Former minister Halim Kosova: This is how our government transformed it Pipero: The blame lies with the hospital directors. Former minister Flamur Noka: Basement government. Dokle: The offices were fixed, now we await the “Rilindja” BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER (In the photo): Photo of the QSUT premises, before and after Halim Kosova was appointed Minister of Health On pages 6-7

Opinion of the Day While the exhibition “I tesori del patrimonio culturale albanese”, ordered by the Ministry of Culture, has been visited in recent weeks... By BEN ANDONI On cultural heritage, work begins with the law itself Continues on page 18

Opinion of the Day In 1991, the wall of the Block fell in Tirana. The neighborhood where the communist leadership lived, which Albanians had been forbidden to... By MENTOR KIKIA Nexhmije’s “Coffee Trial” and Berisha’s Ottoman-style vice-chancellery Continues on page 19

Edi and Linda Rama with the Obama couple Dinner with the Obama couple in the US Rama’s mandate in PS expires, election procedure begins Elected chairman on 26 September 2009. Klosi, Balla and Fino, working group to be formed The chairman of the Socialist Party, Edi Rama, from today no longer has an official mandate. Under the statute, today he completes the four-year term of leading the party, after being elected on 26 September 2009, according to the “one member-one vote” principle. On pages 3-5

The diplomat’s confidential correspondence with Ferid Dervishi: A distinguished pirate and criminal The letter from the King’s close friend in 1944: He is hopeless The diplomat’s confidential correspondence with Ferid Dervishi: A distinguished pirate and criminal Çatin Saraçi: Zogu, bad in the head, can’t speak The letter from the King’s close friend in 1944: He is hopeless Who was Zogu? Çatin Saraçi, former diplomat in the Administration of King Zog I, became known to Albanian readers after the Albanian publication of his English manuscript “The Albanians’ Zogumberi. A lived history.” The book, published by the “55” Publishing House, with translator Virgjil Muçi, is ac- By Prof. LUAN MALTEZI companied by a “preface” by Prof. A. Plasari, titled “Two words about this book and its author.” It can be said that the publication of this book “shook” public opinion in Albania, because the author, Saraçi had been a close friend of King Zog, even sent in the press of the time as Consul of Albania in Bari and in the killing of the former distinguished patriot Luigj Gurakuqi in 1925. The published manuscript, on the contrary, showed a very serious history... On pages 16-17

BAJRAM HYSA: The high school exit exam, a failure On page 11

FORMER PRIME MINISTER On page 2

ORDER On page 21

DURRES On page 15

TIRANE On page 10