TIRANA, November 2 – “Great Britain must fight criminal gangs of all nationalities and stop discriminating against Albanians to justify the failures of its policies.”
This was declared by Prime Minister Edi Rama on social networks on Wednesday after the statements of the British Interior Minister.
The Prime Minister said that “Albania is not a rich country and has been a victim of empires for a very long time. We have never had an empire of our own.”
“We have a duty to fight crime in the country and we are doing this with determination, while cooperating closely with others. We are ready to work more closely with Great Britain, but the facts are important. So it is mutual respect,” said the Prime Minister.
Rama stressed that “Albania is a NATO country and is negotiating its membership in the EU.”
“It is also a safe place of origin. When Germany had a similar problem, it tightened its systems. Great Britain can and should do the same, not responding with a rhetoric of crime that ends up convicting the innocent,” he said.
The Prime Minister recalled that 70% of the 140,000 Albanians who have moved to Great Britain lived in Italy and Greece.
“1,200 of them are business people. Albanians in Great Britain work hard and pay taxes. Great Britain must fight crime gangs of all nationalities and stop discriminating against Albanians to justify policy failures. Targeting Albanians (as some shamefully did when they fought for Brexit) as the cause of Britain’s crime and border problems makes for easy rhetoric but ignores the hard facts. Repeating the same things and expecting different results is madness (ask Einstein!),” concluded Rama. /Argumentum.al
