TIRANA – Over 10,000 liters of disinfectant and 100,000 surgical masks earmarked for hospitals and the most needy people in Albania arrived in Tirana on May 29 as part of a convoy from Warsaw carrying 70 tons of Polish assistance for six Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia and Serbia.
The aid was delivered to Albania by one of the most complicated logistical transports of a motorcade of trucks carried out by Polish Firefighters, who were in Albania in December 2019 bringing aid for the affected people in the tragic November earthquake.
The aid cargo which arrived from Pristina in Tirana on May 29 continued its humanitarian mission to Podgorica, Montenegro, from where its destinations were other WB countries. The aid responds to the current needs of the on May 29, 2020recipient countries notified among others as part of NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Center (EADRCC).
“The aid is a symbolic demonstration of Poland’s internationally known solidarity which can now be expressed in the context of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative socio-economic effects,” said the Polish Ambassador to Albania, Karol Bachura as quoted by a press release issued by the press office of the Embassy on Friday.
“Human solidarity is symbolically shown on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the “Solidarity” Trade Unions which toppled the communist regime in Poland and beyond. Moral duty in providing assistance in times of the pandemic falls in the year of centennial of the birth of Pope Saint John Paul II, the 110th anniversary of the birth of Saint Mother Theresa. Through this aid both of the above go hand in hand in delivering aid to the Albanian Peoples and the rest of the Western Balkans inhabitants,” was the comment of the Ambassador.
Further on the press release quoted Mr. Bachura as expressing his deep gratitude to all Albanian medical staff, policemen and soldiers, as well as to those who tried to provide the signs of normality in these extraordinary times.
In conclusion Ambassador Bachura conveyed the following message: “A big thank to Albanian journalists providing reliable information on the pandemic and all those who put their hearts into political, religious and interpersonal dialogue. I sincerely wish that the Polish aid is used in normal medical procedures and not be needed anymore in the context of Covid-19.”/argumentum.al
