It also ordered the cabinet to come up with a plan over the next two weeks to deal with wage arrears. He called upon the parliamentary majority to cooperate with the president's office in reshuffling the cabinet, and he threatened to call a national referendum if deputies rejected his request. The decision came at the end of a two-day talks on the Russian troop withdrawal from Moldova's breakaway Dniester region. Albanian President Sali Berisha announced a day of mourning on 9 May following a boat accident in which 13 teenagers and one adult drowned, AFP reported. The boat capsized on Lake Prespa, near the border with Greece and Macedonia, two days earlier.
Police suspect that the boat was overloaded.
The youths, aged 17- 18, came from Starova and Pogradec and had planned to visit a church on Maligradi Island. The boat was only some 100 meters from the shore when it sank, but most of the youths could not swim. Four survived the accident. This material was reprinted with permission of the Open Media Research Institute, a nonprofit organization with research offices in Prague, Czech Republic. An HRI Project.