Rama ) students: Let's sit and talk, don't play pumpkins.

As mass student protests in Albania continue, Prime Minister Edi Rama has again sought dialogue with protesters.

Rama insists that without sitting down with him, requirements will not be met.

Here's his post in FB, here's Periscope:

Dear protesters,

It's not a game of strength, it's not a pumpkin's game, it's not even a game. Continue the protest as much as you like, you are setting up the communications bridge with the government. I expect you at every hour that you want and I'm ready to work with you, not to give positive answers to 8 points yes, but to return this moment to the opening of a new phase of transformation for university.

It would be the first time in the history of the world's protests that protesters ask the government to meet certain requirements and didn't want to sit at the table with the government telling them to come and meet! (Maybe “these of the government” is a term that limits imagination, but we can better meet in the parliament hall in the eyes of all Albanian people. You 140 plus all the ministers' chairs with your 8 points and I in front of you, with my 8+ points:-)

Beware of anyone who teaches you to give ultimatums to those who reach out to you because it teaches you how to be a loser in life! And who remembers that a government can understand the language of ultimatums, while the government itself speaks with the language of Dialogue, is wrong. If you've given up teaching to make university better, let's sit down and start working together for that purpose without wasting time. What are we waiting for?

You are 10,000, students in Albania are 140,000. You talk and don't listen, I listen to everyone and I want to talk to you too. You have 1 point then you get 4 points and then you get 8 points, and I have more than 8 points. In principle, I agree with your points, but each one of them must be broken down and turned into a policy of financing, investment or administration. And this is not as a remote riddle, but as a product of the common work with pencil and paper.

You know, but I am with you not with Bear and Bear, that you have in government, in and around you;