Albania's Assembly expected to ratify agreement with Kosovo today for border crossing points

Albania's Assembly is expected today to ratify the agreement with Kosovo for establishing joint border crossing points and conducting joint border control activities.

The agreement was presented by Interior Minister Sander Llesaj, under which it envisions that of the 2 raids conducted at the Albanian-Kosovo border, only 1 audit and applied for 6 million citizens annually.

Llesaj added that this agreement offers great ease and improves the border control regime between Albania and Kosovo.

“The Agreement has come from needs related to the large increase in the flow of citizens' movement on both sides of the”, Llesaj stressed, bringing concrete figures.

“If, in 2008, the country's borders registered 8, 996, 000 entrances to Albanian and foreign citizens, 23 million inflows to”, he stressed.

Llesaj added that this spectacular and extraordinary increase in the influx of citizens entering and leaving Albania's borders is reflected in several other indicators.

Thus, Llesaj noted that “if in 2008 the first crossing point was Kakavia, then Kapshtica and Rinas, in 2018 we have a significant shift of 6 million citizens enrolled in Morina, and then Rinas and Muriqani”.

The initiative to bring this law to parliament, according to the interior minister, is taken within the framework of governments' joint commitments to facilitate procedures and measures in management and circulation at the country's border checkpoints.

Lisaj underlined the two countries' will to further deepen co-operation and improve overall transport infrastructure at regional and European levels.