TIRANA, July 19/ATA/-Albania’s public debt has been reduced, according to the recent report of the European Commission for the EU-candidate countries.
Albania’s Minister of Economy and Finances Arben Ahmetaj highlighted the findings of the report to answer the opposition charges according to which the public debt has got increased.
“Public debt has got reduced from year to year and in the first quarter of the year it reached to 69%”, Minister Ahmetaj quoted the report in the plenary session on Thursday.
The minister expressed the government commitment to reduction of the public debt into the level of under 68%.
“The fiscal consolidation will continue in the course of years. We aim to reduce the public debt into 60-63% up to the end of the current mandate so that to make even this part of the public finances definitively healthy and in an irreversible way”, said Ahmetaj./a.gjonaj/ /a.g/p.s./
