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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/calls-for-fresh-protest-in-albania.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Relatives carry the coffin of Ziver Veizi during his funeral in southern Gjirokastra, Albania" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-calls-for-fresh-protest-in-albania.jpg" alt="Relatives carry the coffin of Ziver Veizi during his funeral in southern Gjirokastra, Albania"/></a></p>
<p>In a further escalation of the political crisis in Albania, the opposition has called for a fresh protest next week, only two days after the governing Democratic Party plans a similar rally.</p>
<p>Opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama urged people to come to a peaceful demonstration on Friday afternoon, a week after three people died and more than 150 were injured in clashes with police at a rally against the government they accuse of deeply rooted corruption.</p>
<p>&#8220;That is an invitation for you, all those who want a one-way street toward an Albania in which everyone feels free and equal before the law,&#8221; said Rama, speaking from Fier, 60 miles south of capital Tirana, where he took part in the funeral for one of the dead.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Sali Berisha&#8217;s Democrats will hold a rally against violence on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The opposition also complains that police have not yet acted on arrest warrants issued on Saturday for six officers of the National Guard &#8211; army troops under Interior Ministry command who guard government institutions and senior officials.</p>
<p>The governing Democrats consider the warrants anti-constitutional and say Prosecutor General Ina Rama is part of a coup d&#8217;etat by the opposition seeking to take power by force.</p>
<p>Western ambassadors are meeting Albania&#8217;s top leaders in an effort to mediate a compromise.</p>
<p>The US and the European Union have both appealed for calm, urging both sides to refrain from violence and political leaders to search for compromise.</p>
<p>Albania, one of Europe&#8217;s poorest countries that for about half a century was ruled by xenophobic Communists who banned contact with the outside world until 1990, is now a Nato member and seeks to join the 27-nation EU.</p>
<p>But its still-weak administration, widespread corruption and the ever-squabbling politicians have often taken the tiny Balkan country of 3.2 million into chaos, similar to 1997 following the collapse of popular investment schemes.</p>
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