Sources who do not wish to be identified say that the newsreel recording the moment when the French mega-thief Nikola Arsidi decorated President Berisha with the «French Courtesy» decoration has mysteriously disappeared from the Albanian TV film archive. The sources say the newsreel was taken in order to resell it. We have no further information. To give readers an accurate report, today our editorial office will inquire into the truth: has the newsreel showing Nikola Arsidi decorating our president disappeared, or does it still exist in the TV film archive? Volunteer correspondent of ZP

- The founding of the PSSH, through a political act that was anything but conformist, but was bold, legitimate and public, enshrined the participation of Albania’s democratic left-wing forces in the irreversible processes of dismantling totalitarianism, toward a civil society - The socialists have established themselves through their ability and serious programs in the field of foreign policy, openness and cooperation with the world FATOS NANO Chairman of the PSSH The affirmation of the advantages of: private free enterprise over public enterprise; citizens’ freedom and responsibility over state command on the one hand, and the anarchy of the free market on the other; new professions, structures and productive enterprises over traditional ones; the standards of European political culture over those of Albanian and Balkan autarky; the values of renewing national cultural identity over those of cosmopolitan communism; Fourth, the recognition and realization of the priority of pan-national interests over party interests, in a spirit of political and civic dialogue, to formulate a unified strategy for resolving the national question and preserving and developing Albanian identity along the path of good neighborly relations and the strengthening of the country’s regional, European and global interdependence, through membership in the CSCE, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the IMF, etc., and partnership with Euro-Atlantic security organizations. II. Albanian socialists conceived of and evaluated the transition as a process of transforming society and themselves, as a comprehensive set of reforms of mindsets and reality, legislation and social relations, state institutions, political parties and [text continues beyond the image] The socialists were the first to accept, promote and continue to defend the spirit of political partnership under pluralism—that is, treating the opposition as a necessary competitor and a lawful watchdog over the power of the majority, so that it is not corrupted or abused for illegal interests. The political and ethical superiority that the PSSH has demonstrated and continues to maintain over the PDSH in this area is clear from the comparison of their positions to date, in power and in opposition, in at least three fundamental respects: First, the socialists have never abused a majority to monopolize power or rule by using violence against political competitors; on the contrary, we have stood out for tolerance, a tendency to resolve disagreements and conflicts by consensus, respect for legal political pacts and the principles of separation of powers and depoliticization of the state administration, as well as of the armed forces and the official media. By contrast, the PD, both in opposition and in power, has distinguished itself—even to the point of criminality—for treating political competition as enemies and allies as tools, just like the PSSH; it has become known for disregarding and unilaterally and flagrantly breaking political agreements. This was the case with the Government of Stability (December 1991): it became «famous» for arbitrarily centralizing powers and for purges and political pressure in the administration, [text continues beyond the image] …acter and strength of its democratic action: - The First National Conference in November 1991, with the adoption of documents setting out political positions and resolutions for a realistic critical assessment of the past and of the role of the PPSH and dictator Hoxha in it; - The founding of FRESH on January 15, 1992, on the initiative of a group of students from December ’90, which would open the way to organizing the Eurosocialist youth throughout the country and to its acceptance as an observer member of the International Union of Socialist Youth; - The First Congress in June 1992, with the adoption of a new political program, a social program, a revised statute and the «current symbol of the PSSH», which set the objective achieved in the elections of July 26, 1992: winning 50 percent of the seats in local government; - The Second National Conference in February 1994, which developed and announced the PSSH’s political and economic alternatives for overcoming the current crisis through early parliamentary elections; - The broad political movement of 1993–1994 to change the course of governance and defend human rights and the opposition’s fundamental political freedoms, culminating in the plebiscitary petition signed by 720,000 voters and in the positive response of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the International Helsinki Federation, Amnesty International, the US Department of State, etc., to the worsening human-rights situation in Albania; [text continues beyond the image]