Rama: Greece will devour Albanian waters, exercise its right

Through a long Facebook post, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted to the sea issue, stressing that Greece will not devour Albanian territorial waters, but that simply the neighbouring state is exercising the right stemming from the Sea Law Convention, adopted in Montego Bay in 1982.

The truth is simple. The maritime border is not like the fence between two houses, and when Greek authorities say we will expand from 6 to 12 miles, it does not mean that Greece will devour Albanian territorial waters, but that simply the neighbouring state is exercising the right of the Sea Law Convention, adopted in Montego Bay in 1982. As for knowing the same expansion, in exercising the same right, Albania has made and deposited it in the United Nations in March 1990, which has never been contested by our neighbors and remains in force today and forever. This right of ours, it's not a matter of negotiation, and negotiations on demitation of marine space cannot affect right in question. Neither for Albania nor Greece”, Rama writes.

I and the Socialist Party, we may have many faults, we can make many mistakes, but we never use power to the detriment of national interest! This virtue has characterised this party since the day of its birth, and unlike others, who, from ignorance or fatherhood or from both sides, have violated more than once national interest in these 30 years of democratic pluralism”, he added. /A2