During a presentation ceremony of the joint Cyprus-Kosovo Primer, Prime Minister Edi Rama, warned of repercussions for children who damage textbooks.

He said that the books that pass from one student to the other for 3 years are not a matter of money, but of culture.

According to Rama, children should respect books and share them with their friends and in this way be educated about the values of sharing.

“The book should live beyond the time it takes you to learn it. It is important that the teachers explain this to the children and the teachers, and perhaps a rule should be defined that those who hand in the books in a condition that cannot be used anymore, should buy the books the following year, not take them back free of charge. It’s not about the majority, because they do the right thing, but for the minority that didn’t do it, there should be some sort of sanction,” said the prime minister.

Rama was accompanied by the ministers of education of Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.

The primer was created by an Albania-Kosovo working group, but North Macedonia recently declared that it will use the same books in schools where Albanian is spoken.