Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni "hinted to me that she needed to understand if we, Albania, would be willing to discuss this possibility" of an agreement on migrants. "Already in unsuspecting times, we had received requests of this kind from other European countries, but we were skeptical about carrying them out because it did not seem right to us that countries outside Albania should use Albania. We don't have the debt we have with other countries that we do with Italy. When we had serious problems, Italy never backed down, for example with the earthquake in Durres. Now it's our turn." This was stated by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in an interview with the Byoblu channel which will be broadcast tonight at 20:30.
"Now we are talking about rights that would be crushed, we are talking about Guantánamo, about concentration camps only because there is a collaboration between a country of the European Union and one that is not. What goes against the values of the left? I don't understand it," the Albanian leader added, quoted in a statement from the broadcaster.
Those built in Albania "will be centers like there are in other European countries, with all the safety standards to detain these people, for the necessary period, waiting for the response of the controls. Those who will be accepted as refugees will go to Italy. The others will carry out repatriation procedures in their countries of origin," he concluded.
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