TIRANA, July 2 /ATA/ The Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee approved on Tuesday the 2023 resolution on “Increasing the authorized capital fund and registration/subscription to it” of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)”.
Deputy Minister of Finance, Adela Xhemali, in her remarks at the Committee for Foreign Policy, said that currently there are 1% shares from the capital with a value of about 30 thousand euros and the approval of the Assembly is required to increase these shares by 4 million euros, which will be paid over a period of 5 years.
“Albania has benefited about 1 billion euros from EBRD in projects and will continue to benefit, as the EBRD is also part of the financial institutions connected to the European Commission”, said Xhemali.
Albania has been a member of the EBRD since 1991.
The Foreign Policy Committee also approved the project “On the ratification of the agreement between the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Albania and the Government of Georgia, on the exchange and mutual protection of classified information”.
Altin Jani, General Director of the National Authority for the Security of Classified Information, said that “in the framework of the cooperation that Georgia has had over the years with NATO, it was deemed important that we also start the negotiation agreement with Georgia”.
“The essence of the agreement is the exchange and mutual protection of classified information”, said Jani.
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