Address by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Edi Rama – 27th OSCE Ministerial Council:
Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen!
Welcome from Tirana to the 27th Ministerial Council...•
The ongoing reconstruction process is changing the lives of thousands of affected families for better following the devastating earthquake that hit the country on November 26 last year. The post-earthquake reconstruction program is advancing rapidly ...•
The post-earthquake recovery efforts in the port city of Durres, the worst-hit area by a devastating earthquake on Nov 26 last year, are in full swing with work progressing rapidly to repair some damaged concrete and masonry wall of 94 buildings in t...•
A newly-built school building has most recently opened doors to its pupils and teachers in the coastal city of Durres. “Hasan Koçi” nine-year school has been designed to meet contemporary European standards for habitability and environmental c...•
Demolition work is now underway on quake-damaged apartment buildings in Kombinat neighbourhood, Tirana municipality, to make way for a new residential apartment complex for the quake-affected families in the area. The work started with demolition of ...•
The work to rehabilitate 27 residential buildings with damages equal to DS1, DS2, DS3 damage level in Shijak is expected to complete by early December. The traces of the last Nov 26 have been almost completely erased from these buildings, where inten...•
A total of 120 new single-family homes are being built for the quake-affected families that will in the Gjepalaj administrative unit in Shijak Municipality as part of the ongoing reconstruction program in the wake of the devastating earthquake that h...•
Today, we commemorate and honour and pay tribute to the memory and sacrifice of the fallen heroes on the Martyrs’ Day.
During the state ceremonial in commemoration of the nation’s martyrs, the Premier laid a wreath at “the Mother of Albania” ...•
Today, we celebrate the National Flag Day, the Independence Day of Albania. The state ceremony was held in Vlora’s Flag Square where independent Albania’s national flag was raised for the first time and the country’s independence was declared i...•
The number of the quake-affected families moving into their newly-built homes is increasing constantly in Shijak as they received the keys to their homes in November, precisely a year after the natural disaster. Construction of 20 single-family dwell...•
The new residential neighbourhood in the village of Thumane is increasingly taking shape for the local residents, who will resume normal life following an immense ordeal they were through on November 26 last year. The devastating earthquake that left...•
The new residential neighbourhoods, a combination of the single-family homes and the apartment buildings, the public services institutions and recreational spaces, will soon become the newest urban development model for the cities that were worst hit...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama today is on a visit to Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, to sign the financial agreement on building 2000 new apartments in Durres, as well as the intergovernmental agreement on a direct investments program and involvement ...•
Reinforced concrete columns for the new apartment buildings are being erected at the construction site No. 1 in downtown of Laç, while site preparation work and the related infrastructure is progressing rapidly at the construction site No. 2.
Once c...•
The site preparation work and the underground infrastructure has already completed in the new central residential block in Bubq administrative unit, Kruja municipality and is now ready for work to construct new single-family homes and residential bui...•
“Haradinaj Brothers” school in the village of Rrashbull, Durres municipality, has been built from scratch following the structural damage the building sustained due to the devastating earthquake last November. The new school is now stronger, bett...•
Construction of the Niko Hoxha kindergarten, part of the new residential block in the town of Kamze, is expected to complete very soon to allow around 200 kids to return to their new education and entertainment habitat designed to meet best optimum s...•
Cycle of press conferences “Economy on Focus” with Education Minister Evis Kushi:
Prime Minister Edi Rama: The today’s meeting will be held online because of the recently introduced measures, including the restriction of indoor gatherings of m...•
Reconstruction of the single-family homes severely damaged because of the powerful earthquake on September 21 last year in Tirana completed today as the last quake-affected family in the village of Stermas was handed over the keys to the new dwelling...•
The reconstruction site of the nine-year school building in the village of Petrele is one of the 14 educational facilities that are being built and designed to be larger, safer and more beautiful than the buildings damaged by the earthquake last Nove...•
