{"id":18904,"date":"2021-08-18T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T10:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T10:39:36","slug":"rama-we-didnt-just-shelter-the-afghans-because-the-us-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-we-didnt-just-shelter-the-afghans-because-the-us-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama: We didn\u2019t just shelter the Afghans because the US asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM Edi Rama stated this Wednesday that the decision to take in an unspecified number of Afghans feeling the Taliban, wasn\u2019t simply in response to the request made by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this decision is mainly linked to our tradition of hospitality and our past as refugees.<\/p>\n<p>In his post on Twitter, the prime minister also wrote that the arrival of Afghans in Albania is a moral duty, toward every citizen in need. Rama once again stressed out the fact that Albania is a member of NATO \u2013 something, which comes with duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is Rama&#8217;s full statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo disturbing to read that Albania is sheltering the Afghanis only because the US asked us, as it is ludicrous to turn the back on them and blame the US only.We were all back there as NATO and these people were there for us, bcs they believed in the ideals both US&amp;EU stand about.<\/p>\n<p>Albania is doing it out of its responsiblity as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATO?src=hashtag_click\">#NATO<\/a> country and because of who we are.We may not be rich, but we owe it to our afghan friends in need, and we owe it to our tradition, to our own recent past as refugees, and also to the memory that our children will inherit.<\/p>\n<p>Shying away from these basic values is shying away from the best of ourselves, of our history and from the ideals that the democratic world is supposed to promote not just in words, but also in deeds. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveAfghanLives?src=hashtag_click\">#SaveAfghanLives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveAfganWomen?src=hashtag_click\">#SaveAfganWomen<\/a>,\u201d wrote PM Rama, on his personal social media account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_170_211 zmadhim-teksti vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_178_5ee  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span9\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_180_3ce td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_180_3ce\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/16\/around-250-afghans-to-arrive-in-albania-by-the-end-of-the-week\/\">Around 250 Afghans to arrive in Albania by the end of the week<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/16\/there-are-no-albanians-in-afghanistan-confirms-mfa-for-euronews-albania\/\">An Albanian citizen is currently stranded in Afghanistan, says MFA for Euronews Albania<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/15\/albania-kosovo-north-macedonia-and-canada-offers-their-willingness-to-shelter-afghan-aids\/\">Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Canada offer to shelter Afghan aids<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Edi Rama stated this Wednesday that the decision to take in an unspecified number of Afghans feeling the Taliban, wasn\u2019t simply in response to the request made by the United States. 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In his post on Twitter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":18905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rama: We didn\u2019t just shelter the Afghans because the US asked - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-we-didnt-just-shelter-the-afghans-because-the-us-asked\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rama: We didn\u2019t just shelter the Afghans because the US asked - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PM Edi Rama stated this Wednesday that the decision to take in an unspecified number of Afghans feeling the Taliban, wasn\u2019t simply in response to the request made by the United States. 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