Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Wednesday that Albania and Kosovo will launch joint embassies.
Rama was speaking in Tirana at an inauguration meeting of the consular Service Online Platform, which is aimed to serve Albanian national leaving abroad as well as Kosovo citizens.
Rama said these services, which will become integrated services, will affect the quality of services for Albanian citizens of Kosovo. “I believe that in this regard, we will have sooner than later not only joint consular services, but joint embassies. We won’t have to spend twice for the infrastructure, for the people or for digital systems, if we join assets and human resources to serve Albanian citizens of Albania and of Kosovo from a single window,” Rama said.
Rama said that if somebody sees this as Greater Albania, this is their problem.
“This is not Greater Albania. This is a drastic reduction of the costs, and at the same time it is a drastic approximation of the people with each other. If others want to join us and have joint Balkan consulates, they are welcome! We are ready to accept all, without distinction of religion, region, language and idea!”
Rama said the new consular Service Online Platform would make possible to include the Albanians living abroad in the democratic process, so that they can vote from where they live, and not be forced to travel to Albania to vote. “Of course, this will take its time, just as the full synergy of consular services between Albania and Kosovo will take its time,” he said./tvklan.al
