Brussels, Nishani meets emigrants

The creation of a ministry for emigration, the teaching of the Albanian language, the right to vote and the facilitation of the process for receiving an Albanian birth certificate or Albanian nationality are some of the problems that the Albanians meet abroad, for which the President promised to transmit to the government and the Parliament.

“This cannot be a concern and the state has all obligations to create the necessary facilities for these cases. I will transmit all these concerns to the government immediately”, Nishani declared.

The emigrants spoke about the different problems that they face: “I have heard the Civil Registrar Director saying that their data have been digitalized, but the consul says that he has no access. This is alarming, because the consul and the ambassador are the most serious representatives of the state. And it’s absurd that they have less access than a Civil Registrar employee who has worked for 20 years in a Shkoder commune”, one of them complained.

“We open a cell phone number in Albania and they close it. No one thinks to tell to those companies that we pay more phone bills in two months than a normal client in Albania for one year. Emigration is contributing to the point that one third of the Albanian population lives abroad”, another one declared.

Nishani answered by saying that Albania doesn’t have a ministry, but a special directory at the Foreign Ministry that takes care of the emigration issues. But he added that despite teh way how the instittuion is formed, the important thing is for it to be more dynamic.

There are around 60.000 Albanians in Belgium. They have emigrated in different times, before and after the 90s from Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia.

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