Rama vows to remove Albania's border with Kosovo

He was asked about supporting this initiative by the United States of America and the European Union's response.

Rama vowed to remove the border between Albania and Kosovo.

Listen here, Balkan Schengen has been and I want to say because it is history, a term Fatos Nano has used for the first time, is understood at a time when it was taken as a madness and when it could be considered out of the context of time. When I talked about the Balkan Schengen at first I raised all the waves of concern and all the voices against, from Belgrade to Brussels and to Washington and the ones heard in public are much less than the ones I heard directly from Brussels and Washington, even from other partners because it was seen as a provocation to open the border with Kosovo “.

There is now no objection to this. I told you and the president of Serbia has taken the big and difficult step, in relation to it and has removed the veto for the border for moving people. Now these guys want to take that line off, right? Or they're gonna keep putting it away by saying it and not taking it off? Or will they take her away with the dance of swords? I will remove Albania's border with Kosovo and enable Albanians from both sides of the border so that when they cross Morina you look like they go from Pristina to Gjakova or from Lezha to Durres, they don't look at anything and wait for miles and miles. This is very simple. If we are to deal with content, the entire content of this initiative is based not only on agreement, but on the interest of the ordinary people of all places “.

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Prime Minister Edi Rama: Listen here, Balkan Schengen has been and I want to say because it is history -- a term Fatos Nano has used for the first time -- is understood at a time when it was taken as a madness and when it could be considered out of the context of time. When I talked about the Balkan Schengen at first I raised all waves of concern and all voices against, from Belgrade to Brussels and to Washington and what was heard in public are much less than what I heard directly from Brussels and Washington, even from other partners because it was seen as a provocation to open the border with Kosovo.

Now there is no objection to that. I told you and the president of Serbia has taken the big and difficult step, in relation to it and has removed the veto for the border for moving people. Now these guys want to take that line off, right? Or they're gonna keep putting it away by saying it and not taking it off? Or will they take her away with the dance of swords? I will remove Albania's border with Kosovo and enable Albanians from both sides of the border so that when they cross Morina you look like they go from Pristina to Gjakova or from Lezha to Durres, they don't look at anything and wait for miles and miles. This is very simple. If we are going to deal with content, the entire content of this initiative is based not only on agreement but on the interest of ordinary people in all countries.

If we use symbols, myths and feed those who are willing to immediately become patriots on Facebook by telling them how we met, who met, why did they meet and say all the wrong reasons, that's again to make foreign policies for domestic politics and make internal politics prey on stories that lead nowhere. That's what I think.

As for the national union, the national union in my opinion comes just as I have said it comes and comes only through the integration of the region, the region with the EU, our countries with the EU, and the involvement of a large European family, and not as an act or as a forward or forward of a process that becomes ever brighter and ever older and increasingly useless. Albanians should and will unite as part of the processes that will unite us all as people and citizens of this continent. The next road doesn't, if we want people to grow their economy in the meantime, we pay people much better, thanks to economic growth, conditions for all services to improve by allowing us to invest more.

These are the things that I'm going to push this forward with all my power and these are the things that I'm convinced all the places are faster, who's later, but not for years, for months will join this initiative.