TIRANA, January 27 /ATA/ Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs hosted today the ‘Bridge Connecting Generations’ event on occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Elisa Spiropali stated that, “During an historic session held in the Knesset yesterday, Prime Minister Edi Rama highlighted the Albanian enduring light that shone, even in the depths of the systematic extermination of Jews, the Holocaust.
‘You can take the gold, but not the Jews’ was the defiant answer of Albanian people and authorities to the 1943 Nazi ultimatum’, said Spiropali.
The minister underlined that Albania was the only country in Europe that ended the Second World War with 15 times more Jews than it started.
“Albania found the strength to protect diversity and to honor life precisely in its honor code of Besa, the oath to protect guests ”, she said.
“We take pride in having upheld the highest moral principles that deserves to be witnessed everywhere, but which is not the only one in our history of sheltering and protecting foreigners and people in need”, added the minister.
Spiropali emphasized that Albania decided to join President Trump’s Peace Board Charter, through the participation of PM Rama, as a country that has risen from the ashes of a dictatorship, with an exemplary religious brotherhood and without ethnic divisions.
“Albania has something to prove and offer to the world even in this format, with noble goals for resolving old and new conflicts”, she emphasized. /gj.m/j.p/p.s./
