Some reporting of Albanian Telegraphic Agency

The airplane en route from Ljubljana to Tirana of the Adria airline did not land in the Rinas airport according to the timetable. Official sources of the Tirana-based Slovenian company said that the airplane left Slovenia capital at due time on Wednesday but received an order from the company to return to Ljubljana airport. Adria flights for Wednesday have been annulled in the four Balkan capitals Tirana, Sarajeva, Skopje and Belgrade because its itinerary foresees flights over the area where NATO air strikes will start. The Swissair company has annulled its flight to Tirana, Sarajeva, Skopje and Belgrade for the same reasons. Officials of both companies said that tomorrow flights would be planned according to developments. An airplane of the Albanian Airlines, an Albanian airline company, left Bologna for Tirana and was expected to land late on Wednesday like the airplane of the Hungarian airline company "Malev" which was going to land in Rinas within a few moments, official sources of the above companies s

aid to ATA. An airplane of the Austrian Airlines landed in Rinas airport before noon. Asked by ATA on flight suspension to Tirana, the minister of Public Affairs and Transport Ingrid Shuli said "she cannot confirm it." "I have heard something but I should secure further information to confirm it

Albania's Prime Minister Pandeli Majko on Wednesday reconvened the cabinet earlier in the morning (02.30 local time), to take further steps on the situation in Kosova. At the meeting, Majko, in the presence of reporters, read a solidarity letter sent to him by the NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana, after giving the go-ahead for alliance air raids in Kosova. "I would like to stress that the Alliance will very seriously consider any attack by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia against your country. The alliance has repeatedly made clear that the security of each of the NATO member is inseparably linked with that of all the nations of the Partnership. Your security is a concrete and direct concern of the Alliance". The meeting continued behind closed doors.

The defence staff of the prefecture of Shkoder in a meeting on Wednesday morning, analysed the latest situation created after NATO's decision for the beginning of air raids against Serbia and discussed the measures to be adopted to face the possible situations. Prefect Shpuza asked the police and army leaders to be on the alert to face any possible attack on Albania by the Serb army. He demanded that mobilisation of new recruits must continue along with the preparation of all bomb shelters for the civil population and the security of the special important institutions in the districts of that prefecture. Leaders of the police of the prefecture and of the army division of Shkoder reported of the measures which are adopted and will be adopted to overcome the situations that might be created. They pointed out the fact that there are many Yugoslav military and police forces deployed along Albania-Montenegro border. District border police of Malesi e Madhe are following the situation closely and with 5 patrol shi

ps are controlling the Lake Shkodra. In the mean time, defence staffs have been set up in the three districts of this prefecture for any new situation. Now the situation in the city of Shkoder and in the two other districts of this prefecture is calm.

Population of Dobrune village and Kurpali quarter in Letaj had been displaced spontaneously early on Wednesday due to increasing tension in the border area, a spokesman of the police commissariat of Has district, North Albania, said to ATA. He said that women and children of these villages had fled their homes while men stayed there. He added that military border forces were doubled in the area to face possible aggression. On the other side of the border, along the border line with Has district, there had been Serb police and army reinforcement with heavy armaments, especially in the area of Qafe Prush and Dobrune. Meanwhile, the local government structures and the emergency staff of the Has district have intensified efforts to prepare shelters for the civil population in case of aggression.

Emergency staff of the Kukes town hall allocated a fund worth 100 thousand leks in Wednesday meeting to help prepare shelters for the civil population. The city shelters have been blocked by quantity of garbage thrown there and work for their cleaning and preparation in case of war is underway. A spokesman of the Kukes prefecture Emri Peca said that in the three districts of the prefecture the emergency staff has analysed the situation and taken measures to organise the alarm system. Meanwhile the staff has asked for full information on the reserves of wheat and other foodstuffs as well as medicaments

Thousand of civilians who have come to Qirez risk to face a humanitarian catastrophe but also a possible Serb attack, Abdyl Ymeri, chief of the police department in Skenderaj told the paper "Kombi", according to the Center for Information in Kosova. Speaking on the situation in villages located on the right of the road axis from Terstenik to Skenderaj, Ymeri said that the situation was very dramatic while Serb police and army had reached the village of Baks, Dushkaje quarter, whom they raided and burnt down. Houses of the Prelloc and Krasalic villages, at the bottom of Qyqavica, were also burnt but the situation was more alarming for thousands of displaced who were settled in the mosque and the school of Qirezi. Ymeri said that the villages of Polac, Prekaz i Ulet e i Eperm, Duboc, Lubovec, Krasalic and Preloc had been burnt down in the recent attacks. The civil population from the villages of Gradice, Duboc, Gllanaselle as well as villages of the commune of Vushtrie: Oshlan, Novolan, Bukosh, Taraxhe, Pantin

e and the like in trying to flee Serb attacks against that part of Kosova were accommodated in Qirez. Ymeri said that the humanitarian situation is difficult for the fact that a large number of displaced people were in the open lacking foodstuffs and sanitary equipment. But the great danger for all those displaced is the fact that they are under total curfew of the Serb forces, who are likely to attack and the case of Skenderaj, where over 17 men have been executed, can be repeated, Ymeri said. He called on humanitarian organisations operating in Kosova at present, especially the International Red Cross, to reach Qirez and help these civilians, including children, women and elderly people flee the catastrophe and the danger of a possible massacre.