(ANSA) - ROME, 11 DEC - Italian foreign minister Luigi Di
Maio on Wednesday was on a visit to Albania to support the
country's EU membership bid. During a visit to tents set up in
Vora, 20 km south of Tirana, by the Italian civil defence for
those whose homes were destroyed by a November 26 earthquake, Di
Maio said that ''my presence here is to bear witness, before all
else, on behalf of the Italian state, once more our closeness to
the Albanian community after the seismic events in recent
weeks''. ''I am in Albania first of all to greet our firemen,
who are helping the population after the earthquake, which
caused dozens and dozens of deaths. But also to strengthen our
support for Albania's EU membership bid,'' noted Di Maio, who
will during the day meet in the Albanian capital with
politicians. ''We have been working on this for a long time.
There was an unacceptable halt during the last EU Council
meeting, and now is the political moment to strengthen our
alliance and partnership with Albania for EU enlargement,'' he
added. (ANSA).
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