TIRANA, Oct 20 /ATA/ Parliament Speaker, Lindita Nikolla, met on Wednesday with the Speaker of the Greek Parliament, Constantine An. Tassoulas.
Parliament Speaker Tassoulas said that he was honored to receive Parliament Speaker of Albania in the seat of Greek Parliament.
Tassoulas expressed the will of Greece to strengthen and expand cooperation with Albania as well as the readiness of the Greek Parliament to promote and support comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.
Parliament Speaker Nikolla thanked her Greek counterpart, Constantine An. Tassoulas, for the cooperation between the two countries and the two parliaments.
“Greece is a precious neighbor, a historical and long-standing friend, an important partner of Albania on the path to democracy, progress and European integration.”
The cooperation between our two countries is strategic and as such it will continue to be strengthened in the spirit of good neighborliness, to the benefit of our common interests, close partnership in NATO and a common European perspective.
Albania is grateful to Greece for the support on the pathway to European integration, the opening of accession negotiations and we are convinced that we will count on you for holding the first Intergovernmental Meeting during the Slovenian Presidency, within December 2021, ″ said Nikolla.
“Our countries have built two strong bridges of friendship: the Greek minority in Albania, who enjoys all the rights as all the Albanian citizens, and the community of Albanian emigrants in Greece, which constitutes the largest community of foreigners and for thirty years on they have contributed to the economies and social protection systems of both countries, ” stressed Nikolla.
Parliament Speaker also thanked Tassoulas for Greece’s assistance with the management of November 26, 2019 impact, as well as for the donation of over 120 thousand doses of vaccines to help us get out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parliament Speaker, Lindita Nikolla, is on an official visit to Greece, where she will participate in the Conference of Parliament Speakers of the member states of the Council of Europe, which is held in Athens, on 20-23 October 2021.
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