Denmark Prison Agreement Edi Rama asked RAI3 if he asked Kosovo

Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, has faced Italian journalist Rai Giorgio Motola last night after television made a research that claims his agreement with Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni for migrants.

The agreement, under which Italy will send migrants who catch and escape in the Mediterranean to Albania, links it to political and economic interference by mafia organisations.

The journalist, among other things, has asked Rama whether new centres for hosting immigrants from Italy will be built and if he has urged Kosovo to open such centres.

“Albania will accept other centres?

Albania has done this and I would like it to be clear not because it was the first time that it received such a request. We received the same requests from other countries and rejected them because they were meaningless. One thing is to be a neighbor, with the common history we have. Italy is Albania and Albania is Italy, the way I see things and the spirit of our two peoples. But waiting here for poor people to be brought out of England is not something that's done. Synergies of another type must be created. So, no. Never, said Rama in response.

Furthermore, Italian journalist asked whether the Albanian prime minister has asked Kosovo to open other centres.

Me? No. Why would I ask? No”, Rama answered.

But the Albanian prime minister has not denied that this may have been Kosovo sought by others. This is where he mentioned Denmark.

I don't know. Maybe others have. I think they had a deal with Denmark, but I don't know how it went to”, Rama said.

“Ah, Denmark wanted to establish centres for migrants in Kosovo?”, the journalist asks.

I think there has been such a discussion”, Rama says.

The Kosovo Assembly several days ago has ratified an agreement to rent Denmark a prison in Gjilan, in which some 300 Danish prisoners are expected to serve sentences.

Under the 10-year agreement signed in 2022, Kosovo will rent Denmark about 30 prison cells in Gjilan.