TIRANA – Speaking for the first time on what is happening at Kakavija border crossing Prime Minister Edi Rama has called the interminable queue of Albanians traveling to Greece a Biblical caravan.
“We have been concerned, engaged and fully involved in this problem from the beginning, trying to alleviate as much as we can citizens who are bathing in the hot sun along that Biblical caravan with Civil and National Emergencies and local structures,” said Rama on Saturday who, as it is reported, is on holidays in a luxuries tourist site close to his compatriots in trouble. “We continue to communicate with the Greek side to enable greater relief, and we will continue to assist with all our might the people in that great distress.” According to him, there are people from other countries in the queue besides Albanians.
Rama said that he could not understand what Greek authorities are doing through their medical checks. However, he admitted that other countries do like Greece. “We do not have that rule,” Rama said. Albania has become a hotbed of the C19 epidemic in Europe with the highest rates of deaths and spread of the infection, especially during last July a threatening trend which is continuing.
Despite the warnings of the aggravation of the situation by medical specialists PM Rama, who pledged strongly to protect Albanian from the hidden enemy he proclaimed during the March-May period, has given up his tough fight saying that there will be no restrictive measures. Even those who come to Albania from abroad are not required to be self-quarantined, said Albanians ’government head, seeing the protection from the deadly virus as citizens’ responsibility. “The virus will be around for a long time and we have to get used to the fact that we are endangered, and no one can protect us from this danger if we do not protect ourselves and each other,” he said.
As always Rama drew comparisons with other countries when speaking of troublesome situations mentioning the UK, where the seaport of Dover, is in total collapse. “Half a million of British tourists are in a dizzying run heading home.”
In the meantime Rama said that he had been in touch with the office of the Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis without saying if he had spoken with him personally. /argumentum.al
