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	Weapons for Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The team visited the Gramsh district from 26 to 28 August and discussed the weapons for development project with local authorities at the prefecture, district and community level and visited also a number of villages in order to gain an understanding of the considerations of the people about the illicit possession of weapons the villages.
		The mission found the overall situation in the Gramsh district to be peaceful- notwithstanding the apparent political dispute at the national level and sporadic incidents in the area.
		District chairman indicated that 10 schools needed to be repaired [at a cost of US$ 10,000 each.] Health care is virtually non existent at the village and commune level and if some medical support is available it cannot be reached by the remote villages.
	www.iansa.org /documents/development/weapons_for_dev.htm (5555 words)

	Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Several districts are then grouped into a county or prefecture called qark, of which there are 12.
		See also: List of cities in Albania (Note: some cities have the same name as the district they are in).
		Albania consists of mostly hilly and mountainous terrain, the highest mountain reaching up to 2,753 m.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/a/al/albania.html (594 words)

	[21 Sep 1999] DC/2659 : SMALL ARMS DESTROYED AT PUBLIC CEREMONY IN ALBANIA OF UNITED NATIONS ‘WEAPONS FOR ...
		GRAMSH, Albania, 17 September (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- The Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Jayantha Dhanapala addressed a public ceremony today in which weapons collected in the Gramsh Pilot Project were symbolically destroyed by mechanical cutting in the main square of the district of Gramsh in central Albania.
		The project is overseen by a National Steering Committee, with the participation of the Albanian Ministry of Local Government, a representative of the Gramsh district, the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme.
		Demeti said that the non-use of weapons in the district of Gramsh since the launching of the Pilot Project was of “great significance”.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1999/19990921.dc2659.doc.html (514 words)

	Emergency Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As part of a pilot programme, a national public awareness campaign focusing on the Gramsh experience will be extensively developed for maximizing the level of leverage to be achieved by the programme, and raising additional funds for extending the project to other districts.
		The objective of this project is to expand in the district of Elbasan and Diber the scheme of disarmament of the civilian population in exchange for development incentives, which has been successfully applied in Gramsh District, Albania.
		The Gramsh pilot experience has shown that the combination of disarmament conditionality and development needs represents an ideal priority for the country and an attractive and acceptable way of growth for the communities.
	mirror.undp.org /albania/emergency.htm (1679 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gramsh, Albania-On a cold day in February, Albanian farmer Muke Benkos guided his mule up a muddy path to a small village in the central highlands of Albania.
		In the Gramsh district alone, 57 people, including children, have been killed in armed conflict, and more than 600 have been wounded since March 1997.
		The close cooperation of local people with the police in the Gramsh district was evident in the police station in Gramsh town.
	www.undp.org /dpa/choices/december99/arms.htm (1179 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-08-07
		GRAMSH, August 7 (ata) - By M Lulja: The district of Gramsh is in the final stage of the collection of arms, which will be over at the end of August, said to ATA the chief of the district police commissariat, lieutenant colonel Sinan Meta.
		The number of the weapons collected over a one-year period by the Gramsh district police is more than 6 500 automatic rifles, 51 thousand defensive and offensive grenades and 18 million bullets.
		The forest police of this district, Avni Abedini, told ATA that as a result of high temperatures there have been many cases of fires in several of the district's forests.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1999/99-08-07.ata.html (2967 words)

	Emergency Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As part of a pilot program, a national public awareness campaign focusing on the Gramsh experience has been extensively developed for maximizing the level of leverage to be achieved by the program, and raising additional funds for extending the project to other districts.
		The project was designed to shape the UNDP response to the challenge of facing the humanitarian crisis created by the influx of Kosovo war refugees to Albania.
		The objective of this project was to provide support to the national efforts in facing the immediate humanitarian crisis brought on by the arrival of refugees from Kosovo, while simultaneously aiming to bridge the gap between relief interventions and mid -/ long-term development initiatives.
	mirror.undp.org /albania/projects/completed/emergency.htm (1343 words)

	[21 Sep 1999] DC/2659/Rev.1* : SMALL ARMS DESTROYED AT PUBLIC CEREMONY IN ALBANIA PART OF UN ‘WEAPONS FOR ...
		The project is overseen by a National Steering Committee, with the participation of the Albanian Ministry of Local Government, a representative of the Gramsh district, the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
		At the 17 September public ceremony in Gramsh, the Under- Secretary-General appealed to the international community to consider providing further support for the expansion of the weapons for development model to other parts of Albania.
		Dhanapala expressed hope that this ceremony in Gramsh would be “an invitation for others to try out what is being accomplished here”.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1999/19990921.dc2659.r1.doc.html (520 words)

	Gramsh District -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gramsh District -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The District of Gramsh ((The Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania) Albanian: Rrethi i Gramshit) is one of the thirty-six (Click link for more info and facts about districts of Albania) districts of Albania.
		It is in the centre of the country, and its capital is (Click link for more info and facts about Gramsh) Gramsh.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/gramsh_district.htm (80 words)

	BICC Event: Practical Disarmament: Weapons and Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This project was later expanded to the districts of Elbasan and Diber.
		Weapons collection points are organized by the national weapons collection teams, weapons and ammunition which are voluntarily surrendered are transported to the district police station where they are registered and stored temporarily before being transferred to the Ministry of Defense.
		The project supports the collection process by supplying safety data for the transport and storage of the weapons and ammunition to ensure that the movement and storage as well as the collections are carried out without incident or danger to the public or police.
	www.bicc.de /events/unconf/workshop_texts/workshop_kushti.php (1497 words)

	SSSR - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a result, from December 1998 to January 2000, a pilot project was implemented by UNDP in the district of Gramsh using the WED concept.
		The Gramsh Pilot Project (GPP) was the first attempt to use development projects as an incentive for the voluntary surrender of weapons by civilians.
		While it evolved from the experience gathered in the Gramsh Pilot Project dealing with the weapons for development concept and continued in the Weapons for Development (WED) project in Elbasan and Diber, it was different in nature and approach.
	www.salwc.undp.org.al /?background (1994 words)

	Index of Press Kits
		Training for trainers and teachers from the selected schools in the district in peace and disarmament education methods and the subjects of debate, communication skills, conflict resolution skills, and leadership skills.
		Summer school in Conflict Resolution In the beginning of September in Gramsh, the project conducted a 6-day summer school in Conflict Resolution and Transformation in cooperation with trainers from the Foundation for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation and the Institute for Pedagogical Studies.
		The target group were 22 teachers from the secondary schools in Gramsh and Shkodra.
	www.cpde.net /presskits/index-en.php (743 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 98-11-12
		The control of documents of the police effective was made in the tree districts of the Prefecture of Kukes.
		He recommended that the program for the collection of weapons is connected with the investments for the development of a community and for this aim the district of Gramsh was selected.
		Some 10-12% of the weapons were looted during the last year's riots in the district of Gramsh.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1998/98-11-12.ata.html (5010 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Crash of U.S. military transport plane: the number of victims hasn’t defined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The plane had taken off from Tirana's airport and crashed on Driza Mountain in the district of Gramsh, 50 miles southeast of capital, Tirana, Albanian Defense Ministry spokesman Agim Doci told The Associated Press.
		According to Xinhuanet, four bodies were found Friday morning after a US military aircraft with nine soldiers aboard crashed in central Albania on Thursday night, the ATA news agency reported.
		A US military MC130H was taking part in a joint exercise with Albanian forces when it crashed into Driza Mountain in the district of Gramsh, 100 km southeast of the capital Tirana.
	english.pravda.ru /accidents/2005/04/01/58962_.html (290 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TIRANA, Albania - A U.S. military airplane crashed in central Albania while on a training mission Thursday, and nine American personnel aboard were believed to have been killed, the Defense Ministry said.
		The world mourned the late Pope John Paul II on Sunday and thousands of grieving pilgrims converged on Rome to pay homage to the Pole who helped topple Communism in Europe but left a divided Roman Catholic Church.
		Albanian military vehicles operate to recover a U.S. military C-130 airplane that crashed in a remote central Albanian area killing nine American personnel aboard in Guri Geges Mountain in the district of Gramsh, 200 kms southeast of the capital, Tirana, Friday, April 1, 2005.
	home1.gte.net /vze7b2yg/2005.03.01_arch.html (914 words)

	The Casper Star-Tribune: Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Pentagon said a C-130 crashed and a search was under way.
		The plane had taken off from Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport and crashed on Driza Mountain in the district of Gramsh, 50 miles southeast of capital, Tirana, Albanian Defense Ministry spokesman Agim Doci told The Associated Press.
		Doci said officials believe that the nine people aboard, all Americans, were killed.
	www.casperstartribune.net /articles/2005/04/03/news/world/b18ad083390cb26d87256fd5006d13d4.prt (209 words)

	washingtonpost.com: WORLD IN BRIEF
		TIRANA, Albania -- A U.S. military airplane crashed in central Albania while on a training mission Thursday, and nine American personnel aboard were believed to have been killed, the Defense Ministry said.
		The plane took off from Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport and crashed on Driza Mountain in the district of Gramsh, 50 miles southeast of Tirana, the capital, Defense Ministry spokesman Agim Doci said.
		He said the plane was there as part of joint exercises with the Albanian military.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A17394-2005Mar31?language=printer (928 words)

	ATA Homepage - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are about 43 non-public educational institutions throughout the country which are regularly being attended by pupils from 6-17 years of age in 12 districts of Albania.
		Five years ago, by decision of the municipal council of Durres, Toci was awarded the title "The pride of the city" while his title "Great master of Labour" by the President of Albania was to be given to him in a matter of days.
		As the years passed, the ethnographic museum, the art gallery, scores of museums and cultural centres in district villages, do bear the seal of his untiring work.
	www.telpress.it /ATA/1999/jan_99/hdarch28.htm (3867 words)

	San Bernardino County Sun - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The local little guys have been squeezed out of the big-money contracts in the tree- removal business in the San Bernardino Mountains, and the Board of Supervisors has opened the door to a rich politically connected outsider.
		An agreement announced Saturday between well-heeled homeowners and a water district is being portrayed as cooperation that gives the resort community one united voice.
		COLTON Tensions have erupted between city and school officials over enforcement of no-parking rules on streets around school district buildings as last month, police began ticketing vehicles parked on streets on street-sweeping days.
	www.sbsun.com /Stories/0,1413,203~26127~2792895,00.html (987 words)

	CBC News: U.S. military airplane crashes in Albania
		The plane had taken off Thursday from the Mother Teresa Airport in the capital, Tirana, Defence Ministry spokesman Agim Doci told the Associated Press.
		It crashed about 80 kilometres southeast of the city, in the district of Gramsh.
		Nine people are believed to have been aboard the plane, Doci said.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/03/31/albania-050331.html (148 words)

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		UNDP developed a unique approach to voluntary civilian disarmament, which combined weapons surrender with community-based development incentives supported by a comprehensive public awareness strategy.
		In December 1998 the Weapons in Exchange for Development project was piloted by UNDP in the district of Gramsh, which resulted in 6,000 weapons and 137 tones of ammunition surrendered and 1 million USD invested in infrastructure development.
		Given its success and upon the request of the government of Albania, the pilot project was later expanded to the districts of Elbasan and Diber.
	www.undp.org.al /download/pr/20020404.doc (470 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Bodies Found in Wreckage of Crashed US Military Hercules
		Albanian and US rescuers today recovered four bodies from the wreckage of an American military aircraft that crashed in a remote, mountainous region of the Balkan country, killing all nine people aboard, an Albanian official said.
		The US military C-130 plane was taking part in a joint exercise with Albanian forces when it crashed last night into Driza Mountain in the district of Gramsh, 60 miles) south-east of capital, Tirana.
		An official from the Albanian Defence Ministry today said four bodies had so far been recovered from the wreckage of the plane and rescuers were searching for the remains of the other five killed.
	www.buzztracker.org /2005/04/01/cache/506256.html (232 words)

	billingsgazette.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Karen Kamla, a veteran junior high teacher in Havre, was stunned by what out-of-state school districts were willing to pay her.
		Armed with a new certification as a school librarian, Kamla, who has won national teaching awards, decided last spring that, for the sake of her family, she needed to make more money.
		Small districts rely on ingenuity, luck to fill teaching positions
	billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/31/... (521 words)

	Democratic Underground - Nine Believed Dead in US Military Plane Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A US military aircraft crashed in central Albania while on a training mission Thursday, and all nine people aboard were believed to have been killed, the Defence Ministry said.
		The plane had taken off from Tirana’s Mother Teresa Airport and crashed in the district of Gramsh, 48 miles southeast of capital, Tirana, Defence Ministry spokesman Agim Doci told The Associated Press.
		Doci said it was believed nine people were aboard the plane, which was taking part in joint exercises with the Albanian military.The Albanian News24 television station reported that the location of the crash was remote and hard to reach, adding that a helicopter was seen circling the area.
	www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1358115 (402 words)

	9news.com \| News \| U.S. military airplane crashes in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TIRANA, Albania (AP) - A U.S. military airplane crashed in central Albania while on a training mission Thursday, the Defense Ministry said.
		The plane had taken off from Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport and crashed in the district of Gramsh, 50 miles southeast of capital Tirana, Defense Ministry spokesman Agim Doci told The Associated Press.
		It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
	www.9news.com /acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=faaf35ad-0abe-421a-006f-7997251ea6c1&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf (64 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Nine dead in US military plane crash in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Pentagon said a search was under way for the C-130 Hercules plane, but poor weather was hampering search efforts.
		The plane had taken off from Tirana’s Rinas airport and crashed on the Driza Mountain in the district of Gramsh, southeast of the capital, Tirana, Albanian Defense Ministry spokesman Agim Doci said in a statement.
		The US C-130 Hercules was based at Mildenhall Airbase in Britain.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=11029 (286 words)

	Agreement Signed for Destruction of Albanian Small Arms, 09/28
		Since May 1998, the Albania government has bolstered efforts to collect weapons circulating in the civilian population, both through legislation and increased law enforcement measures.
		This effort was assisted in 1999 by the initiation of a UNDP "Weapons in Exchange for Development" pilot program (originally targeted at the Albanian district of Gramsh, recently extended to Elbasan and Dirba).
		Under the UNDP program, a limited number of collected weapons have also been destroyed.
	www.usembassy.it /file2000_09/alia/a0092814.htm (519 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- Nine bodies recovered from wreckage of U.S. military airplane that ...
		Nine bodies recovered from wreckage of U.S. military airplane that crashed in Albania
		The U.S. military C-130 airplane that crashed in a remote central Albanian area, killing nine American personnel aboard is seen in Guri Geges Mountain in the district of Gramsh.
		TIRANA, Albania – Search teams recovered the bodies Friday of nine Americans killed when a U.S. military aircraft crashed in mountainous southern Albania during a joint exercise, Albanian military authorities said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20050401-0617-us-planecrash.html (297 words)

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