TIRANA, Nov 22 /ATA/-By Maela Marini/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama emphasised the importance of establishing sister city relationships between the municipalities in Albania and the Arberesh communes in Southern Italy.
Addressing the Diaspora Summit on Wednesday afternoon, the government head underscored “the significant of institutional cooperation to build a process in view of a more structured and systematic support that the Albanian state should provide give to this treasure of our history.”
“Although Arberesh communities are fully integrated into the big Italian community, the best things provided to them as part of that community hasn’t deprived them of the passion and strength of that oath and promise that is now being challenged not because of the Arberesh’s negligence, but by the storms of demographic nature that have affected everyone,” PM Rama said.
The government head noted that Arberesh language is one of the world’s rarest.
The Premier announced that special government programme will be drafted to make sure that Albanian municipalities forge sister like city with the Arberesh communes to establish permanent communication bridges between Albania and the Arberesh.
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