EXCLUSIVE/ The foundation party of the prime minister’s wife defies the crisis BERISHA’S MILLION-EURO DINNER Businessmen “at war” to buy 15 paintings Here are all the names, the tables and the amounts paid A ticket costs 500 euros for one seat. The works sold for sky-high prices. The first canvas sold for 30 thousand euros, two others for 100 thousand euros each. Ambassadors, ministers and politicians also attended the celebration News Mrs. Liri Berisha, president of the “Children of Albania” Foundation, hosted last night at the “Sheraton” hotel the annual gala evening for the charity auction. At the party, attended by politicians, businessmen and foreign diplomats, 15 paintings by Albanian artists were sold. TIRANA ARBEN RROZHANI Hundreds of guests. From the President of the Republic, Bujar Nishani, the Speaker of Parliament, Jozefina Topalli, Prime Minister Berisha, ministers, MPs, ambassadors, powerful business people and media figures close to the government. כולם gathered around the giant “table” that the prime minister’s wife, Liri Berisha, lays out every year. The venue-the Sheraton hotel in Tirana... continues on pages 2-3 In the photo: Mrs. Liri Berisha avoiding the kiss of Herman Sullivan, manager of the same foundation in the US

INTERVIEW COMPARISON Here are the contradictions of Ajshe’s father Muhamet Vata changes his mind: My daughter disgraced me, I cancel the mourning TIRANA ARSEN RUSTA Only a few hours after giving his first interview to A1 Report, Muhamet Vata spoke again about the terrible event in which his daughter Ajshe Vata was brutally beaten. Muhamet Vata says he is convinced that the clothes... Pages 8-9

HUNGER STRIKE Bejko’s tears: Continue the strike but do not burn yourselves Pages 6-7 The former political persecuted man is interviewed by “A1REPORT” at the Bari hospital

Comment BY ENTON ABILEKAJ The marked ones Everyone joined the former persecuted people. Politicians, intellectuals, trade unionists and foreign diplomats. The diplomats forced the President to start negotiations with the strikers. They cannot force Berisha,... continues on page 10

Opinion BY BUJAR NISHANI* The First Step on the Long Road The European Commission recommended that Albania be granted candidate country status for... continues on page 10

DIBËR Page 21 Rally, Berisha brings the children to school on Saturday

RESTORED Page 23 The film “Nëntori i dytë” is remade with 65 thousand dollars

LAWSUITS Page 11 Kalivaç HPP, Becchetti: They threatened me with death

EXCLUSIVE Page 4 TOPI: THE PRIME MINISTER, RIDICULOUS ACCUSATION The former president challenges Sali Berisha

Pages 13-20 RILINDASI ISMAIL QEMALI AND THE GREEKS An Albanian-Greek agreement as early as 1907 Ismail Qemali, an agreement with the Greeks in 1907 What he signed with Neokli Kazazis, why he saw the future with Greece

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