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11 Jan 2010

Albania
Albania: Premier meets with Inter-Ministerial Committee for Civil Emergencies in Shkodra Prefecture

Report
— Government of Albania
This was an event, which as it results from the most serious observers of floods all over the world, it happens very rarely, once in hundred times. So far, despite material and ecological damage, there is no loss of human lives, and this a merit of this operation.

Premier Berisha held today a meeting behind closed doors in the Prefecture of Shkodra with the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Civil Emergencies, with the attendance of Speaker of Parliament, Jozefina Topalli, ministers and deputy ministers, head of Albanian Power

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07 Jan 2010

Albania
Albania: PM Berisha receives Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's special envoy about created situation from floods

Report
— Government of Albania
Prime Minister Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha received the special envoy of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, Mr. Roberto Guercio, a special adviser of PM Berlusconi to Committee of Protection of Dykes in Italy. The created situation because of the floods in Albania was the topic of the talks.

Mr. Guercio conveyed to PM Berisha the cordial greetings of Italian PM Berlusconi and emphasized that it was PM Berlusconi who ordered his urgent return from the USA to Albania so that to confirm the total support of the Italian government to remedy this situation which can be managed, as he put it.

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07 Jan 2010

Albania
Albania: Press conference of PM Berisha about situation in flooded areas in Shkodra region

Report
— Government of Albania


- PM Berisha calls on local residents of Dajç, Ana e Malit and Bushat communes to get evacuated

During a press conference, PM Sali Berisha demanded from local residents of Dajç, Ana e Malit and Bushat communes to get evacuated. In his message delivered on this occasion, PM Berisha ensured the local residents that the government will be fully by their side, but it is indispensable even their cooperation for overcoming this rather special natural situation

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05 Jan 2010

Albania
Albania: Prime Minister Berisha inspects flooded area of Ishull Shëngjin, in Lezha

Report
— Government of Albania
Accompanied by Interior Minister Lulzim Basha, PM Berisha inspected today the flooded area from the Adriatic Sea high tide in Ishull Shëngjin, Lezha region. PM Berisha assessed that although difficult the situation is being managed efficiently.

Prime Minister Sali Berisha got acquainted from very close with the progress of works for building of the dyke which is expected to normalize the situation and will protect this endangered area from sea level rise. The Prime Minister evaluated highly the devotion and the great job done for building the dyke in the quickest possible way

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02 Jan 2010

Albania
Albania: PM Berisha visits flood-endangered areas in Shkodra

Report
— Government of Albania
Following his visit to the flooded areas of Lezha region, PM Sali Berisha paid a visit to Shkodra town and its outskirts to see from very close the created situation because of the heavy rainfall in this region.

Accompanied by Interior Minister Lulzim Basha and Defense Minister Arben Imami, PM Berisha visited the dyke and hydropower station of Vau i Dejës, as well as the Machinery Control Systems.

Further on, PM Berisha held a meeting with the Emergency Staff. PM Berisha declared the state of emergency and demanded immediate evacuation of the local residents. PM Berisha demanded

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10 Apr 2008

Albania
Albania: Financial assistance of four million dollars is handed to President Topi for the Gërdeci event on behalf of Kuwaiti State Emir and Red Crescent.

Report
— Government of Albania
The President of the Republic, Bamir Topi received today a senior delegation of the Kuwaiti State, headed by Ismail Al Shatti, Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Kuwaiti State and Burges Al Burges, the Chairman of the Kuwaiti Red Crescent, who handed to the Head of the Albanian state a financial contribution of four millions dollars for the consequences of the Gërdeci tragic event.

President Topi after welcoming and thanking for the great assistance and extraordinary human, psychological and economical solidarity expressed to those affected and consequences of the Gërdeci

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17 Mar 2008

Albania
Albania: President Topi visited the homeless victims of the Gërdec explosion who are sheltered at the holiday home of the Ministry of Interior in Durrës

Report
— Government of Albania
The President of the Republic, Bamir Topi accompanied by the deputy Prime Minister, Gazmend Oketa, the President of the Republican Party Assembly, Sabri Godo and by directing staff of the Institution of the President, paid a visit today to the Holiday Home of the Ministry of Interior where the victims of the tragic Gërdec explosion have been temporary sheltered.

President Topi, after being received by the Mayor of Durrës, Vangjel Dako, the Director of the Holiday Home, Mysli Shala, the parliamentarians of the area and local authorities, wholeheartedly

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27 Sep 1997

Albania
Legal aspects of the multinational intervention in Albania

Report
— Government of Albania
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance

Sokol Braha
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Albania to the United Nations
320 East, 79th Street
New York, NY 10021

Tel.
212-249-2059 (Office)
212-879-2062 (Home)

1. Introduction.

Responding to the serious crisis which deteriorated to the collapse of state authority in a large part of Albania during the first half of this year, a group of countries carried out an operation through a Multinational Protection Force, authorised by the Security Council.

Mandated by Security Council resolutions

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