5 minutes agoMilitary airport with NATO standards in Kuchova
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The 50m-euro investment at the Kucova air base enables the transformation of this space at a military airport with NATO standards. At a meeting organised at the Kucova air base for the 2019 defence budget presentation, Prime Minister Edi Rama first spoke of the importance this air base takes on after [...]
At a meeting organised at the Kucova air base for the 2019 defence budget presentation, Prime Minister Edi Rama first spoke of the importance this air base assumes following NATO investment.
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Making a history of this air base, Rama said that “this city in the past has been identified with aviation. There were about 700 people employed by this base, aviators, mechanics, officers and ordinary workers. We know how the story has turned out after the years of '90s, when this area is strategically important for defence and the FA has turned into an abandoned” space, Prime Minister Rama quoted.
The prime minister stressed that <x0) due to commitment, seriousness, but above all thanks to the respect they have won The FAs in the eyes of all our NATO partners, we received NATO's commitment to invest in this base above 50m euros”.
Actually, Rama said, it is an investment that will enable the transformation of this space at a NATO military standard airport, which will serve as a support basis for NATO, for air supplies, logistics, air police, as well as for training and training of the Alliance Forces.
However, it will certainly be a national base for the Albanian Air Force simultaneously, creating the possibility of a new FA standard in this special sector”, the prime minister added.
He also underlined the fact that “this investment will create new possibilities for economic and social development throughout this area, where building a last-tech air base, not only means more employment, but more economies and consumption in a certain range around it”.
