TIRANA, March 6/ATA/- The Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama is continuing his official visit to Italy, in the light of the 30th anniversary of the first arrivals of Albanian immigrants on the Italian coast in 1991.
On the second day of his stay in the neighboring country, the Prime Minister Edi Rama is paying a visit to Apulia.
The premier Rama shared today on the social media images from the yesterday’s meetings where he was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Luigi Di Maio and the president of the region of Apulia, Michele Emiliano.
Also, the Prime Minister Rama participated a day earlier in the opening of an exhibition in Bari, organized in commemoration of the exodus of Albanians in 1991.
In early March 1991, thousands of Albanians fled the country, using ships bounding for the port of Bari, anchored in the quays of Albania’s largest port
Only in the first week of 1991, in the port of Brindisi, in the region of Apulia in southern Italy were anchored 24 vessels of different sizes, with an extraordinary number of people from Albania. //a.i/
