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Albanian Prime minister Edi Rama asked Romania to recognise the independence of Kosovo
Albanian Prime minister Edi Rama said on Friday, after official talks with Romanian Prime minister Victor Ponta, that he has asked Romania once again to recognise the independence of Kosovo and support this state.
"I come here repeatedly with the demand of recognition of Kosovo independence and also with the demand that Romania gives permanent support so that this country will become a member of the countries of whose family it is part of. We are certain that the problem of recognising the state of Kosovo is not only a bilateral issue, but a common problem, which regards us all, in support to the guarantee of the regional safety and to blur certain trends and frustrations from other neighbour countries," the Albanian Prime minister said.
Agreement on social security between Romania and Albania
The Labour ministers of Romania and Albania, Rovana Plumb and Erion Veliaj, respectively have signed an agreement on social security on Friday, at the Victoria Palace, in the presence of the two prime ministers, Victor Ponta and his counterpart, Edi Rama.
Prime minister, Victor Ponta saluted the new visit to Bucharest of the Albanian Prime minister Edi Rama and assured the latter of Romanian Government's full support as regards Albania's European path. Ponta highlighted it is important that the Tirana authorities take over the good practices used by Romania in the process of EU integration and, also to learn from mistakes in this field made by the Bucharest governments.
"Should you succeed to do all the good things Romania has done all the way to the European Union integration and avoid its mistakes, you'll make it faster and better than we did," the Romanian Prime minister said.
The Albanian Prime minister underlined, in his turn the significant moment of the bilateral political, economic and social relations between Romania and Albania, and stressed the availability of the Tirana government to take over from the Romanian side the good practices in respect of EU integration.
Edi Rama also thanked for the availability of the Romanian Government to signing the agreement regarding the social security between the two states.
"During the discussions carried out today I have also said we initiated the implementing and substantiation of some of the already discussed projects. We have signed a very important agreement in the area of social protection, which guarantees all Albanians working in Romania the ensuring of their social contributions in Romania. Mutually, Romanians who work or have worked in Albania are guaranteed the same conditions concerning their social contributions," the Albanian Prime minister said.
Edi Rama also pointed out the fact that the two Governments reached a final stage of the discussions on projects aimed at a collaboration between the Education Ministries of the two countries "on granting a number of scholarships to some Albanian students who will study in Romania in the IT sector."
"Moreover, we have talked, something also under discussion within the European Commission, about making up a network of experts in our administration and institutions, who will help us in the process of Albania's European integration. We are speaking of those experts who have already brought their contribution and helped Romania and other countries in their pre-accession stage. Certainly, these experts voiced their promptness to come to Tirana, to concretely help us in our integration process, but also to contemplate the beauties of the nature and landscape of Albania," Edi Rama also said.