Besides his meetings with his counterparts, Veliaj also participated as an honored guest to the “Fiera di Verona”, where he held talks with the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti, Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida as well as the Spanish Minister of Agriculture Luis Planas Puchades.

From Verona, Veliaj shared some good news for the citizens of Tirana, regarding the city’s cleaning service, and not only that.

“The first good news is that our joint venture ‘Eco Tirana’, a public-public partnership between Tirana, Verona and Vicenza, will expand its services. As decided by the City Council, Eco Tirana will take over the entire territory of metropolitan Tirana, including 200,000 residents into service every 2-3 months. Whoever comes to Tirana today, gets aware that it is the cleanest city and cannot be compared with the past”, said Veliaj.

“The second good news, apart from the cleaning and energy category, is about experience got at the “Fiera di Verona”, which is the largest area of the fairs. Our Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Italy have already started a conversation and we are looking at the possibility of how to find the instrument where Tirana also becomes part of the network of fairs, learn or make a public-public partnership again with the fairs of Verona and Tirana. Tirana is becoming more and more the center, not only of Albania, but of the entire Balkans”, said Veliaj.

After the meeting with Veliaj, Mayor of Verona Damiano Tommasi spoke about the expansion of cooperation between Verona, Vicenza and Tirana.

During the visit to Verona, Veliaj also held a meeting with the President of AMIA Verona S.p.A., Roberto Bechis, as well as visited the ecological island, where there is illustrated reorganization of the waste collection and urban hygiene system of the city./k.s/p.s./