Addressing a Tirana City Council meeting via a live video link, the Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov thanked Mayor Erion Veliaj and Albania for their support and assistance to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.

“We will definitely be able to deliver faster on the post rebuilding programme for Kharkiv if we secure the best experts and specialists in various fields. Now my team is working on the creation of a Coordinating Council of partner cities, to use the means of inter-municipal cooperation as efficiently as possible. Tirana has an experience in urban recovery and economic development, so we are grateful for your contribution to the post-war reconstruction process, including your city’s participation in the work of the Coordinating Council of partner cities. I am convinced that only with joint efforts we can achieve peace, stability and prosperity. Thank you for your attention and help for Ukraine,” Kharkiv Mayor Terekhov said.

Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj promptly welcomed the invitation of Kharkiv Mayor to join the Coordinating Council of the partner cities that will contribute to Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction, voicing Tirana’s readiness to contribute to recovery and reconstruction projects.

“I am pretty sure a Marshal Plan will be enacted to build the post-war Ukraine and we want to play our role in this Plan. As long as we talk about building schools for education and the future of children amid an ongoing war, I believe this is a moral part of which we are together with our friends in Kharkiv. I am looking forward to playing our humble role. I believe that between cities we can be practical, we can be efficient, and I would very much like that in the spirit of the fantastic schools we have built in Tirana, with the same design, with the same concept, to give Kharkiv a beautiful school, as we have conceived many of the fantastic spaces of Tirana, for the boys and girls of your city. We are Albanians; we live in Tirana, in the European Youth Capital,” Veliaj said.

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