Prime Minister Edi Rama stated during a press conference with Minister of Culture Elva Margariti on the launch of the International Cultural Weeks, that the program has been designed to attract visitors from all age groups.

According to Rama, this initiative will exponentially increase the intensity of cultural activities of a socializing nature, not only in Tirana, but also in other cities across Albania.

The new cycle of cultural and entertainment activities comes in the framework of a new initiative of the Albanian government, which we have called “Albania welcomes the world” enabling in cooperation with other friendly countries, partners or others present in Albania through their representations a series of international cultural weeks. These weeks will become an annual tradition with view to showcasing different traditions and cultures and the most diverse forms and expressions of each civilization and definitely to creating new spaces of interaction with other cultures for entertainment of citizens, visitors and tourists that happen to be visiting our country during the international cultural weeks,” Prime Minister said.

Prime Minister expressed confidence that this new program, which is in an inception phase, will be enriched in the upcoming years.

“It is a new experience from which we will mutually learn and understand more. We start off with the week of France and then continue according to a calendar. In the meantime, I would like to emphasize that some of the countries engaged have been involved for a long time with organizing their cultural weeks, such as Italy, Germany or France, but this joint commitment makes them more accessible to the public by including, not only narrowly artistic activities, but also popular, street activities, or even directly the culture and culinary tradition of other countries. It is a program designed to attract all age groups. This will exponentially increase the intensity of cultural activities of a socializing nature, not only in Tirana, but also in other cities, “Rama said.
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