TIRANA, August 20 – The spokesman of the Greek government, Pavlos Marinakis, said on Sunday that the missing invitation to Prime Minister Edi Rama at the dinner called by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was a consequence of the positions on the case of elected mayor of Himara, southern Albania, Fredi Beleri.
He emphasized that Albania must respect the basic standards of the rule of law and that Greece will not take any steps behind.
“The Greek government, with a series of interventions by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is coordinated with the rule of law, not only with Fredi Beleri, a legally elected mayor, who must be sworn in. Albania must respect the basic rules of the rule of law and we will not take a single step backwards for this,” Marinakis said.
President Bajram Begaj, who received an invitation by official Athens to attend the Summit, refused it.
Leaders of the Western Balkans and EU member states of the region will be welcomed on the evening on Monday by Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Megaro Maximos for an informal dinner on enlargement and the European future of the region on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the EU-Western Balkans Summit and the “Declaration of Thessaloniki”. /argumentum.al
