TIRANA, October 14 – The State Police announced on Saturday the security measures and roads that will be blocked within the framework of the Berlin Summit, which will be held in Tirana on October 16.
Security measures will begin to be applied on Sunday afternoon with the blocking of some roads in the center of Tirana, where traffic and parking of vehicles will not be allowed.
On the day of the summit, businesses in the security perimeter area will not be allowed to open and the movement of vehicles will be limited from 08:00 to 12:00 and from 15:30 to 20:00.
The security perimeter includes, among others, “Dëshmorët e Kombit” boulevard, “Bajram Curri” boulevard, “Pope John Paul II” street, etc.
“All private businesses located within the security perimeter on Monday will be closed. Even the movement of citizens on foot will not be allowed in “Pope John Paul II” street,” said the police.
In the meantime it is announced that 31 delegations, including representatives of financial institutions such as EBRD and IMF or regional organizations, will participate in the event. In addition to German Chancellor Scholz, whose predecessor Angela Merkel initiated this initiative in 2014, the Presidents of the European Commission and the European Council, French President Macron and Italian Prime Minister Meloni will be in Tirana.
Among the other Balkan leaders will be the Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis, who, despite not inviting PM Edi Rama to the regional leaders’ dinner in Athens, has decided to attend the Tirana summit himself, perhaps due to the repeated invitation that Rama conveyed to him publicly. Mitsotakis, whose government continues to insist in various forms on allowing the swearing in of Fredi Beleri as mayor of Himara, has announced that he will also hold a press conference for Greek journalists on Monday in Tirana. /argumentum.al
