Prime Minister Edi Rama participated this Saturday in the discussion panel of the security forum, GLOBSEC 2024, which is being held in Prague.

The head of the Albanian government was present on the panel with the Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen and the President of Finland, Alexander Stubb.

In his speech, Rama focused on Albania’s support to Ukraine and the partnership between the two countries signed during President Zelenskyy’s visit to Tirana.

Rama said that Albania’s support for Ukraine comes naturally, since official Tirana has understood for a long time that it has no interest in seeing Russia as a partner.

He underlined that after the 90s, there is no high-ranking visit of Russian authorities to Tirana and vice versa.

“We realized that there is no interest in seeing Russia as an ally or a partner as long as the dream of a certain variant of imperialism either in the old or the new way does not disappear.

We are the only country in Europe that since 1990 there has been no visit by our high authorities to Moscow, nor by Moscow’s high authorities to us.

I must say that our solidarity with Ukraine is the most natural thing, it is unthinkable that in our world, in our Europe, in our century, any dispute, any different way of understanding the neighborhood cannot be resolved by sending a army. This is unimaginable. I want to mention the rather telling history of the Russian anthem. When Stalin asked the author who wrote it to write something quite motivational, since the Soviet Union must fight, the author did. Meanwhile, when Khrushchev came to power, he asked the same author to change the text, and when Yeltsin came to power, he also asked him to change the text. Even when Putin came to power, he asked the author to change the lyrics, but the music never changed in Russia,” said Rama.