From aqeli1 at tigger.cc.uic.edu Mon May 1 01:17:42 2000 From: aqeli1 at tigger.cc.uic.edu (Albi Qeli) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:17:42 -0700 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Igli Tare's success in Germany Message-ID: <008401bfb32c$945e3c80$b7aaf880@xyz.uic.edu> > >A ka ndonje te na e perktheje kete ne SHqip.. sepse jam ca i interesuar edhe >une per sportistat shqiptare... > >For German speakers, interested in soccer >> >>http://www.fck.de/html/start.php3 >> >>Zuerst genoss er das Bad in der Menge und dann im Erm?dungsbecken. ?Das ist >>der gl?cklichste Tag meines Lebens?, freute sich Igli Tare. Nach Monaten >>der >>Frustration, abgestempelt zum Fehleinkauf, ausgepfiffen von den eigenen >>Fans, ausgewechselt nach ungl?cklichen Spielen. ?Es hat mich sehr >>getroffen. >>Ich habe immer wieder an mich geglaubt, dass es irgendwann mal wieder >>klappt >>?, hoffte der albanische Nationalspieler auf eine Besserung der Situation. >>Und wie es geklappt hat! Mit drei Toren schoss der 1,91-m-lange H?ne den >>FCK >>wieder ins Rennen um die Champions League-Pl?tze. Zusammen mit seinem >>Sturmkollegen J?rgen Pettersson machte er Jagd auf die Spatzen, die nicht >>mehr als Kanonenfutter f?r die Lauterer Offensive waren. Tek faqja e Kaiserslautern fjalet e para ishin "Der FCK hat einen neuen Fu?ball-Gott." (FCK ka nje zot-futbolli te ri.) Me poshte eshte prkthimi i fragmentit te mesiperm. Te me falni nese ka ndonje gabim. "Kjo eshte dita me e lumtur e jetes time" tha i gezuar Igli Tare. Kjo pas muajsh merzitjeje, i etiketuar si blerje e gabuar, me tifozat e skuadres te vet qe e vershellenin, i nxjerre nga ndeshja pas lojrave te pafata. "Une gjithmone besoja se heret ose vone do te me ecte", keshtu shpresonte lojtari i kombetares shqiptare per nje permiresim te gjendjes. Dhe sa i eci! Me tre gola gjigandi 191 centimetra i gjate e nisi FCK (prape) ne garen e kupes te kampioneve. From juniku at hotmail.com Mon May 1 01:33:40 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:33:40 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Perkthim ( Igli Tare's success in Germany ) Message-ID: <20000501053340.88838.qmail@hotmail.com> >>A ka ndonje te na e perktheje kete ne shqip... sepse jam ca i >interesuar edhe une per sportistat shqiptare... > >Faleminderit > >For German speakers, interested in soccer >> >>http://www.fck.de/html/start.php3 >> Ky eshte nje perkthim i shpejte dhe i improvizuar. Shpresoj se do te ndihmoje. Uk Lushi >>Zuerst genoss er das Bad in der Menge und dann im Erm?dungsbecken. Separi u kenaq duke "notuar" ne grupin e tifozeve dhe pastaj ne shpinat e lodhura te tyre. >>?Das ist >>der gl?cklichste Tag meines Lebens?, freute sich Igli Tare. " Kjo eshte dita me e lumtur e jetes sime"- gezohej Igli Tare. Nach >>Monaten der >>Frustration, abgestempelt zum Fehleinkauf, ausgepfiffen von den eigenen >>Fans, ausgewechselt nach ungl?cklichen Spielen. ?Es hat mich sehr >>getroffen. Pas muajve te mbushur me frustrim, i bere me gisht si blerje e gabuar, i fershellyer nga tifozet e tij, i nderruar ne ndeshje pa aspak fat ai tha : " Jam shume i prekur." >>Ich habe immer wieder an mich geglaubt, dass es irgendwann mal wieder >>klappt >>?, hoffte der albanische Nationalspieler auf eine Besserung der Situation. " Gjithje kam besuar se nje dite do te ecte mire. Kam besuar ne vetvete.- kishte shpresuar lojtari nacional shqiptar per permiresimin e situates se tij. >>Und wie es geklappt hat! Mit drei Toren schoss der 1,91-m-lange H?ne den >>FCK >>wieder ins Rennen um die Champions League-Pl?tze. Zusammen mit seinem >>Sturmkollegen J?rgen Pettersson machte er Jagd auf die Spatzen, die nicht >>mehr als Kanonenfutter f?r die Lauterer Offensive waren. Dhe ka ecur kesaj radhe qe c' ke me te! Me tre gola te shenuar "gjeli" i gjate 1, 91m i FCK-se e ka futur ekipin e tij perseri ne garen per vend ne Ligen e Kampioneve. Sebashku me kolegun e tij te sulmit Jorgen Pettersson ata kane gjahtuar "harabelat" (ekipi kundershtar) te cilet u bene ushqim per ofensiven e pameshirshme. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Mon May 1 08:12:02 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 05:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: *Sufi Music in Turkey: MEVLEVIS and ALEVIS/BEKTASHIS* Message-ID: <20000501121202.7999.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Ayfer Karakaya Stump Subject: *Sufi Music in Turkey: MEVLEVIS and ALEVIS/BEKTASHIS* Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 02:55:32 -0400 Size: 1941 URL: From ikullolli at hotmail.com Mon May 1 15:15:09 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:15:09 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Perkthim ( Igli Tare's success in Germany ) Message-ID: <20000501191509.13045.qmail@hotmail.com> Faleminderit shume per perkthimin.. nese keni akoma informacion per sportista te tjere shqiptare ju lutem t'i nisni Liri ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From ikullolli at hotmail.com Tue May 2 15:32:38 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 12:32:38 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] For those interested in Sports (Formula 1) Message-ID: <20000502193238.43526.qmail@hotmail.com> Coulthard Injured in Plane Crash, Two Killed Tuesday May 2nd, 2000 Briton David Coulthard suffered slight injuries on Tuesday in a plane crash in central France in which two people were killed, an airport spokesman said. Coulthard was travelling in a private Lear Jet which crashed and burst into flames upon making an emergency landing at Lyon's Satolas airport after developing engine trouble, he said. The pilot and co-pilot were killed, the sources said. The three passengers -- Coulthard, his fiancee and his bodyguard -- were given first aid by airport emergency services and taken to Lyon's main Edouard Herriot hospital. "They suffered more fear than harm," the spokesman said. A hospital spokeswoman said Coulthard's condition was "not worrying at all." He was undergoing tests and would remain in hospital overnight. A spokesman for Coulthard also added that, "He may have some bruises, but I've spoken to him and he seems alright." The plane had taken off from Britain and was heading for Nice on the French Riviera when the pilot requested an emergency landing at Lyon because of engine trouble, airport sources said. Nga informacionet e fundit te marra nga Manager i David Coulthard, thuhet qe ai ka dale nga spitali me disa plage te vogla, dhe eshte gati te marre pjese ne garen tjeter qe do te jete ne Barcelona (Spain). Gjithashtu McLaren spokeswoman Anna Guerrier thote : "Gjith?ka qe ne dime eshte qe David Coulthard ndjehet mire, ai u ?ua ne spital per nje kontroll, por ne presim qe ai te jete ne gare kete fundjave" David Coulthard, kampioni i gares se fundit ne Silverstone (Great Britain), thote qe do te jete gati per garen tjeter. Nderkohe, Michael Schumacher, gjermani 2 here kampion bote ne Formula 1 dhe tani eshte ne krye te kampionatit, pasi mori vesh per aksidentin e David Coulthard tha: "Me vjen me te vertete keq per aksidentin, por me vjen shume mire qe ai shpetoi. Per sa i perket ardhjes se tij ne gare kete fundjave ne Barcelona, nuk do perbeje asnje problem per mua... per me teper do t'a beje garen me interesante!". Ne te njejten kohe, edhe kanadezi Jacques Villeneuve po kalon disa kohe te veshtira me skuadren e tij BAR (British American racing). Qe nga deshtimi i plote i vitit te shkuar (0 pike, dhe asnje gare e mbaruar)ai dukej sikur po e rimerrte pak veten. POr ne testin e fundit ne Barcelona, patu dhimbje te forta ne kurriz (back pain) dhe u detyrua te linte testin. "nuk ndjehem ne forme per garen e Barcelones" - thote Jacques, "po megjithate do te marr pjese ne gare". Informacioni i marre nga web-site te ndryshem te Formula 1, dhe news channels. Ps. Per pjesen e pare qe eshte ne Anglisht, nese doni perkthim te saj me nisni nje email. Liri ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From pilika at yahoo.com Tue May 2 14:40:22 2000 From: pilika at yahoo.com (Asti Pilika) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albania Message-ID: <20000502184022.6095.qmail@web802.mail.yahoo.com> From: IZherka at aol.com Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:29:35 EDT The Economist April 29th - May 5th, 2000 Albania ANYONE strolling through the centre of Albania's capital, Tirana, would find it hard to recall last year's fearful mood, when the city was thronged with refugees from Kosovo. Today it is thronged with shoppers clutching bulging string bags and with mud-spattered motor-scooters laden with cartons of bananas or sacks of rice. By last June, some 450,000 Kosovars fleeing Serb attacks had sought shelter across the border. Some lived in tented camps run by aid organisations or were billeted on kind Albanian families. Sports stadiums, disused factories and city parks all became makeshift homes for refugees. It looked as if Europe's poorest country, struggling to recover from the anarchy caused by the collapse of some pyramid-finance schemes in 1997, would be overwhelmed by another disaster. It did not happen. Against the odds, Albania survived-and has even, in a small way, begun to forge ahead. This has much relieved Albania's pro-western, though largely ex-communist, government, led by Ilir Meta. The country's biggest neighbours, Italy and Greece, are pleased too. Together, they are host to some 650,000 Albanians, most of them illegal guests, out of the 3.4m who were living in Albania a decade ago. It helped that, once NATO's peacekeepers had started to move into Kosovo, the ethnic-Albanian refugees were quick to go back too. Hardly any now remain in Albania, and only a handful of NATO troops are still in Tirana. Far from damaging the fragile economy, the refugees provided an unexpected boost. Aid, from food to plastic sheets, was diverted and sold. Hotels and people renting out rooms did a roaring trade as aid workers and journalists poured in from abroad. Truck and taxi drivers, shopkeepers and warehouse-owners all did well out of the Kosovo war too. Last year the economy grew, officially, by 8%; inflation is said to be running at only 1% a year. If the black market were included, the figure for growth would be a lot bigger. Western governments lavished praise on the Albanians for their generosity towards their Kosovar cousins. Now the Albanians are hoping for rewards. At last month's donors' conference in Brussels to discuss reviving the Balkans, they sought aid worth $1 billion over the next three years to modernise their main port at Durres, to build new electricity and rail links to Kosovo and Macedonia, and to improve existing roads. Mr Meta can point to other achievements to bolster his country's aid-deserving credentials. Since the Kosovo war, security has improved. More police are back patrolling roads, lorries can travel fairly safely at night, at least along the main routes to Greece and Macedonia. Though smuggling still flourishes, Mr Meta produces charts to show that the customs service, backed by an Italian-led EU customs team, is dealing properly with shipments of petrol, cigarettes and coffee. He has also promised to tackle corruption among judges, many of whom are poorly trained and easy prey to bribery. But Albania is still not out of its mess. It has a bad reputation as a transit point for smuggled drugs, often imported from Kosovo, and for trafficking in illegal migrants. And Mr Meta, who took over as prime minister from Pandeli Majko after a noisy shake-up at last year's Socialist Party congress, must still move cautiously. For one thing, he has to watch out for Fatos Nano, an ex-prime minister and former chairman of the (ex-communist) Socialists, who still wields much influence. Mr Nano learned how Albania's underworld works while in jail: he was convicted on corruption charges brought by Sali Berisha, Albania's first post-communist president, who still leads the right-wing opposition Democratic Party. Mr Nano is wary of taking on Albania's powerful gangsters. Still, Albania's new-found if precarious stability has brought back Greek and Italian investors who shut up shop after the pyramid schemes collapsed three years ago. This summer, more tourists may visit Albania's unspoilt southern coast, a short hop by boat from the Greek island of Corfu. Though the government is being slow to sell off state assets, it has made a start. A Turkish bank has taken over one of the two state-controlled banks. A copper-mining concession has been bought by an American group. Mr Meta's first big test will be in the local elections that are due by October. Most Albanian towns are run by mayors loyal to Mr Berisha's Democratic Party. They were elected four years ago in a poll marred by violence and intimidation. Party politics is still a ferocious affair. Mr Berisha threatens, periodically, to boycott the elections. But if they pass off reasonably smoothly, Albania may be able to make a start on catching up with some of its Balkan neighbours. -- ALBANIA 2001...................................................................ALBANIA 2001 Suite #417.....................................................................Rruga Asim Vokshi 160 Commonwealth Avenue........................................................Pallati #141 Boston, MA 02116...............................................................Tirana, Albania Telephone: 781-843-1056.......................................................Telephone: 355-42-40842 Telephone: 617-262-6665.......................................................Telephone: 355-42-39748 Fax: 617-262-2340.............................................................Fax: 355-42-39748 E-Mail: alb2001 at beld.net......................................................E-Mail: alb2001 at icc.al.eu.org Internet: www.erols.com/alb2001...............................................Internet: www.erols.com/alb2001 -- -- ALBANIA 2001...................................................................ALBANIA 2001 Suite #417.....................................................................Rruga Asim Vokshi 160 Commonwealth Avenue........................................................Pallati #141 Boston, MA 02116...............................................................Tirana, Albania Telephone: 781-843-1056.......................................................Telephone: 355-42-40842 Telephone: 617-262-6665.......................................................Telephone: 355-42-39748 Fax: 617-262-2340.............................................................Fax: 355-42-39748 E-Mail: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue May 2 23:37:23 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kadare Message-ID: <20000503033723.28884.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Shkreptimat e zeza Nga Ismail Kadare Marr? nga "Coriere de la Sera" Pas nj? dim?rimi 45-vje?ar, marr?dh?niet Itali-Shqip?ri, tep?r t? d?ndura tashm?, p?rshkohen her? pas here nga ca shkreptima zije. T? krijohet p?rshtypja sikur t? dyja pal?t presin ngjarje tragjike, p?r t'u kujtuar se ndodhen kundrejt nj?ri-tjetrit: mbytja e anijes shqiptare n? kanal t? Otrantos, viktima italiane n? Shqip?ri, viktima shqiptare n? Itali, s? fundi vrasja e vog?lushit shqiptar Klaudio Hoxha nga nj? pedofil italian. Q? Italia e t?r? ?sht? e tronditur nga kjo vdekje, kjo tregon se ky ?sht? nj? vend i madh i krishter, i gatsh?m p?r t? rishqyrtuar nd?rgjegjen e vet. Q? n? Shqip?ri nuk u krijua k?to dit? ndonj? atmosfer? histerike kolektive me ngjyrim revanshist, tregon se ky vend i vog?l, gjithashtu ka nj? tradit? qytet?rimi evropian, i aft?, ndryshe nga ?'mendohet, p?r t? falur. Shqet?suese n? k?t? rast ?sht? pyetja: vall? ?sht? e domosdoshme kjo shije funerali, kjo prani e vdekjes p?r t'u kujtuar emocionalisht p?r nj?ri tjetrin? ?sht? vall? e nevojshme q? marr?dh?niet normale midis dy vendeve, q? kan? qen? lidhur dikur nga nj? fat i r?nd?, t? z?vend?sohen me sensacione t? tilla, q? t? kujtojn? shikuesit e teatrit antik, t? cil?t, sipas Aristotelit, shkonin n? teat?r p?r "t'u pastruar shpirt?risht n?p?rmjet m?shir?s dhe frik?s?". Vrasja e vog?lushit shqiptar Klaudio Hoxha, ?sht? nj? tragjedi njer?zore e karakterit universal, q? s'ka asnj? lidhje as me racizmin antishqiptar, i cili, p?r fat t? keq, afishohet gjer?sisht n? Itali, as me dram?n e dhjet?ra mij?ra refugjat?ve shqiptar?, t? cil?t, p?rve? halleve ekonomike, duhet t? heqin edhe pasojat e k?tij racizmi. Nd?rkaq duhet th?n? se kjo vrasje, ndon?se nuk interpretohet si shprehje e drejtp?rdrejt? e nj? q?ndrimi ndaj nj? populli tjet?r, prap?seprap?, tronditja q? ajo shkaktoi tek italian?t d?shmon m? s? miri se k?ta italian?, me sa duket, kan? nj? brerje nd?rgjegjeje p?r at? p?r?mim t? tepruar q? ?sht? treguar shpesh ndaj shqiptar?ve. Shqip?ria e vog?l e meriton k?t? mir?kuptim. Asnj?her? ajo nuk i ka marr? n? mbrojtje, p?rkundrazi, i ka mallkuar bandit?t dhe mafioz?t e vet, ata q? kan? kryer pun? t? pista e disa her? krime n? Itali. Shqip?ria ka pranuar trupin e proksenet?ve dhe t? prostitutave t? saj n? Itali, pa u p?rpjekur asnj?her? t'i p?rligj? ato. Shqip?ria dhe shqiptar?t presin nj? mir?kuptim m? t? madh nga kontinenti evropian dhe do t? ishte normale q? ky mir?kuptim t? kalonte n?p?rmjet italian?ve, populli q? ka provuar vite m? par? n?p?r Evrop? at? fyerje dhe vuajtje q? p?sojn? shqiptar?t sot n? Itali. Koh?t e fundit, sidomos qysh pas ngjarjeve t? Kosov?s, nj? klishe e re u ?sht? shtuar klisheve t? vjetra p?r shqiptar?t: "hakmarrja shqiptare". ?sht? plot?sisht e v?rtet? q? te shqiptar?t ka funksionuar me shekuj nj? kod zakonor mesjetar i quajtur "Kanuni i Lek? Dukagjinit", i ngjash?m me kodin e "Vendetta"-s te sicilian?t, te korsikan?t e te popuj t? tjer?. Qenia e k?tij kodi t? ashp?r, q? ka luajtur rolin e nj? kushtetute, nuk ?sht? fshehur asnj?her? prej kultur?s shqiptare, p?rkundrazi, kan? qen? vet? shqiptar?t q? e kan? b?r? t? njohur kudo. Nd?rkaq ka q?lluar shum? her? q? ky kod zakonor ta r?ndoj? edhe m? shum? imazhin e shqiptar?ve si popull, duke i paraqitur ata si hakmarr?s t? tmerrsh?m. N? t? v?rtet?, hakmarrja, si reagim njer?zor, ?sht? nj? ndjenj? universale q? ka ekzistuar e vazhdon t? ekzistoj? tek t? gjith? njer?zit, tek t? gjitha koh?rat dhe qytet?rimet. Nga nj? pik?pamje universale, njer?zimi e ka njohur hakmarrjen qysh n? agimin e qytet?rimit. Nj? pjes? e tragjedive antike greke mund t? cil?sohen (par exelence) si drama t? hakmarrjes. Q? shqiptar?t, sicilian?t ose korsikan?t e kan? institucionalizuar k?t? ndjenj?, kjo nuk do t? thot? se ata, si krijesa njer?zore, jan? ndryshe nga t? tjer?t, me fjal? t? tjera, e kan? ndjenj?n e hakmarrjes m? t? shumt? ose m? t? pakt? se t? tjer?t. Nd?rkaq ky kod zakonor po iu kushton shqiptar?ve shum? shtrenjt?. Edhe n? rastin e vrasjes s? Klaudios s? vog?l, u kujtua nga shum? njer?z e nga shum? media "hakmarrja shqiptare". N? fillim, lajmi i zhdukjes s? f?mij?s u shoq?rua nga nj? d?shp?rim, se zhdukja mund t? ishte rrjedhoj? e k?saj hakmarrjeje t? famshme, pra si larje llogarish hakmarr?se midis shqiptar?ve. M? pas, kur e v?rteta makabre doli n? shesh, u dha alarmi i nj? hakmarrjeje t? ardhshme shqiptare, madje u soll?n kinse edhe k?rc?nimet e babait t? viktim?s, se "hakmarrja do t? vazhdoj? gjer n? tre breza". Sot, gjat? varrimit t? Klaudios s? vog?l, u mor vesh, m? n? fund, se familja e viktim?s k?rkoi drejt?si dhe jo hakmarrje. P?r t? qen? t? ndersh?m, duhet th?n? se alarmet e medias italiane p?r nj? hakmarrje hipotetike shqiptare, nuk duhen interpretuar si dashakeq?se e tendencioze. Ato b?jn? pjes? n? prirjet e shtypit p?r t? gjurmuar gj?rat sensacionale dhe ekzotike. Si t? tilla, dhe pa kurrfar? zem?rimi jan? trajtuar k?to dit? edhe nga shtypi shqiptar, ?ka v?rteton nj? vet?p?rmbajtje dinjitoze t? opinionit publik shqiptar p?rball? k?saj drame. Asnj? krahasim nuk mund t? b?het n? k?t? rast me spekulimet q? u b?n? lidhur me "hakmarrjen" shqiptare n? Kosov?. Kjo "hakmarrje" u p?rdor n? nj? luft? politike t? paprincipt? ku u b?n? t? gjitha p?rpjekjet p?r ta kthyer at? kund?r popullit shqiptar dhe p?r t? p?rligjur krimet serbe n? Kosov?. Pun?t shkuan kaq larg, sa q? edhe nj? shfaqje e tragjedis? "Hamleti" t? Shekspirit n? teatrin shqiptar t? Prishtin?s koh?t e fundit, u interpretua si nj? thirrje p?r hakmarrje, ngaq? n? k?t? dram? b?het fjal? v?rtet p?r hakmarrjen e Princit Hamlet kund?r vras?sve t? babait. Shqiptar?t nuk jan? nj? popull pa vese. Por t? zmadhosh veset e tyre, n? nj? koh? kur nj? pjes? e tyre porsa ka dal? nga nj? dram? e nj? ploj? nga m? t? egrat n? k?t? shekull, kjo ?sht? jo vet?m e padrejt?, por nuk i sh?rben askujt. Mbi gjysm? shekulli m? par?, fill pas kapitullimit t? Italis? m? 1943, mbi 40 mij? ushtar? italian? mbet?n n? nj? gjendje t? pashpres? n? Shqip?ri, n? m?shir?n e shqiptar?ve t? armatosur. Ndon?se ata kishin qen? nj? ushtri pushtuese, ndaj tyre nuk u ushtrua asnj? dhun? hakmarr?se, p?rkundrazi, u mbrojt?n dhe u mbajt?n me buk? deri m? shum? se nj? vit nga populli i varf?r shqiptar. Ky akt d?shmon p?r t? kund?rt?n e klishes? s? hakmarrjes q? i ngjitet k?tij populli k?to dit? trondit?se t? prillit 2000. Vet?p?rmbatja e opinionit publik shqiptar ndaj tragjedis? s? Klaudios s? vog?l d?shmon t? nj?jt?n gj?. N? jet?n njer?zore, hyrja e vdekjes n? sken? q?llon q? ka nj? pesh? t? r?nd?. Disa her? m? kuptimplot? se librat, deklaratat ose forume t? t?ra. Le t? shpresojm? se vdekja e nj? f?mije shqiptar do t? ndihmoj? sadopak p?r t? holluar mjegull?n e moskuptimit midis njer?zve q? jetojn? n? t? dy brigjet e Adriatikut. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From kbejko at hotmail.com Thu May 4 03:35:26 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 07:35:26 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Vendet e vogla Message-ID: <20000504073526.77760.qmail@hotmail.com> Marre nga gazeta Ekonomia: Q:Cfare mund te mesoje Shqiperia nga Singapori pervec perdorimit ne mase te kamzhikut? Disa me habi thon? se si ka mund?si q? shtete t? vegj?l, ashtu si kompani t? vogla, gjejn? mund?si p?r t'u zhvilluar m? mir? se t? m?dhenjt?? "Shihni Singaporin, u p?rgjigjet atyre guru i menaxhimit japonez Kenichi Ohmae, 3 milion? njer?z, t? cil?ve u mungojn? ushqimet dhe rezervat e duhura ujore, kan? arritur q? ta ngren? prodhimin e tyre p?r frym? nga 1,000 dollar? n? koh?n kur fituan pavar?sin?, n? 24,000 dollar? n? vit sot. N? k?t? vend ndodhen 500 shoq?ri shum?komb?she. Ashtu si nj? kompani e madhe, nj? shtet i madh, ku n? fuqi jan? rregulla e ligje q? synojn? t? vendosin nj? kontrollt? centralizuar t? ekonomis?, ?sht? i destinuar t? ndeshet me nj? num?r t? pafund?m v?shtir?sish". ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From pilika at yahoo.com Thu May 4 09:55:31 2000 From: pilika at yahoo.com (Asti Pilika) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fshati digjet... Message-ID: <20000504135531.14082.qmail@web801.mail.yahoo.com> British Soldier Reunited with Kosovo Dog he Saved LONDON, May 4, 2000 -- (Reuters) A British soldier was re-united on Wednesday with the dog he rescued as a starving puppy in war-torn Kosovo. Lance Corporal Steve Smith had an emotional reunion with Osker after the golden retriever mongrel served out six months in quarantine. Osker was adopted by the Royal Signals regiment after Smith found him starving to death on the outskirts of Pristina. He was brought back to England with the help of the World Society for the Protection of Animals. British Airways gave the dog a free flight. Smith recalled how they first met: "I spotted this little black thing in the road and stopped just before I ran it over." "He was very, very small and quite ugly as a two-week-old puppy away from its mother. He had not been fed. We gave him about a week to see if he would live and he got through," he said. (C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From juniku at hotmail.com Fri May 5 00:10:45 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 21:10:45 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Greece is second on US list for terrorism Message-ID: <20000505041045.69138.qmail@hotmail.com> >From: "Nikoll A Mirakaj" >To: "a" , "t" >Subject: [alb-information] Greece is second on US list for terrorism >Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 19:41:49 -0700 > >THE TIMES (London) >May 4 2000 > >Greece is second on US list for >terrorism > >FROM JAMES PRINGLE IN ATHENS > >GREECE reacted angrily yesterday to a report that >ranked it second to Colombia for anti-American terrorist >attacks in 1999. > >The US State department report names the November 17 >group, which has been active for 25 years but has never >had a member arrested. In 1975 it assassinated the top >CIA official in Greece, Robert Welch, and since then has >killed 22 people and injured 70. The dead include four >American officials and one British, along with Greek >industrialists. > >Last year a rocket-propelled grenade exploded in the >German embassy in Athens, in the next room to the >ambassador. The attack, a week after a similar one on the >Dutch ambassador, came at the start of Nato's bombing >of Yugoslavia over Kosovo. A majority of Greeks identify >with the Serbs, with whom they share the Orthodox >religion. > >The US State Department spends more on diplomatic >security in Athens, the capital of a Nato ally, than >anywhere else in the world. Western diplomats speak of a >"culture of impunity" in Athens. > >The State Department report, Patterns of Global >Terrorism, blames the problem on the "absence of strong >public government leadership and initiatives to improve >police capabilities". > >It is believed that November 17 has close links with a >left-wing sector of the ruling Panhellic Socialist >Movement, Pasok. Old hardline leftists feel that attacks >against "capitalist targets" are justified, in spite of Greece's >ever-closer integration into Western Europe. > >Yesterday a leading newspaper, Kathimerini, said the US >report was "openly aggressive and unreal". "A >demonstrator launching a Molotov cocktail is legally >responsible for his actions, but he is not a terrorist," it said. >Kathimerini noted that Greece had a problem with the >authorities' failure to break up November 17, "but this is >far from justifying Washington accusing the present and >previous government of inertia, tardiness and reluctance to >fight terrorism". >Poll - Was NATO"s intervention worthed? >Go to http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Kosovo/ and vote "YES"! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Thu May 4 22:26:48 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Important Please Read Message-ID: hey guys, there is a vicious virus floating around through Miscrosoft Outlook. CNN confirmed it today. It is called the "I LOVE YOU" virus. The only reason I'm mass e-mailing is because 2 friends of mine lost their hard-drives today when they tried to open it. So beware. eriola. From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri May 5 10:51:22 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 07:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: May 9 and 10 lectures Message-ID: <20000505145122.3107.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... 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From: Melissa Perry Subject: [ALBANIAN] Boston Albanian Concert Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:03:57 -0400 Size: 3219 URL: From acapa at bu.edu Mon May 8 09:33:23 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:33:23 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] (no subject) Message-ID: <003e01bfb8f1$fb8304c0$eb5dc580@bu.edu> The Consolations of Philosophy Botton,Alain de Category: SOCIAL SCIENCES / PHILOSOPHY / General The review: de Botton's latest tome is an erudite guide which aims to show how philosophy can help us live more fulfilling lives. Divided into six chapters, it draws on the wisdom of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to tackle common human problems. Witty and wise, The Consolations of Philosophy is a brilliantly accessible but delightfully incisive introduction to the work of some of the world's finest thinkers.-(Nick Rennison, Waterstone's Online) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From acapa at bu.edu Mon May 8 09:07:10 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:07:10 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] virus Message-ID: <000a01bfb8ee$51ee1d30$eb5dc580@bu.edu> 'I love you' ends high-tech honeymoon SAN FRANCISCO (The Christian Science Monitor) 5-8-2000 - America's embrace of new technology, whether the automobile, television, or space travel, is usually wide-eyed and optimistic. Yet there also comes a time when questions set in. As experts total up what could be record damages from the "I love you" computer bug and its copycat versions, some analysts wonder if that time of questioning for the computer and Internet era has arrived. Surveying a range of social, political, and economic developments in recent months, many see growing evidence that the computer's age of innocence is ending. "There are a lot more questions being asked and a lot more skepticism than there used to be," says Stephen Talbott, author of the online Netfuture newsletter, a frequent critic of technology. Millions have been affected by the latest virus, which rampaged around the globe in recent days. While no one sees a reversal in the Internet's growth, the incident comes against a backdrop of other examples of increased friction between new technology and society. Beyond the federal government's action against Microsoft and the growing concern about the "digital divide," technology has also played a bit part in political scandal, for instance. White House lawyers last week were defending the handling of misplaced e-mail that had been subpoenaed by investigators in 1998. The problem was created in the first instance by computer-system errors. And the entertainment industry, a frequent showcase of new technology, is being rocked by the Internet's ability to make hash of copyright laws. The collision produced a first late last week: The popular rock group Metallica sought punishment of its own fans. The group is trying to force an Internet service called Napster, which enables people to trade music for free, to deny access to the hundreds of thousands of fans who use the company's servers to trade Metallica music. All this conflict - as technology's reach butts heads with older social norms - represents a departure from the experience of the past decade or so. The spread of personal computers and the rise of the Internet have transformed American social and business practices, and done so with astonishing ease and social acceptance. But with each new virus outbreak, the warnings over the vulnerability of the Internet, which links more and more of society's vital functions together, grow more dire. "All you can hope is that incidents like this raise awareness of the fact that the vulnerabilities and risks are getting worse and worse," says Peter Neumann, chief scientist at the computer-science laboratory at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. Mr. Neumann says that while viruses and hacker attacks usually are handled with software patches and other technology band-aids, the root causes go back decades to the early development of software and operating systems. Swept along by competition and commercial incentives, computer businesses made long-term security a low priority. To correct that, at this stage, says Neumann, "there are no quick fixes." Recent attacks on prominent Internet sites have rallied government and private-sector forces to work more closely together. At the federal level, resources to fight cybercrime have been increased and new agencies have been formed. But many experts see the security threat rising faster than the response. The damages from the latest e-mail virus are projected by some to hit $10 billion. Looking at the Internet revolution broadly, Jay Whitehead, the chief of San Francisco-based EmployeeService.com, says, "the Internet has reached critical mass in terms of penetration. And now you're going to see a lot of social dislocation." He adds: "There is already building resentment of technology and the changes it brings - for instance, the way it extends the work day for many people." Of course, computers and the Internet are now so interwoven into the fabric of the American economy, no one expects a radical pullback. "In our culture, we tend to think on an economic basis," says Mike Newkirk, who teaches technology and social values at San Jose State University. And because the Internet is creating such rapid economic growth, Mr. Newkirk does not believe there is much deep questioning of technology. Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, says it's only natural to expect extreme adulation to be followed by harsh criticism as the technology era wears on. "Technology is dominant now, so like whatever is dominant in our society at the moment, we've saddled it with both our fondest hopes and our deepest fears." That love-hate relationship may intensify in the next few years, but it pales in comparison to the backlash he expects when society becomes more aware of the revolution afoot in bioengineering. By comparison, he says, this "is only a warm-up." -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From dardanl at yahoo.com Tue May 9 11:16:37 2000 From: dardanl at yahoo.com (Dardan Labeati) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 08:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Nanoja e Meta ne Harvard Message-ID: <20000509151637.25959.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com> Pse Nuk Do T? Votoj P?r Socialist?t Dardan Labeati M? 8 maj ndoqa paraqitjen e Fatos Nanos e Ilir Met?s n? Shkoll?n e Udh?heqjes "JFK" t? Universitetit t? Harvardit. Paraqitja e zot?rinjve ishte shum? problematike, sa do t? meritonte nj? lib?r me kritika, por n? k?t? shkrim do t? trajtoj vet?m pozicionin e tyre lidhur me problemin komb?tar shqiptar, si problemi m? i r?nd? e urgjent n? politik?n e tyre antikomb?tare. Nanoja e Meta u ftuan e u sponsorizuan n? k?t? paraqitje nga Programi Kokkalis, nj? investim grek n? Shkoll?n e Udh?heqjes "JFK" q? iu shit Shkoll?s si program ballkanik, por q? n? fakt nisi, vazhdon, e do t? mbetet, nj? program grek. Ndaj, deklaratat e Nanos dhe Met?s i prisja, se af?rmendsh do t? nderonin ftuesit e tyre. Megjithat?, pavar?sisht nga pritshm?ria ime, deklaratat e tyre mbeten revoltuese. N? fund t? fjal?s s? tij, Nanoja theksoi fort se ai nuk ishte p?r ?Shqip?rin? e Madhe.? E shtjelloi k?t? ide duke sqaruar se ?p?rparimi teknologjik e ka b?r? nj? f?mij? shqiptar thuajse t? barabart? me nj? f?mij? amerikan, le m? me nj? f?mij? kosovar.? Si rrjedhim, predikon Nanoja, gjith? rajoni do t? integrohet n? Evrop?n e Bashkuar, ndaj kufinjt? le t? rrin? aty ku jan?. Jo, nj? mij? her?, jo! Jetojm? n? nj? bot? shtetesh komb?tare. T? mos harrojm? se kufinjt? tan? nuk i kemi p?rcaktuar vet?, por na i ka imponuar bota kur nuk mund ta ngrinim z?rin p?r t? mbrojtur t? drejtat tona. Ky imponim u b? pas nj? ndarjeje arbitrare t? zonave t? influenc?s n? Ballkan, q? m? 1913 k?naqi Serbin?, aleaten e Rusis?, dhe Greqin?, aleaten e Britanis? s? Madhe. Kemi t? drejt? dhe detyr? historike t? p?rpiqemi t? jetojm? t? gjith? n? nj? shtet komb?tar q? do t? p?rfshij? t? gjitha viset shqiptare. Krijimi i nj? shteti komb?tar shqiptar mund t? sjell? v?shtir?si afatshkurtra, por n? fund t? fundit, nj? shtet i till? do t? jet? m? efektiv nga ana ekonomike dhe politike n? krahasim me nj? bashk?si tokash shqiptare t? cop?tuara n? pes? shtete. Po i kujtoj t? kulturuarit Nano se ve? tradh?tis? komb?tare, po b?n edhe nj? gabim p?rkufizues. I quajm? serb?t "serbom?dhenj" e grek?t "grekom?dhenj" se pushtuan e aneksuan toka historikisht, gjeografikisht e demografikisht shqiptare. Meqen?se asnj? nacionalisht shqiptar nuk lakmon toka serbe apo greke, at?her? nuk mund t? quhemi "shqiptarom?dhenj." Termi "Shqip?ri e Madhe" u krijua nga shovinist?t fqinj?, ndaj nuk ?sht? ?udi q? po p?rdoret prej nj? agjenti e borxhliu t? tyre si Nanoja. Nd?rsa i "moderuari" Ilir Meta, i pyetur disa her? p?r prezenc?n e forcave t? armatosura greke n? Shqip?ri, i revoltuar u p?rgjigj "?uditem shum? se si nuk po m? pyet njeri p?r ushtar?t turq! Se ta dini, kemi edhe ushtar? turq n? Shqip?ri!" Grek?t n? audienc? zbardh?n dh?mb?t. Zaten, ajo ?sht? politika e tyre ? t? mbrojn? veprimet e tyre agresive me pretekstet e balanc?s strategjike. Ama, m? 1997 ushtria greke q?ndroi gati n? kufi t? cop?toj? Shqip?rin?, nd?rkoh? q? kryeministrja turke, me nj? deklarat? formale, na garantoi paprekshm?rin? e kufijve. T? mos keqkuptohemi, nuk kam iluzione as p?r bamir?sin? turke, por turqit t? pakt?n nuk kan? pretendime territoriale ndaj tokave shqiptare. "O koh?ra, o zakone!" b?rtiti Terenci para dy mij? vjet?sh. Pushtetar?t e politikan?t shqiptar? po ?ojn? uj? n? mullirin e grek?ve e serb?ve. Po, n? fund t? fundit, Nanoja, Meta me kompani erdh?n n? pushtet m? 1997 me ndihm?n e k?tyre shovinist?ve fqinj?. Sido q? t? vij? puna, ata do t? tradhtojn? interesat shqiptare p?r hir t? padron?ve t? huaj. V?llez?r e motra! Mos b?ni gabim t? votoni p?r k?ta tradh?tar? sahanl?pir?s! Le q? jan? me aft?si mediokre (ky nj? vler?sim bujar!), por edhe sikur t? ishin mjaft m? t? zot?t se opozita, var?sia e tyre nga t? huajt do t? ngrinte m? tep?r pesh? se ?do aft?si e ve?ant? e tyre. Shp?toni veten e t? ardhmen e f?mij?ve tuaj duke mos i zgjedhur s?rish socialist?t! E ata t? mos harrojn?, se n?se vazhdojn? t? b?jn? politik?n e grekut e t? serbit, Shqip?ris? nuk i jan? mbaruar Avni Rustem?t! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From acapa at bu.edu Wed May 10 09:22:05 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:22:05 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] DAILY HEADLINES Message-ID: <000d01bfba82$c6b24570$eb5dc580@bu.edu> KOUCHNER SAYS RECORD "MIXED" IN KOSOVO- Source: Agence France Presse CHINA, U.S. OBSERVE EMBASSY BOMBING ANNIVERSARY- Sources: Agence France Presse, Associated Press, Reuters U.S. PEACEKEEPERS INTERVENE IN SERB RIOT- Source: Agence France Presse SERBIAN MINISTER SLAMS STUDENT OPPOSITION GROUP- Source: Associated Press CROATIAN MODERATES WIN ZAGREB ELECTIONS - Source: Associated Press SCOTTISH KFOR TROOPS PLAN KOSOVO CONCERT FOR PEACE- Source: Reuters NEW NATO SUPREME COMMANDER VISITS KOSOVO-Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur YUGOSLAV OFFICIALS TRAVEL TO CHINA TO DISCUSS INCREASED TIES- Sources: Agence France Presse, Tanjug Full Summary available at http://www.balkan-info.com Today's Features: ? Croatia Agrees to ICTY Co-operation (Sources: Agence France Presse (AFP), BBC Summary of World Broadcasts citing HINA news agency (Zagreb) and the Financial Times (London)) The Croatian parliament on 14 April adopted a declaration supporting a government pledge to co-operate closely with The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), AFP reported. ? Balkan Religious Leaders Form Co-operation Council (Sources: Agence France Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) and BBC Summary of World Broadcasts citing SRNA) Religious leaders from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo have created an inter-religious council to promote greater co-operation in the region, news services reported. The leaders of the Islamic, Orthodox Serb, and Catholic communities urged their followers to speak in a unified voice against human rights violations, AFP wrote. ? Retiring NATO General Bids Farewell in Skopje (Sources: Associated Press (AP), Agence France Presse (AFP)) General Wesley Clark, retiring Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, said farewell to the citizens of Macedonia in Skopje on 18 April as part of his tour through Europe leading up to his official departure from his post next month. ? Balkan Business and Investment Update 21April 2000 A weekly summary of economic events in the Balkan region. The following stories were taken from a variety of sources from 16 April to 21 April. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From acapa at bu.edu Thu May 11 08:51:48 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:51:48 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] European Institute Message-ID: <003101bfbb47$dbe93870$eb5dc580@bu.edu> If some one is interested for European Institute in Florence click here: http://wwwarc.iue.it/ You can find out more for European Archives -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From PPHILI66 at phd.ceu.hu Thu May 11 10:14:46 2000 From: PPHILI66 at phd.ceu.hu (Altin Ilirjani) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:14:46 +0200 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CfA: Tirana Summer School in Political Science and IR Message-ID: Call for Applications Summer School in Political Science and International Relations. Tirana, 9-30 July 2000 Application deadline: 30 May 2000 The summer school is organized by the Albanian Political Science Association with the financial support of the Open Society Institute in Budapest. The program aims at promoting studies and research in political science and international relations at academic institutions in Albania and Kosova through curricula development and to familiarize participants with contemporary western and Anglo-Saxon literature in these subjects. The school comprises of two programs, political science and international relations. 20 participants will be accepted in each program. Political science program will offer courses on: Comparative Political Institutions and Political Behavior; Comparative Politics; and Public Choice. International relations program will offer courses on: International Relations Theory; International Politics of the Balkans, Governance in the European Union and the Challenge of Enlargement. English will be the language of instruction. Lecturers in the summer school include: Prof. Gabor Toka (Central European University); Prof. Ulrich Sedelmeier (Central European University); Prof. Hasan Unal (Bilkent University); Prof. Charles King (Georgetown University), Prof. Scott McDonnald Pegg (Bilkent University). Applicants to the summer school shall be from Albania, Kosova or Macedonia (Albanian Macedonians). Participants shall be lecturers or teaching assistants at Albanian universities in the region, graduate students of political science, international relations or other relating disciplines (including those who have graduated in recent years). Graduates of political and social sciences working in non-academic institutions may also apply. Qualified applicants will receive scholarships covering all their participation and travel costs. Applications for participation in the summer school should include: 1. Application form (completed and signed). In absence of an application form, please send a personal CV (contact address with email and fax number, education, work experience, publications) and a motivation letter (up to 200 words). 2. One recommendation letter, 3. Photocopies of your university diploma(s) or certificate(s). Only applications received by 30 May 2000 will be considered. All completed applications should be sent to one of the following addresses: Applicants living in Albania or Macedonia: Ermal Ilirjani Rr Cerciz Topulli, Nr 76 Tirana, Albania Tel/Fax: (355-42) 48157 Email: tirana at alpsa2000.org Applicants living in Kosova: Xhavit Rrexhaj Fondacioni Soros Rr. Banjalluka nr. 37 Bregu i Diellit, Prishtine, Kosova Tel. (381-38) 549 116 Email: kosova at alpsa2000.org All other applicants: Altin Ilirjani CEU, Political Science Dept Nador U. 9, Budapest 1051 Hungary Fax: (36-1) 327 3087 Email: apply at alpsa2000.org For more more information and application forms please visit our updated website at http://www.seep.ceu.hu/alpsa or write to one of the addresses above. From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu May 11 08:40:48 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 05:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Religion and ID cards Message-ID: <20000511124048.20377.qmail@web107.yahoomail.com> KATHIMERINI ATHENS, Thursday, May 11, 2000 Updated: 05/11/2000 10:39 GMT Minister: Religion has no place on ID cards Church members, like political party or football supporters, may want to broadcast their allegiances to the world, but such information should not be contained in state identity cards, Justice Minister Michalis Stathopoulos said on Tuesday, enlarging on earlier arguments that deeply displeased the Church of Greece. Brushing aside government assurances that his initial comments in a Monday newspaper interview had been no more than personal opinions, Stathopoulos said anyone who doubted him should look up a three-year-old law. "People, without paying much attention, think I am causing trouble," the Athens University professor of law and former dean told journalists in Thessaloniki. "A personal reading of the law and of my positions will show that what I said was but the simple truth, of the sort we sometimes fear or hesitate to speak." The Church upholds current practice whereby applicants for police identity cards are obliged to declare their religion. But Stathopoulos insisted that this procedure is illegal, saying: "The identity card is a state document, and the state will select the elements of people's identity, taking the law into consideration. The law sets limits to the use of sensitive information... While the law exists, it must be implemented." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! 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Local Libraries: [BostonPublicLibrary] [BU] [Harvard] [MIT: LCS] -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From acapa at bu.edu Thu May 11 08:39:19 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:39:19 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kosovo (Reuters) Message-ID: <001d01bfbb46$1d3c2910$eb5dc580@bu.edu> May 10, 2000 Web posted at: 10:23 PM EDT (0223 GMT) PRISTINA, Kosovo (Reuters) -- Kosovo's Albanians and Serbs drew closer on the political front on Wednesday but out on the streets thousands of ethnic Albanians demonstrated against plans to resettle Serbs in their region. In a move hailed by a top international official as historic, Albanian and Serb politicians issued a statement in which each community condemned crimes committed against the other and urged all citizens not to resort to violence. The declaration came at a meeting of a multi-ethnic council set up by the United Nations to foster cooperation after more than a year of armed conflict -- which culminated in the 1999 NATO bombing to drive Serbian security forces out of Kosovo. "This is the most important meeting we've had," said Bernard Kouchner, the French head of Kosovo's United Nations-led administration. "This is, according to my opinion, the historic statement of the tenth of May." The U.N. has been working for months to bring Serbs and Albanians closer after a decade of increasingly violent Serbian repression of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority, which has been followed by a post-war plague of revenge attacks on Serbs. But a protest in the western town of Istok showed how far the United Nations and NATO, which took control of Kosovo last June, still have to go to achieve genuine reconciliation. The demonstrators, marching just as the politicians in the capital Pristina issued their statement, carried placards with slogans such as "Shed blood has not dried up yet," "Don't hurt the wounds of Kosovo" and "Stop Serb colonies in Kosovo." They were protesting against plans floated by Kosovo Serb leaders and U.S. officials to return Serbs to the area. "We say this project should be stopped. Even talks about returning Serbs to Kosovo should be stopped," said Remzije Zeqiraj, the head of the committee which organized the protest. A figure estimated at more than 200,000 Serbs and members of other minorities fled Kosovo during and after NATO's air war against the forces of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last year, fearing revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians. Despite the presence of around 40,000 peacekeepers from the NATO-led KFOR force since last June, attacks on minorities or cases of harassment against them are still reported daily. Protesters at Wednesday's rally, who appeared to number more than 2,000, said Serbs would not be welcome back until a host of conditions had been met, including the release of Albanians detained during the conflict and now in Serbian jails. The issue of the prisoners is highly emotive for ethnic Albanians, who see it as unfinished business from the conflict. International agencies say at least 1,200 Kosovo Albanians are in Serbian jails. Wednesday's statement by the Kosovo Transitional Council, agreed by all of the around 35 members present except one who objected on a technicality, demanded the handover of all ethnic Albanian prisoners by Yugoslav authorities. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Thu May 11 21:45:07 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:45:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Your_Help_is_Needed/K=EBrkohet_Ndihma_juaj?= (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:38:22 +0200 From: JEHONA Youth Association Subject: [iso-8859-1] Your Help is Needed/K?rkohet Ndihma juaj ALBANIAN/SHQIP KRSH, mb?shtet futbollistin Ervin Ohri q? gjendet i s?mur? me azotemi n? veshka n? nj? nga spitalet e Milanos, Itali. Ky djale 21 vje?, djal? i vet?m i fmiljes Ohri gj?ndet i shtrir? n? nj? nga krevatet e spitalit t? Milanos dhe pret dita dit?s q? te operohet dhe te kryej? nj? tranlatim veshkash. Dit?t kalojn?, por p?r Ervinin k?t? futbollist t? talentuar t? skuadr?s s? Tiran?s nuk po b?het asgj?. Nuk ka para p?r t?u operuar. Shuma e k?rkuar p?r operacionin e Ohrit ?sht? 52 milion liretta, nj? shum? q? nuk mund ta p?rballoj? as familja e tij dhe as t? af?rmit e tjer?. KRSH ngre nj? fushat? sensibilizimi p?r t? gjith? ju q? mund ta ndihmoni ERVIN OHRI-n. Dje dha ai p?r sportin, sot jepni ju p?r sh?ndetin e tij. T? gjith? s? bashku mund ti dhurojm? atij nj? jet? t? dyt?, tep?r t? shtrenjt? p?r t? riun OHRI dhe po ashtu p?r familjen e tij. T? ngrejm? z?rin dhe t? k?rkojm? mb?shtetje tek t? gjith? ata q? kan? mund?si t? japin ndihm?n e par? p?r ERVIN OHRIN. Bashkohuni edhe ju me ne: ?T? GJITH? P?R ERVIN OHRI-N!? Kontributet pranohen n? k?t? llogari bankare: NAIM OHRI BANKA E KURSIMEVE 7334/3631 Ju lutemi t'ia kaloni k?t? mesazh t? gjith? atyre q? njihni dhe mendoni se mund t? kontribuojn?. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- ENGLISH/ANGLISHT AYC, supports the young soccer player Ervin Ohri, who lies sick with asotemy in kidneys at one of Milano's hospitals, in Italy. This young guy of just 21 years old, single son of the Ohri?s family, is waiting day after day to be operated on for kidneys? transplant. The days pass, but for this talented soccer player none has been done. There are no money to operate him on. The requested amount of money for Ohri?s operation is 52 million Liretta (28.000,00 US$), an amount which his family and his related cannot afford. AYC launches this sensibilizing campaign believing that all of you can halp ERVIN OHRI. Yesterday he contributed for the sports in Albania, today is your turn to contribute for his health. All of us together can donate him and his family a second life, very precious for the young Ohri. Let us stand up and seek support among all of them who can to save ERVIN OHRI. Unite with us in our campaign: ?ALL FOR ERVIN OHRI? Contributions are accepted at this Bank account: NAIM OHRI BANKA E KURSIMEVE 7334/3631 Please forward this message to every one in your list. From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu May 11 22:25:44 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kadare ne Gjirokaster Message-ID: <20000512022544.683.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> 15-17 maj ne Gjirokaster; Panairi i librit shqip TIRANE, 11 Maj/ATSH-Klotilda Bi?aku/.- Panairi i Librit i Gjirokastr?s do t? zhvillohet nga 15-17 maj n? Pallatin e Sportit t? k?tij qyteti, b?ri t? ditur p?r ATSH-n? Fatmir To?i, kryetar i Lidhjes s? Botuesve Shqiptar?. N? k?t? panair marrin pjes? rreth 20 sht?pi botuese si "Toena", "Onufri","Botimpex", "Buzuku", "M?M ?abej", etj t? cilat do t? prezantohen me t? gjitha botimet e tyre. N? ceremonin? e ?eljes s? k?tij panairi do t? marri pjes? shkrimtari Ismail Kadare. Gjat? dit?ve t? panairit do t? organizohen nj? s?r? aktivitetesh si konferenca, promovimi i dy librave t? shkrimtareve Ismail Kadare dhe Tasim Gjokutaj. Gjithashtu sht?pia botuese "Toena" do t? jap? edhe ?mimin "Tasim Gjokutaj" p?r librin m? t? mir? p?r f?mij? te botuar gjate vitit 1999. Panairi i Librit i Gjirokastr?s organizohet nga Lidhja e Botuesve Shqiptar? dhe Bashkia e qytetit t? Gjirokastr?s. Lidhja e Botuesve Shqiptar? do t? organizoj? disa panaire librash n? disa qytete t? Shqip?ris? si n? Vlor?, Durr?s, Elbasan, Kor??, Fier, me idene e perhapjes se librit shqip dhe vendosjes direkte me lexuesit./f.n/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu May 11 22:47:06 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] FESTIVALI I GJIROKASTRES Message-ID: <20000512024706.23878.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> Gjirokastra nis p?rgatitjet p?r festivalin, shqiptar?t nga jasht? kufijve pjes?marr?s p?r her? t? par? Festa e folkut 2000 cakton pjes?mar?rsit Gjergj Filipaj Festivali i XII Folklorik Komb?tar po merr form? p?rfundimtare. Esht? Ministria e Kultur?s institucioni q? ka punuar n? p?rgatitjen e festivalit folkloristik shqiptar, duke u ndihmuar nga Akademia e Shkencave, Q?ndra Komb?tare e Veprimtarive Folklorike dhe nga Bashkia e Gjirokastr?s q? po p?rgatisin Festivalin XII Folklorik Shqiptar. Edicioni i sivjetsh?m i festivalit do t? mbahet n? qytetin jugor t? Gjirokastr?s. Kjo ?sht? hera e gjasht? q? ky festival organizohet n? qytetin e gurt?, i cili p?rb?n nj? rekord p?rsa i takon organizimit duke ia kaluar edhe Tiran?s me kat?r edicione. Grupet n? festival Gjirokastra do t? mir?pres? n? fund t? shatorit 2000 n? ambientet e kalas? s? saj, p?r kat?r dit? me rradh?, grupet folkloristike shqiptare. Konkurimi i grupeve pjesmarr?se do t? zhvillohet gjat? tre dit?ve t? folk fest-2000. Esht? vendosur q? secila prefektur? t? ket? nga nj? grup folkloristik (12 grupe), Bashkia e Tiran?s do t? paraqes? grup n? vete, 4 grupe do jen? nga trojet etnike (Mali i Zi, Kosova, Maqedonia dhe ?ameria), 2 grupe folkloristike do t? p?rfaq?sojn? dy grupimet e m?dha t? shqiptar?ve (Arb?resh?t e Italis? dhe Shqiptar?t n? Turqi) dhe 4 grupe t? fundit do jen? me p?rfaq?sues t? shoqatave t? m?dha t? emigracionit shqiptar: SHBA, Zvic?r, Suedi, Gjermani) nd?rsa Tirana-kryeqyteti shqiptar do t? prezantohet me grup n? vete. Edicioni i par? i festivalit folklorik ?sht? mbajtur n? Tiran? n? vitin 1946, nd?rsa i fundit ?sht? realizuar n? vitin 1995 n? Berat, "qytetin e nj?mij? dritareve". Me p?rjashtim t? Beratit dhe Lezh?s n? '67, t? gjith? edicionet e tjera t? Festivalit Folklorik Komb?tar jan? mbajtur n? Tiran? dhe n? Gjirokast?r. Shqiptar?t jasht? atdheut Pjes?marrja n? Festivalin e XII Folkorik Shqiptar k?t? rradh?, ka marr? p?rmasa m? t? m?dha se zakonisht. Si asnj?her? m? par? ?sht? menduar mbulimi edhe i kultures dhe tradit?s s? pasur folkloristike shqiptare, jasht? kufijve shtet?ror? shqiptar?. Esht? hera e par? q? grupe folkoristike nga Mali i Zi, Kosova, Maqedonia dhe ?ameria marrin pjes? n? nj? festival t? k?tij kalibri. P?rve? trojeve shqiptare n? k?t? aktivitet do t? ket? edhe pjes?marrje t? grupeve folklorike nga diaspora shqiptare si arb?resh?t, arvanitasit, p?rfaqsues t? diaspor?s s? larg?t, etj. Pjesmarrrja e k?tyre grupeve do t? ndikoj? jo vet?m n? zgjerimin e hap?sirave gjeografike t? folkut shqiptar, por edhe n? sjelljen e vlerave t? kultur?s tradicionale shqiptare. Ky ?sht? edhe q?llimi i vet? organizator?ve t? festivalit folklorik shqiptar. P?rfaq?suesit e folkut shqiptar jasht? Shqip?ris? do t? ken? t? gjitha t? drejtat e konkurent?ve dhe nuk do mbeten thjesht n? nivelin e p?rsh?ndet?sve t? festivalit folklorik. Folk fest - 2000 Pjesmarrja n? Festivalin e XII Folklorik Shqiptar do t? jet? jo sipas zonave t? ngushta, por me nj? p?rfaq?sim nga zonat m? t? gj?ra etnokulturore dhe ve?orive q? i karakterizojn? k?to zona. Ky fakt sipas organizuesve t? festivalit, do t? sjell? vlera m? cil?sore dhe do t? ndikoj? q? t? shmangen grupet masive dhe p?rs?ritja e repertorit. Nj?koh?sisht, synohet q? n? k?t? veprimatri t? distancohet folklori shqiptar nga grupet masive dhe shfaqjet q? denatyrojn? folkun duke treguar m? shum? nj? variant m? tep?r oriental, sesa shqiptar. P?rve? konkurimit t? grupeve folkorike do t? ket? edhe nj? ekspozit? pikturash me motive nga festivali folklorik, si dhe sfilat? me kostume popullore. "Nat? t? yjeve t? folkut shqiptar" do t? jet? nj? nga pjes?t e tjera t? aktiivitetit. Festivali i XII Folklorik Shqiptar do t? ket? edhe spotin e tij q? do t? realizohet n? bashk?punim me TVSH-n?. N? k?t? kuad?r do t? realizohen edhe tryeza diskutimi p?r folkfest-2000, ku do t? diskutohen vlerat e kultur?s shpirt?rore t? popullit shqiptar. Burimet financiare p?r realizimin e Festivalit t? XII Folklorik Shqiptar do t? sigurohen nga buxheti shtet?ror, fondacionet Noli dhe Velija, Bashkia e Gjirokastr?s si dhe nga sponsor? t? tjer? privat?. SHEKULLI __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From juniku at hotmail.com Fri May 12 08:39:30 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Fri May 12 08:39:30 2000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] WorldNews.com article: "Serb Reporter Handed Over to Court" Message-ID: <200005120738.IAA20423@mail.livenews.com> This email was sent from http://worldnews.com/ WorldNews.com is your gateway to stories from the World's Best online news services. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Associated Press (Thu 11 May 2000) Serb Reporter Handed Over to Court NIS, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A Serb reporter who was detained by police for writing about alleged atrocities committed by the Yugoslav army in Kosovo was handed over to a military court Thursday and could face espionage charges. Miroslav Filipovic, a reporter for Belgrade's independent Danas daily, was arrested Monday at his home in the central Serbian town of Kraljevo. On Thursday, he was transferred to the military court in the southern Serbian city of Nis, about 120 miles south of Belgrade. "Mr. Filipovic has been brought to us and he is in detention ... under suspicion that he committed the criminal act of espionage," said Col. Vukadin Milojevic, who heads the court. A decision on whether to charge Filipovic was due by Saturday. Last month, Filipovic wrote about an alleged secret Yugoslav army intelligence report on soldiers' atrocities against Kosovo Albanians during NATO's 78-day intervention to stop a government crackdown in the Serbian province. He wrote that the report included testimony from a Yugoslav army commander admitting he watched in horror as a soldier decapitated a three-year-old ethnic Albanian boy in front of his family. Another described how tanks in his unit indiscriminately shelled a Kosovo Albanian village before paramilitary police moved in and massacred the survivors. Police inspectors searched Filipovic's apartment before arresting him, confiscating documents and articles. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's regime has been cracking down on independent media, banning and fining newspapers critical of his policies. Scores of independent reporters and opposition activists were detained Monday and Tuesday, when the government launched a major sweep to block a planned opposition rally in Pozarevac, Milosevic's hometown. In a further sign of the government's crackdown, a Pozarevac judge was removed from office and the local state prosecutor offered his resignation Thursday, after both officials had attended the opposition rally, the private Beta news agency reported. Meanwhile, opposition parties announced another anti-government rally in the Yugoslav capital and more protests throughout Serbia, including Pozarevac. Opposition leaders said the protest in Belgrade, scheduled for Monday, was "a matter of honor." Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. From juniku at hotmail.com Sat May 13 04:31:53 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 01:31:53 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] JANUSZ BUGAJSKI & DANIEL N. NELSON: The final cut Message-ID: <20000513083153.43351.qmail@hotmail.com> >>JANUSZ BUGAJSKI & DANIEL N. NELSON: The final cut >> >> >>Copyright ? 2000 Nando Media >>Copyright ? 2000 Christian Science Monitor Service >> >> >> >> >>From Time to Time: Nando's in-depth look at the 20th century >> >> >> >>Christian Science Monitor >> >>WASHINGTON and GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (May 11, 2000 8:13 p.m. EDT >>http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Balkan endgame draws near, and it should. >> >>After a disastrous decade, much of the Yugoslavia of Versailles and Josip >>Broz Tito is a charred ruin. Only Slovenia escaped the military >>destruction >>and/or economic trauma of warfare, genocide, refugees, and occupation. >>Croatia suffered grievously from war damage and the psyche of nationalism >>from which the country is only now emerging. Macedonia, spared armed >>conflict, has nevertheless been forced to grapple with an immense flood of >>refugees in 1999, and the discomfiting status as a NATO dependency. >> >>It isn't over. Kosovo's nonstate status, occupied but not governed, >>separated but not sovereign, cannot continue. Kosovar Albanians cannot >>live >>within a state led from Belgrade. Period. Multiethnicity has been killed, >>literally and figuratively. >> >>Independence for Kosovo is now essential, even if it is not optimal. No >>other outcome will "work," although the notion of anything "working" >>overstates the potential for self-governance. Kosovo will not be ruled the >>way we'd like, and Pristina-directed policies will not be those we want. >>Still, an endless occupation qua protectorate offers nothing but cost and >>danger. >> >>More important is the future of Serbia and its rump Yugoslavia. In Serbia, >>there are no credible signs a democratic transition, precipitated by >>opposition electoral success la Croatia, can be anticipated. Despite large >>protest rallies, Serbia possesses no united mass support for ousting the >>ruling clique. In fact, Milosevic consistently comes first in public >>opinion >>polls, and opposition politicians are widely perceived as corrupt, >>incompetent, or national traitors. Though two-thirds of the public >>apparentl >>y would vote for one of the opposition parties, many of these people still >>view Milosevic as a hero protecting the victimized nation against foreign >>threats. >> >>There is no Croatian-model transition in Serbia's future. Indeed, evidence >>mounts that Serbia is more likely to undergo violent turmoil than peaceful >>transformation. The circle of violence and vendetta is accelerating in >>Serbia. The "war at the top" in Belgrade literally is a struggle for >>survival among a small clique of war criminals and profiteers. They'd >>evidently murder their most loyal allies to remain in power, keep stolen >>riches, and stay out of The Hague. >> >>Later this year, renewed conflict leading to warfare is at least possible, >>if not probable, in Montenegro, Kosovo, and in Serbia itself. Serb >>preparations for violent intervention against Montenegro's President Milo >>Djukanovic are clear and present. The buildup of paramilitary forces >>alongside the Yugoslav Second Army inside Montenegro is evident - the >>former >>being a force loyal to Milosevic and more reliable for a violent showdown >>with Montenegro's special police forces. >> >>Kosovo is far from quiet. Serbs claim their troops will be back when the >>U.N. mandate expires in the summer, and continue to try to partition the >>region, slicing off the valuable Kosovska Mitrovica area; at the same >>time, >>Albanians seek the annexation of Southwest Serbia. Both sides seek to >>provoke and escalate. It will be a hot summer. >> >>Within Serbia itself, the opposition has launched fresh campaigns and has >>already assembled one massive protest rally in Belgrade last month. >>Milosevic has countered with a campaign to eliminate independent media, >>regroup military forces, and call up reservists. He and the >>socialist/nationalist coalition seem to be preparing for local and federal >>elections and for military action in southwestern Serbia or Montenegro. >>Social protests, provocations, and armed conflicts within Serbia and rump >>Yugoslavia are a good bet. >> >>NATO and the United States will be unable to stand aside. After dropping >>bombs and deploying tens of thousands of alliance troops to occupy and >>pacify Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, staying out of Montenegro will be >>impossible. But we'd be foolish to expect Serbia's internal conflicts to >>remain internal. Refugee floods and, perhaps, civil war would affect and >>spill into surrounding countries. >> >>Before this scenario begins, let's recognize that Balkan stability and >>Yugoslavia's existence are in direct contradiction. Containment, neglect, >>or >>wishful thinking are not viable solutions. >> >>The dismemberment of Milosevic's rump Yugoslavia is an eventuality on >>which >>we can depend. Timing is uncertain, but it won't be long. Three more >>viable >>states - independent Montenegro and Kosovo, plus a democratized Serbia - >>may >>be the most stable outcome. >> >>The democratization of Serbia isn't assured, won't be quiet, and might be >>one of the most costly transitions of the post-communist era. >> >>Still, NATO and Washington had best come to grips with an uncomfortable >>truth - the path to long-term peace and prosperity in a troubled region >>such >>as the Balkans may lie directly through a period of intense instability. >> >>Attempting to produce stability when conditions for long-term security are >>absent is a guarantee of failure. In Southeastern Europe, the "cause" of >>instability isn't just Milosevic, but what the Serbian dictator >>represents. >> >>To end Balkan instability requires far more than bombing from 15,000 feet >>and peace-enforcement. It may, ultimately, require military force to >>ensure >>the dismemberment of Yugoslav remnants. To turn our backs on that >>likelihood >>would be historically blind and politically naive. We ought not repeat >>those >>kind of Balkan mistakes yet again. >> >>Janusz Bugajski is director of East European programs at the Center for >>Strategic and International Studies. Daniel N. Nelson is professor at the >>George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Views expressed >>here are the authors' and do not represent their institutions. >> > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > >_______________________________________________________ >Prishtina-E discussion forum: Prishtina-E at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/prishtina-e ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Fri May 12 20:47:09 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Ditet e Kadarese - Koha Jone Message-ID: <20000513004709.18176.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Qyteti i gurte nen peshen e librit Tri ditet e Panairit te Librit "Gjirokastra 2000", 15-17 maj Shkrimtari Ismail Kadare do te peruroje dy botimet e tij me te fundit: "Kronike ne gur" dhe "Brezi te Hankonateve" Botimet shqiptare drejt qytetit te Gjirokastres. Qellimi i "shtegetimit" te tyre eshte organizimi i panairit te librit "Gjirokastra 2000" qe do te zhvillohet nga data 15 deri me 17 maj pikerisht ne kete qytet te Shqiperise. Aktiviteti eshte ndermarre ne kuadrin e disa panaireve rajonale te librit qe do te organizohen gjate muajve ne vazhdim ne disa prej qyteteve kryesore te vendit. Gjjirokastra hap siparin e ketyre panaireve, qe do te perfshijne ndoshta 10 apo 12 qytete te Shqiperise. Sipas presidentit te ShB "Toena", Fatmir Toci, qe eshte dhe kryetari i Lidhjes se Botuesve Shqiptare, nismetares se kesaj veprimtarie, qellimi i kesaj te fundit eshte "bashkimi i te gjithe njerezve te letrave shqipe: autoret, botuesit, lexuesit, perfaqesuesit e shtypit dhe te medias etj, per krijimin dhe zhvillimin e kontakteve tradicionale midis tyre, duke synuar promovimin dhe nxitjen e leximit ne masat e gjera te rinise, sidomos ne kushtet e mungeses se plote te sistemit te distribucionit te librit". Pjesemarrje e gjere Deri diten e djeshme kane konfirmuar pjesemarrjen e tyre ne kete panair rreth tridhjete shtepi botuese nga Shqiperia dhe Kosova, nga te cilat: ""Onufri", "Toena", "Botimpex", "Omska", "Buzuku" (Prishtine), "Luarasi", "Libri Universitar", "Fan.S. Noli", "Camaj-Pipa"(Shkoder), "Naun Veqilharxhi", "Arbri", "Albin", "AQTLASH", "Iliria", "Planet", "Uegen", "Elena Gjika", Argeda LMG", "Friend", "Koha", "ABC"(Gjirkoaster), "Dija-Poradeci"(Pogradec), MCM, NLSH, "Shkenca" etj. Me qellim qe aktiviteti te mund te ndiqet dhe te preket drejtperdrejt nga lexuesit, vecanerisht nga nxenesit e shkollave dhe studentet, Bashkia e Gjirokastres, bashkepunetore ne organizimin e ketij panairi, ka marre te gjitha masat duke planifikuar qe gjate tre diteve te panairit, oret e mesimeve te jene te shkurtuara per te mundesuar frekuentimin e panairit edhe nga nxenesit. Praktike kjo e ndjekur suksesshem edhe ne Panairin e Prishtines se nje viti me pare. Nga shpjegimet e Tocit mesohet se panairi do te kete karakter shitjeje dhe vec kesaj botuesve qe do te marrin pjese u jane krijuar shume kushte te favorshme duke filluar qe nga stendat dhe siperfaqja qe do te zene secila te dhena falas, udhetimet falas te botuesve, te te ftuarve, krijimi i kushteve falas per promovime librash, takime me lexues, konferenca shtypi etj. Panairi i librit "Gjirokastra 2000" do t'i paraprije njerit prej aktiviteteve me te medha te librit shqip, sic eshte Panairi i Dyte Mbarekombetar i Librit Shqip ne Prishtine, i cili do te zhvillohet nga data 24 deri me 28 maj. Ditet e Kadarese I ftuari i nderit i ketij aktiviteti te rendesishem per librin shqip, do te jete shkrimtari yne i madh, Ismail Kadare. "Ditet e Kadarese" do te quhen ndryshe tre ditet e panairit, per vete faktin se kjo figure e ndritur do te jete objekti kryesor i disa prej veprimtarive qe do te zhvillohen gjate ketyre 72 oreve. Ne historikun e tij panairi i librit "Gjirokastra 2000" do te shenoje si kurorezuesin e tij Ismail Kadarene, pasi do te jete pikerisht ai qe do te prese shiritin e perurimit te tij. Sic dihet, perpara disa kohesh, qyteti i Gjirokastres e ka nderuar ate me titullin "Qytetar nderi". Per kete qellim, ceremonia e dhenies se ketij titulli do te zhvillohet pikerisht ne nje prej diteve te panairit. Vec kesaj, ShB "Onufri" do te organizoje edhe promovimin e dy botimeve te fundit qe mbajne emrin e Kadarese, ribotimin e "Kronike ne gur" dhe botimin e ri "Brezi te Hankonateve". Cmimi "Tahsim Gjokutaj" Nje eveniment tjeter brenda evenimentit, eshte edhe dhenia e cmimit qe mban emrin e nje prej shkrimtareve me te njohur per femije, Tahsim Gjokutaj. Eshte bere tradite qe per cdo vit te akordohet nje cmim i tille per librin me te mire per femije dhe kete here ai do t'i jepet me te mirit te vitit '99. Duke qene se ShB "Toena" shenon ne botimet e saj edhe nje numer te konsiderueshem tituj librash per femije, do te jete pikerisht ajo qe do ta jape kete cmim. Emri i shkrimtarit Tahsim Gjokutaj do te lakohet serisht ne panairin e librit "Gjirokastra 2000", tashme ne promovimin e dy librave te tij "Derrkuci qe beri dush" dhe "Vajza qe u be blete", te dyja keto botime te ShB "Toena". Interesant do te jete edhe takimi me biologun Et'hem Ruka, si autor i librit "Klonimi". Per kete qellim, eshte pergatitur nje material me teme mbi klonimin, i cili do te jepet per te pranishmit ne nje video projektor te vendosur ne Pallatin e Sportit te qytetit te Gjirokastres, ku do te zhvillohet panairi. Kjo do t'u jape mundesine te interesuarve ne kete fushe te bisedojne dhe debatojne me autorin Ruka, rreth ketij problemi. M.Hoxhalli __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! 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From: kreshnik jutbina Subject: nje gazete e re shqiptare ne Internet Date: 12 May 00 20:47:28 MET DST Size: 1365 URL: From acapa at bu.edu Mon May 15 08:50:57 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 08:50:57 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Tension ahead of Belgrade rally Message-ID: <000a01bfbe6c$3718a290$eb5dc580@bu.edu> Monday, 15 May, 2000, 08:27 GMT 09:27 UK Tension ahead of Belgrade rally Police have been taking down Otpor posters Opposition leaders in Yugoslavia have accused the government of preparing for a violent confrontation ahead of a big rally in Belgrade on Monday. The opposition denied any involvement in political violence and said attempts by the government to implicate them in Saturday's killing of a prominent government loyalist are meant as a smokescreen for further repression. The authorities have warned that they will act decisively against demonstrators Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Martic said the authorities would use the full force of the law against anyone belonging to the student opposition movement Otpor. The rally in Belgrade is being held a week after the opposition cancelled a similar event in Pozarevac, the hometown of President Slobodan Milosevic. Mr Martic said the student movement was not a registered organisation and the police would deal with it accordingly. He said the authorities would take action against anyone seen with posters baring the distinctive Otpor symbol - a clenched black and white fist. Blame The authorities are blaming Otpor - which means Resistance - for Saturday's killing of the Socialist Party activist, Bosko Perosevic. Mr Martic described it as a neo-fascist organisation whose aim was to destroy Yugoslavia. Mr Perosevic was touring a trade fair in the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad on Saturday when a local guard, identified as 50-year-old Milivoje Gutovic, shot him in the head. Bosko Perosevic was shot and died later in hospital Police said in a statement they found "beyond doubt" that Mr Gutovic was an activist with Otpor and the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and that a search of his home revealed "posters and propaganda material of Otpor and of Serbian Renewal Movement, as well as brochures on terrorism". Both Otpor and the SPO - which is run by charismatic opposition leader Vuk Draskovic - have denied the allegations and any connection with the gunman. Mr Draskovic quoted a local party official as saying the accusation was "an absolute lie". Tribute Mr Draskovic paid tribute to Mr Perosevic who "did not speak the language of hate, who was a man of cooperation. "One must look for those who ordered the killing of such a man within the more extremist elements at the top of this regime which wants to hold on to power by committing crimes, killing people and accusing others," said Mr Draskovic. The last opposition rally was blocked by police Ivan Marovic, an Otpor leader, said several activists had been summoned or detained for questioning in several Serbian towns, including Novi Sad. He accused the authorities of attempting to "use the tragedy... to crack down on political opponents." The shooting of Perosevic was the latest in a series of political assassinations in Yugoslavia, the most recent of which have struck at on senior figures in the governing elite. Zivorad Petrovic, general manager of the Yugoslav national airline JAT, was shot dead in April, while Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic was gunned down in February. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From besnik at alb-net.com Mon May 15 13:41:08 2000 From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:41:08 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: Book Review: Bozbora & Sinnu on Albania, Reviewed by Isa Blumi Message-ID: --- begin forwarded text Balkan Academic News Book Review 4/2000 ________________________________________________________ Nuray Bozbora, Osmanli Y?netiminde Arnavutluk: Arnavut Ulus?ulugu'nun Gelis[h]imi. Istanbul: Boyut Kitaplari, 1997. pp. 303 with bibliography; 6 maps and 2 photos, ISBN: 975-521-053-7 language: Turkish 'Abd al-Ra'uf Sinnu, Title: al-Naz'aat al-Kiyaaniyyah al-Islaamiyyah fi al-Dawlah al-Uthmaaniyyah, 1877-1881: Bilaad al-Shaam, al-Hijaaz, Kurdistaan, Albaaniyaa. Beirut: Bisaan, 1998, pp. 247 with index and bibliography; 14 primary documents from London's PRO, 4 maps. ISBN: none. language: Arabic Reviewed by Isa Blumi (NYU) ________________________________________________________ These two books cover the seminal period of an emerging Albanian political entity within the confines of the Ottoman Empire. The attempt to locate the origins of national movements in past work has an apparent impact on how both authors narrate the trajectory of history, but they go about exploring the issue in refreshingly novel ways. Dr. Bozbora has used her dissertation from Marmara University in Istanbul (1994) to provide one of the only scholarly book-length studies of Albanian history in the Turkish language. While I am personally engaged in this period with my own dissertation and thus have a number of problems with Bozbora's methodology and theoretical foundations, she must at least be congratulated for her attempt to integrate a wide range of secondary materials in the major West European languages and Turkish (Ottoman). That said, having proved her proficiency in these languages, my first and most assertive criticism of this book (Albania Under Ottoman Administration: The Growth of Albanian Nationalism) is the underutilized resources made available to her at the Prime Minister's Archives in Istanbul and her subsequent reliance on secondary work for the foundation of her thesis. Bozbora notes the use of some 40 Ottoman documents (with 29 documents from London's PRO) spanning a period between 1878 to 1905. The amount of material in Istanbul is almost mind-boggling, the whole of Albania history in the late Ottoman period floods the archive's catalogues begging for a comprehensive and much belated revision of this important historical period. The sorry fact that the most important works of this period are heavily reliant on sources from Vienna, Tirana, Prishtina, London (anywhere but the heart of the Empire, Istanbul) cries out for a book of Bozbora's ambition. Bozbora does not perform the task, unfortunately, to its full potential. It is for this reason that my disappointment is so profound. Bozbora attempts to identify the origins of Albanian Nationalism through the sophisticated theory of John Breuilly (Nationalism and the State, 1982) which posits examples of late nineteenth-century nationalism were responses to state modernization. Bozbora suggests that an amalgamation of institutional and cultural artifacts were central to establishing an Ottoman presence in its most prized of Balkan possessions and these artifacts created the context for nationalism in the nineteenth century. The book meanders through several chapters obviously attempting to establish this foundation, culminating in a rather lengthy and at times nuanced study of the period of reform (Tanzimat) which immediately proceeded the convening of the League of Prizren in 1878. It is within these pages that Breuilly's structuralist approach to locate nationalism reveals its impact. It is therefore unfortunate that we have to rely on a dubious selection of sources, all tainted by their outdated narrative styles or ideological luggage, to understand the period. Of course these works constitute the heart of the literature available to us, but I would expect Bozbora to apply some of her sophistication (demonstrated by finding inspiration in Breuilly's work) to be a little more critical of the material she cites. When Kristo Frasheri, Halil Inalcik, Stanford Shaw and Stefanaq Pollo constitute our historiographical foundation, we are doomed to questionable results. These works were problematic when they were written for their univocal claims (the lack of scholarship in this area rendered each of these works essential to historians). Today, after much thought has been put into the power of language and the politics of history, let alone the dubious links to the "Decline" thesis of the Ottoman Empire these authors claimed, Bozbora should be more critical. The most productive aspects of this book lies in identifying important events and processes which impacted how the inhabitants of the Albanian districts related to Istanbul. The suggestion that reform measures emanating from Istanbul in the nineteenth century antagonized local communities is not a novel contribution. It is the far more nuanced interaction between inter-state rivalries (Austrian, Russia, Serbian, Montenegrin, British and Ottoman) and the expressed reactions and consequent demands of future Albanian nationalists which proves helpful. It is within the mechanics of this imperial quagmire which left the integrated populations of Nish, Kosova, Malisore, Janina, Manastir, and Shkoder at the mercy of covetous neighbors and the failures of Istanbul. The League's of Prizren and Peja (Ipek), local revolts in Gjakova (Yakova) and the activities of Albania's diaspora are listed judiciously as important markers. Again, Bozbora's challenge to identify the reforms instituted (half-heartedly) in Albanian territories as the fundaments of Albanian nationalism is unfortunately lost in the rather arbitrary use of primary documents. I would like to see more effort put into reflecting the clear developments in Istanbul by the use of documentation (of which there are hundreds of examples) in order to identify the real actors in this process. Albanian reactions to the events of the times were not products of a few great men (since the book does not contain an index, they are themselves, hard to find in the text) but communal acts. There is no mention of wide-spread communal organization in this book because they generally are lost in the finer print of the archival material. I am afraid the obvious dependency on the secondary literature (Skendi, Pollo, Frasheri etc.) to identify where to start in the arduous work of archival research leads Bozbora, ultimately, down the same conclusive logic they took. My solution would be for research beyond the "moments" of history-the Prizen and Peja Congresses. Research which delves into the complex social history of the Albanians of the late Ottoman Empire, where we would find new heroes and heroines, starts not with the Albanian members of the Young Ottoman movement (a worthwhile subject) or Ismail Kemal, but those same people who made up the heart of Kosova's Liberation Army. In 'Abd al-Ra'uf Sinnu's work (The Fragmentation of the Islamic Structure in the Ottoman State, 1877-1881: Syria, Hijaz (Sa'udi 'Arabia--Mecca and Medina), Kurdistan, Albania) we find a far more specific analysis of events surrounding the conclusion of war between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman State in 1877-78. The central concern of the book is to locate the impact a growing element of internal resistance to Ottoman centralization (related to the reforms noted in Bozbora's work) in light of the conclusive diplomatic defeat at San Stefano and later Berlin. Identifying four regions in the empire which proved highly volatile is an innovative and unexpected (but welcome) move by the author, exhibiting his interests beyond what Arabic-language texts offer. The specificity of the study, as opposed to the long dur?e approach of Bozbora makes this book, as a whole, far more intellectually tenable. For the purposes of this forum, I will focus on chapter five in which the author explores the "Russian-Ottoman War (1877-1878) and its impact in the renaissance of the Albanian Region." Not unlike his treatment of the other areas under study, the author identifies an incipient external presence in the events which lead to the League of Prizren. Largely due to the material that he uses (more or less the same as Bozbora's in terms of European-language materials with one welcome exception from the Arabic language, Muhammad Mufaku's much neglected work) the reader is left to conclude that dictates from London, Belgrade, St. Petersburg or Istanbul had far more weight than local actions. I am reluctant to be overly critical of this observation because in the context of the larger story the author is trying tell, it has a profoundly different reading of the period, both in more accessible European languages and Arabic. Read autonomously from the book, however, the chapter is more or less a failure in critical reading, in particular because it is full of rather unhelpful reiterations of the same works I noted in the first review. This is quite suggestive, really. Bozbora's book does not work as well as this one because of the focus of his respective study. As in the administration of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina (Chap 3.) the Sultan's decisive policy shift after the significant territorial loses in the Caucuses and Balkans towards a quasi-Islamic nationalism had a significant impact on politics in Albanian territories. How the Great and Lesser Powers responded in what remained Ottoman Albania to the, according to Sinnu, justifiable policies, has a profound effect on what transpires during the following forty years. It is to be remembered that large numbers of refugees from areas newly awarded Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Austria-Hungary not only put logistical strain on locals in the Kosova and Shkoder administrative districts, but enormous sociological and political pressure as well. This point is only hinted at, largely because of the inadequacy of his sources, and Sinnu does not capture the mood of the time (Bozbora does not with any great skill in this either). Sinnu correctly notes the regime of Sultan Abd?lhamid II demonstrated a heightened awareness of the impending claims made upon the Empire for further territorial expansion. The Christian powers, as the author elects to identify them, pushes for extensive extra-territorial rights for what are now large minority populations, that of Catholic and Orthodox Albanian, Slavic and Greek speaking populations. The concentration of large numbers of "ethnically cleansed" people mixed with these protected minorities have very interesting consequences for the Ottoman state and Sinnu's analysis would have benefited from understanding this element better. The chapter itself is structured, not surprisingly, to summarize the outstanding events in Albanian history, from Roman times to 1877. While that kind of narrative proves virtually useless in explaining the relatively complex situation on the ground in 1877-78, the ultimate goal of the piece still retains some value. Much as Bozbora attempts to locate sources of the Albanian expression of nationalism, her failure to address this geo-strategic game with any authority makes Sinnu's work that much more admirable. Out of the same source material, we get a completely different perspective of the Albanian experience at the height of its manifested nationalist claims. Sinnu's work is much more conscious of geography, careful to identify the territorial fissures which had such an important role in foreign power intervention-their highly subjective census reports and maps of ethnic (sectarian) distribution. In the larger Ottoman context, such tensions manifested in Albania take on a far more ominous tone. Albanian issues, taken from the Ottoman perspective (a view not yet explored in any other language) highlights the vulnerability of the Ottoman position. In light of this observation,one can study Istanbul's complicated response to these challenges. Sinnu, in an equally innovative way, finds formative links between Abd?lhamid's heightened Islamic rhetoric and a growing Albanian, collective identity. (pp. 143-155) The demands periodically articulated by various communities in Kosova and Albania find resonance in a new imperial space. That space finds the minority populations largely hostile to continued Ottoman rule, including many Albanian-speaking Catholic and Orthodox Christians were often in direct conflict with their Albanian Muslim neighbors. Such a matrix is of dubious value if we insist on reading this chapter as an authoritative statement about Albanian nationalism. I give the author more credit however, for inducting a rarely cited case, Albania, in the historical narrative of the Arabic-speaking world. Untold numbers of Albanian-Arabs who still live in neighborhoods in Tunis, Cairo, Damascus and Amman are largely unaware that their forefather's, in the service of the Empire, emanated from this complex social milieu in the Balkans. It is thus quite satisfying that Sinnu (apparently of Kurdish origin) is making a conscious effort to tie-in the origins of "Arab" nationalism, Kurdish efforts for a state and the beginnings of European imperialism in the region. This book fails to give the larger audience, beyond the Arabic-speaking world, any new insight into Albanian nation-building, but does the important job of situating what transpired in the Balkans during the Berlin Congress with events far on the other side of the Empire. ________________________________________________________ ? 2000 Balkan Academic News. This review may be distributed and reproduced electronically, if credit is given to Balkan Academic News and the author. 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When she turned 18, she did. > >Unfortunately, as she later found out, she is not a U.S. citizen. Immigrant >children adopted by U.S. parents are not automatically citizens. In Ms. >Parker's case, her father died before completing the paperwork, and so she >is technically not an American. An innocent mistake, except that in 1996, >Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility >Act (IIRAIRA), a sweeping law that contains many harsh provisions that are >now wreaking havoc with American families. > >One of those provisions makes it a felony for non-citizens to vote. There >are no exceptions for innocent mistakes like Ms. Parker's. She faces the >prospect of being deported to Eritrea, where she was born. Her plight was >featured in two-parts on the CBS News segment "Eye on America" in April. > >According to the CBS reporter, the sponsor of this provision of the 1996 >law, Charles Canady (R-FL) suggested that the Immigration and >Naturalization Service should "look the other way" when faced with a >situation like Julia Parker's. However, putting the onus on a law >enforcement agency to decide in which situations it should or shouldn't >enforce the law breeds cynicism and disrespect for the law. > >The 1996 Immigration Act should be fixed. It is overly harsh and >inflexible. It treats someone who makes an innocent mistake the same as a >hardened criminal. Congress must act to change the law. > >Julia Parker's story can be found on the CBS website in two parts, at: > > http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,185282-412,00.shtml > >and > > http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,185611-412,00.shtml > > >Other stories of immigrants and their families caught up in the overly >harsh provisions of the 1996 immigration law can be found on the National >Immigration Forum's "Fix 96" Campaign pages on the Forum's website at: > > http://www.immigrationforum.org/fix96/default.htm > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From i_spaho at hotmail.com Tue May 16 19:23:20 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:23:20 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [Alb-club] Campionato sospeso per lutto Message-ID: <20000516232320.67813.qmail@hotmail.com> > > >Tirana. La federcalcio albanese ha sospeso il prossimo turno del campionato >per rendere omaggio all'arbitro internazionale Luan Zylfo e al presidente >del >Tomorri Berat Ardian Cubo, uccisi sabato scorso a pistolettate in un aguato >nel quale un altro arbitro ? rimasto ferito. Fino al lunedi prossimo non si >giocher? a calcio in Albania.In seguito all'episodio, due uomini sono stati >arrestati. > > >* Alb-Club at alb-net.com / Albanian Club Discussion List * >____________________________________________________ >Alb-Club mailing list: Alb-Club at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/alb-club ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue May 16 23:21:35 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] E bukur si drita Message-ID: <20000517032135.12569.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> KOHA JONE Panairi i Librit Shqip i "sjell" Gjirokastres birin e saj Ismail Kadare: "Ky qytet e ka cmuar gjithmone driten dhe me kete kuptojme driten e brendshme te njeriut, driten e brendshme te qyteterimit, per te cilen aq shume ka nevoje Shqiperia sot" Te henen, rreth ores 12.15 minuta, nje helikopter i kuq hyri ne luginen e Drinos ne Gjirokaster pasi kishte fluturuar te pakten 45 minuta nga kryeqyteti shqiptar. Para se te takonte rrotat ne barin e njome te aeroportit te vogel te qytetit, nje grup jo i madh i perbere nga zyrtare vendore, gazetare e qytetare gjirokastrite pershperiten me syte e drejtuar nga qielli "erdhi". Ismail Kadare po kthehej per here te pare ne vendlindje pas 12 vjetesh. Kafeja e pare dhe fjalet e para te Kadarese Pas shtrengimit te duarve me miqte e vjeter dhe te rinj, Kadare se bashku me Helenen u ftuan ne nje nga sallat e hotel "Cajupit", i ngritur ne pjesen muzeale te qytetit. Fjalet e mireseardhjes u shoqeruan pas kesaj me servirjen e kafese tradicionale te mikpritjes. "E kam ndier kete pritje, c'eshte e verteta dhe e kam vonuar shume kete vizite, dhe kjo eshte shume e vertete,- tha Kadare. Tani une nuk jam ndonje politikan qe t'u kerkoj ndjese. Erdha vetem me gezim dhe kam pasur gjithmone ndermend te vij. Keshtu e kane sjelle rrethanat. Disa here te jashtme, disa here thjesht te miat. Mos shko me mire se merzitesh, sepse atje ka shume rrenim, ka shume shfytyrim te qytetit dhe ndoshta edhe kjo ka luajtur nje rol. Njeriu ndonjehere nuk do te prishe disa pamje qe ka, megjithate kjo nuk eshte nje arsye qe duhet nderuar gjithmone". Disi i lodhur nga udhetimi, Kadare nuk i kishte fort per zemer mikrofonet e gazetareve qe ne ndonje moment e benin nervoz. Prania e tyre e zhvishte nga karakteri zyrtar viziten qe ai vete deshironte ta ndiente si dikur kur kthehej nga udhetimet e largeta. Celja e Panairit te Librit Shqip ose ditet e Kadarese Tri ditet e para te kesaj jave perkojne me celjen e Panairit te Librit Shqip "Gjirokastra 2000". Ndryshe keto dite quhen "Ditet e Kadarese" pasi vete shkrimtari i madh eshte ne qender te disa veprimtarive me te rendesishme te tij. Ne oren 18.00, pas fjales se hapjes se panairit nga kryebashkiaku Ylli Asllani, Ismail Kadareja preu shiritin e celjes se tij. 24 shtepi botuese nga 30 qe kishin deklaruar me pare pjesemarrjen e tyre, priten pas kesaj ceremonie te shkurter ne stendat e tyre disa qindra vizitore ku mbizoteronin studentet dhe nxenesit e shkollave. "Ky eshte nje panair i pergatitur pak me shpejtesi per te shfrytezuar dhe ardhjen e shkrimtarit Ismail Kadare, tha per "KJ" Fatmir Toci, presidenti i Lidhjes se Botuesve Shqiptare dhe botuesi i Toenas. I jam mirenjohes Bashkise se Gjirokastres per ndihmesen e dhene dhe kjo na jep shprese per vazhdimesine e ketyre panaireve edhe ne rrethe te tjera te vendit". Qellimi i ketij panairi rajonal, te ideuar qe nje vit me pare nga Lidhja e Botuesve, lidhet me interesin per te kontaktuar masa e gjere shkollore dhe sidomos ajo studentore me librin ne kushtet e nje mungese te jashtezakonshme dhe te nje shkaterrimi total qe i eshte bere distribucionit te librit ne Shqiperi, tha Toci. Fillimi i ketyre panaireve nga qyteti i Gjirokastres lidhet me faktin se Gjirokastra ka nxjerre personalitete te medha ne fushen e Letersise shqipe, per me teper qe ajo shquhet per masen e gjere te lexuesve. Arsyeja kryesore, qe sipas Tocit e nisi nga Gjirokastra serine e ketyre panaireve, lidhej padyshim me viziten e paracaktuar te Ismail Kadarese ne kete qytet pas fteses nga Bashkia per marrjen e titullit "Qytetar Nderi" i Gjirokastres. Ne panair marrin pjese Shtepia Botuese "Onufri", "Toena", "Botimpex", "Libri Universitar", "Elena Gjika", "MCM", "ABC Gjirokaster" etj. 250 libra te Kadarese shiten per 60 minuta Sic ishte parashikuar, suksesin me te madh edhe ne kete panair si ai i disa muajve me pare ne Prishtine e kishin librat e Kadarese. Pikerisht per kete ne stenden e "Onufrit" pjesemarresit i mbanin edhe kembet me gjate. Librat me te shitur jane sipas botuesit Hudhri "Brezi i Hankonateve" 55 kopje dhe "Kronike ne gure" 50. Se bashku me librat e tjere te shitur, ky numer arriti per 60 minutat e para te panairit ne rreth 250 kopje te shitura, ose mbi 4 kopje te shitura ne nje minute. Prane stendes se "Onfurit" organizatoret e panairit u kujdesen te vendosnin edhe nje tavoline e nje karrige. Ismail Kadare firmosi per 40 minuta me dhjetra autografe, kryesisht ne librat e shkruara prej tij. Menaxheri i librit te "Onufrit", Agim Kucuku tha se nese do te vazhdoje me te njejtat ritme shitjeje deri ne diten e fundit te panairit, atehere stendat do te boshatisen si ne panairin e meparshem te Kosoves. Nuk e prisnim nje terheqje te tille, tha Kucuku i kenaqur tej mase nga menyra e organizimit te panairit dhe dashamiresia e njerezve per librin. Kadareja ne germadhat e shtepise se tij dhe ne kopshtin e Kako Pinos Paraditen e se martes Kadareja se bashku me gruan e tij Helenen dhe arkitektin e rindertimit te shtepise se tij Latif Yzeiri, nga Instituti i Monumenteve te Kultures, zbriten ne lagjen "Palorto". Atje ndodhet shtepia e tij e femijerise e kthyer nentorin e kaluar ne germadhe. Do te doja qe shtepia te ruante konfiguracionin e meparshem, tha Kadare duke kaluar madje ne detajet e projektit. Pas kesaj bisede ai kerkoi te hynte ne banesen perballe shtepise se tij. Dikur aty jetonte personazhi i njohur i librit te tij "Kronike ne gure" Kako Pinua. Te zotet e shtepise i dhane pa asnje medyshje celesat e hyrjes per ne kopesht. Aty Kadareja filloi t'i tregonte Helenes historite e femijerise me shokun e tij te ngushte Ilirin personazh i "Koha e shkrimeve". Me pas Kadare u ringjit ne Sokakun e te Marreve dhe ndaloi per pak caste ne gjimnazin "Asim Zeneli" ku kreu studimet e para ne rinine e tij. "Nderi i Gjirokastres", titulli i lajmeruar per shkrimtarin e madh Mesditen e se martes Kadarese iu dorezua nga kryetari i Bashkise Ylli Asllani, titulli i akorduar me pare "Nderi i Gjirokastres". Vete Asllani lexoi motivacionin e dhenies se ketij titulli pas nje recitali me pjese nga vepra e shkrimtarit dhe kenge prej grupeve popullore te Gjirokastres. "Bashkia e Gjirokastres, i jep titullin "Nderi i Gjirokastres" z. Ismail Kadare me motivacionin"si talenti me brilant i Letersise shqiptare, vepra e te cilit e rendit Shqiperine ne menyren me dinjitoze ne trashegimine e kultures evropaine dhe boterore. Perjetesia e krijimtarise se tij, garanton ne menyren me elegante perjetesine e vlerave te Gjirokastres qe e lindi dhe qe ai e pershkroi me aq art. Krijimtaria publicistike, filozofike, letrare i ofron publikut interpretimin me te mire te vlerave qe burojne nga mendimi i lire dhe demokratik, sensi i progresit dhe kurajoja qytetare". Mes duartrokitjeve e mori fjalen Kadareja, i cili qe ne fillim u shpreh se cdo gje qe do t'u them une do t'u duket e zakonshme sepse nuk ka shume fjale per te shprehur, disa gjindje qe jane te bukura te njeriut, jane te thella, jane tronditese. Me poshte Kadareja tha se jam i prekur qe ky nder me vjen nga qyteti ku une kam lindur, ku per here te pare kam folur Gjuhen shqipe, ku per here te pare kam mesuar te flas, te lexoj dhe per me teper, te mendoj. Aventura e mendimit eshte aventura me e veshtire e races njerezore dhe ne kete aventure pjesen me te larte e perben mendimi i lire. Te mendosh ne menyre te lire eshte gjeja me e rralle, shpesh here kur ka gjendje roberie. Eshte gjeja me e veshtire ndonese duket e thjeshte. Eshte nje nga cilesite e mrekullueshme te qenies njerezore. Me pas Kadare tha se ky eshte nje qytet qe ka nje drite te brendshme qe ka mahnitur shume te huaj dhe qe per te ne te gjithe jemi krenare. Evropa e njeh shume mire Gjirokastren dhe ky qytet eshte i njohur disa here sic jane te njohura kryeqytetet. Kjo eshte natyrisht merite e te gjithe atyre qe kane jetuar dhe vazhdojne te jetojne ne kete qytet. Per Gjirokastren ndonje here banoret e saj ankohen se eshte e merzitshme, por si cdo qytet ai ka mungesat e tij, ka shume shkaterrime, ka shume probleme e, megjithate, askush nuk mund t'ia heqe ketij qyteti ate qe permenda pak me lart, driten e tij te brendshme dhe ndoshta jo rastesisht eshte vendi qe kur duan te tregojne bukurine e nje vajze thone; eshte e bukur si drita. Ky qytet e ka cmuar gjithmone driten dhe me kete kuptojme driten e brendshme te njeriut, driten e brendshme te qyteterimit, per te cilen aq shume ka nevoje Shqiperia sot, Shqiperia qe shpesh here hyn ne ankthe te kota, ne ankthe meskine, ne afera te shemtuara. Shqiperia ka nevoje te mencurohet nepermjet traditave te qyteteve te veta. Ndricim Nero __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From acapa at bu.edu Wed May 17 11:46:51 2000 From: acapa at bu.edu (Alma Capa) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:46:51 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Balkan Information Exchange Message-ID: <000d01bfc017$2356b8d0$eb5dc580@bu.edu> Balkan Information Exchange Full text available http://www.balkan-info.com New features: ? Former Fighters Train for a Productive Future (Source: BIE Staff) FERIZAJ, Kosovo -- One year ago, 19-year-old Fapon Bislimi was a KLA combatant in pursuit of enemies in a conflict fueled by ethnic hatred. Today, he walks the halls of the Urosevac/Ferizaj Technical Middle School in pursuit of a future. ? Isolation, Discontent Cut Milosevic?s Hold On Power (Source: Associated Press (AP)) Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic?s hold on power is showing signs of cracking because of continued isolation and discontent within Serbia, according to an American diplomat who met with Serb opposition parties in Athens in mid-April, AP reported. Recent features ? Serbs, Albanians Unite in Call to End Violence (Sources: Agence France Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP)) Representatives of Kosovo?s Serb and ethnic Albanian populations, as well as United Nations and European Union officials, issued a joint statement on 19 April calling for an end to the ethnic violence that had been plaguing the war-torn province, wire services reported. ? Yugoslav Officials Demand Release of Serb Prisoners (Source: British Broadcasting Corporation citing Tanjug news agency) Yugoslav officials demanded the release of 43 Serbs who have been imprisoned in Mitrovica for the past 10 months, and urged immediate action because the majority of the prisoners have been on a hunger strike, Tanjug reported. ? Yugoslav Army Chief Sees No Imminent Return to Kosovo (Sources: M2 Presswire citing KFOR press update and BBC Summary of World Broadcasts citing Radio B2-92 (Belgrade), SRNA news agency (Bijeljina) and A1 TV (Skopje)) The Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army said the time is not right for a Yugoslav military presence in Kosovo, Radio B2-92 reported. The comments came amid reports and denials of talks between Yugoslavia and NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers on the return of Yugoslav troops to the province, the radio station said. ? Serbs Hesitant to Register in Kosovo (Sources: Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Reuters) The minority Serb population in Kosovo has so far been reluctant to participate in the province?s civil and voter registration process, Reuters reported. Registration is a prelude to elections later in the year and is being conducted under the auspices of OSCE and the U.N. Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK), according to OSCE. ? Czech Contingent to Remain in Kosovo (Sources: Czech New Agency (CTK) and CTK citing Lidove Noviny) The Czech Senate on 13 April recommended that the country?s KFOR unit continue its service in Kosovo, Jan Kramek, Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security and member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), told CTK. Kramek spoke with the news agency after a closed Senate meeting. ? Germany Supports Bulgarian Bid for EU Membership (Sources: Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA), Agence France Presse (AFP) and BBC Worldwide Monitoring citing Bulgarian Radio web site (Sofia)) German President Johannes Rau on 19 April said he supports Bulgaria?s bid to join the 15-nation European Union, according to DPA. Rau announcement came at a meeting in Berlin with Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov, the report said. Full text available http://www.balkan-info.com -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed May 17 17:00:44 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kadare per Zerin e Amerikes Message-ID: <20000517210044.27631.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Intervista e mrekullueshme e Ismail Kadsrese tek Zeri i Amerikes mund te gjendet tek: http://www.voa.gov/stream/albanian.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From ikullolli at hotmail.com Wed May 17 21:10:33 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:10:33 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Only small part of stolen treasury has been recovered - PM Meta Message-ID: <20000518011033.36971.qmail@hotmail.com> ok.. kete mesazh e lexova sot tek Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare... dhe me sa pashe flet per nje "rekuperim" te nje pjese te thesarit te vjedhur (une nuk shoh gje shifra ne fakt!!). Me sa lexova nuk eshte se m'u mbush mendja se ka per t'u bere gje... por nuk e di se si mendoni ju te tjeret? A mund te rekuperohet ajo qe u vodh nga Thesari? Nese po cila mund te jete menyra? Nese jo, cila mund te jete nje zgjedhje e mire per te mos patur te tilla probleme serish... jo se dua te bej politike, por nga ato qe ndodhin aty i rendojne te tereve (per me teper njerezve te thjeshte)!!! TIRANE, May 17 (ata) - By Dorian Koca: Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta said on Wednesday morning in his interpellation in the Parliament requested by deputy Genc Pollo, that "the first results of the investigation into the theft of a part of the treasury are promising." PM Meta said that he was informed of the the fact that a part of the state treasury was missing in its storage place in the object called Lumi in Krrabe, on April 7 this year, after his demand to make an inventory there. Albanian PM also stressed that "during 1997-2000 period, the status for the protection of the object has not changed. The status of the object is thhat of a special importance and has always been treated as such." According to Meta, "right after a part of the state treasury resulted to have been stolen, the Government informed international financial institutions and demanded from the Prosecutor's Office, the Public Order Ministry and the State Information Service to carry out their legal procedure and intensify the investigation work." PM Meta has asked from respective institutions to adopt the necessary measures to secure the object. According to the Premier, "so far, only a small part of the stolen treasury has been recovered and some people have been detained under suspicion of theft. In the mean time, the prosecutor's office together with other institutions, is working intensively to throw light on this case." ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Thu May 18 00:03:09 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:03:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Only small part of stolen treasury has been recovered - PM Meta Message-ID: thesari mendoj une mund te rekuperohet. Ka 2 menyra: 1) populli ben je propagande te tille sa njerezve qe vodhen parate fillon tu vrasi ndergjegjia. (s'fola) 2) nq. menyra e pare nuk behet atehere cdo politikan derdh ne banken e shtetit 5% te te ardhurave qe marrin dhe Shqiperia behet me e pasur se Zvicra. zgjidhja me e mire per mos pasur probleme te tilla eshte nje polici e forte, gjykates te ndershmen, dhe popull i ndergjegjshem... gje qe mendoj une arrihet nepermjet edukimit. eriola. On Wed, 17 May 2000, Ilir Kullolli wrote: > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > > ok.. kete mesazh e lexova sot tek Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare... dhe me > sa pashe flet per nje "rekuperim" te nje pjese te thesarit te vjedhur (une > nuk shoh gje shifra ne fakt!!). Me sa lexova nuk eshte se m'u mbush mendja > se ka per t'u bere gje... por nuk e di se si mendoni ju te tjeret? A mund te > rekuperohet ajo qe u vodh nga Thesari? Nese po cila mund te jete menyra? > Nese jo, cila mund te jete nje zgjedhje e mire per te mos patur te tilla > probleme serish... jo se dua te bej politike, por nga ato qe ndodhin aty i > rendojne te tereve (per me teper njerezve te thjeshte)!!! > From kbejko at hotmail.com Thu May 18 00:32:04 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 04:32:04 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Only small part of stolen treasury has been recovered - PM Meta Message-ID: <20000518043204.77332.qmail@hotmail.com> >From: "Ilir Kullolli" >To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com >>ok.. kete mesazh e lexova sot tek Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare... >dhe me >sa pashe flet per nje "rekuperim" te nje pjese te thesarit te vjedhur (une >nuk shoh gje shifra ne fakt!!). Sipas BBC 10% e shumes eshte gjetur. Meta thot? hetimet p?r vjedhjen e arit shqiptar "n? rrug? t? mbar?" Kryeministri i Shqip?ris?, Ilir Meta, ?sht? thirrur sot n? parlament p?r t? dh?n? shpjegime lidhur me vjedhjen e thesarit t? shtetit. Zoti Meta deklaroi se ishte i "qet? se procesi i hetimeve kishte hyr? n? rrug? t? mbar?." Deputet?t e opozit?s than? se kryeministri nuk mund ta p?rjashtoj? veten nga p?rgjegj?sia n? ??shtjen e thesarit. Autoritetet kan? pranuar se nj? vler? ari prej 2.8 milion dollar? ?sht? vjedhur nga thesari i shtetit gjat? trazirave sociale t? marsit 1997, por opozita thot? se ari ?shte marr? koh?t e fundit nga segmente shtet?rore. Prokuror?t kan? arrestuar deri tani disa persona lidhur me vjedhjen, dhe thon? se kan? mundur t? gjejn? rreth 10 p?rqind t? sasis? s? vjedhur n? shtepite e disa fshatar?ve n? af?rsi t? baz?s s? fsheht? n? malin e Krrab?s, pran? Tiran?s. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From ikullolli at hotmail.com Thu May 18 12:32:48 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:32:48 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Intellectuals leaving Albania! Message-ID: <20000518163248.68103.qmail@hotmail.com> ok.. edhe mesazhi ne vijim eshte marre nga Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare. Me sa lexova, pashe qe flet per largimin e intelektualeve nga Shqiperia! Meqe nje pjese e mire e kesaj liste jane studente ne Universitete te ndryshme ne USA dhe disa vende te tjera, une desha te shtroj pyetjen: A keni ndermend te ktheheni ne Shqiperi kur te mbaroni studimet? Nese po, cila do jete arsyeja qe do ju terheqe ne Shqiperi? Nese jo, cila mund te jete arsyeja qe mund te pengoje kthimin tuaj atje, dhe cila mund te jete nje zgjidhje qe t'ju ndryshoje mendjen? Une per veten time, nuk e kam vendosur akoma. Eshte ne fakt e veshtire, qe pas shume perpjekjesh per te ardhur ne USA per te vazhduar studimet, te kthehem ne Shqiperi per te punuar! Disa faktore jane paga e ulet, korrupsioni qe ekziston atje, dhe mbi te gjithe pasiguria per te nesermen! Ne fakt per mendimin tim, populli shqiptar ne keto vite nuk po jeton, por po mbijeton! Dhe shpresoj qe mbijetesa te kthehet ne jetese normale, por per kete besoj se do duhet ndihma e te gjithe shqiptareve qe jane ne vende te tjera. Dhe besoj se vetem keshtu Shqiperia mund te gjeje paqen dhe stabilitetin! TIRANA, May 17 (ata) - By P Shuteriqi: Albania takes the first place for the number of the intellectuals in the postcommunist countries emigrating to other states, said the President of Albania, Rexhep Meidani in a meeting held on Wednesday in Tirana. He demanded that this negative phenomena in our new democratic society must be refrained. Speaking before intellectuals and representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Tirana, the President presented his options so that these negative consequences be turned into positive values for the present and perspective development of the country. Prof.dr. Meidani considered the intellectual losses, the falling of the civic and democratic potential of the Albanian society during the past 10 years, "a negative influence of the policy of tension and aggressiveness." In the mean time, he expressed the optimism that "Albanian intelligentsia will take new dimensions in their engagement in the civic and democratic processes, embodied in the Stability Pact, introducing advanced technologies in production, administration, education, culture, health sector, civil society." Mr Meidani also demanded solutions in order to compensate "the human leakage." "All the competent structures or institutions, he stressed, must be committed to hold back and limit the effects of this wound of Albanian transition period." ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu May 18 15:21:04 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:21:04 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] New Book in Albanian Anthropology Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: harmat71 at hotmail.com Subject: [balkans] New Book in Albanian Anthropology Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:13:54 -0400 Size: 4232 URL: From kbejko at hotmail.com Thu May 18 23:20:09 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 03:20:09 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Sale! Sale Message-ID: <20000519032009.93714.qmail@hotmail.com> http://www.geocities.com/kbejko/winbook_xl.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Received: from hotmail.com (f167.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.167]) by alb-net.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e4L4iVw19966 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 00:44:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 63382 invoked by uid 0); 21 May 2000 04:44:25 -0000 Message-ID: <20000521044425.63381.qmail at hotmail.com> Received: from 140.247.41.130 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 20 May 2000 21:44:25 PDT X-Originating-IP: [140.247.41.130] From: "Kreshnik Bejko" To: albsa-info at alb-net.com Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 04:44:25 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Rritja e shkembimeve tregtare me Greqine Sender: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com Errors-To: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com X-BeenThere: albsa-info at alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta2 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Albanian Student Association (Boston, MA, USA) Import-Eksport Vlera e p?rgjithshme e transaksioneve tregtare arriti n? mbi 305 milion USD, duke u rritur 10% Ekspansion shk?mbimesh Shqip?ri-Greqi Zhvillimet e aktivitetit tregtar t? Shqip?ris? me shtetet e tjera, ve?ojn? Greqin?, ku gjat? dy viteve t? fundit ?sht? shfaqur tendenca n? rritje, n? importin dhe ekportin e mallrave. Banka e Shqip?ris? n? buletinin e saj t? fundit tregtar, v?ren se shk?mbimet tregtare me Greqin? edhe gjat? vitit 1999, kan? qen? n? rritje, krahasuar edhe me Italin?, n? rolin e partnerit kryesor tregtar. Vlera e p?rgjithshme e shk?mbimeve tregtare t? Shqip?ris? me Greqin? arriti n? mbi 305 milion USD, shifra m? e lart? e arritur, ku importet kap?n vler?n e afro 265 milion dollar?ve dhe eksportet 40 milion USD. Sipas buletinit t? k?saj banke ?sht? ngushtuar diferenca e importeve t? mallrave q? hyjn? n? Shqip?ri nga Italia dhe Greqia. Nd?rsa n? vitin 1998, nga Italia hyn? 16% m? tep?r mallra n? Shqip?ri, se sa nga Greqia, n? vitin 1999, kjo diferenc? ?sht? ngushtuar n? 9%. E shprehur n? vler? importet nga Italia n? vitin 1999 ishin 353 milion USD, nd?rsa nga Greqia 265 milion USD. N? krahasim me vitin 1998, importet nga Greqia n? Shqip?ri kan? sh?nuar nj? rritje prej 12%. Nd?rkoh? eksportet me Greqin?, kan? mbeturr kryesisht n? t? nj?jtat nivele gjat? 2 viteve t? fundit, n? vler?n e rreth 40 milion dollar?ve, por me tendenc? n? rritje gjat? muajve t? par? t? k?tij viti. Eksporti i duhanit gjat? k?saj periudhe ka qen? i destinuar totalisht p?r n? Greqi. Nd?rkoh? Greqia ka t?rhequr mbi 35% t? drurit t? eksportuar. N? totalin e importeve me Greqin?, rritja e sh?nuar n? grupmallrat ushqimore dhe minerale, ka zbutur efektin negativ t? r?nies s? regjistruar n? grupmallrat e tjera q? jan? importuar. Greqia zuri gjat? vitit 1999, vendin e par? n? importin e ushqimeve t? pregatitura, t? ujit, t? birr?s dhe t? frutave p?rkat?sisht me 30%, 75%, 65% dhe 94% t? totalit, duke l?n? pas Italin? dhe Gjermanin?. Greqia zuri vendin e par? edhe n? importet e aluminit dhe t? ?elikut me 51% dhe 40$ t? krejt totalit, duke mbetur gjithashtu nj? nga investitor?t kryesor? n? fush?n e industris? s? p?rpunimit aktiv t? mallrave, q? zuri rreth 12% t? krejt volumit t? k?tyre transaksioneve. Grupmallrat kryesore p?rpunuese n? vend nga sip?rmarr??sit grek? jan? tekstilet dhe k?puc?t. P?rve? k?tyre mallrave, ka filluar n? Shqip?ri edhe p?rpunimi i aparaturave elektrike dhe artikujve t? ndrysh?m prej metali nga disa firma dhe kompani greke, duke z?n? rreth 15% t? krejt totalit t? p?rpunimit t? k?tyre produkteve. Biznesmen?t shqiptar?t po t?rheqin gjithnj? e m? tep?r nga Greqia makineri e pajisje t? reja me teknologji t? lart? p?r industrin? e leht? dhe at? ushqimore. Rreth 14% t? totalit t? importeve t? makinerive e pajisjeve jan? realizuar me Greqin?. Greqia-55 milion USD p?r 5 vitet e ardhshme Pala greke ka konfirmuar nj? ndihm? p?r Qeverin? Shqiptare prej mbi 55 milion USD p?r 5 vitet e ardhshme, n? kuadrin e Paktit t? Stabilitetit, p?r sektorin e infrastrruktur?s ekonomike dhe t? sh?rbimeve. Tashm? ky premtim q? ?sht? b?r? i njohur n? fillim t? Dhjetorit, nga pala greke pritet t? konkretizohet gjat? vitit 2000. Ky financim do t? jepet n? kuad?r t? Planit Komb?tar t? veprimit t? Greqis? p?r rind?rtimin e Ballkanit. Infrastruktura ekonomike dhe e sh?rbimeve do t? p?rfitoj? pjes?n m? t? madhe t? financimeve me 22,75 milion? dollar?. N? vitin 2000 p?r k?t? sektor do t? jepen 2,73 milion dollar?, nd?rsa n? vitin 2001 financimi do t? jet? 4,55 milion? dollar?. Shumat do t? rritet n? vitin 2002 me 5,69 milion? dollar?, n? vitin 2003 me 5,23 milion? dollar? dhe n? vitin 2004 me 4,55 milion? dollar?. P?r zhvillimin e sektorit prodhues n? Shqip?ri, Greqia do t? financoj? 14, 75 milion? dollar?, prej t? cilave 1,77 milion? dollar? do t? jepen vitin e par? t? zbatimit t? planit. N? vitin 2001 financimi p?r k?t? sektor do t? jet? me 2,95 milion? dollar?, n? vitin 2002 me 3,69 milion? dollar?, n? vitin 2003 me 3,40 milion? dollar? dhe n? vitin e fundit me 2,95 milion? dollar?. Infrastruktura sociale n? Shqip?ri do t? p?rfitoj? nga financimi grek 17,84 milion? dollar?. N? vitin 2000 do t? jepen 2,14 milion? dollar? p?r t? arritur n? vitin 2004 n? nj? financim prej 3,57 milion? dollar?. N? total, shuma m? e madhe p?r Shqip?rin? do t? jepet n? vitin 2002 me 13,84 milion? dollar?, p?r t? tre sektor?t s? bashku. Mb?shtetje p?r nd?rmarjet e vogla dhe t? mesme Shqip?ria dhe Greqia kan? n?nshkruar Protokollin e Bashk?punimit n? fush?n e nd?rmarrjeve t? vogla e t? mesme (SME), i cili synon zgjerimin e bashk?punimit ekonomik dhe marr?dh?nieve tregtare midis dy vendeve. Protokolli i Bashk?punimit ?sht? n?nshkruar n? Athin? midis Ministris? shqiptare t? Bashk?punimit Ekonomik e Tregtis? dhe Organizat?s Greke t? Nd?rmarrjeve t? Vogla e t? Mesme t? Artizanatit (EOMMEX SA Hellas). Protokolli, q? ka nj? afat trevje?ar, parashikon shk?mbime eksperience dhe informacioni midis SME-ve t? t? dy vendeve, me q?llim mb?shtetjen e nd?rmarrjeve me programe t? ndryshme trajnimi dhe seminare. Drejtuesit e EOMMEX kan? premtuar mbulimin n? mas?n 70% t? shpenzimeve p?r firmat shqiptare, q? do t? marrin pjes? n? panaire t? ndryshme n? Greqi. Bankat greke n? ndihm? t? zhvillimit t? biznesit Greqia ka numrin m? t? madh t? bankave n? Shqip?ri, rrjeti i t? cilave, mendohet t? shtrihet krahas Tiran?s edhe n? qytete t? tjera, ve?an?risht n? zonat e Jugut ku edhe zhvillimi dhe lidhjet e biznesit grek me at? shqiptar jan? m? t? shumta. Aktiviteti n? rritje i k?tyre bankave, duket se ka qen? edhe nj? nga faktor?t n? rritjen e transaksioneve tregtare gjat? dy viteve t? fundit n?p?rmjet Shqip?ris? dhe Greqis?. Tre nga bankat m? t? m?dha greke, Banka Komb?tare e Greqis?, Alfa Kredit Bank dhe Banka Tirana, kan? marr? p?rsip?r transfertat e parave t? biznesmen?ve nga nj?ri shtet n? tjetrin n?p?rmjet filialeve t? tyre. Transfertat kryhen n? m?nyr? t? shpejt?, me nj? sistem t? kompjuterizuar, duke ndihmuar biznesmen?t n? aktivitetin e tyre, t? cil?t deri para pak koh?sh, p?rballeshin me v?shtir?si t? panum?rta p?r t? qarkulluar parat? nga Shqip?ria n? Greqi, ose anasjelltas. Nj? num?r i madh biznesmen?sh shqiptar? dhe grek?, q? operojn? me k?to banka, tani nuk kan? m? nevoj? t? qarkullojn? me ?anta t? mbushura plot me para n?p?r pikat doganore, se kete sh?rbim ja kryejn? filialet e k?tyre bankave n? t? dy shtetet. Nj? aspekt tjet?r ?sht? rritja e investimeve greke dhe stiimuli i tyre n?p?rmjet bankave n? zonat e Jugut, ve?an?risht n? Gjirokast?r dhe Kor??, ku dy vitet e fundit jo vet?m emigrant?t shqiptar? q? punojn? n? Greqi, por edhe biznesmen? grek? kan? ngritur dhe vazhdojn? t? derdhin kapitale, n? industrin? e leht?, at? ushqimore, t? p?rpunimit t? produkteve ushqimore dhe t? drurit. Artan Gjata "I want my attorney, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to beleive in God, because then I shall be robbed and cuckolded less often" --Voltaire-- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Received: from m8.boston.juno.com (m8.boston.juno.com [63.211.172.71]) by alb-net.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4KCAmK04290 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:10:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"HXi3cTUh1LQVxlbnbq6DhowJ0WuVTqb0sqWC5+j0wSMMme+/tF/QmQ=="> Received: (from albboschurch at juno.com) by m8.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id E8HVGFBK; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:10:13 EDT To: mail at southbostononline.com Cc: dligor at aol.com, mjalte at aol.com, Lionadv at aol.com, LEFKO1920 at aol.com, LOUKFAM at aol.com, rloukas at corbynorthbridge.com, Denise.Lymperis at state.ma.us, KatyMcB at aol.com, amead at maine.rr.com, georgem at rizzo.com, mosko at gis.net, imushkol at mit.edu, naseef at maine.rr.com, IllyriaNWS at aol.com, DeeOB36 at aol.com, aorgocka at juno.com, lorileo at juno.com, PandoP at aol.com, CUSNAUGUST at aol.com, domnikolinpergjini at juno.com, mperry at hsph.harvard.edu, pilika at yahoo.com, Taichi33 at aol.com, SEPPost at aol.com, lpreveza at LANDAM.COM, priftid at ksg.harvard.edu, heljo at gis.net, naacdc at aol.com, schmeidl at swisspeace.unibe.ch, alschools at msn.com, scollardjd at aol.com, frdjs at juno.com, gresasefaj at hotmail.com, albacino33 at hotmail.com, senechal at evelyn.smith.edu, laura_simolaris at harvard.edu, tsimolaris at protocolcomm.com, JChasmith at aol.com, BotaSot at aol.com, Sola at prodigy.net, sotir at mediaone.net, tssotir at earthlink.net, Knida at yahoo.com, SSALBO at aol.com, albsa-info at alb-net.com, ctheodos at mediaone.net, theodore at babson.edu, Lauren.Toli at fmr.com, cbrown at barrypricecenter.org, Hav1996 at aol.com, wwalczak at codman.org, JW4747 at aol.com, dpw at usbsf.org, stmarysalbchurch at juno.com, CapyKatt at aol.com Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 07:58:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20000520.080140.9558.10.albboschurch at juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-2,5-6,9,14,17-22 From: Albanian Orthodox Church Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albanian Youth events Sender: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com Errors-To: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com X-BeenThere: albsa-info at alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta2 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Albanian Student Association (Boston, MA, USA) Boston - Youngsters are cordially invited to attend events being held for young people in our community hosted by the Albanian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George, 523 East Broadway, South Boston, Massachusetts. 1.) On Sunday, May 22, the newly formed Albanian Children's Chorale of Boston will sing responses at the conclusion of the services which begin at 10 a.m. 2.) On Saturday, June 17, a group of 65 Kosovar youngsters ( ages 9-13) from the Waterbury, CT School System will visit the Cathedral at 10:30 am for a tour of Boston's historic role both for the U.S. democracy and in the Albanian National Awakening. The Daughters of St. George will host them for a repast. 3.) On Sunday, June 18, the Sunday School Program at the Cathedral will hold graduation exercises at 10 am followed by a the traditional Quiz and a Reception in the Fellowship Hall. Young people from the Greater Boston community are welcome. --------- End forwarded message ---------- Received: from m8.boston.juno.com (m8.boston.juno.com [63.211.172.71]) by alb-net.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4KCAMK04276 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"HXi3cTUh1LQVxlbnbq6DhowJ0WuVTqb04rsks4ASUgx2+9Gaylgsog=="> Received: (from albboschurch at juno.com) by m8.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id E8HVGFEW; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:10:14 EDT To: albsa-info at alb-net.com Cc: SSALBO at aol.com, Sola at prodigy.net, sotir at mediaone.net Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 08:01:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20000520.080140.9558.13.albboschurch at juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-5,8-11,13-19 From: Albanian Orthodox Church Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albanian Film at St. John's Church Sender: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com Errors-To: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com X-BeenThere: albsa-info at alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta2 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Albanian Student Association (Boston, MA, USA) --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ileo Orgocka To: albboschurch at juno.com Boston - There will be a movie presentation at St John's Albanian Church hall on Sunday, June 4 2000 at 12:30 P.M. The movie is titled: "General Gramophone",an Albanian movie with English subtitles. popcorn and refreshments will be served. Adults: $3.00 Children under 12 free. Everybody is welcome St. John the Baptist Albanian Orthodox Church 410 West Broadway South Bosrton, MA 02127 --------- End forwarded message ---------- --------- End forwarded message ---------- --------- End forwarded message ---------- ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Received: from m8.boston.juno.com (m8.boston.juno.com [63.211.172.71]) by alb-net.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4KBkjK04077 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 07:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"HXi3cTUh1LQVxlbnbq6DhowJ0WuVTqb0oQKKVfdLDf1B5xz0UhrQzQ=="> Received: (from albboschurch at juno.com) by m8.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id E8HT4BJQ; Sat, 20 May 2000 07:46:08 EDT To: KatyMcB at aol.com Cc: LOUKFAM at aol.com, Denise.Lymperis at state.ma.us, aorgocka at juno.com, amead at maine.rr.com, mosko at gis.net, myftiu at mciworld.com, naseef at maine.rr.com, DeeOB36 at aol.com, CUSNAUGUST at aol.com, IPILIKA at wellesley.edu, SEPPost at aol.com, lpreveza at LANDAM.COM, pproal at earthlink.net, naacdc at aol.com, scollardjd at aol.com, rseseri at wellesley.edu, laura_simolaris at harvard.edu, tsimolaris at protocolcomm.com, Sola at prodigy.net, tssotir at earthlink.net, Knida at yahoo.com, SSALBO at aol.com, albsa-info at alb-net.com, theodore at babson.edu, ctheodos at mediaone.net, Lauren.Toli at fmr.com, ftrix at umich.edu, cbrown at barrypricecenter.org, JW4747 at aol.com, dpw at usbsf.org, ixhaxhka at mfs.com Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 07:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20000520.073737.9558.7.albboschurch at juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-48 From: Albanian Orthodox Church Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Albanian Ladies Mid-Pentecost Gala: RUSICAT Sender: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com Errors-To: albsa-info-admin at alb-net.com X-BeenThere: albsa-info at alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta2 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Albanian Student Association (Boston, MA, USA) --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: JADAMS616 at cs.com To: albboschurch at juno.com Subject: (no subject) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:24:00 EDT Rusicat: Tri-Church Women's Mid-Pentecost Gala Sponsored by the Daughters of St. John the Baptist Albanian Orthodox Church Wednesday may 24 2000 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7:00p.m. sharp At St John's Fellowship Hall 410 West Broadway South Boston, Massachusetts Price is $30.00 per person Dinner is a Choice of Baked lamb or Baked Fish Resrvations must be made with payment by may 17th 2000 make checks payable to: Daughters of St John TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT DOOR FOR RESERVATIONS CONTACT: St John's : Marion Adams(781)-272-5268 or Vi Cotto (508)872-0127 St George : Beverly Sotir (617)244-5670 Holy Trinty : Georgia Demitri (617)698-5477 or Mail to : Marion Adams 18 purity springs rd Burlington Ma 01804 --------- End forwarded message ---------- --------- End forwarded message ---------- From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Sun May 21 18:10:35 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:10:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] update Message-ID: dear all, for the past couple of days there has been trouble with the software for this mailing list, as a result postings could not go through and some might have been lost. If you feel they were important please resend them. thanks, eriola. From aalibali at yahoo.com Sun May 21 19:31:01 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] "Asistence" nga Greqia per RTV Shqiptare Message-ID: <20000521233101.24751.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> Zyrtarizohet propaganda "vorioepirote" antishqiptare e Greqise ne juge te Shqiperise. [05] Radio agreement - Greece - Albania 21/05/2000 16:56:32 TIRANA (ANA I. Patso) A protocol of assistance was signed here on Sunday between the heads of Greeces state-run radio network (ERA) and the Albanian public network. Among others, the agreement foresees the granting of 50 million drachmas towards the Albanian broadcaster for the purchase of equipment. Additionally, cross-border cooperation between the two state radio networks regional affiliates is also envisioned for instance, between ERAs station on the Ionian island of Corfu with the station in the southern Albanian town of Gjirokaster and between stations in Florina, northern Greece, and Korce, in SE Albania. The protocol was signed by visiting ERA general director Yiannis Tzannetakos and the director of Albanian radio, Martin Leka. (One US dollar equals about 375 drachmas) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From kbejko at hotmail.com Mon May 22 00:08:10 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 04:08:10 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] "Rrebeli me te zeza" Message-ID: <20000522040810.7797.qmail@hotmail.com> "Rebeli" me te zeza Prifti qe pretendon se eshte kreu i kishes ortodokse kombetare dhe qe betohet se do ta largoje Janullatosin nga Shqiperia. Perplasjet me kryepeshkopaten dhe me politiken. Nga Elbasani Sokol Shameti Kanatet e kuqerremte te portes se Kishes, leshojne ngahere nje kujisje kur hapen. "Nuk jane vajosur prej kohesh", shfajesohet nje koke mjekeroshe qe fanepset mes kanateve dhe erresires se sfondit. Nja nje pellembe e tre gisht poshte mjekres se shpupurisur lekundet lehte nje kryq. Eshte i argjendte. Ortodoks. "Me quajne At Nikolle Marku. Jam 52 vjec. Qysh me 1994 kur perfundova studimet teologjike ne Kostur e Durres si dhe pasi u emerova prift ne Manastir te Maqedonise, jam kryetar i kishes ortodokse autoqefale kombetare shqiptare te Shen Merise". Burri me te zeza, eshte shnderruar prej shume vjetesh ne strumbullarin e nje konflikti te ashper midis administrates se Kishes Ortodokse Autoqefale te Shqiperise dhe atyre qe zedhenesi i Janullatosit i quan "qarqe te caktuara politike", por qe per Nikolle Markun jane "atdhetaret e vertete ne keto kohe te turbullta". Se fundi konflikti eshte ndezur perseri. Sebep, eshte bere nje shkolle e vjeter, fare prane kishes. At Nikolla thote se ajo eshte shkolla me e vjeter e Shqiperise ngaqe eshte themeluar nga Kostandin Kristoforidhi qysh ne vitet 1700. "Janullatosi ka paguar gjyqtaret dhe ka fituar te gjitha gjyqet per ta marre ai kete shkolle qe ta beje manastir murgjerish greke", thote ai. "Kisha ka fituar gjyqet me drejtesi ne te gjitha shkallet dhe tani ligji nuk zbatohet per shkak te zyres se permbarimit qe refuzon ta zyrtarizoje vendimin e marre", thote Thoma Dhima, zedhenesi i Kryepeshkopates. At Nikolle Marku ne deren e kishes se Elbasanit Ne Elbasan kush nuk e njeh Nikolle Markun. Qyteti me rreth 20 ose 25 per qind popullate ortodokse, prej vitesh eshte bere deshmitari i pare i perpjekjeve te Kishes se Shen Merise per te qene faktori kryesor fetar ne vend. Se fundi ngjarja e rebelimit te priftit nacionalist eshte bere aq e degjuar saqe kishen e vjeter, aty mes qiparisave dhe rrenojave te Kalase se Elbasanit, kane nisur ta vizitojne edhe ambasadore ose te huaj te tjere qe vijne kalimthi ne kete qytet. "Radhet e besimtareve qe po e kuptojne se froni i kishes ortodokse shqiptare eshte uzurpuar nga greket, po shtohen. Jam i kenaqur per kete", thote At Nikolla. Ne kishen e boshatisur oret e mesdites gjejne vetem ate dhe nje dhjak qe dremit ne nje stol prapa ikonostasit te praruar. Me shtat mesatar, floke ne tendence grije dhe deshire per t'u dukur shume me i vjeter se c'eshte, Nikolle Marku, nje ish llogaritar ne kombinatin Metalurgjik, thote se te gjithe paraardhesit e familjes se tij kane qene prifterinj. Ka nje histori interesante me fene ortodokse At Nikolla. Nje histori qe mbase qendron ne themel te te gjitha mosmarreveshjeve te tij me kryepeshkopaten e Tiranes. "Me 1991 kur u vendos qe kryepeshkop i Kishes Ortodokse shqiptare te vihej perkohesisht Janullatosi, u ra dakord gjithashtu qe te fillonte edhe pergatitja e prifterinjve shqiptare qe do ta zevendesonin ate ne shkollat teologjike greke. Une isha nje nga 16 te paret", tregon ai. Aty ne Kostur, Nikolla Marku pati perplasjen e pare. "Une vara ne mur nje fotografi te Fan Nolit te cilin greket e kane ckisheruar ngaqe shpalli mevehtesine e kishes shqiptare", tregon ai. Me pas, po sipas rrefimeve te tij, tre prifterinj greke qe sherbenin ne manastirin ku pergatitej Nikolle Marku dhe shqiptaret e tjere, e shkulen portretin e Nolit nga muri, rrahen per vdekje Nikollen dhe e mbyllen ate per dhjete dite ne nje bodrum te manastirit. "Prisnin qe te pendohesha por une u largova nga Kosturi", thote ai. Me pas ai vazhdoi studimet teologjike ne seminarin ortodoks te Durresit dhe ketu ndodh mosperputhja e pare e varianteve te historise. Nikolle Marku ben be se eshte diplomuar ne Durres dhe kesisoj ka te drejte te ushtroje veprimtarine e tij kishtare. Kisha ortodokse thote te kunderten. Vetem shqip Edhe pse brenda kishes eshte mjaft fresket, At Nikolla flet i nxehur. "Ka nje statut kisha ortodokse autoqefale e Shqiperise. Eshte percaktuar qysh me 1937 dhe eshte neni 16 i ketij statuti te vendosur ne Kongresin panortodoks te Beratit qe ndalon kryerjen e funksioneve kishtare ne Shqiperi nga prifterinj qe nuk kane gjak dhe nenshtetesi shqiptare", thote At Nikolla. "Janullatosi eshte i paligjshem. Duhet te ike dhe bashke me te, duhet te ikin edhe greket qe kane pushtuar kishat ortodokse qe kane futur ritet e tyre atje dhe qe edhe zbukurimet e jashtme te ndertesave i bejne sipas modelit grek", bertet ai. Zeri i priftit kumbon ne kubene e luget te kishes. Nikolle Marku qendron i ulur ne nje tavoline te vogel sherbesash me nje mbulese te vjeter me kuadrata prapa ikonostasit. Ne dite te kremtesh dhe te dielave, aty kryhen te gjitha ritet fetare. Aty pergatitet edhe temjani qe tymos me ere te mire kishen kur mblidhen "delet" besimtare. Ne murin pas shpines se tij, nje portret me laps te zi i Fan Nolit. Ne fasaden ballore te kishes, nje flamur i madh kombetar te cilin At Nikolla e nguli vete me gozhde para ca vjetesh pasi ishte lodhur shume per ta gjetur. Ne oborrin e pasme te kishes -andej nga duket edhe kambanorja - dy tri gra qendrojne te ulura ne varrin e rrethuar me kangjella te vjetra te Kostandin Kristoforidhit. Nja dhjete ose dymbedhjete femije luajne neper kolonat e uleta te stilit bizantin qe zbukurojne hajatin e Kishes. "Ne kembengulem qe shkolla e vjeter te sherbeje si vend per edukimin e femijeve handikapate. Ata qe shikoni aty jane femijet qe vijne perdite per te mesuar atje", thote At Nikolla. Teksa shetit ngadale me duar te lidhura pas shpine neper oborrin e kishes, prifti nuk te jep aspak pershtypjen e njerit qe mund te marre guximin per t'u perleshur me ke t'i dale perpara. Mirepo At Nikolla thote se ai dhe mbeshtetesit e tij patriote te vertete i larguan "me dajak prifterinjte qe caktoi ne dy kishat e tjera te Elbasanit kryepeshkopata e Janullatosit". "Ne i pyetem vetem nese jane me ne apo kundra nesh. Ka shume prifterinj te tjere neper kishat e vendit, shqiptare te ndershem qe nuk e pelqejne pranine e nje greku ne krye te tyre, por ata rrine nen urdherat e tij vetem per hir te 140 mije lekeshit qe - nese nuk gaboj - ua japin si rroge", thote Nikolle Marku. Gjakderdhje prifterinjsh Kisha e Shen Merise, ajo me e vjetra e Elbasanit mbahet nga dhuratat e besimtareve dhe nga ndihmat e pakta qe i dergohen nga lobi shqiptar ne Shtetet e Bashkuara. "Ne qofte se do te kisha mbeshtetjen e duhur financiare do te kisha mundesi te zgjerohesha edhe me aktivitete te tjera per t'u treguar shqiptareve se kjo eshte kisha e tyre ortodokse dhe jo ajo qe drejton Anastas Janullatosi", thote At Nikolla. Megjithate, ne kishen e Shen Merise, sipas tij, ka me shume se 150 besimtare te rregullt qe shkojne atje per te kryer te gjitha ritet, martesat, sherbesat e vdekjes, pagezimet dhe kremtimet fetare. "Ketu flitet vetem shqip, te huajt hyjne vetem si vizitore, por nese kryepeshkopata do te marre ne administrim shkollen dhe do ta mbushe ate me greke, ketu do te kete gjakderdhje. Ne nuk do te lejojme kembe prifti grek ketu", kercenon At Nikolla. "Na kane bere shume prapesi ne kurriz ne shqiptareve", thote ai. "Ne fillim te viteve '90 ata kryen nje konvertim masiv te shqiptareve myslimane, ne ortodokse", thote ai. Nikolla Marku tregon se fjalet e para qe nxori nga goja Janullatosi kur zbriti ne Rinas nga nje avion Olympic ne maj te vitit 1991 ishin: 'Miresejugjeta. Lufte kunder islamit'. "Kush nuk e di se qeveria e Athines i konsideron si greke te gjithe ortodokset e Shqiperise? Ja ku qendron loja e Janullatosit", nevrikoset edhe me At Nikolla qe nuk e fsheh se eshte tifoz i Partise Demokratike dhe se nje nga gabimet qe Sali Berisha beri kur ishte president, ishte lejimi i qendrimit te Janullatosit pas vitit 1994. Ai thote se edhe kisha e tij ka qene gjate vitit 1997 target i maskave qe e moren peng ate personalisht dhe e mbajten me ore te tera te ngujuar nen kercenimin e kallasheve. Ne shtepine e tij At Nikolla ka shume fotografi. Mes tyre ne mur mban te varur edhe portretin e nje shenjti sllav maqedonas, San Petarit, ne kishen e se cilit ne Manastir ai u dorezua prift. Kur kane kaluar shtate vjet nga ajo dite, At Nikolla thote se nuk do te kishte ndodhur asgje ne Shqiperi, nese detyra e ringritjes se kishes ortodokse do t'i ishte besuar ndonje kishe tjeter te Ballkanit apo Evropes lindore. "Vetem asaj greke jo", therret per here te fundit ai. Rruga e autoqefalise Histori e ngaterruar kjo e ortodokseve shqiptare. Histori qe nis nga koha kur Theodhosi i Bizantit hoqi nje vize te drejte pergjate lumit Shkumbin duke ndare perfundimisht pronat shpirterore te katolikeve nga ato te ortodokseve. Me maqedonasit dhe serbet ortodokse ne lindje e verilindje, vija kufitare e feve me se shumti synonte shqiptaret. Katoliket mbeten ne veri. Ortodokset, ne jug. Per sa kohe qe kisha greke dhe greqishtja si gjuhe kishin hegjemonine e dominimit te patriarkanes se Kostandinopojes, edhe kishat ortodokse shqiptare vareshin prej tyre. Mirepo me 1937 pas dy kongreseve panortodokse shqiptare, ne Berat me 1922 dhe ne Korce me 1929, u hartua nje statut i kishes ortodokse autoqefale te Shqiperise e cila ishte themeluar qysh me pare ne Boston te Shteteve te Bashkuara. Deri ne vitin 1936, Patriarkana e Stambollit nuk e njohu kete statut. Me 1937 nje delegacion i larte i administrates kishtare shqiptare qe drejtohej nga kryepeshkopi Visarion Xhuvani vizitoi Patrikun Ekumenik dhe i kerkoi autoqefaline. Ajo iu dha kishes ortodokse shqiptare por me kusht qe Visarion Xhuvani te largohej nga kreu i saj. Ai u largua dhe ne vend te tij erdhi Kristofor Kisi, i cili qendroi deri ne fund te luftes se dyte boterore. Me ardhjen e komunisteve ne pushtet - ata nuk e shpallen luften me Kishen qe ne fillim - Enver Hoxha burgosi Kristofor Kisin dhe ne krye te Kishes ortodokse shqiptare vendosi kryepeshkopin me origjine sllave Pajsi Vodica. Sipas At Nikolle Markut te Elbasanit, kryepeshkopi i ri zhvilloi nje pseudo kongres me 1954 dhe aty i shtoi statutit te kishes ortodokse shqiptare nje klauzole. Sipas saj, lejohej ardhja e prifterinjve te huaj ne Shqiperi. "Eshte ne saje te kesaj klauzole qe ne kemi sot Janullatosin", thote ai. Fakti qe konflikti lindi ne Elbasan nuk eshte i rastit. Cudite gjenetike dhe se fundi edhe ato religjoze kane qene te shpeshta ne luginen e Shkumbinit qe u vendos te mbetej nje zone tampon per ndarjen e kishave bizantine nga ato romane. Shume klerike e pranojne se ne rajonin perreth vijes se Theodhosit u lejua qe te kryente veprimtarine e saj nje kishe e ritit unit. Nje kishe "deledhi" as ortodokse as katolike. Nje kishe qe ashtu si mushkat do ta kishte te ndaluar "te riprodhonte" kisha te tjera te ngjashme me te. Shekujt e shuan traditen e kesaj kishe qe ne mesjete mendohet te kete qene teper e perhapur dhe e perqafuar nga shqiptaret. Rebelimi i At Nikolle Markut ne Elbasan dhe perpjekja e tij per t'iu shkeputur dominimit te Kishes ortodokse shqiptare te njohur nga Patriarkana dhe Qeveria, eshte thyerja me e fundit e hallkave te gjenetikes kishtare. Cudia e saj me e fundit. Qendrimi i Kryepeshkopates ortodokse Tirane Zedhenesi i Kryepeshkopates eshte prononcuar perseri ne lidhje me aktivitetin e nje kishe ortodokse autoqefale kombetare shqiptare ne Elbasan. "Ne radhe te pare, Nikolle Marku nuk njihet fare si prift ngaqe eshte perjashtuar nga shkolla", thote Thoma Dhima. Si arsye te dyte te papranueshmerise se tij ne krye te Kishes se Elbasanit, Kryepeshkopata sjell faktin se Nikolla Marku eshte dorezuar prift ne nje kishe sllave. "Ne Shqiperi ka vetem nje kishe ortodokse", tha Thoma Dhima. "Nikolle Marku le te hape nje sekt te vetin, nje kishe protestante, evangjeliste a ku ta di une, por kishe ortodokse nuk do t'i lejohet kurre", tha Dhima. Ai shton se Kisha Ortodokse Autoqefale e Shqiperise i konsideron te paligjshme te gjitha veprimet e tij si pagezimet, celebrimet e martesave dhe ritet e tjera. 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From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu Subject: [balkans] RFP for Southeast Europe Youth Leadership Program Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:12:57 -0400 Size: 6277 URL: From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Wed May 24 07:45:35 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:45:35 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] [balkans] New Book: Albanian Society between the Wars Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] New Book: Albanian Society between the Wars Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:00:32 +0200 Size: 2231 URL: From aalibali at yahoo.com Tue May 23 21:35:14 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Message-ID: <20000524013514.4325.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Mashtrimi i madh, celularet u shiten ne Greqi Enton Abilekaj KOHA JONE "Cosmote is a Greek - strong company (Kosmote eshte nje kompani e fuqishme greke)". Ky eshte nje nga titujt qe kompania greko-norvegjeze, qe deklarohet si fituese e AMC-se shqiptare, leshon ne internet. Dhe gjithkush qe ka degjuar deklaratat qeveritare, mund te habitet, sepse qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se 86 milione dollaret per te blere celularet shqiptare ishin te Norvegjise dhe te kompanise norvegjeze Telenor. Dhe vete deklarimi shqiptar ishte se kompania qe ka ofruar shumen me te madhe quhej Telenor & Cosmote. Por nuk eshte aspak keshtu. Kompania Kosmote (Cosmote) qe ka ofruar shumen 86 milione dhe mund te quhet fituese e AMC, eshte nje bashkim i Telenor dhe OTE, qe do te thote nje bashkim i Telekomit norvegjez (qe ka 30 per qind) dhe Telekomit grek (qe ka 70 per qind). Administrimi i kompanise i eshte dhene kompanise norvegjeze, por pronesia eshte dominuese greke. Per arsye te dyshimta qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se AMC-ne e blene norvegjezet dhe jo greket, ndersa shifra 86 milione dollare ishte nje politike personale e nje pjese te qeveritareve, te cilet kane shfrytezuar bisedat personale per te vendosur fituesit. Kjo eshte nje ceshtje qe do te sqarohet me vone, por per fillim eshte i nevojshem sqarimi rreth mashtrimit te pare te madh dhe te qellimshem. Pse u deklarua qe Kosmote eshte norvegjeze dhe a eshte 86 milione dollare nje shifer e shkelqyer per privatizimin e AMC? Sipas vete asaj qe Kosmote shkruan ne internet, kjo eshte nje kombinim me 70 per qind i "organizates sone kombetare te telekomunikacioneve". (Togfjaleshi ne thonjeza eshte shkruar per greket). Me pas ne faqen e internetit shkruhet se ne kete bashkepunim (pra Kosmote), OTE (qe eshte telekomi grek) merr pjese me nesueshmerine dhe prestigjin, me zhvillimin dinamik dhe me njohurine unike per te ofruar tek 5 milione abonentet e saj nje rritje konstante te cilesise se sherbimit. 30 per qind i takojne Norwegian Telecomunications company (Kompanise se tekomunikacioneve norvegjeze). "TELENOR ka tashme 70 per qind te tregut norvegjez te telekomunikacioneve dhe aksione te rendesishme ne tregje te vendeve te tjera", thuhet ne faqen e internetit. Ky sqarim, qe nuk ka asgje te fajshme per vete Kosmote, per abontentet e tanishem te AMC, per abonentet e ardhshem dhe ne pergjithesi per shqiptaret eshte shume i rendesishem, pasi sqaron te ardhmen e abonenteve, por edhe nje genjeshter te madhe, te propaganduar nga qeveria shqiptare. Kjo genjeshter e qellimshme e qeverise ve ne dyshim procesin e privatizimit te AMC-se dhe vete kompanine grekonorvegjeze, e cila ka konkuruar me biografine e vet te bere publike. Por kujdesi i qeverise shqiptare per ta fshehur pronesine e vertete te kompanise, i ben te gjithe te dyshojne. Per me teper qe privatizimi i AMC-se ka kaluar nje proces me dy ngjarje shume te medha te cilat u lane ne heshtje: E para largimi i Dojce Telekom (telekomit gjerman); e dyta largimi i TIM (Telekom Italia mobile). Keto jane dy nga kompanite me te medha ne bote ne fushen e telekomunikacioneve, qe u larguan per shkaqe te cuditshme nga Shqiperia dhe arsyeja qe nxorren ishte e njejte, nje investim tjeter i rendesishem ne nje vend tjeter te Ballkanit. Por ndersa largimi i dy kompanive super te medha, do te sqarohet ne numrat e ardhshem, fitorja e Telekomit grek dhe cmimi i servirur si nje fitore e madhe, jane pikenisja e dyshimit per nje proces te paster privatizimi. Aq sa nje nga perfaqesuesit e telekomit celular turk, Turkcell hodhi dyshime pas hapjes se zarfeve. Cmimi i vertete i AMC Cmimi i vertete i AMC, mbetet vazhdimisht i diskutueshem. Parimisht ai varet nga investimi, nga qarkullimi i parave dhe impulseve, nga numri i abonenteve dhe ajo qe eshte me e rendesishme, Frekuenca. Deri tek shitja e frekuences, duke llogaritur te tre parametrat e pare, mbi 20 mije abonente dhe mbi 10 milione dollare te ardhura ne vit, vlera fillestare e AMC shkon tek 25 milione dollare. Po te llogaritet shitja e Frekuences, cmimi rritet shume me teper duke patur parasysh se Shqiperia ka vetem dy frekuenca per telefonine celulare. Vlera e frekuences eshte subjektive, por mund te llogaritet edhe me 100 milione dollare, duke patur parasysh varferine e Shqiperise ne frekuenca. Ky cmim do te verifikohet ne muajt qe vijne kur Enti Regullator i Telekomunikacioneve (ERT) do te shpalle dhe do te ekzekutoje tenderin e hapur nderkombetar per shitjen e frekuences se mbetur, per te cilen diskutohet nese do te shitet e plote, apo e ndare ne dy pjese. Deri tani triumfon varianti i shitjes se plote. Pikerisht ky variant ka hedhur poshte edhe marreveshjen e Telekomit shqiptar me New World Telecom, kompanine amerikane. Marreveshja parashikonte nje investim mbi 300 milione dollare ne 10 vjet, por me kushtin qe frekuenca per sistemin celular te jepej falas. Me gjithe premtimin e NWT per investimin 300 milione dollare, Enti Regullator i Frekuencave refuzoi ta jepte falas frekuencen e mbetur dhe marreveshja me amerikanet, e firmosur ne prani te kryeministrit shqiptar dhe Sekretarit amerikan te Shtetit per Tregtine mbeti pezull. Brenda ketij viti, Shqiperia duhet te njihet me fituesin e ri te frekuences se mbetur dhe me cmimin e shitjes se saj. Cmimi i shitjes llogaritet te jete shume i larte dhe mund te tregoje se shitja e AMC, nuk ishte ndonje biznes i madh per Shtetin shqiptar. Ndoshta nuk ishte fare nje biznes, por nje pazar interesash qe per fat te keq mund te kene origjine nga interesat personale politiko-ekonomike te ndonje anetari te kabinetit. Firma e qeverise Tani qe zarfat u hapen dhe kompania greko norvegjeze ka mbetur pretendentja kryesore per fitimin e tenderit ka shume pak per te bere, po te gjykohet cmimi. Por ka shume per te bere, po te gjykohen te gjitha ngjarjet qe kane ndodhur qe nga fillimi i procesit te privatizimit. Qeveria duhet te korrigjoje veten duke e gjykuar mire firmen. Ndoshta privatizimi i AMC duhet te korrektohet. Qeveria gjendet perballe firmes, pas propagandimit te nje genjeshtre te madhe, qe Cosmote eshte nje kompani norvegjeze. Qe te shlyeje kete duhet te korrektoje procesin dhe te tregoje se nuk ka gisht ne ate qe ka ndodhur dhe qe ende nuk eshte sqaruar plotesisht. Ndryshe te gjithe do te besojne qe mungesa e sinjalit te AMC-se ne Jug te Shqiperise eshte bere me qellim, qe zevendesimi i sinjalit te AMC me ate te Telekomit grek eshte bere me qellim, qe fshehja e pronesise se vertete te firmes qe ofroi me shume eshte bere me qellim, qe kompanite italiane dhe gjermane jane larguar me qellim dhe qe bisedat private te zyrtareve shqiptare kane patur qellim te percaktuar. Gjithcka do te sqarohet nga "Koha Jone" ne ditet e ardhshme, por qeveria duhet te korrigjoje vetveten. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From ikullolli at hotmail.com Wed May 24 13:07:17 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:07:17 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Message-ID: <20000524170717.7387.qmail@hotmail.com> ok.. me sa pashe une ky ishte nje artikull gazete dhe sigurisht qe ato e bejne "qimen, tra". Per mendimin tim ka patur dhe ndoshta do te kete probleme midis dy vendeve tona (Shqiperise dhe Greqise) por une mendoj se edhe ne nuk duhet t'i shohim te gjitha gjerat si "levizje" nga ana e grekeve. ne kete menyre nuk kemi per te arritur asgje, dhe Ballkani ka per te mbetur perhere vendi i trazirave dhe lufterave! From: Agron Alibali To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:35:14 -0700 (PDT) ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - Mashtrimi i madh, celularet u shiten ne Greqi Enton Abilekaj KOHA JONE "Cosmote is a Greek - strong company (Kosmote eshte nje kompani e fuqishme greke)". Ky eshte nje nga titujt qe kompania greko-norvegjeze, qe deklarohet si fituese e AMC-se shqiptare, leshon ne internet. Dhe gjithkush qe ka degjuar deklaratat qeveritare, mund te habitet, sepse qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se 86 milione dollaret per te blere celularet shqiptare ishin te Norvegjise dhe te kompanise norvegjeze Telenor. Dhe vete deklarimi shqiptar ishte se kompania qe ka ofruar shumen me te madhe quhej Telenor & Cosmote. Por nuk eshte aspak keshtu. Kompania Kosmote (Cosmote) qe ka ofruar shumen 86 milione dhe mund te quhet fituese e AMC, eshte nje bashkim i Telenor dhe OTE, qe do te thote nje bashkim i Telekomit norvegjez (qe ka 30 per qind) dhe Telekomit grek (qe ka 70 per qind). Administrimi i kompanise i eshte dhene kompanise norvegjeze, por pronesia eshte dominuese greke. Per arsye te dyshimta qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se AMC-ne e blene norvegjezet dhe jo greket, ndersa shifra 86 milione dollare ishte nje politike personale e nje pjese te qeveritareve, te cilet kane shfrytezuar bisedat personale per te vendosur fituesit. Kjo eshte nje ceshtje qe do te sqarohet me vone, por per fillim eshte i nevojshem sqarimi rreth mashtrimit te pare te madh dhe te qellimshem. Pse u deklarua qe Kosmote eshte norvegjeze dhe a eshte 86 milione dollare nje shifer e shkelqyer per privatizimin e AMC? Sipas vete asaj qe Kosmote shkruan ne internet, kjo eshte nje kombinim me 70 per qind i "organizates sone kombetare te telekomunikacioneve". (Togfjaleshi ne thonjeza eshte shkruar per greket). Me pas ne faqen e internetit shkruhet se ne kete bashkepunim (pra Kosmote), OTE (qe eshte telekomi grek) merr pjese me nesueshmerine dhe prestigjin, me zhvillimin dinamik dhe me njohurine unike per te ofruar tek 5 milione abonentet e saj nje rritje konstante te cilesise se sherbimit. 30 per qind i takojne Norwegian Telecomunications company (Kompanise se tekomunikacioneve norvegjeze). "TELENOR ka tashme 70 per qind te tregut norvegjez te telekomunikacioneve dhe aksione te rendesishme ne tregje te vendeve te tjera", thuhet ne faqen e internetit. Ky sqarim, qe nuk ka asgje te fajshme per vete Kosmote, per abontentet e tanishem te AMC, per abonentet e ardhshem dhe ne pergjithesi per shqiptaret eshte shume i rendesishem, pasi sqaron te ardhmen e abonenteve, por edhe nje genjeshter te madhe, te propaganduar nga qeveria shqiptare. Kjo genjeshter e qellimshme e qeverise ve ne dyshim procesin e privatizimit te AMC-se dhe vete kompanine grekonorvegjeze, e cila ka konkuruar me biografine e vet te bere publike. Por kujdesi i qeverise shqiptare per ta fshehur pronesine e vertete te kompanise, i ben te gjithe te dyshojne. Per me teper qe privatizimi i AMC-se ka kaluar nje proces me dy ngjarje shume te medha te cilat u lane ne heshtje: E para largimi i Dojce Telekom (telekomit gjerman); e dyta largimi i TIM (Telekom Italia mobile). Keto jane dy nga kompanite me te medha ne bote ne fushen e telekomunikacioneve, qe u larguan per shkaqe te cuditshme nga Shqiperia dhe arsyeja qe nxorren ishte e njejte, nje investim tjeter i rendesishem ne nje vend tjeter te Ballkanit. Por ndersa largimi i dy kompanive super te medha, do te sqarohet ne numrat e ardhshem, fitorja e Telekomit grek dhe cmimi i servirur si nje fitore e madhe, jane pikenisja e dyshimit per nje proces te paster privatizimi. Aq sa nje nga perfaqesuesit e telekomit celular turk, Turkcell hodhi dyshime pas hapjes se zarfeve. Cmimi i vertete i AMC Cmimi i vertete i AMC, mbetet vazhdimisht i diskutueshem. Parimisht ai varet nga investimi, nga qarkullimi i parave dhe impulseve, nga numri i abonenteve dhe ajo qe eshte me e rendesishme, Frekuenca. Deri tek shitja e frekuences, duke llogaritur te tre parametrat e pare, mbi 20 mije abonente dhe mbi 10 milione dollare te ardhura ne vit, vlera fillestare e AMC shkon tek 25 milione dollare. Po te llogaritet shitja e Frekuences, cmimi rritet shume me teper duke patur parasysh se Shqiperia ka vetem dy frekuenca per telefonine celulare. Vlera e frekuences eshte subjektive, por mund te llogaritet edhe me 100 milione dollare, duke patur parasysh varferine e Shqiperise ne frekuenca. Ky cmim do te verifikohet ne muajt qe vijne kur Enti Regullator i Telekomunikacioneve (ERT) do te shpalle dhe do te ekzekutoje tenderin e hapur nderkombetar per shitjen e frekuences se mbetur, per te cilen diskutohet nese do te shitet e plote, apo e ndare ne dy pjese. Deri tani triumfon varianti i shitjes se plote. Pikerisht ky variant ka hedhur poshte edhe marreveshjen e Telekomit shqiptar me New World Telecom, kompanine amerikane. Marreveshja parashikonte nje investim mbi 300 milione dollare ne 10 vjet, por me kushtin qe frekuenca per sistemin celular te jepej falas. Me gjithe premtimin e NWT per investimin 300 milione dollare, Enti Regullator i Frekuencave refuzoi ta jepte falas frekuencen e mbetur dhe marreveshja me amerikanet, e firmosur ne prani te kryeministrit shqiptar dhe Sekretarit amerikan te Shtetit per Tregtine mbeti pezull. Brenda ketij viti, Shqiperia duhet te njihet me fituesin e ri te frekuences se mbetur dhe me cmimin e shitjes se saj. Cmimi i shitjes llogaritet te jete shume i larte dhe mund te tregoje se shitja e AMC, nuk ishte ndonje biznes i madh per Shtetin shqiptar. Ndoshta nuk ishte fare nje biznes, por nje pazar interesash qe per fat te keq mund te kene origjine nga interesat personale politiko-ekonomike te ndonje anetari te kabinetit. Firma e qeverise Tani qe zarfat u hapen dhe kompania greko norvegjeze ka mbetur pretendentja kryesore per fitimin e tenderit ka shume pak per te bere, po te gjykohet cmimi. Por ka shume per te bere, po te gjykohen te gjitha ngjarjet qe kane ndodhur qe nga fillimi i procesit te privatizimit. Qeveria duhet te korrigjoje veten duke e gjykuar mire firmen. Ndoshta privatizimi i AMC duhet te korrektohet. Qeveria gjendet perballe firmes, pas propagandimit te nje genjeshtre te madhe, qe Cosmote eshte nje kompani norvegjeze. Qe te shlyeje kete duhet te korrektoje procesin dhe te tregoje se nuk ka gisht ne ate qe ka ndodhur dhe qe ende nuk eshte sqaruar plotesisht. Ndryshe te gjithe do te besojne qe mungesa e sinjalit te AMC-se ne Jug te Shqiperise eshte bere me qellim, qe zevendesimi i sinjalit te AMC me ate te Telekomit grek eshte bere me qellim, qe fshehja e pronesise se vertete te firmes qe ofroi me shume eshte bere me qellim, qe kompanite italiane dhe gjermane jane larguar me qellim dhe qe bisedat private te zyrtareve shqiptare kane patur qellim te percaktuar. Gjithcka do te sqarohet nga "Koha Jone" ne ditet e ardhshme, por qeveria duhet te korrigjoje vetveten. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________________ ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From kbejko at hotmail.com Wed May 24 14:16:47 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:16:47 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Message-ID: <20000524181647.45483.qmail@hotmail.com> Problemi, Ilir, qendron ne faktin qe Greqia nga ana psikologjike prape ne mehallen tone Ballkanike ben pjese dhe si e tille duhet pare me dyshim(kuptohet "everything in moderation") pasi ndonese ben pjese ne EU e NATO Greket jane ata qe qene, dmth njerez me qellime asimiluese, Megalidheiste etc etc. Lexo literaturen analitike mbi Greqine dhe besoj se do gjesh qe edhe analistet e huaj do te te thone qe Greket nuk i perkasin gjinise perendimore. Te varesh kaq shume nga ata eshte te kesh mbi koke shpaten e Damokleut. Per Italine s'ben njeri shume llafe se Italia nuk i perkufizon italianet si te gjithe ata qe i perkasin Kishes Katolike. Shqipfolesit e humben Sulin, Himaren, ishujt e Egjeut. Mos duhet te humbim edhe Gjirokastren e Korcen per hir te tregtise? Mos duhet te varet amerika nga Iraku per naften? Vete prefekti i Gjirokstrates ne nje interviste me KLAN ka thene qe "qeveria e Shqiperise nuk investon fare ne Gjirokaster nen pretekstin se po investon Greqia". Ketu vertet ka dicka qe s'shkon. >From: "Ilir Kullolli" >To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com >Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit >Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:07:17 PDT > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - >ok.. me sa pashe une ky ishte nje artikull gazete dhe sigurisht qe ato e >bejne "qimen, tra". Per mendimin tim ka patur dhe ndoshta do te kete >probleme midis dy vendeve tona (Shqiperise dhe Greqise) por une mendoj se >edhe ne nuk duhet t'i shohim te gjitha gjerat si "levizje" nga ana e >grekeve. ne kete menyre nuk kemi per te arritur asgje, dhe Ballkani ka per >te mbetur perhere vendi i trazirave dhe lufterave! > > > >From: Agron Alibali >To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com >Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit >Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:35:14 -0700 (PDT) > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > Mashtrimi i madh, celularet u shiten ne Greqi > >Enton Abilekaj >KOHA JONE > > "Cosmote is a Greek - strong >company (Kosmote eshte nje > kompani e fuqishme greke)". Ky >eshte nje nga titujt qe kompania > greko-norvegjeze, qe deklarohet >si fituese e AMC-se shqiptare, > leshon ne internet. Dhe gjithkush >qe ka degjuar deklaratat > qeveritare, mund te habitet, >sepse qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se > 86 milione dollaret per te blere >celularet shqiptare ishin te > Norvegjise dhe te kompanise >norvegjeze Telenor. Dhe vete > deklarimi shqiptar ishte se >kompania qe ka ofruar shumen me te > madhe quhej Telenor & Cosmote. >Por nuk eshte aspak keshtu. > Kompania Kosmote (Cosmote) qe ka >ofruar shumen 86 milione > dhe mund te quhet fituese e AMC, >eshte nje bashkim i Telenor > dhe OTE, qe do te thote nje >bashkim i Telekomit norvegjez (qe > ka 30 per qind) dhe Telekomit >grek (qe ka 70 per qind). > Administrimi i kompanise i eshte >dhene kompanise norvegjeze, > por pronesia eshte dominuese >greke. Per arsye te dyshimta > qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se >AMC-ne e blene norvegjezet dhe jo > greket, ndersa shifra 86 milione >dollare ishte nje politike > personale e nje pjese te >qeveritareve, te cilet kane shfrytezuar > bisedat personale per te vendosur >fituesit. Kjo eshte nje ceshtje > qe do te sqarohet me vone, por >per fillim eshte i nevojshem > sqarimi rreth mashtrimit te pare >te madh dhe te qellimshem. Pse > u deklarua qe Kosmote eshte >norvegjeze dhe a eshte 86 milione > dollare nje shifer e shkelqyer >per privatizimin e AMC? > > Sipas vete asaj qe Kosmote >shkruan ne internet, kjo eshte nje > kombinim me 70 per qind i >"organizates sone kombetare te > telekomunikacioneve". >(Togfjaleshi ne thonjeza eshte shkruar > per greket). Me pas ne faqen e >internetit shkruhet se ne kete > bashkepunim (pra Kosmote), OTE >(qe eshte telekomi grek) merr > pjese me nesueshmerine dhe >prestigjin, me zhvillimin dinamik > dhe me njohurine unike per te >ofruar tek 5 milione abonentet e > saj nje rritje konstante te >cilesise se sherbimit. > > 30 per qind i takojne Norwegian >Telecomunications company > (Kompanise se tekomunikacioneve >norvegjeze). "TELENOR ka > tashme 70 per qind te tregut >norvegjez te telekomunikacioneve > dhe aksione te rendesishme ne >tregje te vendeve te tjera", > thuhet ne faqen e internetit. Ky >sqarim, qe nuk ka asgje te > fajshme per vete Kosmote, per >abontentet e tanishem te AMC, > per abonentet e ardhshem dhe ne >pergjithesi per shqiptaret > eshte shume i rendesishem, pasi >sqaron te ardhmen e > abonenteve, por edhe nje >genjeshter te madhe, te > propaganduar nga qeveria >shqiptare. Kjo genjeshter e > qellimshme e qeverise ve ne >dyshim procesin e privatizimit te > AMC-se dhe vete kompanine >grekonorvegjeze, e cila ka > konkuruar me biografine e vet te >bere publike. Por kujdesi i > qeverise shqiptare per ta fshehur >pronesine e vertete te > kompanise, i ben te gjithe te >dyshojne. > > Per me teper qe privatizimi i >AMC-se ka kaluar nje proces me dy > ngjarje shume te medha te cilat u >lane ne heshtje: E para largimi > i Dojce Telekom (telekomit >gjerman); e dyta largimi i TIM > (Telekom Italia mobile). Keto >jane dy nga kompanite me te > medha ne bote ne fushen e >telekomunikacioneve, qe u larguan > per shkaqe te cuditshme nga >Shqiperia dhe arsyeja qe nxorren > ishte e njejte, nje investim >tjeter i rendesishem ne nje vend > tjeter te Ballkanit. > > Por ndersa largimi i dy kompanive >super te medha, do te > sqarohet ne numrat e ardhshem, >fitorja e Telekomit grek dhe > cmimi i servirur si nje fitore e >madhe, jane pikenisja e dyshimit > per nje proces te paster >privatizimi. Aq sa nje nga perfaqesuesit > e telekomit celular turk, >Turkcell hodhi dyshime pas hapjes se > zarfeve. > > Cmimi i vertete i AMC > > Cmimi i vertete i AMC, mbetet >vazhdimisht i diskutueshem. > Parimisht ai varet nga investimi, >nga qarkullimi i parave dhe > impulseve, nga numri i abonenteve >dhe ajo qe eshte me e > rendesishme, Frekuenca. Deri tek >shitja e frekuences, duke > llogaritur te tre parametrat e >pare, mbi 20 mije abonente dhe > mbi 10 milione dollare te ardhura >ne vit, vlera fillestare e AMC > shkon tek 25 milione dollare. Po >te llogaritet shitja e Frekuences, > cmimi rritet shume me teper duke >patur parasysh se Shqiperia > ka vetem dy frekuenca per >telefonine celulare. Vlera e frekuences > eshte subjektive, por mund te >llogaritet edhe me 100 milione > dollare, duke patur parasysh >varferine e Shqiperise ne frekuenca. > Ky cmim do te verifikohet ne >muajt qe vijne kur Enti Regullator i > Telekomunikacioneve (ERT) do te >shpalle dhe do te ekzekutoje > tenderin e hapur nderkombetar per >shitjen e frekuences se > mbetur, per te cilen diskutohet >nese do te shitet e plote, apo e > ndare ne dy pjese. Deri tani >triumfon varianti i shitjes se plote. > Pikerisht ky variant ka hedhur >poshte edhe marreveshjen e > Telekomit shqiptar me New World >Telecom, kompanine > amerikane. Marreveshja >parashikonte nje investim mbi 300 > milione dollare ne 10 vjet, por >me kushtin qe frekuenca per > sistemin celular te jepej falas. >Me gjithe premtimin e NWT per > investimin 300 milione dollare, >Enti Regullator i Frekuencave > refuzoi ta jepte falas frekuencen >e mbetur dhe marreveshja me > amerikanet, e firmosur ne prani >te kryeministrit shqiptar dhe > Sekretarit amerikan te Shtetit >per Tregtine mbeti pezull. > > Brenda ketij viti, Shqiperia >duhet te njihet me fituesin e ri te > frekuences se mbetur dhe me >cmimin e shitjes se saj. Cmimi i > shitjes llogaritet te jete shume >i larte dhe mund te tregoje se > shitja e AMC, nuk ishte ndonje >biznes i madh per Shtetin > shqiptar. Ndoshta nuk ishte fare >nje biznes, por nje pazar > interesash qe per fat te keq mund >te kene origjine nga interesat > personale politiko-ekonomike te >ndonje anetari te kabinetit. > > Firma e qeverise > > Tani qe zarfat u hapen dhe >kompania greko norvegjeze ka > mbetur pretendentja kryesore per >fitimin e tenderit ka shume > pak per te bere, po te gjykohet >cmimi. Por ka shume per te bere, > po te gjykohen te gjitha ngjarjet >qe kane ndodhur qe nga fillimi i > procesit te privatizimit. Qeveria >duhet te korrigjoje veten duke e > gjykuar mire firmen. Ndoshta >privatizimi i AMC duhet te > korrektohet. Qeveria gjendet >perballe firmes, pas propagandimit > te nje genjeshtre te madhe, qe >Cosmote eshte nje kompani > norvegjeze. Qe te shlyeje kete >duhet te korrektoje procesin dhe > te tregoje se nuk ka gisht ne ate >qe ka ndodhur dhe qe ende > nuk eshte sqaruar plotesisht. >Ndryshe te gjithe do te besojne qe > mungesa e sinjalit te AMC-se ne >Jug te Shqiperise eshte bere me > qellim, qe zevendesimi i sinjalit >te AMC me ate te Telekomit grek > eshte bere me qellim, qe fshehja >e pronesise se vertete te firmes > qe ofroi me shume eshte bere me >qellim, qe kompanite italiane > dhe gjermane jane larguar me >qellim dhe qe bisedat private te > zyrtareve shqiptare kane patur >qellim te percaktuar. > > Gjithcka do te sqarohet nga "Koha >Jone" ne ditet e ardhshme, > por qeveria duhet te korrigjoje vetveten. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From ikullolli at hotmail.com Wed May 24 14:36:40 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:36:40 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Message-ID: <20000524183640.91016.qmail@hotmail.com> Kreshnik... te kuptoj shume mire. Puna qendron tek ajo qe gjithcka duhet pare "in moderation". Me cfare metri duhet pare? Per mendimin tim nuk duhet abuzur shume me moderimin, nga asnje ane. Ne abuzojme nga nje ane, ata nga ana tjeter pastaj.... dhe si gjithmone do kete probleme. Ajo cfare une doja te thoja eshte qe nese nje firme Greke ben nje investim ne Shqiperi nuk duhet pare me syrin qe "greket po marrin Shqiperine". Pse nuk mund te shihet me syrin qe firma Cosmote thjesht po investon dicka per fitimin e tyre??? Nejse, une nuk eshte se di shume nga politika apo politika qe ndiqet ne ekonomi, por thjesht me nervozon mendimi qe cdo gje qe behet nga "pala" tjeter te shihet me nje sy kaq strikt. Nuk eshte e drejte qe ne te gjykojme cdo levizje te Grekeve dhe anasjelltas. Nuk besoj se do arrijme diku me kete arsyetim! Per sa i perket Himares, etj. qe i kemi humbur ... nuk te kuptova mire. From: "Kreshnik Bejko" To: ikullolli at hotmail.com CC: albsa-info at alb-net.com Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:16:47 GMT Problemi, Ilir, qendron ne faktin qe Greqia nga ana psikologjike prape ne mehallen tone Ballkanike ben pjese dhe si e tille duhet pare me dyshim(kuptohet "everything in moderation") pasi ndonese ben pjese ne EU e NATO Greket jane ata qe qene, dmth njerez me qellime asimiluese, Megalidheiste etc etc. Lexo literaturen analitike mbi Greqine dhe besoj se do gjesh qe edhe analistet e huaj do te te thone qe Greket nuk i perkasin gjinise perendimore. Te varesh kaq shume nga ata eshte te kesh mbi koke shpaten e Damokleut. Per Italine s'ben njeri shume llafe se Italia nuk i perkufizon italianet si te gjithe ata qe i perkasin Kishes Katolike. Shqipfolesit e humben Sulin, Himaren, ishujt e Egjeut. Mos duhet te humbim edhe Gjirokastren e Korcen per hir te tregtise? Mos duhet te varet amerika nga Iraku per naften? Vete prefekti i Gjirokstrates ne nje interviste me KLAN ka thene qe "qeveria e Shqiperise nuk investon fare ne Gjirokaster nen pretekstin se po investon Greqia". Ketu vertet ka dicka qe s'shkon. >From: "Ilir Kullolli" >To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com >Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit >Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:07:17 PDT > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - >ok.. me sa pashe une ky ishte nje artikull gazete dhe sigurisht qe ato e >bejne "qimen, tra". Per mendimin tim ka patur dhe ndoshta do te kete >probleme midis dy vendeve tona (Shqiperise dhe Greqise) por une mendoj se >edhe ne nuk duhet t'i shohim te gjitha gjerat si "levizje" nga ana e >grekeve. ne kete menyre nuk kemi per te arritur asgje, dhe Ballkani ka per >te mbetur perhere vendi i trazirave dhe lufterave! > > > >From: Agron Alibali >To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com >Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit >Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:35:14 -0700 (PDT) > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > Mashtrimi i madh, celularet u shiten ne Greqi > >Enton Abilekaj >KOHA JONE > > "Cosmote is a Greek - strong >company (Kosmote eshte nje > kompani e fuqishme greke)". Ky >eshte nje nga titujt qe kompania > greko-norvegjeze, qe deklarohet >si fituese e AMC-se shqiptare, > leshon ne internet. Dhe gjithkush >qe ka degjuar deklaratat > qeveritare, mund te habitet, >sepse qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se > 86 milione dollaret per te blere >celularet shqiptare ishin te > Norvegjise dhe te kompanise >norvegjeze Telenor. Dhe vete > deklarimi shqiptar ishte se >kompania qe ka ofruar shumen me te > madhe quhej Telenor & Cosmote. >Por nuk eshte aspak keshtu. > Kompania Kosmote (Cosmote) qe ka >ofruar shumen 86 milione > dhe mund te quhet fituese e AMC, >eshte nje bashkim i Telenor > dhe OTE, qe do te thote nje >bashkim i Telekomit norvegjez (qe > ka 30 per qind) dhe Telekomit >grek (qe ka 70 per qind). > Administrimi i kompanise i eshte >dhene kompanise norvegjeze, > por pronesia eshte dominuese >greke. Per arsye te dyshimta > qeveria shqiptare deklaroi se >AMC-ne e blene norvegjezet dhe jo > greket, ndersa shifra 86 milione >dollare ishte nje politike > personale e nje pjese te >qeveritareve, te cilet kane shfrytezuar > bisedat personale per te vendosur >fituesit. Kjo eshte nje ceshtje > qe do te sqarohet me vone, por >per fillim eshte i nevojshem > sqarimi rreth mashtrimit te pare >te madh dhe te qellimshem. Pse > u deklarua qe Kosmote eshte >norvegjeze dhe a eshte 86 milione > dollare nje shifer e shkelqyer >per privatizimin e AMC? > > Sipas vete asaj qe Kosmote >shkruan ne internet, kjo eshte nje > kombinim me 70 per qind i >"organizates sone kombetare te > telekomunikacioneve". >(Togfjaleshi ne thonjeza eshte shkruar > per greket). Me pas ne faqen e >internetit shkruhet se ne kete > bashkepunim (pra Kosmote), OTE >(qe eshte telekomi grek) merr > pjese me nesueshmerine dhe >prestigjin, me zhvillimin dinamik > dhe me njohurine unike per te >ofruar tek 5 milione abonentet e > saj nje rritje konstante te >cilesise se sherbimit. > > 30 per qind i takojne Norwegian >Telecomunications company > (Kompanise se tekomunikacioneve >norvegjeze). "TELENOR ka > tashme 70 per qind te tregut >norvegjez te telekomunikacioneve > dhe aksione te rendesishme ne >tregje te vendeve te tjera", > thuhet ne faqen e internetit. Ky >sqarim, qe nuk ka asgje te > fajshme per vete Kosmote, per >abontentet e tanishem te AMC, > per abonentet e ardhshem dhe ne >pergjithesi per shqiptaret > eshte shume i rendesishem, pasi >sqaron te ardhmen e > abonenteve, por edhe nje >genjeshter te madhe, te > propaganduar nga qeveria >shqiptare. Kjo genjeshter e > qellimshme e qeverise ve ne >dyshim procesin e privatizimit te > AMC-se dhe vete kompanine >grekonorvegjeze, e cila ka > konkuruar me biografine e vet te >bere publike. Por kujdesi i > qeverise shqiptare per ta fshehur >pronesine e vertete te > kompanise, i ben te gjithe te >dyshojne. > > Per me teper qe privatizimi i >AMC-se ka kaluar nje proces me dy > ngjarje shume te medha te cilat u >lane ne heshtje: E para largimi > i Dojce Telekom (telekomit >gjerman); e dyta largimi i TIM > (Telekom Italia mobile). Keto >jane dy nga kompanite me te > medha ne bote ne fushen e >telekomunikacioneve, qe u larguan > per shkaqe te cuditshme nga >Shqiperia dhe arsyeja qe nxorren > ishte e njejte, nje investim >tjeter i rendesishem ne nje vend > tjeter te Ballkanit. > > Por ndersa largimi i dy kompanive >super te medha, do te > sqarohet ne numrat e ardhshem, >fitorja e Telekomit grek dhe > cmimi i servirur si nje fitore e >madhe, jane pikenisja e dyshimit > per nje proces te paster >privatizimi. Aq sa nje nga perfaqesuesit > e telekomit celular turk, >Turkcell hodhi dyshime pas hapjes se > zarfeve. > > Cmimi i vertete i AMC > > Cmimi i vertete i AMC, mbetet >vazhdimisht i diskutueshem. > Parimisht ai varet nga investimi, >nga qarkullimi i parave dhe > impulseve, nga numri i abonenteve >dhe ajo qe eshte me e > rendesishme, Frekuenca. Deri tek >shitja e frekuences, duke > llogaritur te tre parametrat e >pare, mbi 20 mije abonente dhe > mbi 10 milione dollare te ardhura >ne vit, vlera fillestare e AMC > shkon tek 25 milione dollare. Po >te llogaritet shitja e Frekuences, > cmimi rritet shume me teper duke >patur parasysh se Shqiperia > ka vetem dy frekuenca per >telefonine celulare. Vlera e frekuences > eshte subjektive, por mund te >llogaritet edhe me 100 milione > dollare, duke patur parasysh >varferine e Shqiperise ne frekuenca. > Ky cmim do te verifikohet ne >muajt qe vijne kur Enti Regullator i > Telekomunikacioneve (ERT) do te >shpalle dhe do te ekzekutoje > tenderin e hapur nderkombetar per >shitjen e frekuences se > mbetur, per te cilen diskutohet >nese do te shitet e plote, apo e > ndare ne dy pjese. Deri tani >triumfon varianti i shitjes se plote. > Pikerisht ky variant ka hedhur >poshte edhe marreveshjen e > Telekomit shqiptar me New World >Telecom, kompanine > amerikane. Marreveshja >parashikonte nje investim mbi 300 > milione dollare ne 10 vjet, por >me kushtin qe frekuenca per > sistemin celular te jepej falas. >Me gjithe premtimin e NWT per > investimin 300 milione dollare, >Enti Regullator i Frekuencave > refuzoi ta jepte falas frekuencen >e mbetur dhe marreveshja me > amerikanet, e firmosur ne prani >te kryeministrit shqiptar dhe > Sekretarit amerikan te Shtetit >per Tregtine mbeti pezull. > > Brenda ketij viti, Shqiperia >duhet te njihet me fituesin e ri te > frekuences se mbetur dhe me >cmimin e shitjes se saj. Cmimi i > shitjes llogaritet te jete shume >i larte dhe mund te tregoje se > shitja e AMC, nuk ishte ndonje >biznes i madh per Shtetin > shqiptar. Ndoshta nuk ishte fare >nje biznes, por nje pazar > interesash qe per fat te keq mund >te kene origjine nga interesat > personale politiko-ekonomike te >ndonje anetari te kabinetit. > > Firma e qeverise > > Tani qe zarfat u hapen dhe >kompania greko norvegjeze ka > mbetur pretendentja kryesore per >fitimin e tenderit ka shume > pak per te bere, po te gjykohet >cmimi. Por ka shume per te bere, > po te gjykohen te gjitha ngjarjet >qe kane ndodhur qe nga fillimi i > procesit te privatizimit. Qeveria >duhet te korrigjoje veten duke e > gjykuar mire firmen. Ndoshta >privatizimi i AMC duhet te > korrektohet. Qeveria gjendet >perballe firmes, pas propagandimit > te nje genjeshtre te madhe, qe >Cosmote eshte nje kompani > norvegjeze. Qe te shlyeje kete >duhet te korrektoje procesin dhe > te tregoje se nuk ka gisht ne ate >qe ka ndodhur dhe qe ende > nuk eshte sqaruar plotesisht. >Ndryshe te gjithe do te besojne qe > mungesa e sinjalit te AMC-se ne >Jug te Shqiperise eshte bere me > qellim, qe zevendesimi i sinjalit >te AMC me ate te Telekomit grek > eshte bere me qellim, qe fshehja >e pronesise se vertete te firmes > qe ofroi me shume eshte bere me >qellim, qe kompanite italiane > dhe gjermane jane larguar me >qellim dhe qe bisedat private te > zyrtareve shqiptare kane patur >qellim te percaktuar. > > Gjithcka do te sqarohet nga "Koha >Jone" ne ditet e ardhshme, > por qeveria duhet te korrigjoje vetveten. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From pilika at yahoo.com Wed May 24 15:00:00 2000 From: pilika at yahoo.com (Asti Pilika) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Message-ID: <20000524190000.22364.qmail@web803.mail.yahoo.com> Nuk jam dakord me Ilirin. Shqiperia eshte e mberthyer mes tre shteteve me shoviniste ne Evrope. Ne keto kushte nuk mund t'i lejojme vetes te jemi liberale. Nese nuk sulmojme, te pakten duhet qe fqinjeve t'u veme kufirin te thana. Sa per AlbMobilen, 90 perqind e investimeve private te huaja ne Shqiperi jane greke. Ku i dihet, ata te mete jane, me fe e kombesi mbi gjithcka. Po t'ju teket neser t'i vene kushte qeverise shqiptare (ata kane filluar qekur, edhe pa bere investime private). Perse ta lidhesh ekonomine vetem me nje shtet, qofte ky edhe mik (qe Greqia nuk eshte). Te mos harrojme se "allvanoset" ne Greqi iu bene gur ne qafe qeverise shqiptare ne vitet '90. E jo vetem atehere, atij avazi as i duket fundi. --- Ilir Kullolli wrote: > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List > --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: > http://www.albstudent.org - > Kreshnik... te kuptoj shume mire. > Puna qendron tek ajo qe gjithcka duhet pare "in > moderation". Me cfare metri > duhet pare? Per mendimin tim nuk duhet abuzur shume > me moderimin, nga asnje > ane. Ne abuzojme nga nje ane, ata nga ana tjeter > pastaj.... dhe si gjithmone > do kete probleme. > Ajo cfare une doja te thoja eshte qe nese nje firme > Greke ben nje investim > ne Shqiperi nuk duhet pare me syrin qe "greket po > marrin Shqiperine". Pse > nuk mund te shihet me syrin qe firma Cosmote thjesht > po investon dicka per > fitimin e tyre??? > Nejse, une nuk eshte se di shume nga politika apo > politika qe ndiqet ne > ekonomi, por thjesht me nervozon mendimi qe cdo gje > qe behet nga "pala" > tjeter te shihet me nje sy kaq strikt. Nuk eshte e > drejte qe ne te gjykojme > cdo levizje te Grekeve dhe anasjelltas. Nuk besoj se > do arrijme diku me kete > arsyetim! > > Per sa i perket Himares, etj. qe i kemi humbur ... > nuk te kuptova mire. > > > From: "Kreshnik Bejko" > To: ikullolli at hotmail.com > CC: albsa-info at alb-net.com > Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit > Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:16:47 GMT > > Problemi, Ilir, qendron ne faktin qe Greqia nga ana > psikologjike > prape ne mehallen tone Ballkanike ben pjese dhe si e > tille duhet > pare me dyshim(kuptohet "everything in moderation") > pasi ndonese > ben pjese ne EU e NATO Greket jane ata qe qene, dmth > njerez me > qellime asimiluese, Megalidheiste etc etc. Lexo > literaturen analitike > mbi Greqine dhe besoj se do gjesh qe edhe analistet > e huaj do te te > thone qe Greket nuk i perkasin gjinise perendimore. > Te varesh kaq > shume nga ata eshte te kesh mbi koke shpaten e > Damokleut. Per Italine > s'ben njeri shume llafe se Italia nuk i perkufizon > italianet si te gjithe > ata qe i perkasin Kishes Katolike. Shqipfolesit e > humben Sulin, Himaren, > ishujt e Egjeut. Mos duhet te humbim edhe > Gjirokastren e > Korcen per hir te tregtise? Mos duhet te varet > amerika nga Iraku per naften? > Vete prefekti i Gjirokstrates ne nje interviste me > KLAN ka thene qe > "qeveria e Shqiperise nuk investon fare ne > Gjirokaster nen pretekstin se po > investon Greqia". Ketu vertet ka dicka qe s'shkon. > > > > > > >From: "Ilir Kullolli" > >To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com > >Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit > >Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:07:17 PDT > > > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List > --------- > > - ALBSA Web Site: > http://www.albstudent.org - > >ok.. me sa pashe une ky ishte nje artikull gazete > dhe sigurisht qe ato e > >bejne "qimen, tra". Per mendimin tim ka patur dhe > ndoshta do te kete > >probleme midis dy vendeve tona (Shqiperise dhe > Greqise) por une mendoj se > >edhe ne nuk duhet t'i shohim te gjitha gjerat si > "levizje" nga ana e > >grekeve. ne kete menyre nuk kemi per te arritur > asgje, dhe Ballkani ka per > >te mbetur perhere vendi i trazirave dhe lufterave! > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From kbejko at hotmail.com Wed May 24 15:26:35 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:26:35 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit Message-ID: <20000524192635.4614.qmail@hotmail.com> >Ajo cfare une doja te thoja eshte qe nese nje firme Greke ben nje investim >ne Shqiperi nuk duhet pare me syrin qe "greket po marrin Shqiperine". Pse >nuk mund te shihet me syrin qe firma Cosmote thjesht po investon dicka per >fitimin e tyre??? Ti thua: kur vjen puna te parja nuk ka vend per nacionalizem? T'a garantoj une qe ajo qe me shqeteson mua nuk eshte e nxitur nga nacionalizmi(ndonese e pranoj qe jam nacionalist i moderuar). Eshte thjesht ceshtje strategjie duke u bazuar ne premisen qe njerezit e politika ne Ballkan nuk ndryshojne, e historia perserit vetveten. Fakti qe Greqia e ka Shqiperine ne dore per shkak te ndikimit qe ka ne $400 milion qe i sjellin ne vit Shqiperise emigrantet (te cilet greqia mund ti "fshije" nqs Shqiperia nuk "sillet" sic duhet), dhe fakti qe po ia merr vendin e pare Italise me importet (mbi $350 milione vitin qe shkoi)jane shqetesues per arsye se nqs Shqiperia nis te shikoje interesat e veta (psh rasti i pronave te Chameve) qe edhe mund te bien ndesh me ato te Greqise, Greqia do perdori keto gjera per "retaliation". Une s'po them qe hajt te bojkotojme tregtine me Greqine! Une po them qe fokusi duhet mbajtur me nga Perendimi. Bizneset Greke jane me se te mirepritura, por shteti Shqiptar duhet te kete kujdes se cfare efekti social kane keto biznese, e ndihma e drejtperdrejte e shtetit Grek, ne zonat e kontestueshme ku si per cudi gjithe aktiviteti ekonomik Grek eshte perqendruar. > >Per sa i perket Himares, etj. qe i kemi humbur ... nuk te kuptova mire. Himarjotet nuk flasin me Shqip po Greqisht per shkak te izolimit dhe tregtise me Greqine > > >From: "Kreshnik Bejko" >To: ikullolli at hotmail.com >CC: albsa-info at alb-net.com >Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit >Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:16:47 GMT > >Problemi, Ilir, qendron ne faktin qe Greqia nga ana psikologjike >prape ne mehallen tone Ballkanike ben pjese dhe si e tille duhet >pare me dyshim(kuptohet "everything in moderation") pasi ndonese >ben pjese ne EU e NATO Greket jane ata qe qene, dmth njerez me >qellime asimiluese, Megalidheiste etc etc. Lexo literaturen analitike >mbi Greqine dhe besoj se do gjesh qe edhe analistet e huaj do te te >thone qe Greket nuk i perkasin gjinise perendimore. Te varesh kaq >shume nga ata eshte te kesh mbi koke shpaten e Damokleut. Per Italine >s'ben njeri shume llafe se Italia nuk i perkufizon italianet si te gjithe >ata qe i perkasin Kishes Katolike. Shqipfolesit e humben Sulin, Himaren, >ishujt e Egjeut. Mos duhet te humbim edhe Gjirokastren e >Korcen per hir te tregtise? Mos duhet te varet amerika nga Iraku per >naften? > Vete prefekti i Gjirokstrates ne nje interviste me KLAN ka thene qe >"qeveria e Shqiperise nuk investon fare ne Gjirokaster nen pretekstin se po >investon Greqia". Ketu vertet ka dicka qe s'shkon. > > > > > >>From: "Ilir Kullolli" >>To: Albsa-info at alb-net.com >>Subject: Re: [ALBSA-Info] Skandali i Fundit >>Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:07:17 PDT >> >> ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- >> - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - >>ok.. me sa pashe une ky ishte nje artikull gazete dhe sigurisht qe ato e >>bejne "qimen, tra". Per mendimin tim ka patur dhe ndoshta do te kete >>probleme midis dy vendeve tona (Shqiperise dhe Greqise) por une mendoj se >>edhe ne nuk duhet t'i shohim te gjitha gjerat si "levizje" nga ana e >>grekeve. ne kete menyre nuk kemi per te arritur asgje, dhe Ballkani ka per >>te mbetur perhere vendi i trazirave dhe lufterave! >> ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed May 24 19:35:32 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] AMC - Reagimi i opozites Message-ID: <20000524233532.11705.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> Rilindja Demokratike 25 maj 2000 Publikimi i skandalit, mund ta detyroj? Kryeministrin t? anulloj? tenderin p?r shitjen e AMC Opozita: Meta, i lidhur me mafien greke Bano: "Fallsifikimi i komb?sis? s? firm?s "Cosmote" q? ?sht? pretendentja kryesore p?r fitimin e tenderit t? AMC, d?shmon nj? veprim t? tipit mafioz t? qeveritar?ve t? sot?m Shefi i Ekzekutivit shqiptar Ilir Meta dhe beniamini i tij, Mu?i i Ministris? s? Ekonomis? e Privatizimit, kan? urdh?ruar vart?sit t? mos japin asnj? shpjegim p?r skandalin e radh?s q? ka t? b?j? me shitjen e AMC-s?. "Jan? ??shtje konfidenciale dhe nuk mund t? flasim h? p?r h? p?r median",-?sht? shprehur dje drejtori i Privatizimit, Vaso Pano, nd?rkoh? q? z?dh?n?sja Lidra Zagali, s?pranon t? flas? pa pranin? e shefit t? saj. Nd?rkoh? opozita vazhdon t? reagoj? ashp?r p?r faktin se, privatizimi i nj?rit prej sektor?ve strategjik? t? ekonomis? son?, sikurse ?sht? AMC-ja nuk ?sht? b?r? nga nj? firm? norvegjeze si? u reklamua, por nga nj? firm? greke. Nisur nga ky fakt, sekretari Organizativ i PD-s?, Ilir Bano, argumenton se fallsifikimi i komb?sis? s? firm?s n? vetvete shpreh nj? veprim t? tipit mafioz t? qeveritar?ve t? sot?m. Funksionari i lart? demokrat thekson se n? t? kund?rt nuk kishte pse t? fshihej firma fituese e ?far?do lloj komb?sie q? t? ishte ajo. Zoti Bano edhe si kryetar i komisionit parlamentar t? Industris?, Pun?ve Publike e Transporteve denoncon k?t? strategji privatizimesh t? ndjekur n? vijim?si q? nga ?97-ta e k?tej, nga koalicioni i sot?m qeveris?s. "T? rikthyer n? pushtet me ndihm?n e qarqeve t? caktuara shoviniste greke, qeveritar?t aktual? vazhdojn? t?u paguajn? atyre detyrimet qoft? dhe duke i priviligjuar n? privatizimin e sektor?ve strategjik? si? ?sht? AMC-ja",- tha Bano p?r "RD"-n?. Duke marr? shkas nga skandali me AMC-n?, deputeti demokrat gjen rastin t? ridenoncoj? bashk?punimin e qeveritar?ve aktual? shqiptar? me segmente t? mafies greke. Si argumente konkrete, Bano p?rmend krijimin e nj? situate monopol n? sektorin e naft?s. Nd?rkoh? ai shpreh shqet?simin p?r kontraband?n e p?rbashk?t q? zhvillohet, si dhe p?r importin e disa produkteve kryesore vet?m nga Greqia, nga firma t? dyshimta t? lidhura me Greqin?. K?t? linj? t? qarqeve greke antishqiptare, Bano e argumenton dhe me sabotimin e turizmit n? Jug t? vendit duke mos i krijuar konkurrenc? turizmit grek si dhe n? kushtet e tjera q? po vihen n? privatizimin e sektor?ve t? tjer? strategjik?. Kryekomisioneri parlamentar i Industris? e Privatizimit p?rmend dhe nj? ankes? q? ka marr? nga nj? firm? italiane, e cila ka bashk?punuar p?r nj? koh? t? gjat? me Fabrik?n e ?imentos n? Fush?-Kruj? q? tani ka dal? p?rs?ri n? ankand. "Esht? firma e dyt? prodhuese n? Itali, e cila ?sht? treguar korrekte n? t? gjitha marr?dh?niet me shtetin ton?, e megjithat? ky shtet i v? detyrime t? atilla q? e p?rjashtojn? at? t?r?sisht nga mund?sia e "tenderimit",- tha Bano. Sipas tij, n? nj? koh? q? prodhimi total i vendit n? rastin m? t? mir? t? funksionimit me kapacitetin maksimal t? fabrikave Fush?-Kruj?, Elbasan, ishte vet?m nj? milion ton ?imento n? vit, firma q? duhet t? jet? pjes?marr?se n? tenderin p?r privatizimin e saj duhet t? prodhoj? t? pakt?n 7 milion? ton n? vit. P?r PD-n?, mjafton qoft? dhe krahasimi me k?t? rast p?r t? konkluduar q? shitja me goditje t? p?rq?ndruar e AMC-s? ?sht? nj? problem, i cili q? n? fillim vjen er?. Drejtori i Marr?dh?nieve Publike n? selin? blu, Gjergj Thanasi tha dje n? nj? konferenc? p?r shtyp se vet? artikulimi q? i b?ri qeveria duke e quajtur firm? norvegjeze kur n? fakt ?sht? firm? greke, ka ngjallur shum? dyshime rreth pazareve q? jan? b?r? nga qarqe t? caktuara qeveritare. P?r m? tep?r, fakti q? personi q? kreu negociatat pasi premtoi t? kryente k?t? privatizim b?het minist?r, shton nj? pik?pyetje t? dyt? n? procesin e privatizimit t? AMC-s?. Zoti Thanasi dhe nj?her? dje, ka paralajm?ruar se PD, pas ardhjes s? shpejti n? pushtet nuk do t?i njoh? privatizime t? tilla pasi nuk i quan t? mir?q?na. Edhe Sekretari i P?rgjithsh?m i PDK-s?, Mati Pepa, denoncoi dje n? nj? konferenc? p?r shtyp k?to "pazare" q? po b?hen n? d?m t? ekonomis? son? komb?tare. Halil RAMA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed May 24 19:42:54 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:42:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] AMC - perseri nga shtypi i opozites Message-ID: <20000524234254.12648.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> Rilindja Demokratike 25 maj 2000 Ja ?far? zbulon faqja n? internet e kompanis? q? do t? zot?roj? 85 % t? aksioneve t? AMC Cosmote, e krijuar posa??risht p?r AMC-n? - Cosmote, kompani e fuqishme greke ku 70 % e z?n? aksionet e kompanis? greke OTE, t? krijuara q? m? 1946 dhe 30 % t? TELENOR, aksione t? telekomit norvegjez. - Data e krijimit t? kompanis? Cosmote dhe faqes s? saj n? internet daton me vitin 1998-1999, vit ku kishin nisur planet p?r privatizimin e AMC-s? me tender nd?rkomb?tar. - Oferta e Cosmotes? ishte e shoq?ruar nga nj? flet? garancie q? Telenori jepte p?r t?. - AMC greke, nj? bingo e Nakos, k?shilltarit juridik t? kryeministrit, njeriut q? supervizoi pro?edurat e privatizimit t? AMC Kosmote, kompania q? pretendohet t? ket? n? pron?si 85 % t? aksioneve t? AMC-s?, ?sht? nj? kompani e sapo krijuar n? Greqi por q? sigurisht nga sponsor? t? fuqish?m n? fush?n e telekomunikacioneve. N? pamjen e par? Kozmos duket sikur ?sht? nj? kompani shum? u fuqishme, nd?rsa viziton faqen e saj t? internetit, por pik?risht k?t? fuqi t? saj e b?jn? aksionet e OTE-s?, kompania greke e Telekomit. OTE Helenic Comunication S.A. N? t? gjith? informacionin q? Cosmote ka krijuar p?r veten nuk sh?nohet fare historiku i krijimit t? saj, data e themelimit, por sh?nohet vet?m q? kjo ?sht? vet?m nj? kompani e fuqishme greke. Por, po t? v?sh re m? v?mendje, kompania dhe faqja e saj n? internet mban t? sh?nuar dat?n e krijimit n? vitin 1998-1999, madje dhe prezantimet e saj jan? b?r? p?r k?t? pjes? vjetore. Kjo t? detyron t? mendosh se Cosmote ?sht? krijuar posa??risht vet?m p?r t? q?n? prezente n? privatizimin e AMC-s?. Kozmote mban 70 % t? aksionevee t? OTE-s? dhe 30 % t? Telenor, kompani norvegjeze e telekomunikacionit. COSMOTE - vet? emri mban n? rr?nj?n e saj emrin e kompanis? s? fuqishme greke OTE, COSM- OTE. Kjo ?sht? e vetmja pasaport? me t? cil?n ajo e prezanton veten si nj? kompani e fuqishme. N? faqen e saj t? sh?rbimit v? re se Cosmote ofron sh?rbim me t? nj?jtat ?mime si PANAFON, TELESTET. Ministria e Ekonomis? Publike dhe e Privatizimit si dhe ish-k?shilltari juridik q? supervizoi pro?esin e privatizimit t? AMC-s? pretendojn? se ?sht? kompania norvegjeze ajo q? mund t? marr? 85 % t? aksioneve, sepse vet?m kjo kompani sipas tyre ka edhe t? drejt?n e menaxhimit t? Cosmos n? Greqi. Pala shqiptare u hodh n? mbrojtje t? k?saj kompanie duke e prezantuar at? si norvegjeze, nd?rkoh? q? n? paraqitjen e ofertave prezent ishte p?rfaq?suesi grek dhe dosja e Cosmote ishte e shoq?ruar nga nj? flet? garancie q? kompania Telenor ia jepte pal?s greke fuqin? p?r t? b?r? ofert?n n? em?r t? saj. Kompani greke shum? e fuqishme thuhet n? internet p?r Cosmote, nd?rkoh? q? bien pretendimet e zyrtar?ve shqiptar? se jan? norvegjez?t ata q? kan? shumic?n n? k?t? pazar, sepse vet? harta e shtrirjes s? Cosmote ?sht? shum? e vog?l, ajo vepron sipas hart?s vet?m n? nj? pjes? t? Greqis?. Pra, q? t? mos flasim kot dhe n? tym, Cosmosin e b?n t? fuqishme vet?m investimi i OTE, Helenic Comunication S.A, kompani e krijuar n? Greqi q? n? vitin 1946. Bingo e Nakos Nd?rsa kishin mbaruar s? hapuri zarfat e Turcell dhe Panafon, k?shilltari juridik i kryeministrit, Sokol Nako, priste me ankth ofert?n e kompanis? greke t? celular?ve, Cosmos. Lexohet me shpejt?si letra e garancis? nga TELENOR dhe me shpejt?si kalohet tek ?mimi. Ishin plot 85. 615 mij? dollar? q? kompania Cosmos kishte ofruar p?r 85 % t? aksioneve t? AMC-s?. "Bingo" - kjo ka q?n? thirrja q? hutoi t? gjith? t? pranishmit, t? cil?t ende nuk kishin marr? vesh ?mimin drith?rues. Ishte Sokol Nako q? b?rtiti me t? madhe, njeriu q? negocioi p?r dh?nien e AMC-s? tek kompania greke Cosmos. Por kush ?sht? Sokol Nako, i cili ?sht? b?r? nj? nga njer?zit m? t? r?nd?sish?m t? qeveris? Meta brenda nj? viti. Nako ka punuar pak koh? n? Drejtorin? e Rrug?ve, m? pas ka b?r? nj? specializim n? Amerik? dhe q? andej ?sht? b?r? k?shilltari juridik i ish-ministrit t? Ekonomis? dhe Privatizimit, Zef Pre?i. Ardhja e ministrit t? ri Mustafa Mu?i nuk ka q?n? ndonj? gj?m? e madhe p?r Nakon, sepse lidhjet e miq?sis? me Mustafa Mu?in nuk i mungonin. Madje ka q?n? ky i fundit q? i ka hapur rrug? Nakos p?r t? z?n? vendin q? la bosh Mu?i n? Kryeministri. Pasi b?het k?shilltar juridik i Ilir Met?s, Nako merr n? dor? pro?edurat e privatizimit t? AMC-s?. Pasi arrin t? shtyj? kontrat?n q? kompania italiane IMI kishte me Bank?n Bot?rore p?r supervizimin e AMC-s?, Nako supervizon m? tej n? em?r t? Kryeministrit t? gjith? procesin e AMC-s?. T? gjitha k?to brenda natyr?s s? pun?s nuk kan? asgj? p?r t?u sh?nuar si t? dyshimta, por ajo q? b?n t? dyshosh ?sht? nxjerrja jasht? loje t? Telekom Italia dhe Doj?e Telekom, t? cilat ishin t? parat nga gar?n p?r privatizimin e AMC-s?. Partia Demokratike ka denoncuar prapaskenat e b?ra me AMC-n?, nd?rkoh? q? vet? qeveria ka vet?denoncuar veten duke fshehur pasaport?n e kompanis? q? ka dal? n? vendin e par? p?r blerjen e 85 % t? aksioneve t? AMC-s?, nd?rsa Nako mbetet nyja e k?saj oferte. Ish- k?shilltarit juridik t? tij, Meta i ka dh?n? p?r shp?rblim vendin e ministrit t? Transporteve, duke hequr qafe t? gjitha p?rgjegj?sit? lidhur me AMC-n?. Tashm? ofertat e tre kompanive do t? shqyrtohen nga nj? grup konsulence n? Kryeministri. Brenda qershorit vendoset fituesi. Por duket se bingoja i ka r?n? Cosmos-it, kompanis? q? ?sht? e p?rb?r? nga 70 % e aksioneve t? OTE-s?, kompani e fuqishme greke e krijuar n? 1946 dhe me 30 % t? aksioneve t? kompanis? Telenor, kompani norvegjeze. Kush ishin tre kompanit? q? q?ndruan n? gar? Cosmote ?sht? kompania q? ka ofruar vler?n m? t? lart? p?r blerjen e AMC-s? (Albania Mobile Comunication), mes ofertave edhe t? dy kompanive t? tjera. K?shtu rezultoi pas hapjes publike t? zarfave me ofertat e tre kompanive q? kaluan t? tre fazat e pro?esit t? privatizimit t? AMC-s?. Ofertat p?r blerjen e AMC-s? u paraqit?n nga kompanit? Panafon, Turcell, Cosmote, nd?rkoh? q? u t?rhoq kompania e Telekom Italia, kompani q? kan? ndjekur t? t?ra procedurat e procesit t? privatizimit p?rve? faz?s s? auditimit. Ofertat i kan? kaluar m? pas Komitetit t? Konsulenc?s e t? Transparenc?s, ngritur p?r k?t? q?llim. K?shtu kompania Panafon, kompani greke me 51 % aksione angleze, ofroi 40. 501.151 milion? dollar?, Turcell, kompani turke me 51 % aksione t? nj? kompanie finlandeze ofroi 39 milion? dollar?, nd?rsa Cosmote nj? bashkim kompanish, 70 % greke dhe 30 % norvegjeze, ofroi 85.6 milion? dollar?. Sipas kritereve t? vler?simit, 80 % t? pik?ve i merr kompania q? do t? ofroj? ?mimin m? t? lart?, nd?rsa 20 % t? vler?simit do ta marr? plani i investimeve, t? aspekteve teknike dhe juridike t? ofert?s. Migen DEMIRXHI Pse iku Telecom Italia . Si ndryshoi minut?n e fundit procedura e vler?simit p?r kompanin? q? do merrte AMC-n? Meta, Angjeli, Demi e Nano aksioner? n? AMC Fillimisht kompania q? pretendonte AMC-n? do t? vler?sohej me 40 % t? pik?ve p?r ?mimin dhe 60.5 t? pik?ve do t?i merrte p?r planet e biznesit dhe teknollogjis? por m? pas ky vendim ndryshoi p?r t? shmangur Telekom Italia me 20 milion abonent? dhe p?r t?ia dh?n? kompansi? greke Cosmote me 5 milion? abonent? Meta, Angjeli, Demi dhe Nano aksioner? t? AMC-s?. Burime nga Ministria e Ekonomis? dhe Privatizimit b?jn? t? ditur arsyet e largimit t? Telecom Italia nga tenderi p?r privatizimin e AMC-s?. Burimi thekson se fillimisht procedurat p?r blerjen e 85 % aksioneve t? AMC-s? vlerwsonin se firma q? do t? fitonte t? drejt?n p?r blerjen AMC-s? do t? kishte 40 % t? vler?simit n? baz? t? ?mimit q? do t? ofronte nd?rsa 60 % e vler?simit do t? merrte p?r baz? projektet, investimet dhe plan bizneset q? firma do t? ofronte p?r zhvillimin e m?tejsh?m t? AMC-s?. Pik?risht me k?to kushte Telekom Italia kishte hyr? n? tenderin p?r blerjen e 85 % t? aksioneve t? AMC-s? por ardhja e Met?s n? kryeministri ka nd?rruar edhe kushtet e vler?simit q? jan? reduktuar n? 80 % t? pik?ve q? do t? merrte ?mimi i ofruar nd?rsa 20 % plani i biznesit, investimet, kushtet teknike. Kjo sipas burimit q? ka ndjekur procesin e privatizimit t? AMC-s? nga fillimi e deri m? sot ?sht? b?r? me q?llimin e past?r q? firma greke Cosmote t? fitonte tenderin n? baz? t? cmimit t? ofruar. Por firma megjith?se deg? e nj? kompanie greke OTE q? num?ron vet?m 5 milion? abonent? pra praktikisht ?sht? disa her? m? e vog?l se ajo e Telekom Italia q? mbulon 20 milion? abonent?. N? bashk?punim me qeveritar?t e sot?m dhe fal? kontributit t? tyre financiar Cosmote ka arritur t? ofroj? nj? ?mim kaq t? lart? p?r blerjen e AMC-s?. K?shtu n? k?t? kompani kan? derdhur parat? e tyre t? dala nga bizneset e paligjshme Ministri i Financave Anastas Angjeli, Kryeministri Ilir Meta, dhe Gaz Demi miku m? i af?rt i Kryetarit t? Partis? Socialiste Fatos Nano. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From mehollim at hotmail.com Thu May 25 11:18:00 2000 From: mehollim at hotmail.com (Mimoza Meholli) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:18:00 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] FW: [BPT-R-K] BPT-Kosovo/a Monthly Report No. 14: April 2000 Message-ID: <20000525151800.13243.qmail@hotmail.com> > >-----Original Message----- >Balkan Peace Team-Kosovo/a >Monthly Report No. 14 > >April 2000 > > >Balkan Peace Team in Kosovo/a >Rruga N?na Tereze 72-A/9 or Vidovdanska 72-A/9 >Prishtina, Kosovo >Tel/Fax: ++381-38-42 708 >E-mail: BPT-K at BalkanPeaceTeam.org > >******* > >International BPT Office >Ringstr 9a, D-32427 Minden, Germany >Tel: ++49-571-20776 >Email: BPT at BalkanPeaceTeam.org > >******************************************************************** > >If you wish to use or require clarification of any of the information >included below, please contact the Balkan Peace Team at the above >address. Please forward this report to anyone you think may be >interested. >********************************************************************* > >CONTENTS > >I. WORK OF THE TEAM >1. Personnel >2. Meetings >3. Observation of local demonstrations >4. "Stories of Survival" project >5. Dragash update > >II. KOSOVO/A POLITICAL UPDATE >1. Serbs divided on decision to join as observers the Interim >Administrative Council >2. Serbs boycott Kosovo/a civil registration >3. Voter registration begins abroad >4. United Nations Security Council visit to Kosovo/a >5. Joint Committee on Serb Returns formed >6. Update on Mitrovica and the Preshevo valley > > > >I. WORK OF THE TEAM > >1. Personnel > >On 6 April, the Kosovo/a team was joined by our newest colleague, Cristina >Bianchi. We are again a five-person team and look forward to learning from >the skills and fresh insights that Cristina brings to the field. > >2. Meetings > >Campagna Kossovo per la Non-Violenza e la Riconciliazione > >The team met with Zef Chiaromonte of Campagna Kossovo per la Non-Violenza e >la Riconciliazione, an Italian organisation which is organising, together >with the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), a series of three training workshops >for local trainers in conflict transformation and reconciliation. These >will be held on the last weekend of May and the 3rd and 4th weekends of >June in Prishtina. Kajsa Svensson, one of the BPT team members, was asked >to participate as a trainer together with Pat Patfoort and Hildegard >Goss-Mayr. Kajsa will introduce the workshop participants to the >techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed. > >Forum > >Forum is an Albanian youth organisation based in Prishtina that was founded >in September 1999 by five young Kosovar Albanians who have studied >abroad. Their goal is to work alongside their peers in building an >alternative, more positive way of living. Among their current projects are >an Internet service centre which is open to local NGOs and youth to use >free of charge, computer training classes for ex-KLA soldiers and the Forum >Magazine, a bi-monthly magazine targeted at the young Albanian population >of Kosovo/a. The organisation would eventually be interested in making >connections with the youth of the Dragash Youth Centre. > >3. Observation of local demonstrations > >On 20 April, several hundred people gathered in Prishtina in front of the >steps of the National Theatre to demonstrate against the incarceration of >Flora Brovina and other Albanian prisoners held in Serbia. Flora is the >Kosovar Albanian human rights activist who has been sentenced to twelve >years in prison by the Serb authorities. > >On 26, 27 and 28 April, the centre of Prishtina was closed to traffic due >to another demonstration for the release of all political prisoners held in >Serbia. The demonstration coincided with the visit of the UN Security >Council and attracted a considerable amount of people. Most shops and >schools were closed for the duration of the protests. Several dozen people >continued the protests after the Security Council delegation's departure >from the province by holding hunger strikes in the center of the city and >on the university campus. > >4. "Stories of Survival" project > >As part of our effort to constantly be aware of changed circumstances, and >to reshape our plans and ideas to better respond to the needs of the local >population, the team has been carrying out a series of meetings, with >locals and internationals, to establish if it is still appropriate for BPT >to carry out the "Stories of Survival" project. > >We became aware that other local NGOs were doing similar work. Therefore we >felt that it was imperative for us to reassess the situation and establish >if, at this point in time, the need for these stories to be told and >recorded was already being met by the locals themselves. > >The team met with Sevdie Ahmeti of The Centre for the Protection of Women >and Children, who has been gathering testimonies since the end of the >war. Sevdie made us aware of the difficulties of the local community to >open up with internationals since they feel that after almost a year >nothing concrete has been done to bring to justice the >perpetrators. Psychological wounds are still fresh, she argued, and the >population needs time to heal. > >We received a similar response from Kosovare Kelemendi of the Humanitarian >Law Centre. She stressed the importance of all stories to be heard and >remembered but she also highlighted how difficult it is for internationals >to go through this process without being in close partnership with a local >organisation. > >The team also met with a few internationals who have previous experience >with oral history projects, to gather new ideas on how to use BPT's >capacity in order to best meet the need of the local communities to have >their stories heard and remembered. > >5. Dragash update > >BPT's work with the Goran and Albanian communities of Dragash continued, >with three separate English language classes beginning on 17 April. The >classes are being taught in the town's secondary school to one group of >Albanian students, one group of Goran students, and one mixed group of >Goran and Albanian secondary school teachers. They are an important step in >BPT's strategy to build a strong and trusting relationship between the team >and the two communities of the area, as we continue to work together toward >the goal of establishing a youth centre open to young people from both >groups. > >The English language classes, the first session of which is scheduled to >end on 1 June, are each being taught by a two-person team. We have >incorporated co-operative games and empowerment activities that illustrate >and/or employ the grammar lessons being presented. > >Throughout the month of April, the team traveled extensively to the >villages that local Goran and Albanian representatives suggested as being >appropriate for inclusion in the proposed centre's activities. We did in >order to: meet and establish relationships with village leaders and young >people alike; discuss the concept of the youth centre and make clear that >it will be open to young people from both the Goran and the Albanian >communities; assess the needs that young people would like to have met >through the services and activities offered by a youth centre; and discuss >Goran concerns regarding issues of safety and transportation from their >villages to the centre's proposed Dragash location. > >These outreach meetings have served BPT well in beginning the process of >building trust, without which our strategy of fostering the participation >of both communities in the creation of the youth centre would be >impossible. Moreover, the team is beginning to identify young people who >may be interested in facilitating future youth centre activities. > >II. Kosovo/a Political Update > >1. Serbs divided on decision to join as observers the Interim >Administrative Council > >Leaders of the Serb National Council (SNC) announced that they would join >as observers the leaders of Kosovo/a's ethnic Albanian majority in the >province's UN-sponsored Interim Administrative Council (IAC) for a period >of three months starting on 11 April. The decision to end the Serb boycott >of the joint administration has caused havoc among the hard-liners within >the Serbian community who do not accept any form of co-operation either >with the international community or with Kosovar Albanians. > >Swedish peacekeeping troops are normally deployed to guard the edge of the >Serb enclave of Gracanica against ethnically motivated attacks. They were >needed instead in the centre of town, after demonstrations and after >threats were made by some Serbs to burn down Gracanica's 14th century >monastery, home of the Serb National Council, in protest of the SNC's >decision to join the IAC. > >2. Serbs boycott Kosovo/a civil registration > >Kosovo/a's Serbs are boycotting efforts by UNMIK and OSCE (Organisation for >Security and Co-operation in Europe) representatives (who joined forces in >the Joint Registration Task Force last December) to register Kosovo/a's >population. The function of this registration exercise, which began on 28 >April, is to define and identify the population of habitual residents of >Kosovo/a who will require services from the Joint Interim >Administration. The registry will also be the basis for the electoral roll >for municipal elections to be held sometime in autumn 2000. > >Four villages participated in a pilot registration one week prior to the >official commencement of the process. A total of 459 adult residents in >the three pilot ethnic Albanian communities registered at OSCE centres, but >no one had done so in the Serb-populated village. The community in this >village is asking for the return of displaced Serbs and better security >before they will consider registering. By 3 May, only three Serbs in >Kosovo/a had registered with UNMIK/OSCE ? two in Rahovec/Orahovac and one >in Mitrovica. > >In order to encourage Serb registration, the Joint Registration Task Force >announced that two registration stations would be erected on the border >with Serbia proper, one in the Serb-populated Leposavic region of far >northern Kosovo/a and one in Mucibaba in the south-east. This was done so >that Serbs who fled ethnic Albanian reprisals after NATO air strikes >resulted in the withdrawal of Serbian security forces last June could >register without danger. Belgrade has denounced the civil registration >process in Kosovo/a as yet another violation of its sovereignty by the >United Nations administration in the territory. This, along with the Serb >National Council of Kosovo/a's announcement that it will withhold its >support of civil registration, may be factors hindering Serb participation. > >3. Voter registration begins abroad > >Beginning on 26 April and ending on 15 July, the International Organisation >for Migration, on behalf of UNMIK, will be engaged in the process of >registering persons from Kosovo/a who reside outside the territory. This >registration process will take place in 32 countries and is valid only for >the purpose of voting in the local elections to be held this autumn. > >4. United Nations Security Council visit to Kosovo/a > > From 27 to 30 April, a delegation of Security Council members toured the >province in order to assess the implementation of UN Resolution 1244 which >established the mandate for the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK. The group >consisted of representatives from Argentina, Bangladesh, Canada, China, >Jamaica, Malaysia and Russia. They attended a session of the Kosovo >Transitional Council, the highest level Kosovar advisory body to UNMIK, to >which both Serbian and Bosniak representatives have returned after a >half-year absence. There, the delegates urged all Kosovars to reject >violence in order "to help your children to grow up in a peaceful society." > >The Security Council delegation also met with the leaders of the Protest >Council that had organised two days of demonstrations in the streets of >Prishtina. The Protest Council protests sought to call to the attention of >the UN representatives, the need for definitive action to be taken >regarding the issue of missing persons and detainees held in Serbian >prisons. The Security Council delegates announced that they would >recommend that a UN special envoy on missing persons be appointed. > >5. Joint Committee on Serb Returns formed > >On 29 April, UNMIK established the JCR -- Joint Committee on Serb Returns >-- in order to prepare for the safe and sustainable return of those Serbs >who fled from Kosovo/a over the past year. The JCR is headed by Bishop >Artemije, president of the Serb National Council; Juan Ortuna, the new >commander of the Kosovo Force (KFOR); and Bernard Kouchner, the head of >UNMIK. > >The leader of the Mitrovica Serb National Council, Oliver Ivanovic, >announced this month that he has begun to organise the return of some 1,000 >to 1,500 Serbs currently living in refugee camps in Serbia to their homes >in western Kosovo/a. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees >(UNHCR) has cautioned against such a large-scale return, stating that >security conditions for Serbs in the territory continue to be unfavourable >and that the Albanian residents of the region of planned return should be >consulted beforehand. Ivanovic has stated that he has no intention to open >discussions with Albanian leaders regarding issues of return. > >6. Update on Mitrovica and the Preshevo valley > >Tensions in Mitrovica remain high as violent incidents continue. For >example, on 28 April, a UN bus that was carrying Serbs to an Orthodox >Easter service, was stoned by Albanians. The following day, Serbs attacked >vehicles transporting Albanians to their homes on the north side of the >city, resulting in the outbreak of riots and numerous attacks against KFOR >soldiers and UN staff and the destruction of several UN vehicles. As a >result, the UNHCR announced that it would consider suspending its work in >north Mitrovica if attacks against UN personnel continued. > >The political council that was formed in March to represent Albanians >living in the Preshevo valley of southern Serbia announced that Serb forces >killed three Albanians on 21 April. In addition, KFOR continues to seize >large amounts of weapons en route to the valley region and has added 120 >soldiers to begin surveillance operations along Kosovo/a's eastern, >UN-administered boundary with Serbia. > > >************************************************************** >To unsubscribe from the list send a message to: >majordomo at list.BalkanPeaceTeam.org >with this command in the body of the email: >unsubscribe bpt-reports-kosovo-a-team >------------------------------------------------------------- >If you have questions about this list, then contact: >Owner-bpt-reports-kosovo-a-team at BalkanPeaceTeam.Org >************************************************************** ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 9364 bytes Desc: not available URL: From aalibali at yahoo.com Thu May 25 08:51:36 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 05:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] A good decision Message-ID: <20000525125136.9085.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Kathimerini ATHENS, Thursday, May 25, 2000 Updated: 05/25/2000 10:19 GMT PM is clear: No religion on ID cards Opposition, church leaders angry at no-choice option Archbishop Christodoulos, the pugnacious leader of the Church of Greece, returns from Romania today to find that the dispute between Church and State on the content of new identity cards has moved on considerably since his meetings last week with government officials. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Costas Simitis stressed that new state ID cards will not list holders' religious beliefs. This unambiguous statement of intent flies in the face of previous government pledges to discuss the matter with the Church, which insists on the listing of Greeks' faith being obligatory - or at least optional, according to ecclesiastical moderates. "The recording of religion on identity cards restricts and infringes on citizens' freedom," Simitis told the 300-member house, in response to a question by Synaspismos MP Maria Damanaki. "Citizens must not have to give an account of whether and what they believe in," he observed. According to three-year-old legislation which has gone unimplemented, filling in the religion slot on ID cards should be optional. And the state Authority for the Protection of Personal Data recently decided that faith - along with nationality, occupation and particulars of their spouses - should cease to be mentioned on the cards all Greeks over the age of 15 are obliged to carry with them. The PM said identity cards are meant to facilitate relations between citizens and the state, and only reflect "the external aspects of (Greeks) personality." "Sensitive data such as religion, racial ancestry and political beliefs reflect aspects of the inner personality, and do not serve citizens' need for communication," he noted. "Henceforth, such sensitive data must not be gathered , nor should they come under scrutiny by state authorities." The PM stressed that this will apply to all new ID cards issued, or those given to replace lost ones. Opposition New Democracy accused the PM of having "tricked the Church," warning of a "social rift." ND honorary leader Constantine Mitsotakis called Simitis's statement a "deep mistake." Chrysostomos, Bishop of Peristeri, said the Church would resort to legal action, declare a "relentless struggle" against the government, side with political parties "well-disposed" to it, or found a party of its own. Other bishops warned of imminent social unrest. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu May 25 15:50:46 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:50:46 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Book Review: Goff, The Kosovo News and Propaganda War, reviewed by Snjezana Bokulic Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Book Review: Goff, The Kososvo News and Propaganda War, reviewed by Snjezana Bokulic Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:07:21 +0200 Size: 15543 URL: From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu May 25 15:52:22 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:52:22 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] [balkans] Report: Stability Pact, Albanian Institute for International Studies Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Report: Stability Pact, Albanian Institute for International Studies Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:53:51 +0200 Size: 47227 URL: From kbejko at hotmail.com Sat May 27 00:40:48 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 04:40:48 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Klanet mafioze e politike ne shqiperi Message-ID: <20000527044048.71080.qmail@hotmail.com> *Ju lutem jepni ide se cilat jane klanet politike rivale ne Shqiperi me te cilat lidhen ngushte klanet mafioze Hasani e Berisha.* 25 maj 2000 (BBC) Hetuesit italian? lidhin klanet mafioze shqiptare me grupe politike n? Shqip?ri Hetuesit italian? thon? se disa prej klaneve m? t? fuqishme shqiptare q? merren me treg?tin? drog?s, kan? referent? politik? n? Shqip?ri dhe se veprimtaria e tyre b?het edhe p?r arritje objektivash politike t? caktuara. Krye-prokurori i Barit, Rikardo Dibitonto, thot? se jan? dy klane kryesore, t? cilat jan? n? rivalitet t? eg?r me njeri-tjetrin, n? baz? edhe t? rivaliteteve q? ekzistojn? midis mb?shtet?sve respektiv? politik?. "Disa nga klanet m? t? rrezikshme t? mafias shqiptare kan? referent? politik? dhe veprojn? edhe p?r arritjen e objektivave t? caktuara politike, t? cilat neve nuk i kemi ndjekur holl?sisht, pasi jemi interesuar m? shum? p?r veprimtarin? e drejtp?rdrejt? kriminale," tha zoti Dibitonto. Korrespondenti i BBC-s? n? Rom?, Ilir Gurakuqi, thot? se policia italiane ka arrestuar t? h?n?n e kaluar n? qytetin Ri?one t? Italis? kryetarin i njerit prej k?tyre klaneve, Lulzim Berisha, i k?rkuar q? nga viti 1994 nga shum? polici evropiane. Prokuroria e Barit, n? Italin? jugore, q? ?sht? organi q? ka zhvilluar vitet e fundit hetimet m? t? holl?sishme mbi kriminalitetin shqiptar q? vepron edhe n? Itali, muajt e fundit ka th?n? disa her? se mafia shqiptare po b?het edhe m? e r?nd?sishme se ajo italiane dhe se ajo p?rb?n rrezikun kryesor jo vet?m p?r Italin?, por edhe p?r Evrop?n. Prokurori i departamentit antimafia t? Barit, Xhovani Xhorxhio, i cili ka ndjekur drejtp?rdrejt hetimet, tha n? nj? konferenc? shtypi se dy klanet shqiptare m? t? m?dhenj t? politizuar, jan? klanet Hasani dhe Berisha, t? quajtur k?shtu sipas mbiemrave t? atyre q? mendohet t? jen? kapobandat e tyre. Gjithnj?, sipas prokurorit t? Barit, k?to klane jan? n? luft? t? hapur midis tyre si n? Shqip?ri, ashtu edhe n? Itali e Gjermani. Disa her? kjo luft? ka l?n? rrug?s viktima nga t? dy pal?t. T? tjera her? Antimafia italiane ka mundur t? nd?rhyj? n? koh? p?r t? shmangur atentate reciproke. N? nj? nga k?to nd?rhyrje ?sht? shmangur nj? atentat kund?r atij q?,sipas hetuesve, ?sht? kryetari i njerit prej klaneve, 29-vje?ari Berisha, i cili ndiqej nga policit? e gjysm?s s? Evrop?s qysh nga viti 1994. Sipas hetuesve, banda e tij gjat? k?tyre viteve ka futur ilegalisht n? Gjermani t? pakt?n nj? mije kilogram heroin?, q? ?sht? edhe nga drogat m? t? kushtueshme. Prokurori Xhorxhio tha se lufta me klanin tjet?r t? fuqish?m nuk ka patur si sfond vet?m rivalitetin p?r tregun e drog?s, por i detyrohet edhe faktit se ata jan? t? lidhur me klane politike rivale n? Shqip?ri. Ai refuzoi t'i p?rgjigjej m? holl?sisht pyetjeve se p?r cilat klane politike shqiptare e kishte fjal?n. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Sat May 27 09:11:40 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 06:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Anti-semitism in the Balkans Message-ID: <20000527131140.8144.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Vandals seriously damage Greece's largest Jewish cemetery By Associated Press, 5/26/2000 14:08 ATHENS, Greece (AP) Vandals attacked Greece's largest Jewish cemetery Friday, painting Nazi slogans and symbols on its Holocaust memorial, synagogue and more than 90 graves. ''I express the outrage and repugnance of the Greek Jews,'' said Moses Constantini, president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece. This was the third such attack against Jews or Jewish holy sites in the past month, and the community demanded the government condemn the actions. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, believed to be the work of extreme right-wing groups. ''I am sorry to say the Greek government did not react to the other vandalism,'' Constantini said. ''Now it will have to react.'' Constantini said the public order minister never replied to a protest letter sent by the Jewish community when vandals carried out a Passover attack last month, scribbling Nazi slogans on the city's synagogue and Holocaust memorial in the northern port of Thessaloniki. Two days ago vandals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans on the home of American film director Jules Dassin, the husband of the late actress and former Culture Minister Melina Mercouri. ''They wished a quick death to me and all Jews,'' Dassin said about the graffiti painted on his house in central Athens. In the cemetery attack, vandals painted ''Jews Out'' and ''Hitler was right'' on the synagogue, and covered the marble Holocaust memorial in swastikas and the twin lighting flash emblem of the Nazi SS. More that 90 percent of the 80,000-strong Greek Jewish community was wiped out in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The community now numbers about 5,000. The cemetery, located on the outskirts of Athens is the largest Jewish burial ground that remains in the country and has about 3,000 graves. Two weeks ago, Greece's Jewish community held a Holocaust memorial service at the cemetery. ''The damage is very large,'' Constantini said, but did not have an estimate. Other large cemeteries, including one in Thessaloniki, were destroyed by the Nazis. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From aalibali at yahoo.com Sat May 27 00:54:36 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 21:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Kadare ne "Shekulli" Message-ID: <20000527045436.21425.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Eskluzive. Flet p?r "Shekullin" shkrimtari i madh Ismail Kadare para largimit nga Shqip?ria Kadare: Ethja politike duhet t? zbres? N? Shqip?ri ekziston rreziku i rigjall?rimit t? stalinizmit. K?shtu ?sht? shprehur ndje, para largimit nga Shqip?ria, shkrimtar i madh, Ismail Kadare. Sipas tij, ??shtja m? e ngutshme sot e politik?s shqiptare ?sht? ulja e trysnis? dhe e temperatur?s politike. Kadare thot? se klasa politike, e gjendur n? kund?rkrah me k?rkesat e bashk?sis? nd?rkomb?tare dhe popullit shqiptar, duhet t? modifikohet patjet?r ose p?rndryshe t? t?rhiqet nga skena. Zoti Kadare, cil?n shihni si ??shtjen m? t? ngutshme t? politikes s? sotme shqiptare? Ulja e trysnis?, r?nia e temperatur?s, e ethes politike n? Shqip?ri ?sht? sot p?r sot gj?ja m? e ngutshme n? k?t? vend. Pozitive ka qen? prirja e dy kryeministrave t? fundit p?r nj? zbutje me opozit?n. Negative ?sht? kritika q? iu b? k?saj prirjeje nga partit? n? fuqi dhe nga militant?t. Kjo d?shmon rrezikun e rigjall?rimit t? stalinizmit n? Shqip?ri. Stalinizmi mbetet armiku tradicional i kombit, i shtetit dhe i demokracis? shqiptare. Pozitive n? k?t? rast ka qen? kund?rshtimi i fort? i opinionit publik shqiptar ndaj radikalizmit. T? nj?jtin q?llim, t? nj?jt?n k?rkes? p?r zbutje ka pasur bashk?sia nd?rkomb?tare. Pra, populli shqiptar dhe kjo bashk?si ka t? nj?jtin mendim p?r ??shtjen themelore t? vendit sot. Klasa politike shqiptare, e gjendur n? kund?rkrah, ose duhet t? modifikohet sipas k?saj k?rkese t? koh?s, ose t? gjej? m?nyrat p?r t'u t?rhequr nga skena. Hapin e par? drejt zbutjes e ka p?r detyr? ta b?j? grupimi politik q? ?sht? n? fuqi. Ky duhet t? jet? nj? hap i sinqert?, serioz dhe kurrsesi i llogaritur q? pala tjet?r ta hedh? posht?. Pas k?tij hapi, n? qoft? se opozita tregon se nuk e d?shiron ose nuk i intereson zbutja, p?rgjegj?sia morale e saj r?ndohet, madje shum?. Zgjedhjet, q? jan? n? prag, jan? nj? test themelor p?r t? kuptuar seriozitetin e klas?s politike shqiptare. Gjith?ka duhet b?r? q? t? arrihet kryesorja: respektimi i rezultatit. Dredhit? politike, t? llogaritura qysh m? par? p?r t? mos respektuar k?t? pakt, jan? dredhi p?rpara popullit shqiptar. T? gjitha kompromiset, t? gjitha rishikimet, qoft? edhe rishikimi i dekretit presidencial p?r Komisionin Qendror p?r t'u z?vend?suar me nj? zgjidhje m? t? pranueshme, jan? absolutisht t? domosdoshme p?r t? shmangur t? keqen e madhe. Populli shqiptar ?sht? lodhur nga fjal?t boshe. E ?sht? lodhur sidomos nga imoraliteti politik. Ai k?rkon veprim politik t? sinqert?. Ai k?rkon nj? Shqip?ri morale. Esht? komentuar mjaft ajo q? ju that? n? nj? intervist? televizive, lidhur me arroganc?n ndaj opozit?s. ?'keni dashur t? thoni? Denoncimi i arroganc?s ndaj opozit?s lidhet me gjith? konceptin tim p?r jet?n njer?zore. E di q? ka pasur mosk?naq?si nga nj?ra pal? (nga pala q? e kryen arroganc?n). Dua t? shtoj k?tu se arroganca ka forma t? ndryshme shfaqjeje, nj?ra prej t? cilave ?sht? p?r shembull ajo q? ngjan si e kund?rta e saj, shp?rfillja. Ka nj? keqkuptim p?r opozit?n kur ajo thjeshtohet te nj? parti politike e aq m? tep?r te nj? person. Kam folur p?r opozit?n e p?rgjithshme, n? radh? t? par?, p?r t? djatht?n shqiptare. Ashtu si? ?sht?, me t? mirat e mungesat e saj, kjo pjes? e shoq?ris? shqiptare, q? p?r 45 vjet ka qen? e k?rrusur n?n shtypjen e diktatur?s dhe q? tani, n? nj? m?nyr? ose n? nj? tjet?r, ndodhet prap? n? opozit?, dometh?n? n? nj? gjendje t? pafavorshme, meriton gjithsesi kujdesin dhe respektin e shoq?ris? shqiptare. Natyrisht q? opozita nuk duhet ta shp?rdoroj? k?t? kujdes. T? tregohesh arrogant me opozit?n, jo vet?m ?sht? nj? verb?ri politike, por ?sht? e d?mshme nga nj? kod i nd?rgjegjes universale, asaj q? q?ndron mbi politikat dhe regjimet. Mendoj se arroganca ndaj opozit?s s? djatht? sot i ka rr?nj?t n? nj? mend?si bolshevike, sipas s? cil?s, legjitimiteti i pushtetit nuk vjen nga institucionet demokratike, por nga logjika e luft?s s? klasave. Her? pas here ka diskutime lidhur me orientimin e shqiptar?ve... Orientimi drejt Evrop?s Atlantike duhet t? mbetet synimi i paluajtsh?m i shtetit shqiptar dhe i gjith? bot?s shqiptare. Skajimi i Shqip?ris? n? Evrop?, si trup dhe si aspirat?, e kusht?zon fund e maj? k?t? q?ndrim. Nd?rkaq, pavar?sisht nga rrymat e mod?s n? Evrop? (si? ?sht? p?r shembull kund?ramerikanizmi, kjo mbeturin? e nostalgjis? s? Luft?s s? Ftoht? dhe e servilizmit prosovjetik), p?r vizionin shqiptar, bota per?ndimore duhet t? jet? gjithmon? unike. Rendja pas nuancave dhe marrja me to ?sht? p?r Shqip?rin? jo vet?m luks i panevojsh?m, por krejt i d?msh?m. Pas q?ndrimit t? fundit n? Tiran?, vazhdoni t? shpresoni? Kam n?nvizuar disa here shpres?n q? kam p?r popullin shqiptar n? Ballkan jo n? form? urimi, por sepse kjo ?sht? bindja ime. Sa m? shum? t? kaloj? koha, aq m? tep?r do t? b?het e qart? se, me gjith? v?shtir?sit?, rr?muj?n, shp?rthimet kaotike t? energjis?, prap?sit? dhe marr?zit?, hap?sira shqiptare n? Ballkan i ka t? gjitha gjasat t? kthehet n? hap?sir? evropiane. Koha punon p?r k?t?. Historia e solli q? populli, i cili m? s? shumti vuajti nga mbyllja prej bot?s, e ka lidhur sot fatin e tij me t? kund?rt?n e saj. Hapja e Shqip?ris?, ?lirimi i energjis? s? saj, harmonizohet shk?lqyesh?m me frym?n e re evropiane. Strategjia shqiptare, jo vet?m nuk bie ndesh me fytyr?n e nes?rme politike dhe morale t? Evrop?s, por k?ndellet prej saj. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From kbejko at hotmail.com Fri May 26 13:43:18 2000 From: kbejko at hotmail.com (Kreshnik Bejko) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:43:18 GMT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] The Real Autocephalous Orth. Church Message-ID: <20000526174318.59442.qmail@hotmail.com> Greetings all, Hope you all had a wonderful and productive semester. As I was killing time reading the Klan magazine, my eyes caught an article about the "real" Orthodox Church. Father Nikolla Marku says is in need of some cash to have the church functional. What say you, shall we send them some monies or shall we let them rott under the shadow of Ianoulatos? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From juniku at hotmail.com Fri May 26 20:04:13 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:04:13 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [bota letrare] "Spica" Message-ID: <20000527000413.63878.qmail@hotmail.com> >From: "Mimoza Pumo" >To: bota-letrare at eGroups.com >Subject: [bota letrare] "Spica" >Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:32:00 MDT > >FAN NOLI > >BERLIN 1926 > >"SPICA" > >NGA KETO ZGHIDH E MERR > >1 > >A te duhen luftetare >Dhe arratine armiku te marre >A do botes t'i vesh zjarr >Merr nja dhjete kosovar?. > > >2 > >A do trima e sejmen? >Kapardisur kudo ven? >Gjumi pa i zene, mos flen? >Per tre mirditor b?je ben?. > > >3 > >A do urt? njerezit te rrin? >Ne komande te kesh ushtrin? >Ne bidat te vesh njerezine >Merr te gjithe laberin?. > >4 > >Do per pune nje kor?ar >I ke bujq e ustallar? >Me gra bashke e hapin varr >Krah e koke s'u ka te share. > >5 > >A te duhen genjeshtar? >Matrapaz e kokethar? >R?r?n ta shesin per far? >Merr krutan e je i lar?. > >6 > >Po qeflinj, a te duhen >Qe me jevgat dine te kruhen >Zonjat qe u pjellin ?do vit >Ve? Elbasani i rrit. > > >7 > >Me dy kembe do hajvan? >Budallenj pa din? pa han? >Ku ti flasesh dine te ven? >Dil shetit gjithe Myzeqene. > > >8 > >A do te ruash florine >Katandine dhe shtepine >Me dy qofte mbush sinin? >Ec e merr Gjirokastrine. > > >9 > >Do te hash te besh qejfe >Sofren shtruar si per mbret >Pastertar e per yzmet >Te tille gjen vetem ne Permet. > > >10 > >Do ministra kolonjar >Se mbahen burra me mend >Duan kudo te jene te pare >Ne magjis e ne kuvend. > > >11 > >Hall i madh per Skrapalline >Ka rrezik te hash dhe dru >Dy ministra le te rrine >Se na duhen edhe pa tru. > > >12 > >O i gjore mos harrosh Vloren >Se ky faj lahet me gjak >Ve? sihanet dhe shiritat >Kesaj pune i vene kapak. > > >................... > >Pershendetje > >MP > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Old school buds here: >http://click.egroups.com/1/4057/9/_/16650/_/959369521/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Kendi i mbikqyresve: >Jemi ne pritje te shprehjes se kerkesave nga antaret per te marre pjese ne >grupin e kritikeve te Botes Letrare. > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed May 31 01:48:35 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] SOROS Message-ID: <20000531054835.12853.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Ilir Alibali Subject: lajme te mira nga sorrosi per studentet shqiptare Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 07:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Size: 13805 URL: From iliriani at hotmail.com Tue May 30 15:59:57 2000 From: iliriani at hotmail.com (Altin Iliriani) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:59:57 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Last Call: Tirana Summer School in Political Science and International Relations Message-ID: <20000530195957.56648.qmail@hotmail.com> Due to the large number of applications and emails received about the summer school in PolSci and IR, the deadline for applications has been postponed till the end of this week. All those interested to apply can do so by sending a completed application form or detailed CV by email to pphili66 at phd.ceu.hu Other documents should be sent by normal mail to one of the addresses at the end of this email. ------------ Last Call for Applications Summer School in Political Science and International Relations. Tirana, 9-30 July 2000 Application deadline: 31 May 2000 The summer school is organized by the Albanian Political Science Association with the financial support of the Open Society Institute in Budapest. The program aims at promoting studies and research in political science and international relations at academic institutions in Albania and Kosova through curricula development, and to familiarize participants with contemporary western and Anglo-Saxon literature in these subjects. The school comprises of two programs, political science and international relations. 20 participants will be accepted in each program. Political science program will offer courses on: Comparative Political Institutions and Political Behavior; Comparative Politics; and Public Choice. International relations program will offer courses on: International Relations Theory; International Politics of the Balkans, Governance in the European Union and the Challenge of Enlargement. English will be the language of instruction. Lecturers in the summer school include: Prof. Gabor Toka (Central European University); Prof. Ulrich Sedelmeier (Central European University); Prof. Hasan Unal (Bilkent University); Prof. Charles King (Georgetown University), Prof. Scott McDonnald Pegg (Bilkent University), Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (European University Institute, Florence). Applicants to the summer school shall be from Albania, Kosova or Macedonia (Albanian Macedonians). Participants shall be lecturers or teaching assistants at Albanian universities in the region, graduate students of political science, international relations or other relating disciplines (including those who have graduated in recent years). Graduates of political and social sciences working in non-academic institutions may also apply. Qualified applicants will receive scholarships covering all their participation and travel costs. Applications for participation in the summer school should include: 1. Application form (completed and signed). In absence of an application form, please send a personal CV (contact address with email and fax number, education, work experience, publications) and a motivation letter (up to 200 words). 2. One recommendation letter, 3. Photocopies of your university diploma(s) or certificate(s). Only applications received by 30 May 2000 will be considered. All completed applications should be sent to one of the following addresses: Applicants living in Albania or Macedonia: Ermal Ilirjani Rr Cerciz Topulli, Nr 76 Tirana, Albania Tel/Fax: (355-42) 48157 Email: tirana at alpsa2000.org Applicants living in Kosova: Xhavit Rrexhaj Fondacioni Soros Rr. Banjalluka nr. 37 Bregu i Diellit, Prishtine, Kosova Tel. (381-38) 549 116 Email: kosova at alpsa2000.org All other applicants: Altin Ilirjani CEU, Political Science Dept Nador U. 9, Budapest 1051 Hungary Fax: (36-1) 327 3087 Email: apply at alpsa2000.org For more information and application forms please visit our updated website at http://www.seep.ceu.hu/alpsa or write to one of the addresses above. ------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From iliriani at hotmail.com Tue May 30 14:11:17 2000 From: iliriani at hotmail.com (Altin Iliriani) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:11:17 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Call for papers: Southeast European Politics Message-ID: <20000530181117.19804.qmail@hotmail.com> Call for Papers. Southeast European Politics. Southeast Europe Politics (SEEP) is a refereed academic journal published three times per year at the Central European University, Budapest (CEU). SEEP is devoted to political science, international relations, contemporary history and other areas of academic research focusing on Southeastern Europe or pertaining to the region. The journal seeks to promote a comparative approach, which takes developments in individual countries of Southeastern Europe in the larger context of the region. Southeast European Politics seeks to cover the areas so far frequently neglected in many academic debates, especially the Southern Balkan countries of Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Montenegro. Young academics from Southeastern Europe are particularly encouraged to submit articles, book reviews and research notes. For a list of books available for review, please contact the editors. For guidelines for papers to be submitted, please visit the website of the journal at http://www.seep.ceu.hu/ All papers for consideration should be sent electronically or by normal mail (in case of hard copy submisions, please send them in triplicate) at the following address: Southeast European Politics Department of Political Science Central European University Nador U. 9, Budapest 1051 Hungary Fax: (36-1) 327 3087 E-mail: editor at seep.ceu.hu reviews at seep.ceu.hu Web: http://www.seep.ceu.hu/ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed May 31 15:19:03 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: Conference: Postgraduate Conference Bursaries available Message-ID: <20000531191903.18166.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu Subject: [balkans] Conference: Postgraduate Conference Bursaries available Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:17:29 -0400 Size: 5024 URL: From aalibali at yahoo.com Wed May 31 08:37:31 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 05:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Intolerance and racism in the Balkans Message-ID: <20000531123731.20665.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> Greek town rules: Gypsies not wanted By Elena Becatoros, Associated Press, 5/31/2000 02:42 NEA KIOS, Greece (AP) They are not allowed into the supermarket or pharmacy. Their children are afraid to go to school. Gypsies simply are not wanted in town and an official document from town hall says so. Suspicion and discrimination are nothing new for Greece's Gypsies, also known as Roma. But the move by Nea Kios stands as a possible test case on how far Greek communities may go in deciding where and how Gypsies and perhaps others can live. The bans also come at a particularly sensitive time in Greece, where the powerful Greek Orthodox Church insists the nation's cultural and religious identities are under direct threat. Immigrants, many from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, now comprise nearly 10 percent of the population in Greece a nation that was almost completely homogeneous a decade ago. Last year, a town in northern Greece imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on foreigners who are mostly Albanian and other communities banned alcohol sales to immigrants. ''In general, there is a discussion in Greece that shows great xenophobia,'' said Christina Rougeri of the Greek Helsinki Monitor, a human rights group. In Nea Kios, a town of 3,000 people 60 miles southwest of Athens, all the opinions and theories about growing intolerance carry a tangible urgency. Gypsies claim that those who dare a foray into the main square risk being beaten and having their vehicles smashed by angry mobs. Some of the Gypsy families have lived for years on land they bought on the edge of town. ''They smashed up his car,'' said Maria Kalamioti, who claimed her husband was dragged from the vehicle and beaten and her 9-year-old son was injured by flying glass in an attack in early May. The white pickup truck, its windows and windshield smashed, stands just outside her tent. The trouble began as a parking dispute. Officials say Gypsies blocked the car of the deputy mayor outside the town hall. An argument ensued and tempers rose. After the alleged attack on Kalamioti's husband and son, the town imposed new rules. ''We state that we do not desire the presence, passage and residence of Gypsies in our municipality until the situation is resolved,'' says the ruling, which also contains thinly veiled threats to any residents who decide to sell more land to Gypsies and shopkeepers who continue to serve them. The ruling also invites ''all Gypsies who have bought fields in the area, if they cannot conform with the rule of law, to return their properties.'' The town has said it could help buy back the land provided the Gypsies leave. Gypsies have called it outright discrimination. But Nea Kios officials insist their move was the only solution after residents alleged that Gypsies were responsible for frequent theft, random gunfire and dangerous driving in the town square. ''We want to live with them as long as they abide by the rules we all live by,'' said the president of the municipal committee and spokesman for local authorities, Giorgos Maninis. Maninis also claimed there have been widespread reports of drivers being held up at gunpoint and robbed if they drive past Gypsy areas. Gypsies have denied the allegations. ''We have to take a stance and fight for the people who voted for us,'' he said. ''It's not as if the fly of racism suddenly stung a whole community.'' A ''protection force'' has also been created to inform police and the town hall of any incidents. Maninis insists the force is not armed. ''I don't have a problem with the Mayor,'' said Eleni Karagouni, a Gypsy who bought land in the area a year ago and is now building a house there. ''Why does he have a problem with me?'' __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/