EDI RAMA: THERE MUST BE PUBLIC DEBATE, IT MUST BE CLOSED BY SEPTEMBER PS: LIFTING IMMUNITY, “NO” TO THE VOTE ON 6 AUGUST The roundtable in Parliament, EURALIUS: The PD’s proposal makes us happy because it is our proposal. The PS has also presented a European draft (In photo): Meeting of the Legislative Council on constitutional amendments On pages 2-3

Opinion of the Day By AHMET SHQARRI A country’s history cannot be made in one day, week, month or within a year, as we seem to want to do in this 100th anniversary of the declaration of Independence. ... Continues on page 14 The euphoric whirlwind of the 100th anniversary...

Opinion of the Day By ILIR DHIMA In fact, Samuel Langhorne Clemens died back in 1910. But with his literary and journalistic pseudonym - Mark Twain - throughout the world... Continues on page 15 They didn’t manage to sell us this Mark Twain

TIRANA MUNICIPALITY Mortgage office, the blacklist of entities that do not pay On page 6

INTERVIEW / Enver’s security chief “In Ataturk’s time, my father fought in Turkey, and was not heard from for 9 years” Sulo Gradeci: My father knew Ismail Qemali personally “In Ataturk’s time, my father fought in Turkey, and was not heard from for 9 years” By FATOS VELIU Sulo Gradeci. A well-known name as the loyal man who for 30 years secured the life of the communist state leader Enver Hoxha, comes before the wider public with his rare testimony. Sulo Gradeci, the loyal and much-discussed man of anti-Enverist currents ..... On pages 10-11

INTERVIEW Jemin Gjana: No to holding two posts in the PD and government On page 5

INTERVIEW / The well-known writer: I met him a month ago, he seemed like an optimistic young man The lifeless body of the poet from Kosovo is found in France, embassy: Natural death The news that one of his closest friends had passed away in a tragic way, miles away from his birthplace, deeply affected Dritëro Agolli. In the meetings they had with him, for various interviews at his home, we had happened to hear the joking conversations he had with Ali Podrimja. How the poets trusted each other until after midnight, how Podrimja would come and stay for a whole week in Dritëroi’s house, how the latter, a month earlier, had been told he would live to be 100 years old. Dritëroi had often mentioned him to us, and had spoken highly of the poet and person Podrimja, but also of his friend Ali. It was not very easy yesterday to reach him by phone, either to offer condolences or to ask him... By FATMIRA NIKOLLI On page 29

TIRANA After banging his head on the ground after a quarrel, the 28-year-old dies On page 7

FOOTBALL Hamdi Salihi: The differences between the USA and Europe On page 30

TODAY AT “MILOSA” THE DILEMMA AMONG WRITERS, WHICH IS THE FIRST NOVEL OF SOCIALIST REALISM? Supplement