The meeting took place within framework of the high-level conference for World Intellectual Property Day and served as a platform for strengthening bilateral relations and exchanging experiences in the field of innovation and protection of intellectual property rights.

“We reaffirmed our commitment to advance concrete plans and strengthen our bilateral partnership, with the aim of further developing the intellectual property system in Albania and bringing it closer to European standards of innovation and protection of rights,” stated Deputy Minister Duma after the meeting.

The parties appreciated the importance of strategic cooperation in the framework of European integration and the promotion of the innovation and investment climate in Albania. /j.p/p.s./

Present at the Assembly Committee on Productive Activities, Trade and Environment, during the review of the draft law, Duma noted that the mountain package aims to provide legal solutions to the specifics presented by the current situation with state-owned real estate in mountainous areas.

He also continued, it aims to transfer ownership of state-owned assets in these areas, possessed without title by private entities, in order to develop them.

According to him, the draft law defines a series of facilities for investors who will become part of this package.

“Thus, it foresees the declaration of mountain areas with development priorities; development of state assets possessed without title by private entities in these areas, in accordance with the rules and legislation for territorial planning and development; transfer of ownership through the sale of these state real estate assets for a symbolic fee of 1 euro. Meanwhile, the ownership certificate will be obtained only after the development project is completed, while the first 500 entities that will invest in the mountain economy will be exempt from tax for a period of 10 years, exempt from the infrastructure tax, real estate tax and VAT”, said Duma.

After the review, the Committee on Productive Activities, Trade and Environment approved the draft law “On the Mountains Package”. /j.p/p.s./

She added that, “Therefore, Albania is left with only one helicopter for extinguishing fires and another one used for Edi Rama’s travels”.

She argued that, “Corruption has spent the state finances has left citizens unprotected in front of the natural disasters, while civil emergency workers and army forces are forced to face the fire with makeshift means. The repeated frauds over the years and the propaganda paid by taxpayers’ money cannot hide either the failures or the damages that the corrupt model built by Edi Rama is causing to the country”, said Duma.

If this model is not punished, she said, Albania will suffer from crisis to crisis because of a minority that works only for itself, not for Albanians./p.s./

Asked in a television interview about Prime Minister Rama’s statement that the next president could be from the opposition, Duma said: “I rule out every element of a bargain. Let the President be elected by popular referendum. The issue of the President is not at all a topic of discussion.”

“If Rama will change and become a man of institutions, he must show that the courts, SPAK, etc., etc. must act to the electoral crime “, stressed Duma.

Asked whether the DP will recognize the elections and go to the Assembly, or the DP will not recognize the elections and will not go to the Assembly, Duma said, “We are in the stage of following all the legal ways even if it is a matter of 10 votes”.

Duma concluded by saying that, “After June 13, when the party chairman is elected, the party forums will convene and vote on the next strategy./p.s./