Egin Ceka recounts the clash in Austria NERITAN CEKA: EDI, WE WERE FRIENDS, APOLOGIZE. RUÇI: DISMISS THE DIPLOMAT The incident in Vienna, the diplomat: The PS leader pulled me forcefully. The meeting organizer: I didn’t see any boxing. Berisha: Parliamentary inquiry. PS: Degraded diplomacy The Albanian diplomat in our mission to the OSCE, Egin Ceka has agreed to speak to “ex-press.al” about the moments of tension and the verbal abuse inflicted on him by the PS Chairman, Edi Rama, during the meeting held in Vienna at the Vienna Political Academy. Right from the start of the conversation, diplomat Ceka says he was surprised by the way Rama reacted and by the initially aggressive tone of communication, later accompanied by the use of physical force. Mr. Ceka, how did you receive the invitation to attend the meeting organized by the Vienna Political Academy? I received the invitation in several versions. It came to my personal email, to my work email, but I want to say that it was also an invitation made online by the meeting organizers. I had entered this invitation in my schedule and had planned to go there to hear this conversation. What was the topic of discussion? The PS chairman was speaking about a diplomacy... Continues on pages 2-5

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