Behind the scenes/ ARVIZU-VOLFARTH LEAVE THE PS CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH HALF-FINISHED Debates at the Congress, Rama: It was the most beautiful Behind the scenes/ ARVIZU-VOLFARTH LEAVE THE PS CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH HALF-FINISHED THE ASSEMBLY LIST Debates at the Congress, Rama: It was the most beautiful Socialist chairman: No exclusions, united for an Albanian renaissance. Ben Blushi: We were chaotic, now we turned left. The program and the new statute are approved By DARINA TANUSHI The trio of foreign ambassadors in Albania, Aleksandër Arvizu of the USA, Etore Sekui of the EU and Eugen Volfarth (OSCE) took part yesterday in the proceedings of the PS Congress, as did many other diplomatic representatives invited to the event. But at one point, a little more than 1 hour after the speech by the PS chairman, Edi Rama, two of the ambassadors, the U.S. ambassador Arvizu and the OSCE ambassador Volfarth, left the hall and departed. The EU ambassador, Sekui, however, continued to follow Rama until the end of the speech. It seems that the very long speech, about 90 minutes, by the PS leader tired the “VIP” guests, especially since the Congress also started half an hour late. It should be noted that the U.S. ambassador arrived at the PS Congress proceedings at 11:00, while the socialist leader started speaking at 12:30. Arvizu left at 13:45,... Continues on pages 2-4

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