TIRANA, June 22/ATA/ Parliamentary Commission of National Security has approved on Monday morning, the normative act of the government, which provides for extension of validity of Albanian citizens passports, which expire within 2020, until December 31, 2020.
The presentation of the normative act in Parliamentary Commission of National Security was made by the Deputy Minister of Interior, Rovena Voda as well as the Deputy Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Agron Tare.
In her remarks the Deputy Minister Voda underlined that, to date there have been registered 3,200-3,500 applications for biometric passports and the approval of this normative act will encourage the flow reduction, as well as avoid the accumulations.
Voda noted that the normative act comes in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought about an unusual situation and the suspension of activities at workplace premises in a span of almost a month. //a.i/
