TIRANA, October 24/ATA/Albania’s Interior Minister Sandër Lleshaj attended a regional panel of experts to discuss the challenges posed by terrorism as a phenomenon and the return of foreign fighters and their families to their countries of origin.
The main topic addressed in this forum was, “Developing and implementing strategies for prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration related with the return of foreign terrorist fighters and members of their families”.
Lleshaj said that our country has been active in regional and global efforts to prevent and combat terrorist threats. He highlighted the adopted legal acts and special structures that our country has set up to withstand this phenomenon.
“Albania has a good reputation in investigating and prosecuting terrorism related offenses,” he said.
“In this context, we firmly believe that only with a constructive regional policy, strong cooperation and good faith we can address the challenges that terrorism poses as well as violent extremism and radicalization. As a NATO-member country and an EU candidate country, we remain committed to taking an active part in fight against terrorist threats while protecting the human rights and security of our country and our citizens” said the interior minister./a.sh/ /a.g/p.s./
