TIRANA, November 10/ATA/ During his official visit in Tirana today, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte visited the construction site of the Pyramid building, where the largest digital technology centre in the region is being built in cooperation with the famous Dutch studio MVRD.
Accompanied by Prime Minister Edi Rama, Rutte got initially acquainted with the COD venues in the Premier’s Office, where, among other things, there is an exhibition of artists from 156 countries, who display contemporary art.
Rutte was impressed by the fact that part of this exhibition with artists from the USA, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Georgia, Mongolia, etc., were also artists from North Korea.
The prime minister also acquainted his Dutch counterpart with the “democratic table”, the concept of which, according to him, is the fact that, “it is not known who chairs the table”.
Further on, the two prime ministers accompanied by the mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj, inspected the works at the site of the Pyramid.
PM Rama told his Dutch counterpart that, “This building used to be the old museum of communist dictator of Albania Enver Hoxha, a temple for his life”.
“Next year, Tirana is the European capital of youth and we are trying to talk and we told the embassy to have Dutch cultural activity with the youth here. We will try to organize the Dutch week. We will have different activities, music, all of them,” he said.
On his part, Mayor of Tirana spoke about the history of the Pyramid building over the years and now its special architecture will be adapted with the new function.
“Probably, we are the largest work place of Dutch architects in Europe, outside the Netherlands, of course,” said Veliaj. /j.p/p.s./
