before we can consider an interruption of the
bombing,'' German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told a news conference.
Rugova arrived in Rome Wednesday and D'Alema's office said he had traveled
with
the blessing of Belgrade authorities.
Rugova, D'Alema and Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini were due to hold a news
conference at a government institute on the banks of the River Tiber Thursday
after Dini had returned from the G8 meeting.
Rugova's family had been due to meet Greens Party politicians on the outskirts
of Rome at lunchtime to discuss the possibility of citizenship for Rugova, but
the meeting was canceled at the last minute.
In Belgrade, Ivica Dacic, spokesman for the Socialist Party of Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic, described Rugova's visit as ``the best
confirmation that he is a free man and that he has never been under a house
arrest.''
``He is a free man and a political flow will continue,'' Dacic told a regular
news conference, adding that, according to Italian official statements, Rugova
was seeking a political solution to the Balkan crisis.
``We will continue direct negotiations with Mr. Rugova in the presence of the
international community,'' Dacic said. ''They will be able to hear every word
that is said, but they won't be able to act as mediators.''
``We want to achieve the broadest possible autonomy for Kosova within Serbia.
We must, therefore, negotiate the composition of new institutions and local
police,'' he added.
Rugova, who led a decade-long campaign of passive resistance to Serbia's direct
rule of Kosova, had been said by NATO and members of his staff to have been
under effective house arrest.
Belgrade said he was under police protection due to tensions between him and
the separatist Kosova Liberation Army.
Rugova and his family stayed overnight in Palazzina Algardi, an elegant, faded
villa in a park in southwest Rome.
It was believed to be Rugova's first trip outside Yugoslavia since NATO began
air strikes against Yugoslav targets on March 24 to persuade Milosevic to cede
to Western demands to end repression in the southern Serbian province.
Hundreds of thousands of Rugova's ethnic kin have fled Kosova in the past few
weeks in what NATO has described as a clear policy by Belgrade to rid the
province of ethnic Albanians.
Gil.Bushati
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