TIRANA, April 11 /ATA/ Prime Minister Edi Rama was received on Monday by the Berlin mayor, Germany, Franziska Giffey.
During the visit to the city hall, Rama said: “I have been here once, but a long time ago when I was the mayor of Tirana.”
“I always say that if you have been mayor once you remain mayor, because you have the same feeling that you are responsible for the population,” said the mayor Giffey.
Prime Minister Rama replied “yes it is true.”
Giffey added that “I am the Berlin mayor since December last year, but I was also the mayor of a Berlin municipal unit because the municipality consists of 12 such units and I was the mayor of one of them.”
Mayor Giffey then showed Prime Minister Rama a model of the Berlin City Hall.
Prime Minister Rama asked Mayor Giffey when the Berlin City Hall was built?
“It’s more than 100 years old. It was part of East Germany, it was the East Berlin City Hall, ” Giffey said.
The Prime Minister visited the weapons hall where he was invited to sign the Golden Book of the city of Berlin.
Afterwards, Giffey and Rama exchanged gifts, where the Prime Minister received the symbol of the municipality, a bear, and gave a model of Albanian folk shoes.
“It is a unique model of Albanian folk shoes, it is hand crafted,” said Rama.
After exiting the premises of the municipality, a citizen stopped Prime Minister Rama and asked for his autograph in three brochures of his book.
At the invitation of the new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister Rama arrived in Berlin yesterday on an official visit. After the meeting with Mayor Giffey, Prime Minister Rama will hold a bilateral meeting with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany and then a one-on-one meeting with Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany that will be followed by a joint press conference.
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