TIRANA, February 1 /ATA/ Defense Minister Niko Peleshi said after today’s meeting that the government approved the draft decision proposed by the Ministry of Defense related to the measures in support of the Civil Emergency system.
During a briefing after the government meeting, Peleshi said that it is about a fund of 200 million Lekë or 2 million USD, part of the package of 20 million USD that this year’s budget has allocated for Civil Emergencies throughout the country.
He said that the fund of 20 million USD is shared into two 10 million USD parts that have already been given for projects and applications from all municipalities. “The winning projects for the prevention and management of natural disasters are financed by this fund in a decentralized manner, which means that we apply the winning part of this fund to the respective municipalities and then the municipalities do their implementation until realization”, said Peleshi.
“The rest of the fund of 800 million Lekë is a direct transfer to the budgets of the municipalities conditioned for investments or to address issues of Civil Emergencies”, explained Peleshi.
He informed that the third fund was detailed today by government decision. “It is about 200 million Lekë or 2 million USD, a fund of the Ministry of Defense for the National Civil Protection Agency that is allocated in an accelerated manner within two days after the request of the mayors whenever an emergency problem is identified for which the municipality they exhaust the possibilities of intervention and we compensate through this fund”, said Peleshi.
Also, Peleshi emphasized that this year more than 30 million Euros will be materialized by the Italian government for the Civil Emergencies.
“This will be a very important year for Civil Emergencies also because of this large fund allocated in the budget, as well as for several other reasons. This year, the Italian government will materialize more than 30 million Euros already approved by the government, being detailed in financial agreements. This large funding will support mainly the municipalities, but also the entire system from the local level to the central level for dealing with natural disasters”, said Peleshi./j.p/p.s./
