TIRANA, June 13/ATA/-The General Directorate of Archives has found out during an inspection in different institutions of the country that in violation of the law “On Archives”, museums, schools and other institutions keep beyond any technical criteria documents that date back prior 1945.
“The law on archives makes it crystal clear that, “The General Directorate of Archives preserves, processes, administers and serves documents inherited by the Albanian state from the pre-state period and also documents that are created by the central and local institutions of the state administration up to 1944”, stated today Director of the General Directorate of Archives Ardi Bido.
In this context, the General Directorate of Archives has collected during the last two months more than 5000 documents of national historical significance dating back before 1945.
Among them, there are documents in Greek and Osman Turkish language XIX and early XX th century, documents of the Institute “Nana Mbretreshë“ Tirana in 1933 and documents of the Agriculture Institute of Kavaja 1939-1943.
Likewise, there are documents of the primary girls’ school in Berat in 1927, register of matriculation of different schools and so on.
Following processing, the documents will be available for scholars within a short period of time./a.a/p.s./
