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Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 98-06-29Albanian Telegraphic Agency Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) Home Page at <http://www.telpress.it/ata>Albanian Telegraphic AgencyCONTENTS
[01] Fighting erupted near Bardhi i MadhPRISHTINE, June 28 - ATA correspondent Behlul Jashari reported that exchange of fire occurred on Sunday near Bardhi i Madh, 10 km west of Prishtina.The village defensive forces responded to the fire of the large forces of the Yugoslav army, which are deployed with more than 110 tanks and other war machine near the areas controlled by the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) in communes Fushe Kosove and Obiliq, including the coal mine in Bellaqefc. There are no reports on casualties. Shootings have been audible during the night in Palaj, Obiliq commune. fh/das/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[02] Yugoslav army pound Bardh (Bellaqefc) villagePRISHTINE, June 28 - ATA correspondent Behlul Jashari said that the Yugoslav forces shelled with heavy artillery the village Bardh i Madh some 10 km west of Prishtina.The Serb forces and the Albanian resistance forces were engaged in a shoot-out on Sunday. The fighting continued until late at night. fh/das/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[03] Four Albanians killed in DeçanPRISHTINE, June 28 - ATA correspondent Behlul Jashari reported that there are no reports on casualties in the commune of Deçan as the Albanian villages are under tight control.The Committee of the Kosova Democratic League division in Deçan informed on Sunday the names of four Albanians killed. They are Halit Z. Tolaj, 80, Murat Z. Tolaj, 75, Mustaf Z. Tolaj, 70, and Zize Tolaj, 75, the wife of Halit Tolaj. The report does not say when and where they have been killed. fh/das/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[04] Kosova negotiators: KLA to act as directed by Kosova government and institutionsPRISHTINE, June 28 /ATA correspondent Behlul Jashari, The negotiating group of President of the Republic of Kosova Ibrahim Rugova, after today's meeting to discuss the situation in Kosova, issued the following statement: Worried about fresh tensions and escalation of war and conflict's extension, also considering the requests of the international community, especially the engagement of the U.S. diplomacy, the negotiating group deems necessary to make public the following conclusion:1.The group supports efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kosova issue and intensify these efforts. 2.The group suggests to undertake all what is necessary to reach a fundamental consensus among all parties and other political subjects, based on the right to self-determination and demand for Kosova Independent Republic, to coordinate acts to peaceful realise this goal. 3.The group stresses the indispensability of constituting the Parliament of the Republic of Kosova, electing the government and founding the leading institutions and bodies. The group holds that, for fruitful efforts for a peaceful solution to the Kosova issue, it is indispensable that the Kosova Liberation Army (UÇK) act as directed by the government and respective institutions of the Kosova republic. The group hopes that actions in this direction will be quick, coordinated and efficient, the statement signed by the group's coordinator Dr. Fehmi Agani, says. /fh/das/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[05] Parliament agrees to interpellation with Premier NanoTIRANA, June 29 (ATA)-By P. Shuteriqi, Albanian parliament on Monday agreed to calling Prime Minister Nano to an interpellation to provide explanation about his meetings in the International Forum in Crans Montana of Switzerland.Today's parliament, for nearly an hour, discussed a two-week programme of the parliamentary performance. Parliamentary speaker Skender Gjinushi announced that from June 29 to July 30 the parliament will debate about 16 draft-laws and hold several plenary sessions with members of the government cabinet on emergency issues requested by several deputies. DP deputy Pjeter Arbnori asked that the parliament's agenda also include an interpellation with Prime Minister Nano on the visit and talks he conducted with senior representatives of international political and economic life during his stay in the Swiss Confederation. This request, said Gjinushi, "has been made in written also by the Republican deputy, Sabri Godo, and will be realised soon after talking with the Prime Minister." /s.s/das/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[06] Albanian police detain Egyptians falsifying documentsTIRANA, June 29 (ATA) - By Th. Thanasi: Two Egyptian nationals, temporarily residents of Tirana, were arrested on Sunday by police under the charge of cheating through falsified documents for embezzlement reasons.A spokesman of the Ministry of Public Order said to ATA on Monday that the forces of the economic and financial crime section close to the ministry had detained Maget Mustafa and Muhamed Houda, who have systematically falsified different documents. Moustafa, 36, and Houda, 39, are members of the "Revival of the Islamic heritage" association operating in Albania. Both have, for a long time, falsified documents of state and consular institutions. Police found seals of the Public Order police Department, of the visa office, of Rinas airport check-in, college of lawyers, and others. They also found an automatic rifle, a rifle and 60 cartridges in their apartment. Fadil Canaj, the director of the Tirana Police directorate told a news conference recently that "foreign citizens in Tirana are suspected of being implicated in criminal activities." A person with irregular papers who presented himself as a French citizen and belonging to a religious Muslim sect, shot and killed with automatic rifles a month ago a 20 year-old Albanian student in the capital of Tirana. Entry procedures to Albania had been earlier facilitated, but last month seven foreign nationals have been banned to enter Albania for not having regular papers. s.sh/das/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[07] "Human Rights doctors" report on human rights' violation in KosovaPRISHTINE, June 29 (ATA)-The Boston-based U.S.organisation "Human Rights Doctors" recently published a report on the violation of human rights in Kosova which is based on interviews with 38 men folk from Kosova who have been expelled to Albania, the Information Centre of Kosova (ICK) reports.The report says that the armed intervention of Serbian forces, the systematic destruction and ethnic cleansing of the villages in Decan and Gjakova have killed many civilian inhabitants. The interviewed refugees from Kosova say that they have been witnesses to 60 killings by Serbian forces over the last weeks. The report quotes cases such as the killing of a person heading a funeral procession, of a young mother by a Serbian sniper, the burning of two women in their own homes, when the Serbian forces entered the village, the killing of three others by snipers in their attempt to escape the Serbian artillery shelling and other cases. The report also makes evident numerous cases of beatings and maltreatments. According to the interviewed, police in groups beat the detained until they were unable to walk. The organisation expresses concern that the Gjakova city, whose population from 80 000 has mounted to 150 000 may become another target of Serbian assaults. An attack on Gjakova would make 50 000-100 000 other Albanians from Kosova to cross into Kukes and Krume, North of Albania, which would require the setting up of big refugee camps that would serve as supply bases for the Kosova Liberation Army (UÇK). This would expose these regions to Yugoslav charges that they serve as guerrilla bases against the Yugoslav territory. The mounting tensions along the border between Yugoslavia and Albania might bring about bombardments by Yugoslav forces of the camps in Kukes. This would involve Albania in a direct war with Yugoslavia, thus creating conditions for a wider Balkan conflict. /p.ta/das/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[08] Alliance for State and Union for Democracy share between them the municipalities of Vore and ShijakTIRANE, June 29 (ata) - By K Shehu: The candidate of the grouping Alliance for State has won 57.46 per cent of the votes in the municipality of Vore, while in that of Shijak, the candidate of the Union for Democracy has won with 55.7 per cent of the votes, deputy chairman of the Central Elections Commission, Pellumb Cela told ATA.Last Sunday, the runoff-polls were held in the town halls of Vore (Tirane) and Shijak (Durres) where none of the candidacies had gained the necessary majority of votes on June 21 partial local polls. For the post of the mayor of Vore, the grouping Alliance for the State and the Union for Democracy competed, while in the town hall of Shijak, in front of each other were the Union for Democracy and the United Right Wing. From the data in the Central Election Commission it results that the turnout has been low. In the town hall of Vore 39.68 per cent of the electors have voted, while in that for Shijak 59.22 per cent of the voters have cast their ballots. With the victory in the town-hall of Vore, according to the protocols brought from the election commissions of the polling stations (7 town halls and 9 communes) the grouping Alliance for the State has won in 5 town halls and in 6 communes, while the grouping the Union for Democracy has won in 2 town halls and in 3 communes. The June 21 local by-elections were held in seven town-halls and nine communes, in which their leaders quitted work or left it for various reasons during last year's unrest. Three political groupings presented their candidates in the latest local polls, the Alliance for the State which comprises the government coalition parties the Socialist party, Democratic Alliance party, Social Democratic party, Agrarian party, and the Human Rights Union party as well as National Unity party member of the coalition for the partial local polls, ) the right-wing political grouping "Unity for Democracy" which comprises the Democratic party, Social Democrat Union party, Legality Movement party, Christian Democratic party and Democratic Union party, and DBSH grouping which consists of the Republican Party, the National Front party, the Party of December Movement, the Conservative party and the Right Democratic party. /s.s./das/xh/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[09] Serb civilians being armed in GjilanPRISHTINE, June 29 (ata) - Since last Saturday afternoon, armed Serb civilians have been seen coming out of the building of the Serbian police, the Information Centre of Kosove reports. There are voices about a mobilization of Serbs also from other localities of the commune for fear that "soon, KLA members will come on this side too," LDK sources in Gjilan say.Reports from the commune of Gjilan say that reinforcements have been sent in the zones where fighting is taking place while during the day police and inspectors of Serb security move only on police cars without number plates. /p.ta/das/xh/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[10] "Enough with violence" in Kosove, Albanian writers appealTIRANE, June 29 (ata) - By Eranda Nepravishta: "Enough with violence!" was the message of Albanian writers and artists during a meeting held on Monday in the hall of the Writers' and Artists' League in Tirane."We are holding this meeting to voice again our support for the fight for freedom, independence and liberation of Kosova. We appeal to Albanian artists, colleagues and associations like ours throughout the world to raise their voice in support of Kosove, before it is late," said at the beginning of the meeting Xhevair Spahiu, chairman of the League. The protest was against the primitive violence and repression Serbia is exerting on the people of Kosove. "We are near them with out approach, our word, and even with our lives, because there cannot be Albania without Kosova and Kosova without Albania," added Spahiu. The speakers in the meeting stressed that it is a task of Albanian intellectuals that with their words and stand to sensitize the public opinion to support the question of Kosove. /s.s./mima/xh/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[11] Albanian police sequester 92 kg of narcoticsKORCE, June 29 (ata) - By B Fejzullahu: Police of the district of Korce (South) sequestered on Monday 92 kg of narcotics uncovered in the van of a trafficker of drugs, spokesman of the police department of Korce said to ATA.Police arrested Isuf Jance, 53, on the Korce-Bilisht road after a control in the van of Jance in which, besides the 92 kg of pressed cannabis, police found an automatic and 5 cartridge cases. This is the third case within 3 months that police of Korce seize and block great quantities of narcotics, while they are being transported to the customs point of Kapshtice (bordering Greece.) /a.ke/mima/xh/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[12] Albania accords "Doctor Honoris Causa" to Allain BosquetTIRANE,June 29 (ata) - By F Nikolla: The French writer and publicist, Allain Bosquet, was accorded posthumously by the Republic of Albania and the Council of Ministers the Diploma "Doctor Honoris Cause" of the Tirane University, sources of the Albanian Foreign Ministry reported.During a special ceremony held on June 25 in the Albanian Embassy in Paris, the diploma was handed over to the wife of Bosquet, with the dedication "To the distinguished personality of the French culture, renowned writer, critic, scholar of the contemporary literature, who has made a distinguished contribution to the spread and appreciation of the best works of the Albanian literature and the culture of the Albanian people in the European intellectual world." Attending the ceremony were representatives of the Municipality of Paris, the French Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Culture, writers, poets and painters. "There is not any other foreign literary critic to know so well the Albanian legend and myth as Allain Bosquet. He loved and praised Albania. To this end, Albanians owe Bosquet so much," Albanian Ambassador said in the ceremony. While the world famous Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare considered the figure of the writer Allain Bosquet "as one of the first French intellectuals who has encouraged the Albanian culture." His home was the first door I entered in France," said Kadare, who left Albania in 1990 to live in Paris. "Bosquet was one of those intellectuals who despite ideologies, supported the talents coming from Eastern Europe or the Balkans. He was a great humanist and universal ideas were of first rate importance to him. For Bosquet Albania was a familiar and close country," said Kadare in the ceremony. "Be sure that Allain would have thanked you from the depth of his heart and would have raised his voice to halt killings in Kosove," said Mrs Bosquet. /ake/mima/xh/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[13] Association for Democratic Culture considers partial local polls as free and democraticTIRANE, June 29 (ata) - By K Shehu: The Association for Democratic Culture (SHKD) which monitored the local polls on June 21 and 28, 1998 with 134 observers who went to about 60 per cent of the polling stations, has considered as positive the conduct of these polls.In a press release of this association on Monday, it was stressed that these elections brought a new democratic spirit in the election process as a result of the higher civic ethic not only on the part of the voters but also by the members of the election commission in precincts, who represented various political forces. Along with the positive aspects, SHKD also pointed out some problems it noticed during the election process, such as the low turnout, which, it said, showed the pessimism of the voters towards the political forces, the high number of the invalid ballots, etc. In order to eliminate these problems, SHKD thinks that more work must be made by CEC for the qualification of the members of the election commissions in the polling stations. The association has, since its creation in February 1992, monitored all the election processes held in Albania, creating a new experience in the field of monitoring and electronic media. The partial local polls of June 21 were considered fair and democratic also by the monitors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe (CE) which, along with other monitors, observed the said polls. The left wing political grouping "Alliance for the State" won 53 per cent of the votes in these elections, held in 7 town halls and in 9 communes, whose chairmen had quitted their posts during the unrest last year. /a.ke/mima/xh/ From the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) Home Page at http://www.telpress.it/ataAlbanian Telegraphic Agency Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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