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Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 98-07-18Albanian Telegraphic Agency Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) Home Page at <http://www.telpress.it/ata>Albanian Telegraphic AgencyCONTENTS
[01] Albanian singers to sing live in festivalTIRANA, July 17 (ATA) - By Eno Popi: The annual song festival in Albanian radio television will have the biggest surprise this year."The singers will forget "play-back" and will sing "live", Gazmend Mullai, one of the main organisers of the song festival said to ATA. "The experience of last year was promising," Mullai said adding that "this year will not escape 'live interpretation'". The Albanian public was used to listen to its singers interpret playback in all the festivals since '76. But now everything will change. "We will try to get rid of the mentality in Albania that there are no conditions to sing "live"," Mullai said. Times before, the Albanian singers had sung live but immediately after 1976 everything changed. "Play back" was the optimum solution at the time. The idea to sing "live" in festivals has been considered after 1993 but nothing has been done. During "Fest '97" the singers Elsa Lila, Aurela Gaçe, Irma Libohova, Redon Makashi, Rovena Dilo, Mira Konçi, proved that singers can sing "live" in Albania. /pas/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[02] Greek foreign minister to visit Tirana on MondayTIRANA, July 18 (ATA) - Greek Foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos will start an official two-day visit in Tirana from July 20 to 21 at the head of a government delegation and a group of Greek businessmen, press and information office at the Greek Embassy in Tirana said on Saturday.The Greek delegation was expected to have a series of important talks with Albanian political leadership. "The aim of the visit consists in considering the important cooperation achieved so far between Greece and Albania, prospective for an ongoing aid Greece would offer to Albania at the framework of this cooperation as well as further development of higher-ranking bilateral relations," the press release said. Greek Foreign Minister would have the occasion to exchange views with Albanian officials on the situation in the region and risks resulting from the crisis in Kosova. Greek businessmen would meet Albanian authorities of political and economic life to discuss possibilities of investing initiatives in Albania. s.s/mima/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[03] Fighting in Rrafsh of KosovaPRISHTINA, July 18 - ATA correspondent Behlul Jashari reported that fighting were carrying on Friday night in the Rrafsh of Kosova along the divided line between the territories under the control of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) and those under the Serb forces.Sources on the ground reported that on Friday night some 60 Serb paramilitary forces passed some meters onto the bridge over the Sitnica river which is the dividing line between the villages of Prilluzhe and Glovotin but were pushed back by the counter attack of the KLA forces. There was no casualty on the Albanian side in a 10-hour shoot-out and no reports on casualties from the Serb side. Serb forces armed with machine-guns and other heavy weapons shelled on Friday the Albanian villages Hamidi, Glavotin, Bivolak, Zhilivode, Strofe, Beçuk. /mp/mima/ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[04] IFC to back private businessTIRANA, July 18 (ATA) - By D. Koça: Minister of Finances Arben Malaj held a meeting with the mission of the International Financing Corporation (IFC) to exchange views on development of macroeconomic situation in Albania, different sector of economy particularly banking and financing sectors.They also dealt with issues related to the process of privatisation with special interest devoted to privatisation of strategic sectors as telecommunication, oil industry, banking system and others. Both sides considered interesting and very important the IFC engagement to support financially the private business in Albania and its development in the future. The Albanian minister expressed the readiness of the Albanian government to back every IFC's initiative in financing private sector in Albania. /ak/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[05] Republicans consider primitive DP's way of protestsTIRANA, July 18 (ATA)-By A. Haxhiu, The Republicans consider primitive the way of protests in squares applied by the Democratic Party."The way the DP has chosen, after boycotting parliament, to protest in streets and squares, is a primitive policy," the chairman of the Republican party, Fatmir Mediu, told a news conference on Saturday. "The new elections would not bring about a new political alternative, but they would lead to a political war of negative consequences for the country, instead," said Mediu. The elections in Albania, according the republican leader, could be held only after a constitution was drafted and approved and the law on elections was improved. The DP decision to boycott parliament was received with concern also by the international community. The United States, too, considered DP's decision to quit parliament last week "a step backwards in the consolidation of democratic development of Albania." DP's decision was considered wrong also by the chief of the German diplomacy, Klaus Kinkel, who, during a visit in Tirana last week, said that "this act of Sali Berisha is something very negative. Reconciliation of the internal political forces remains the main demand of the international community for Albania and in this direction, Sali Berisha's act is wrong." /s.s/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[06] Considerable aid for Kosova refugees in TropojeBAJRAM CURRI, July 17 (ATA)-By R. Hoxha, Considerable aid in food and clothes continue to arrive in the Tropoje district for the Kosova refugees who have left their homes due to the Serbian violence and repression.The aid contingent provided by the Albanian Red Cross, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other donors has helped cope with the emergency situation created in the communes of Tropoje, Llugaj, Margegaj, Bujan and Fierze and in the commune of Bajram Curri as a result of the inflow of 10 000 inhabitants from Kosova. Over 70 per cent of this aid has been so far distributed to the Kosovars and the families sheltering them. However, abuses have been noticed with the distribution of the aid as, according to the head of the Tropoje district, Xhevdet Hoxha, there is no state structure to deal with the aid administration. He said that in order to solve this issue they are cooperating with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and signed with them an act- agreement, according to which UNHCR and the Albanian Red Cross undertake to supply the Kosova refugees with aid and cover their storing and distribution expenditures. /s.s/das/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[07] Grave situation on border with Yugoslavia -After Serbian bombardments, tens of wounded Kosovars head for Albania-TIRANA, July 18 (ATA)-Sources from the Padesh-Tropoje border police post report that on Saturday at around 10.05 the region of the frontier post C-2 was shelled by the Serbian forces and the shells have fallen some 500 metres inside the Albanian territory.As a result the situation there has been very grave. a.ke/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[08] Head of SP for Tirana electedTIRANA, July 18 (ATA)-By Ylli Pata, The Socialist Party of Tirana on Saturday elected the new head of its Steering Committee. Deputy Spartak Poci took 265 votes from the delegates of the 5th conference of the capital's SP. His only contestant, composer Limoz Dizdari, took 40 votes.The election of the new head of the capital's socialists came after the Ilir Meta, Secretary for European Integration, resigned from this post. The conference is part of the election campaign this party has been launching since two months ago, to renew the SP chairmanships in districts. Conferences of this kind are also expected to be held in other districts of the country. The Tirana SP conference was greeted by SP chairman and Prime Minister Fatos Nano. /a.ke/pas/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[09] Injured Kosovars treated in Bajram Curri hospital -Those in grave condition transported to Tirana-Bajram Curri, July 18 (ATA)-By R. Hoxha, After Saturday's attacks by the Serb forces against the Kosova population beyond the border,22 Kosovars have arrived at the civil hospital of Bajram Curri. Fifteen of them, who are in a more serious condition, have been transported by four helicopters to Tirana, the director of the hospital, Shake Rexha, told ATA. She said that considerable amounts of blood, solutions etc. have urgently arrived from Tirana to cope with the number of the wounded, which might increase. Meanwhile, the staff of the emergency situation in the district met at 14.00. It analysed the situation created after the latest attack by the Serbian forces, which have also thrown two shells about 500 metres inside the Albanian territory. There is no immediate word of the exact number of the injured. /a.ke/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[10] We hail inauguration of Kosova parliament and KLA - NanoTIRANA, July 18 (ATA)-By Y.Pata,Prime Minister Fatos Nano on Saturday hailed the inauguration of the Kosova parliament, which convened in Prishtine two days ago. "I avail myself of the occasion to hail, as prime minister and SP chairman, the inauguration of the parliament of the Republic of Kosova. We wish this inauguration will constitute a step towards the unity of the Kosova Albanians, towards their united appearance on the political scene. The Albanian government has and continues to support the Kosova people so that they be an active party in avoiding the crisis," said Nano. In his speech at the Tirana SP conference Nano also referred to the Kosova issue. He dwelt on the role of Albanians' armed resistance in the current developments. "Our stand has been to recognise the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) as a fundamental element in the current developments in Kosova," said Nano. /a.ke/lm/ Albanian Telegraphic Agency[11] Current period, most difficult since after World War 2 - NanoTIRANA, July 18 (ATA)-By Y.Pata,Albania's Prime Minister and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania (SP), Fatos Nano, said on Saturday that the period Albania underwent has been the most difficult since after World War 2. "We are neither naive nor demagogues like DP not to admit that over the last 12 months of governing we have not been able to satisfy all those who have voted for us, less so those who have not voted for us." "But we cannot but mention the fact that in this period, the most difficult in the postwar period of this country, there are only few things which we must have the courage to admit before the electorate that we have done wrong." In his message to the 5th conference of the Tirana SP, Nano said that this electorate voted the same also after one year of governing. The socialist leader said that his party during its governing period has not abused with power to the detriment of the Albanian citizens. /a.ke/pas/lm/ 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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