Albanian Minister of the Interior, Bledi Çuçi and his counterpart from Kosova, Xhelal Sveçla, signed today in Tirana the protocol that further improves the regime of free cross-border movement for residents on both sides of the Albania-Kosova border areas, according to the agreement signed last year .

According to the two ministers Çuçi and Svelça, this protocol is another step forward in this facilitating process as in addition to the freedom of movement on foot, the passage by vehicles is added for the needs of the daily life of these residents.

After signing the protocol, Minister Svelça said that “our continuous work is producing results. It requires continuous improvement of agreements in order to facilitate the lives of citizens and be at their service as much as possible.”

Minister Çuçi said that he would like to have only one agreement, to have no border at all and this free movement that we are enabling border areas residents within 30 km of each country, to be for the entire territory of Kosova and Albania, but until then, since we live in Europe and are a European community, we must observe the international agreements that we are part of. Until then, we do our best for our citizens to move around as freely as possible.

“Today’s improvements are in function of this facility, which we create for our citizens. It is very interesting when you see the agreement implemented in the field and the experience that Minister Svelça had after visiting the entire border line, where we made possible this movement facilitation and it is very important as you can see that people really benefit,” said Çuçi.

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