12.10.2007 by admin.

Business as usual, or a chance for real change?

12/10/2007

The Durres-Morine highway is one of Albania’s most important investments. Will it be marred by questionable business practices?

By Klodjan Seferaj for Southeast European Times in Tirana – 12/10/07

Albania is in the process of building a highway to connect the port of Durres with the western border town of Morine. It is considered one of the most important public investments in the country.

With an undertaking this large, the risk of corruption is also high, and indeed the project has been marred by a procurement scandal involving several deputy ministers. Moreover, the companies involved are already calling for more money.

“In the case when the project of the construction of the Durrës-Milot-Rrëshen-Kalimash-Kukës-Morinë road will be realized, the actual cost will be much higher than the initial previsions of the Albanian Government,” writes Peshku. “Sources from the companies say that the actual fund of 400 million euro isn’t enough for the construction of this road, taking into consideration the fact that the Rrëshen-Kalimash is the most expensive part of the road and of the fact that it will include the longest tunnel in the Balkans — 6km.”……………..

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In Blendi’s view, it’s just business as usual. “All foreign companies did such things in Albania because it is possible to do this, exploiting the weakness and the corruption of our administration in order to get some more money.”

Commenting on the arrests of administration officials involved in the highway scandal, Dreit Europes declares that the real fight against corruption has only just begun. “The penal charges of the corruption cases have an effect only if at the end there will be real penalties………………………..Setimes

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12.10.2007 by admin.

Albaniens Präsident fordert das Parlament auf, den General Staatsanwalt zu feuern

Albanian president urges parliament to fire chief prosecutor

12/10/2007

TIRANA, Albania — President Bamir Topi is urging parliament to sack Chief Prosecutor Theodhori Sollaku, to improve the performance of judicial institutions. “The dismissal of the prosecutor is proposed by the parliament and then the request goes to the president, therefore I’m making this request,” Topi said in a TV interview Thursday (October 11th). He said Sollaku’s successor should have both moral integrity and good communication skills. (Korrieri, Kohajone, Shqip - 12/10/07; Balkanweb, Top-Channel - 11/10/07)

Setimes

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12.10.2007 by admin.

Business: Kosovo takes steps to join WTO

12/10/2007

Kosovo’s institutions have made a decision to begin talks on eventual WTO membership. Also this week: Fortune magazine débuts in Turkey.

Kosovo’s trade and industry minister, Bujar Dugolli, said the WTO has welcomed moves by Kosovo institutions to begin talks on entry into the organisation. According to Dugolli, Kosovo is in good position to join the WTO, since its customs code and tariff policies are fully harmonised with those of EU member states.

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12.10.2007 by admin.

POLITICAL REPORT

Tudjman family looking to oust Sanader

MIROSLAV TUDJMAN, son of the late President Franjo Tudjman, with the backing of his family and those politically like-minded, is preparing an attack against the Prime Minister and HDZ boss Ivo Sanader because they believe he is leading the party to ruin

Miroslav Tudjman launched his political campaign, in which he attacks Stipe Mesic and heralds his ambitions to change the situation in the HDZ, in Australia Miroslav Tudjman, the eldest son of the first Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, with the backing of his family and a small circle of those politically like-minded and some former intelligence people, which the press colloquially refers to as the intelligence underground, is as of recently trying to prepare a coup against HDZ president Ivo Sanader, to undermine his position within the party and, if possible, to in the future oust him from the head of that party, Nacional has learned from well-informed political sources.

The makeup of the team spearheaded by Miroslav Tudjman reveals that the coup against Sanader is actually being prepared by a part of those who fell out with the HDZ which have, as a result of the maturing of the Croatian political scene, been for several years now pushed to the position of the radical right wing and to the very fringes of social influence. They are convinced that Ivo Sanader is completely destroying the HDZ, that his policies are leading the party to ruin, in particular as a result of his relations toward the Hague tribunal. A situation in which the HDZ is increasingly seen in the public as one of the two mainstream political options, that does not at all wish to consider a renewal of the former Tudjman leadership style, also by no means suits them. Miroslav Tudjman and his group believe that a respectable number of HDZ members share his sentiments, and that they could join them in their campaign, if the right circumstances where created for it. Miroslav Tudjman’s new political campaign was launched in Australia.

Miroslav Tudjman was there in August to promote his new book “Time of the Perjurer”. He spoke before Croatian emigrants in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Geelong and expounded the arguments in his book. There is a moderate and a radical right wing emigrant community in Australia. Those well acquainted with the situation in that milieu have confirmed for Nacional that Tudjman was a guest only of the rigidly right wing emigrant clubs. Miroslav Tudjman was present at the unveiling of a bust of Franjo Tudjman in the lobby of the “Sydney” Croatian association in Punchbowl on 5 August, and promoted the book at the Croatian House in Canberra Deakin on 8 August. The next day he was at the Croatian House in Footscray, and that same day at the Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac Croatian National House in Geelong. He closed with a promotion of his book at Sydney’s Punchbowl on 12 August.

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STIPE MESIC is under fire from Miroslav Tudjman because of his testimony given before the Hague tribunal and his condemnation of the policies of Franjo Tudjman Ante Juric, the president of the Croatian House in Footscray prepared a gala dinner in Tudjman’s honour in the house hall, named after General Ante Gotovina. He invited eminent emigrants from across Australia. The guests arrived in Melbourne in the company of the president of the “Sydney” Croatian association Joze Jaksic, where they presented Miroslav Tudjman with gifts and thanked him for his visit. Among the dignitaries at the dinner were the top people of the Croatian Women’s Society “Katarina Zrinski”, the Croatian supplementary Saturday schools, the Croatian Islamic Centre, the Croatian Liberation Movement, and the leaders of the leading Croatian associations in Victoria, such as the Croatian Democratic Union, sports-football clubs and the Croatian Committee in Victoria. There were several hundred guests at the book presentation. After Tudjman’s speech on the arguments in his book, the emigrants allegedly asked him in great numbers whether he would run for the post of Croatian President, and declared that they would assist him financially if he did so. Tudjman thanked them for their confidence in him, said that it was too early for that kind of decision, but that it too should be given serious consideration. In Croatia Tudjman’s Australian campaign passed entirely unnoticed. It was perhaps interesting for Australian Croatians because Miroslav Tudjman earlier was unable to get an entry visa for Australia, as that country is very rigorous on the issue and asks very comprehensive and detailed questions on the engagement of the visa applicant in the wars in the area of the former Yugoslavia, in which Miroslav Tudjman played an interesting role because he was, among other things, for a time the prominent front man of the Croatian intelligence community. It is also significant that Miroslav Tudjman first sought support for his new political campaign among Croatian emigrants, just as his late father did on the eve of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

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http://www.nacional.hr/en/articles/view/37815/

Lt. ITCY in Den Haag, leitete Franjo Tudjman die kriminelle Kroatische Regierung und HDZ Bewegung und hatte mit Zivilisten Mörder wie Ante Gotovina, Glavas und diversen Generälen wie Bobetka (einem Ex-Ustascha Offizier) einen wesentlichen Anteil an der Provozierung und Eskalation der Balkan Kriege vor allem in Kroatien und Bosnien.

Franjo war Chef einer Verbrecher Organisation, welche u.a. von der Kathl. Kirche, Hans Dietrich Genscher und Klaus Kinkel massiv aufgebaut wurde.

Haager Anklage gegen Politiker und Generäle

Kroatien - Zwei ehemalige Minister, vier pensionierten Generäle und der Chef des kroatischen Geheimdienstes haben eine “Verbrecherorganisation” geplant, um Serben aus Kroatien zu vertreiben.

http://www.vol.at/news/welt/artikel/haager-anklage-gegen-politiker-und-generaele/cn/news-20070529-03144975

Tudjman: Serben müssen für immer aus Kroatien verschwinden / Srbi moraju zauvijek nestati iz Hrvatske (kroatisches Staatsfernsehen HRT)

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8gKGEuycrU

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12.10.2007 by admin.

LARGEST MILITARY MANOEUVRE IN CROATIA

9,000 NATO Commandos In Adriatic Operation

NACIONAL REVEALS the details of a mass military exercise involving the NATO Response Force, to be held in cooperation with the Croatian Army from 1 to 12 October of this year in central and northern Dalmatia and Istria

NACIONAL REVEALS the details of a mass military exercise involving the NATO Response Force, to be held in cooperation with the Croatian Army from 1 to 12 October of this year in central and northern Dalmatia and Istria From 1 to 12 October 2007 Croatia will be the scene of Noble Midas 07, the largest and most important international military manoeuvre to be held in Croatia since its independence. Some 9,000 soldiers from NATO’s Response Force and marine commandos, 50 warships, an aircraft carrier, amphibious vehicles, frigates, cruisers, submarines and some 60 NATO member aircraft will stage the largest NATO military exercise of the year in the northern and central Adriatic Sea.

Effectively, this manoeuvre is the last obstacle, but also the ticket to Croatia’s NATO accession, given that the spring 2008 Bucharest session of NATO is expected to invite Croatia to accede to full membership. A successfully implemented exercise, its organisation, the reception of this number of NATO troops from over ten member states, the ability of the Croatian Armed Forces and the capability of its military hardware to operate with NATO special forces during the manoeuvres will to a large extent define the position towards Croatia in anticipation of an invitation to full membership………

http://www.nacional.hr/en/articles/view/34257/18/ 

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12.10.2007 by admin.

Fondi, ja pronat shteterore per ish-pronaret

Fatjon Ferko
E Premte, 12 Tetor 2007

Vetem zona turistike e Drilonit, hoteli i Gjuetise ne qytetin e Lezhes, 5 kabina ne Syrin e Kalter ne Delvine si dhe nje truall ne kodren e Shtufit ne Gjirokaster, duket se jane te vetmet prona me vlere te shtetit qe do perdoren per kompensimin fizik te ish-pronareve. Tashme ne zyrat e Agjencise se Kthimit dhe Kompensimit te Pronave kane mberritur te dhenat e para per pronat shteterore te Ministrise se Ekonomise, Bujqesise, Turizmit dhe asaj te Transporteve qe do te kalojne ne fondin e pasurive per kompensimin e subjekteve te shpronesuara. Nga e gjithe lista e vene ne dispozicion te AKKP-se, vetem zona turistike e Drilonit dhe hoteli ne Lezhe duken te lakmueshme per ish-pronaret, pasi pothuajse e gjithe pjesa tjeter eshte fondi i ish-minierave si dhe ndermarrje bujqesore, qe tashme nuk kane me asnje lloj vlere…………………………

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http://www.kohajone.com/html/artikull_11861.html

Man beginnt jetzt ganz langsam die echten Alt-Eigentümer von Staats Grundstücken zu entschädigen.

Dies gilt für Toursitische Zonen in Delfine und Lezhe! Lt. Gesetzen, können die geklauten und bebauten Grundstücke an der Küsten, Ex-Inudstrie Bebieten, Schulen etc.. nicht legalisiert werden (auf Grudn eines Vetos der OSCE und Europas, wo vor 3 Jahren der Staatspräsident die Unterschrift unter einem solchen Gesetz verweigerte)

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