ATA News from Albania, 96-09-08

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CONTENTS

[01] SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ATTEND 20th CONGRESS OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL

[02] TIRANA DP DIVISION HOLDS SESSION

[03] FEED THE CHILDREN ASSOCIATION HELPS SCHOOLS

[04] 80 PER CENT OF COUPLES MARRIED FOR LOVE

[05] PRESS REVIEW

[01] SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ATTEND 20th CONGRESS OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL

It is expected that this party becomes a full member of the Socialist International. To secure the membership the SDP should meet some conditions which the above sources do not want to comment whether this party meet them.

Pietro Fassino, leader of Italian Social Democrats said to the Democratic party leader Tritan Shehu in a meeting recently that he had "advised Gjinushi that his party should try to achieve alliance with real democratic forces in Albania," excluding former communists.

The Albanian Social Democrat Youth has been accepted as full member of the Youth Socialist International. jz/ak/sh/

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[02] TIRANA DP DIVISION HOLDS SESSION

According to the DP sources, the campaign will be organised so that the role of deputies should be greater in local levels and divisions. They will closely follow the campaign in the communes included in their electoral zones.

The DP is expected to change 85 per cent of its local government representatives with 25 per cent women and many young people.

Shehu considered the DP the most consolidated, expanded political forces, the force of the present and the future while the Red Front the regressive opponent in deep crisis.

Analysing the latest developments in the Socialist party (SP), the fight which prevails within this party since '95, Shehu said that "at present the Socialists do not believe in each other and even work to each other detriment."

He added: "The SP is still in the phase of recognising itself, in the phase of criticism within the party which is related with the fight of clans and groupings and a few attempts for reformation," which Shehu said "it will take too long considering the possibilities of this party to be reformed."

Shehu also focused on the latest congress of the SP which elected former senior officials of Ramiz Alia's government in its high-level party forums.

"The SP remain a party of Stalinist methods with non-renovated people at the head which consolidates the totalitarian methods in governing," Shehu said.

Regarding the SP foreign policy, its relations with the European left- wing, and saying that "the Socialists remain the most conservative and isolated force in Europe," Shehu underlined the fact that "neither their congress nor those who were elected did not receive any greetings from any party or international political structures." jz/ksh/ak/sh/

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[03] FEED THE CHILDREN ASSOCIATION HELPS SCHOOLS

It helped repair 11 schools mainly in villages and equipped others with necessary materials during this year.

The district Educational Directorate is carrying out a special plan to improve the technical conditions of the school buildings and it is establishing cooperation with different non-government organisations. am/jz/ak/sh/

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[04] 80 PER CENT OF COUPLES MARRIED FOR LOVE

"80 per cent of those are young and are married for love though the number of weddings is 20 per cent less," Abdyl Xhaja the chief of the civil office at the Tirana Municipality said.

"Some 2050 weddings were registered last year during the same season because most of the Albanian young women married foreigners," Xhaja said. jz/ak/sh/

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[05] PRESS REVIEW

"Crime defeats state" is the title of the article carried in the first page by Zeri i Popullit. The paper carries a chronicle of the meetings of Socialists leaders with the SP Steering Committees in districts of Lezha and Kruja. It also carries an information on the visit of a delegation of the Social Democratic party in the United States entitled "U.S.: Consequent in their demands for a solution to the political crisis in Albania."

Republika reports that the Republican leader Sabri Godo in a meeting with journalists urged the government to take tight measures against crime such as a nation-wide control for arm possession.

Lajmi i Dites carries the text of a press release of the Albanian Foreign Ministry entitled "Rights of Albanians in Macedonia be respected," rejecting the claims of Skopje that Albania is interfering in the domestic affairs of Macedonia.

This text has also been published by the daily Tribuna under the title "Good neighbourliness is a contribution to stability in the region."

Albania commemorates 100 anniversary of Albania magazine. This paper carries an article saying that the SP jailed leader Fatos Nano is denouncing Kastriot Islami as an unprincipled politicians and a deviant of the new party line.

Koha Jone reports that the Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos has not said that the parliamentary elections on May 26 in Albania have been fair. The same paper informs that the SP deputy chairman Servet Pellumbi who resigned in the second party Congress will not accept the title "Honourable member of the SP in his quarter.

Poli i Qendres informs that a delegation of the Social Democratic party (SDP) including the party leader Skender Gjinushi, deputy leader Paskal Milo and Foreign Secretary Pavli Zeri left for New York to attend the proceedings of the Socialist International Congress, whose member, according to the newspaper, the SDP is.

"Gazeta Shqiptare informs that polio disease is becoming dangerous stressing that five new cases have been registered in the infective hospital in Tirana in the last four days. ksh/ak/ From the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) Home Page at http://www.telpress.it/ata

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