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Edi Rama, as part of the mobilization for the general elections of 2025, started a tour from Athens, which will also extend to other European cities and which aims to support the Albanians. Rama was received in Athens, at the "Galatsi" stadium in a magnificent organization by hundreds of Albanians living in the neighboring country.
In his long speech, Rama gave several messages. He said that this time, he did not find the Albanians as former servants, but as equal masters of the house in Greece.
The Prime Minister said that in 10 years he may have made a lot of mistakes, while he asked for a public apology.
"I have never, in any case, betrayed those who trusted me even once with their vote for this extraordinary honor. There is no greater honor that can be given to a man in life than to lead his country", said Rama.
Prime Minister Edi Rama shared the news with the Albanian emigrants in Greece that negotiations with the Greek government have opened at the expert level for the pension agreement. In his speech, Rama asked Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to solve the issues as Europeans and not as gullible Balkans.
He also demanded the repeal of the law of war, which, as the head of the government said, is an absurdity that should be removed from the table of relations between Greece and Albania. Rama said that with political will, all problems can be overcome.
Prime Minister Rama from Athens spoke about the time when the Albanian immigrants in Athens and the suffering they faced.
"You crossed the mountains, you slept on street benches, you went out before the light came out, to wait in the squares, like horses, in the bazaar of the living thing, the servants who took you for a black job, you crushed your back and bloodied your hands with the hardest jobs heavy.
Many of you changed the names given to you by your mother and father to get the work documents and registered your children in school, you Albanians of Greece saw the child drown in tears because he was the best in school but they were not given the right to flag ceremony, the child's fault was that he had come from the nest of two proud Albanians", said Rama, adding that the situation has changed.
Full speech:
Sisters and brothers! Thank you!
Welcome to your second home, in neighboring and friendly Greece!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this touching hospitality under such a large shelter, which you made seem so small.
Your welcome excites me, your enthusiasm humbles me, but above all, your life and work fill me with inspiration for Albania and with great pride for you, ordinary people from all four corners of Albania, who have become an extraordinary example of the pride of the homeland ours in this part of Europe.
Some here in Greece were surprised, others were upset, some even said that I should not come to visit you, but maybe when they see this display of family joy, they will understand that I have not come to meet their servants of old, but I have come to fight with the equal masters of this house.
I have come to speak with the equal citizens of democratic Greece, in democratic Europe, where Albanians are no longer the arrivals torn from the mountains or the barbarians swept from the seas, but are the representatives of a proud country that is our Albania.
Albania has finally raised its head, lowered for centuries by the violence of its tragic history, and today it looks straight in the eyes to everyone with the same respect it deserves and demands from everyone.
You Albanians of Greece are today an added value of the work, economy, knowledge, culture of this blessed country where for 25 centuries the cradle of philosophy and democracy has been, and with which we are connected not only by neighborhood, but also by a history of thousands of year.
Throughout this history, our destinies, our customs, the paths of life and the roads of our homes, wars, dances, songs, tales, our relationships, have always been much more connected than they have appeared or than the clouds have made them appear, the mists and dusts of the politics of our two countries.
Even today as we speak, two decades after the end of the 20th century, the appearance of our relations means much less than the reality, the intensity, the interweaving of lives and the interconnectedness of the inseparably common future paths of Albanians and Greeks.
On the surface of today's written culture, where news channels and social networks give the political face of the day to this ancient relationship, offering people the soufflés of folkloric nationalism and the brandy of populist chic to warm their electoral bellies and to lull the citizen's brain, it seems as if between Albania and Greece there have been only eternal problems. Meanwhile, daily life between Albanians and Greeks, outside the noisy cafe of short-term political interests and beyond its dazzling media reflections, continues normal, active and productive.
Albanian exports to Greece last year increased by 1/4 more than the previous year. While in the first months of this year, Greece ranks third in the list of trade partners of Albania. Thanks to the commitment of economic operators here and there across the border, we are in the final steps of creating the first Albanian-Greek Chamber of Commerce and Industry with headquarters in Athens.
Thanks to the encouragement of the enlightened people of this community in Greece, everything is ready and only the approval of the Greek government is awaited to open the center of Albanian culture, for which our government has provided the relevant funds. Thanks to the growing real-life demand of peoples living outside the glass of political-media storms, the number of travelers moving to both countries has increased tenfold.
Albanians have long been in love with the magical shores of Greece, but conversely, more and more Greeks are discovering touristic Albania where they feel like their second home. Greeks have been, are and will always be welcome in Albania, not only to relax, but also to work, open shops, set up companies, start investment lines and benefit from a much lower tax regime than here. in Greece. Even Albania is so hospitable to the Greeks that it does not create any trouble for them, on the contrary, it creates all the conditions even for some misunderstood Greek politician who comes to protest there, then comes and loses the elections here. Bujrum, like in your home!
You Albanians of Greece are the biggest, strongest evidence of this connection with millions of unbreakable threads of destinies in the history and daily life of the two peoples. Just like the Albanian Greeks of the Greek minority in Albania, the Albanian citizens of the Greek minority in Albania, a precious treasure of our society which operates today within a framework of legal guarantees for minorities that "de facto" makes Albania one of the most progressive examples in this direction among all the countries of the Council of Europe.
Those Greeks of Albania are in trouble, they have problems without question. We must and will do more for them, but the big truth outside the small field of political games with the Balkan square ball is that no problem and no problem of theirs is different from the problems and problems of all Albanian citizens.
In a country like ours that is progressing daily, but where the wounds of the negative legacy of the near and distant past are still not completely closed, but never, never, in no case has an ethnic Greek in Albania for at least the last 10 years there was no trouble or problem because of his nationality. Never, never, in no case, have the ethnic Greeks been arbitrarily denied by the Albanian state their right to believe, their right to language, their right to property. Never, never, in no case have Greek citizens of Albania been denied by the Albanian state the right to vote or to choose because of their ethnic origin.
And if we talk about properties, here you are the national representation of Albania, from Tropoja to Konispol, from Shkodra to Korçë, from Dibra to Durrës and who among you has a house or a land from those areas where the distribution of titles has not yet been done of ownership for 1001 reasons, it can say the opposite, that this problem is a problem of Albania and is not a problem only for the Greeks of Albania. To search for and discover such cases you have to delve into the darkest recesses of nationalist culture where there is no boundary between history and myth, fact and prejudice, official documents and commissioned articles.
Albania has no other claims towards Greece other than mutual respect, mutual care for the compatriots living in our two countries, mutual relations of friendship and good neighborliness and not only that. Albania sees Greece as a natural strategic partner, either for the issues to be resolved between us, or the great challenges of this new era, opportunities, but also threats for the Balkans, Europe, the democratic world, we see them as major reasons to to get closer, to get to know each other better, to avoid any need for more communication, to find the most reasonable solutions for both parties. To design together in the future, continuously nurturing trust in each other and strengthening the ties with each other at every step.
Above all, we believe that the complexity of our relations in this time of local and global challenges can never be an impetus to drown in every spoonful of water that everyday politics brings to the courtyard of our coexistence. No! This complexity should be a great incentive for Greeks and Albanians to be finally and mutually convinced that our destinies are inseparable and for those who undertake to represent Albanians and Greeks to be finally convinced that they cannot find the answers to the future to the past but to the present of the connected destinies of the Greeks of Albania with the Albanians of Albania, with the Albanians of Greece, with the Greeks of Greece.
You brothers and sisters came to this ancient cradle of ancient Greek civilization to escape the ruins of the communist regime and its curse of extreme poverty. Cross the mountains. You slept in parks, in churches, on street benches. You went out before the light came out to wait in the squares like horses in the bazaar of the living thing, the affendics who were taken for a black job of the arm. You bloodied your hands and crushed your back with the hardest jobs! You faced all kinds of brutal expressions of the arrogance of the rich neighbor towards the poor neighbor. He did two or three jobs in the day that did not end by alleviating hunger with one dish a day to put aside the money of two uneaten meals!
You experienced the humiliation of the black brooms of the late 20th century when they pulled you from your houses in your body clothes at night to deport you to Albania as in a new movie from a very old time of the violent displacement of our ancestors from their homes in the north of Greece.
Many of you changed the names given to you by your mother and father in order to obtain work documents and enroll your children in school.
You Albanians of Greece saw children drowning in tears because they were the best in school, but they were not given the right to the flag ceremony and the child's fault was that he came from the nest of two-headed Albanians and was not born under the protection of white cross but here you are. You, the Albanians of Greece, never surrendered and triumphed because you are the blood and soul of a nation that did not see and did not remove under this sky, but no power or injustice of this world could undo it from the face of this earth.
Step by step you came out of the darkness of survival as stigmatized residents of this country into the light of life as equal citizens of this country, with your values ??of the word given, the work done, correctness towards the foreigner. You managed to stop being a stranger in this country. You made your place in Greek society by gaining the respect of your employer, the trust of your neighbor and the dignity of a free man in a democratic country. You came, you fought, you won! And never forget it; by law and by custom, Greece is yours today as much as it is the Greeks themselves. Together with the Greeks, you Albanians are the Europeans of Greece.
Today you have here your houses, shops, businesses, well-educated children in the education system of Greece, you have your friendly circle where the Greek and the Albanian are no longer distinguished, your contributions to the Greek economy with honest work and with the taxes you pay to the state Greek. Meanwhile, you return more and more often to your homes in Albania where you have supported all these years, with your invaluable financial help, your elderly parents, brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces, and where you have also started to invest, especially in villages, your savings. I know and I want to tell you; not all differences are squared away forever for everyone, I know things don't always go right for everyone. I know that the ghosts of prejudice and the shadows of contempt appear here and there through some mouth or some hand of the past in your open path with the great force of example, but I also know that your time, the time of the Albanians of Greece , never turns back.
Not only the Greek society, the greater part of which, thanks to the sensitivity of the common people of this nation that is like two drops of water to ours, became your support from the very beginning of your heroic odyssey in search of the island of a lifetime re in Greece, but also Greek politics. The decision-makers of this country today are fully aware that Greece needs you as much as you need Greece.
Greece and Greek Albanians have become irreplaceable for each other. Whoever still doubts this truth, doubts the sun that rises every day, while whoever opposes this truth, falls headlong into the mirror when he sees only himself.
My friends, the borders between our countries have always been political borders, which certain usually imaginary elites have set for their not-so-high goals, sometimes to feed the delirium of provincial grandeur, violently stopping the time of the peoples, sometimes for to show their love for their homeland by nurturing hatred for the homeland of others, sometimes to pump the muscles of their power against internal rivals by creating external problems, but never, unfortunately, never calculating the damage and lost opportunities from the division of two peoples raised since the dawn of humanity, side by side like two children in the same yard.
Therefore, the political borders between our two peoples have never been spiritual borders, not only because the spirit of peoples knows no borders, but because no artificial division can undo a great, heavy historical truth that is marked in our memory shared collectively for tens of centuries; this truth is that our common culture, Mediterranean and Balkan, was formed long before our states were born.
The model of the Hellenic city-states extended from Athens to Sicily and from Anatolia to Durrës, long before today's Greeks identified themselves as Greeks or today's Albanians as Albanians, in times when history was the history of cities and elites, urban centers, communication networks , trade, diplomacy.
Therefore, even those who today approach our common cradle of history in this geographical basin, of historical cultural layers and super-layers with today's categories and boundaries, not only find it difficult to avoid the Balkan capadailka of the type "Who are we, who it's you", but it is a step away from falling into the pit of nationalist primitivism, where the snakes of wars, conflicts, quarrels, divisions, which have bitten us, poisoned us, made us bleed, knocked us down and hindered us many times, live all day between us and inside us. on our common and inseparable path as Albanians and as Greeks.
Let me give you an example, a very simple example among the dozens, hundreds and perhaps thousands of disputes between the oligarchs of Epidamnus, Durrës today, is mentioned by Thucydides as one of the causes of the beginning of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta in a from the most classic texts that are taught today with all the high standards of international relations, can anyone tell me which of today's states that did not exist then belonged to Epidamni, Corinth or Korkyra at that time, impossible.
We have overcome common suffering, we have faced the same challenges, we have inherited our traditions in social systems that have risen and fallen, sometimes uniting our paths of coexistence, sometimes separating them. During our common journey in the sky of the Ottoman Empire, today's Greek and Albanian centers certainly spoke in their own languages, but they also spoke in other languages, such as Turkish, Hebrew, Armenian and many others, and of course also in the languages ??of cultures. hegemonic western French or German.
Only after the crisis of empires did the Europe of today begin to emerge, the Europe of sovereign states, where independence became necessary to survive and where the heroes of different peoples participated in each other's wars. Where is there a better example than the legendary heroine of Greek independence Laskarina Bouboulina born in an Istanbul prison, born of Arvanite descent a legendary freedom fighter of Greece, the first female admiral in the world, at the head of a naval military fleet. Now Kushna forbids us not to be simultaneously proud together with the Greeks for the contribution that heroic woman from a family where Albanian was spoken has given to Greece.
Therefore, what - although all the black threads are gone and these white threads are more rare - I cannot understand, is it not simpler to value the old history of our people as a fabulous treasure, which belongs to all of us, exalting with an open mind in the eyes of our European children, not manipulating and using it with the wrinkled hands of Balkan politics, to which this quarter of Europe has seen only strife and shamathan.
Isn't it more honest for our nations to separate, to separate without doubt, without temptation, what belongs to the peoples, from what belongs to the states. What belongs to the states from what belongs to the parties and what belongs to the parties for the next elections, from what belongs to the future generations for the quality of peace and the quantity of prosperity?!
Isn't it more logical and more productive for Albania and Greece to share in a close, strategic partnership as two neighboring and friendly countries, the path of democracy, prosperity and continuous fraternization of Albanians and Greeks, instead to consume time and energy of the 21st century for the political calculations of some parties here and some parties there and for the appetites of some haughty and talkative pseudo-patriots, which we have in abundance here and there, just like living fossils of the 19th century?!
How many more centuries must we, Albanians and Greeks, live in this neighborhood of modern Europe, to learn and accept it without any nationalist complex, without any feeling of superiority over one another, a simple truth, that not only the soul of peoples knows no borders, but also that our common Mediterranean and Balkan culture was plasma long before languages ??became swords and flags were raised like spears to divide and plunge peoples into wars, conflicts and confusion.
Then how is it possible, how can we still continue with these avazas dressed in new costumes, instead of making that simple truth the common bed where the efforts and resistance of our peoples are connected in a world where the existence of humanity is threatened with destruction, not far from global warming and even faster annihilation, God forbid, from nuclear madness.
And instead of cultivating and harvesting the fruits of common orchards under the example of their peoples, where since the dawn of time there has been fertile ground for the best of Europe's science, knowledge, and art, the political elites in the history of the neighborhood between us as states, - Greece two hundred years, Albania, a hundred and a few years, - have dug and dug and dug for so long, so blindly, so mercilessly, the trenches of conflicts have raised so many black clouds of malicious dust towards each other the other and they have muddied the neighborhood so badly with the mud of grudge that we are thirty-four years into a new chapter of history and friendship, where it seems as if we can't wait to burn a quilt for a flea.
We could have sown, and we could have reaped in these thirty-odd years many more fruits of joint success as neighbors, as friends, as strategic allies, using our assets, opportunities, energies as complementary sources of increasing power and of the well-being of our two peoples and becoming a shining example for the entire region instead of going from one seasonal cycle to another, from stalemate to stalemate, where after autumn comes winter, spring which lasts very little, and no summer comes never.
"On the third day of my arrival in Athens", the founding father of the Albanian state, Ismail Qemali, writes in his memoirs: - I was received in audience by King George I, who showed me great friendship and care - a care with which he honored me for life.
The hospitality he offered me everywhere, in that capital that I loved and admired since childhood, touched me so deeply that it seemed to me that I was in my homeland and I was going from party to party. The stay in the capital of Greece brought old sympathies to the surface and politicians of Albanian origin spoiled me with gifts of friendship, as if they were answering the inner call of early memory. They seemed puzzled before a decision whether I and my fellow patriots should cooperate with them for the good of Greece or whether they should take with them the stones of their second motherland, for a movement to support the renewal of their country of origin?
I was so proud and happy to notice how the national feeling was so deeply rooted in the Albanians despite centuries of different political-social conditions. I had a great pleasure in the morning walks under that wonderful sky of Attica, listening to Albanian being spoken in the streets and in the bazaar, but the greatest sense of pleasure was given to me by what the king's assistant told me, to whom it came from one of the the heroic families of Albania when we were passing from the antechamber to the royal audience; "Do it", - he addressed me, "don't give yourself up to these hotheads, do the best for free Albania so that we can return and unite there".
And to close with this part, because we have not seen each other for a long time and my speech is not as short as usual, our founding father continues: "Although political developments took a different direction from that of our feelings, I am convinced that sooner than later, the common love of Albanians and Greeks for freedom, will lead them towards understanding and the creation of a counterbalance in the Balkan peninsula for the benefit of all".
Bravo, you guessed it, the wise old man of independence published these memories in 1920 when the relations between our two countries had become very difficult and unfortunately Ismail Qemali's genius vision was far away then, it was beyond the horizon of the times that followed his meeting with the king of Greece.
The Second World War, the hermetic closure of Albania in the ninth circle of communist hell, divided Europe in two and postponed until the end of the 20th century the possibility of restoring this vision of our founding father to the table of relations established entirely between two countries after the collapse of communism. The 20th century is also gone, the middle of the third decade of the 21st is coming, and instead of Albania and Greece being today a counterweight to the triumph of the neighborhood turned into a strategic, geopolitical asset in the panorama of the Balkans and an attractive example for all other neighbors to follow him for the peace that produces well-being, security, future at the table of our interstate relations, the law of war between Greece and Albania is still in force. That law of November 10, 1940 determines what is done with the property and the citizens of countries in a state of war, and on that same day, a royal decree legislated that the state of war with Italy and Albania. In 1947 Greece ratifies the peace treaty with Italy and the state of war ends. While with Albania the decree of the state of war and therefore the consequences of the law of war, remain in force today all day even though in 1998 both countries have approved the treaty of friendship. How is it possible between two countries that have signed a treaty of friendship, that have been together in NATO for 15 years, that the state of war has not yet been abolished along with the consequences of a law of war from 84 years ago?
In these years, my government and I have tried as much as we could, to remove this absurdity from the table of our relations, just as we have tried to address as fairly as possible through dialogue, with understanding all the remaining issues between the two our countries, because I have the unwavering conviction that if there is good will and mutual determination, all the inherited disputes can be resolved without waiting for another 84 years to pass.
The truth is, my friends, that in the current Prime Minister of Greece I have found the most open interlocutor of these 10 years, meanwhile it is impossible for me not to tell you, that I have the approach and opinions of our left-wing brothers of the Greek opposition it was very difficult to understand them, except as an internal political war, but it is not even my job to give them advice even though we are actually in a European political family and we can give advice to each other , nor my right to interfere in their affairs, even more so when in Albania we also have an opposition that does exactly the same thing, every time it deals with Albania's foreign affairs, unsuccessfully appealing to the sources of electoral nationalism, but simply, I would tell them today in a very friendly way, since I am also here in Athens and they probably listen, that when they intend to mention Albania and comment on the positions of the socialist government of Albania, it would certainly help them in the formation of their opinion as correctly as possible, and a direct communication between their brothers and sisters in Tirana. On the other hand, it is just as true that although my interlocutor today in the Maximus palace is the most open and most interested in closing the chapter of the outstanding issues, the work to solve them has progressed slowly and has stalled from time to time. However, I have faith and this is not a nice diplomatic word, I really believe that the best between Greece and Albania is all ahead and I am armed with this faith, with the readiness for us to solve all the issues between we, as forward-looking Europeans of the new century, should not continue to drag them along like the gullible Balkans of the old century, to then turn them into a bone of contention every time the electoral shopping stalls open. In the meantime, I am really sorry for the fact that these cyclical frosts have prevented the progress that we have made in some important directions from being visible.
Finally, with the current government, which was out of the question before, we have managed to open negotiations at the expert level for the pension agreement with Greece. It is an agreement for which until yesterday we did not see any light at the end of the tunnel, while we believe that after the implementation of the agreement on pensions with Italy, we also have a very positive reference because in fact the one with Italy and this one with Greece are both agreements more complex due to the weight of the Albanian factor in both countries.
Also, and I believe that this is of great interest to you, we have also opened a bilateral dialogue at a technical level on the issue of residence permits and the procedure for obtaining citizenship by naturalization, and there is a lot of progress and I am confident that very soon you will receive very good news. good.
Another common strategic goal agreed between our two governments is the coordination of the needs and economic opportunities of our two countries for access and positions in the integrated European energy market.
Today, work is being done on the project of the second transmission line 400 kV Fier - Arachtos, a project of strategic importance for both countries which not only consolidates the transmission network, but also strengthens the physical interconnection of Albania and Greece in order to fulfill the conditions of integration in the European market of energy by creating certainty that prices will be more competitive, but also by expanding the export capacities of energy produced from renewable sources in both countries.
Another beautiful page of cooperation and rapprochement, we have opened with our proposal and the agreement with the immediate right of the Greek government to integrate by making a cross-border integration, the national park of Vjo, which in the coming years will be a more and more powerful engine of our new tourism industry, but turning into an integrated European park where there are no borders, but the nature that unites us since we came to this world triumphs, will be a magnetic example whether what can we do together, Albania and Greece with each other, for each other and for our Europe, whether for tourists and visitors from all over the world.
Albania 2030 will have gained its complete energy independence and will be a net exporter of energy. This means that not a single penny from Albanian taxes will be spent to buy energy abroad, but on the contrary, more money will enter Albania's budget from the sale of energy produced in the country.
We are currently preparing a special program for all Albanian immigrants who want to invest their savings in the villages and mountainous areas of Albania to turn the houses and lands there into links in our new tourism chain. We have examples from Thethi and Valbona, in Tepelena and Përmet, where with the savings of working in emigration and thanks to the knowledge, experience, work culture acquired away from home, those who have returned from exile have opened agrotourisms and guesthouses that are full of tourists from which bring much more income to the balance sheet at the end of the year than the salary of the emigration
Some have returned for good, some others live between the country where they are and the place of birth, but everyone sees that the account comes out for beauty and the investment in the place of birth is rewarded the best.
The Albania of 2030 will be a country of free choice, but no longer forced by adversity or impossibility for all those Albanians who will think of seeking their destiny elsewhere as free people of this world where the borders of their homeland and the state where childhood is spent until the age to make decisions, cannot be an obstacle for anyone moving towards new horizons and realities. Beyond the mist of disinformation that conveys fabricated news day and night by the most evil Albanian minds, the evil minds that we have from behind since 1912 that change the name of man, change the form of man, but do not change in their content and speak the same things through the language of different people. For example, the drop in Albania's unemployment to 1.5 million beyond the black smoke of the political war with the phenomenon of immigration that in different times and cycles has affected all the countries of this world, and not just Albania, which came out after half a century in prison, from a prison where the keys had been thrown into the sea. Beyond all projects, reforms, work and new opportunities and beyond all provinces, beliefs, convictions and political consents, it is today all accessible to master as the will of all Albanians wherever they are, the top of Albania 2030.
In this ancient history of European civilization where the fertility of enlightened minds, the superstitious association of gods, demigods or ordinary people who dreamed of becoming gods and where the history of this common basin was born in this city, the only system of government that returns freedom to the individual while respecting the will of the majority, baptized by the ancient Greeks with the blessed name of democracy, the new history of the Albanians of Greece is the contemporary chapter of an exemplary affirmation of the eternal value of individual freedom and the right of citizenship and I didn't repeat myself, but I wanted to add that democracy is a system as challenging as it is meaningful, as the term itself finds its roots in the Greek word kratos, a force which I don't know why I always associate with the divine Albanian word 'create' . The creative force of democracy as a non-destructive power, as a power that elevates society, not as divisive and denigrating, as a power that brings opportunities, more and more equal for all, not deepening inequality and discrimination, Albania 2030 must take the best possible, through the power of all Albanians, that the red and black flag of Skanderbeg and Ismail Qemali will be raised in the arms of the flags of the member states of the European Union, there in the center of democratic Europe.
Today you see Albania when you come, you hear about Albania when they talk to you, you read about Albania when you get out of the channels and portals all kinds of things, but today Albania has started to resemble you. It has begun to resemble more and more the Albanians of the arduous emigration routes that, thanks to the titanic efforts of several years, from the tattered and scarred half-dead of the mountain paths and sea coasts, were reborn, reborn and became the masters of their destiny in Europe.
Albania, today, has been reborn in the eyes of the world and is no longer associated with the gloomy country of all evils, but with a destination to be discovered, to be touched. With a country of hospitable and ambitious people who are changing the face of Albania, with a state that is no longer seen in the doors and salons of Europe and the world with suspicion or regret, but with respect and appreciation.
Today you no longer lower your head when you say: "I'm from Albania". And as your homeland has always been proud of you, today you are in God's right to be proud of Albania.
Yesterday's Albania could not hold you, today's Albania is getting ready for anyone of you who wants or might want to return, but Albania 2030 will be the place where those who will return will have their own Albania, as himself, for himself; a European state in the heart of Europe, a democratic state where finally, after centuries, equal law for all and no one above the law.
The times when others decided how far Albanians could go are dead.
The time of Albanians and Albania in Europe has come.
Dear friends, sisters and brothers,
Long live for honoring me so much!
May the community be the name of every new day for you, your families, your relatives, all those whom your heart loves.
You are an example, you are energy, you are strength for me.
I can't open my heart and brain for you to come in and see for yourself what's inside, but I can't leave today without saying two words to you.
I may have made a lot of mistakes up to here, in these 10 years.
I apologize for any mistake you think I have made, but I have never, in any case, betrayed those who trusted me even once with their vote for this extraordinary honor.
There is no greater honor that can be given to a man in life than to lead his country, therefore there is no material force in this world, political, economic, financial, individual or state power that, oh god, do not tempt me or can you force me to bend to benefit myself behind your back, to harm the public and private interests of Albanians whom I do not know, but I know very well that they know me or to bend the inviolable peaks of the national interests of Albania.
Thanks to you, this was my most beautiful visit to Athens and I don't believe I will have a more beautiful one.
Before I leave and not being able to meet him, I would like to leave a message on your behalf to my friend elected by the people of this country to lead Greece, Prime Minister Mitsotakis.
In 1886, our national poet Naim Frashëri wrote his poem "The True Desire of Albanians" in Greek:
"We love with all our neighbors,
Slavs and Greeks to live in harmony,
In brotherhood, with order and peace, let's live.
Let's not become enemies and let's not fight,
Enough of the many sufferings and tyrannies we have gone through.
It is the time of well-being, it is the time of freedom".
Many thanks, from me and the Albanians of Greece.
Long live Albania, long live Elladha, long live democratic Europe!
May God bless the Albanians and their Greek brothers and open a new page of brotherhood, order and peace between Albania and Greece. / CNA
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Edi Rama's meeting with the Albanian emigrants in Athe...
A party meeting, a political activity of Edi Rama as p...
Prime Minister Edi Rama and the accompanying delegation ar...
The head of the Municipality of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, ...
The case addressed this Wednesday, June 3, on the show "St...
The show "Stop" broadcast this Wednesday, June 3, the case...
Irfan Hysenbelliu claims to be a big businessman, an hones...
The show "Stop" dealt with a denunciation case this Tuesda...
The Special Board of Appeal (KPA) decided this Monday ...
The KPA vetting decided this Thursday to dismiss the p...
Suela Salavaçi, a prosecutor in the Prosecutor's Offic...
The Special Board of Appeal reinstated the prosecutor ...
A road accident occurred this evening on the Tirana-Durres...
Policia e Lezhës ka dalë me reagim zyrtar lidhur me ngjarj...
The Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime h...
Një banesë është përfshirë nga flakët në lagjen nr. 4 në q...
An alarming figure of more than 166.4 thousand Albanians a...
The weather today will be mostly clear and temperatures wi...
The cherry harvest season is expected to begin in the vill...
The education system in Albania is facing a challenging re...
United States President Donald Trump announced in a post o...
Asambleja e Përgjithshme e Kombet e Bashkuara ka përfundua...
At least nine people have been killed in Israeli airstrike...
A serious incident has occurred in Bakersfield, California...
Korça is ready to open the summer season with one of the c...
Two years after his passing, the renowned Korçë poet Skënd...
The Ethnographic Museum of Berat has opened its doors to v...
The story of Harilla Bakalli is one of the most chilling t...
The Minister of Finance, Petrit Malaj, announced today a n...
Guvernatori i Bankës së Shqipërisë, Gent Sejko, priti m...
Today, in the foreign exchange market, one US dollar is bo...
DP MP Igli Cara has submitted to the Parliament a draf...
