{"id":35247,"date":"2022-04-28T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=35247"},"modified":"2022-04-28T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:12:54","slug":"rama-rules-out-secret-deal-on-butrint-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-rules-out-secret-deal-on-butrint-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama rules out secret deal on Butrint National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama ruled out on Thursday any potential secret deal on Butrint National Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cc5EkCpKqhY\/\">During his word from the parliament\u2019s podium<\/a><\/strong>, Rama said the government is cooperating with an Albanian-American foundation to yield profitable activities at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/570\/\">UNESCO World Heritage site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35249\" style=\"width: 1097px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35249\" src=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Butrint_-_Ancient_amphitheatre_by_Pudelek-1068x601.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1097px) 100vw, 1097px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butrint ancient amphitheater \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rama said that the government has been working for a long time with the foundation and considered it a \u2018trustworthy collaborator\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not accusing the Ministry of Culture, but the Albanian-American foundation of allegedly signing a secret deal to have bars and restaurants in Butrint. This is a new agreement to go beyond that. Butrint will have many profitable activities\u201d, Rama said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Culture Elva Margariti also affirmed the prime minister\u2019s statement, adding that the agreement will be entirely \u201ctransparent\u201d and \u201cin favor of the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the culture minister I want to assure you: stay calm, we\u2019re not giving Butrint up for a concession\u201d, said Margariti.<\/p>\n<p>PM Rama also emphasized that the revenue will be collected by Butrint National Park, adding that the procedure is similar to what other governments have done in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/04\/27\/minister-kumbaro-rules-out-contracting-concessionary-firm-for-butrint-national-park\/\">Minister Kumbaro rules out contracting concessionary firm for Butrint National Park<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/04\/26\/culture-minister-gets-into-heated-debate-with-democrat-mp-over-butrint-park-management\/\">Culture minister gets into heated debate with Democrat MP over Butrint Park management<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama ruled out on Thursday any potential secret deal on Butrint National Park. During his word from the parliament\u2019s podium, Rama said the government is cooperating with an Albanian-American foundation to yield profitable activities at the UNESCO World Heritage site. Rama said that the government has been working for a long time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":35248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,1294,151,477,1306],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rama rules out secret deal on Butrint National Park - 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-rules-out-secret-deal-on-butrint-national-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rama rules out secret deal on Butrint National Park - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Edi Rama ruled out on Thursday any potential secret deal on Butrint National Park. 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