Border with Albania could open in mid-June, ambassador shows strict measures for coast

Albania's ambassador to Kosovo, Kemal Minxhozi, in an interview, has said that if there are improvements in the health situation, mid-June could be the optimum deadline for opening the border.

Minxhozi said Albania is preparing measures for vacationers who will storm the beach.

He announces that the rules of the beach will be strict until I warn you that over four people will not be allowed to stay in the car.

“For businesses have been more favoured and is opening every day, and more than what goods should enter Kosovo and Albania. For people it's a delicate problem, it's not a matter of will, it's a state of health. We want the numbers of infected persons to drop to minimum. Unfortunately, Kosovo these days has had an increase which is not a good signal. People think they got a little loose and loose. This is dangerous. Regaining the figures of previous days is a serious threat to people's health”.

June's “Messe would be an opimal deadline to open borders. This year marks a innovation that has not been, vacationers who are planning to go abroad will be in Albania. There will be a union not only around the flag but also around the sea”, Minxhozi said.

Albania's ambassador stressed that even citizens of coastal cities cannot use the beaches are taking common measures for all alike.

In improving health conditions, or the situation on both sides of the border, there will be other steps. But it's too early to think of the sea. Citizens of Durres, Vlora, Saranda are not washed in the sea because measures are being taken. Albania is making sure that there are necessary spaces on the beach, not as they used to be”.

A massive change of people is impossible, so there will be strict rules. There won't be four or five people in a car. There will be a gradual, careful opening. There'll be rules the same as in Albania, when you go to the restaurant, you'll get a fever. The point is that we have to defend ourselves, so there will be strong rules that will not be differentiated, will be in common”, he told EO.

Among other things, Minxhozi has spoken of co-operation between the two countries at this time of pandemic, which he said has been good but with little capacity.

Minojezi said that between the two countries during this time the border has been open to several businesses, as he said it has imported basic goods, including the world's goods, which pass through the port of Durres and come to Kosovo, EO reports.

The “is a normal co-operation in pandemic war time, which does not have full capacity, is flawed as a result of the situation created. Between the two sides of the border is considered to import and export basic goods, food, derivatives. What is important is that the port of Durres is in full operation, both Kosovo, to allow goods coming from the world to pass through Durres and come to Kosovo without restrictions”, Minxhozi said.

Among other things, the ambassador announced that all Kosovo citizens who have residence permits in Albania could come to stay in their homes, EO reports.

“All Kosovo citizens who have residence permits in Albania have permission to go, but not at sea. But to stay in their careerd houses”, Minxhozi said.