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Democratic leader Sali Berisha declares that the DP fully supports Albania's integration processes into the European Union, but according to him, the main obstacle to the realization of this major project is Edi Rama's drug state.
From Zagreb, where he is participating in the IDU forum, Berisha said that the distortion of elections, the influence of drugs and the phenomenon of the narco-state remain the main obstacles to integration.
While criticizing the regional initiatives undertaken by Prime Minister Edi Rama and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, describing them as attempts to replace the European Union integration process with alternatives such as the 'Open Balkans', Berisha also mentioned a joint letter published in the German media 'Frankfurter Allgemeine', where, according to him, a form of 'second-hand integration' was requested, which does not exist in EU procedures.
The DP Chairman emphasized that the IDU has been and remains an important supporter of the Democratic Party, while emphasizing the full commitment of the party he leads to European integration, considering it as the best future for Albanians.
Mr. Berisha, you have held several meetings, you have also given a speech at the central panel of this forum. What were, let's say, the main points of your speech, which you discussed, but also in the meetings you had?
Sali Berisha: It was an intense day, in which I had the honor and pleasure of having a meeting with the Prime Minister of Croatia, Mr. Plenkovic, a true friend of Albania, of the Democratic Party. With Croatia, we have had and have excellent relations. Our two countries are truly friendly countries. With the Prime Minister's HDZ party, we have a 30-year alliance, a 30-year cooperation. And I am pleased that this cooperation during this period led by Prime Minister Plenkovic, the cooperation between our two parties has known new dimensions and will know new dimensions in the future.
We discussed extensively the possible cooperation between the two parties, as well as the situation in Albania, the conditions in which the Albanian opposition finds itself, the repressive acts of the regime against the opposition, but also against Albanian citizens. It was a meeting in which, which was passed in complete understanding and we agreed to expand and intensify the cooperation between our two parties.
Meeting with the president of the IDU, former Prime Minister of Canada, a prominent personality, Stephen Harper, with whom I have an old acquaintance and friendship. The IDU has been a great supporter and is a great supporter of the Democratic Party. We presented the situation and developments in the country, the great hardships of Albania under the regime of electoral autocracy or the authoritarian dictatorship of Edi Rama, the great problems that drugs and the narco-state create in Albania, the paralysis that it causes to the rule of law. We discussed extensively and agreed on a growing cooperation between the Democratic Party and the IDU within the framework of the membership in this organization that we have.
I also met other friends here, as you saw, we were on a panel dedicated to the problems of enlargement, with personalities, with the Foreign Ministers of Croatia, with the High Commissioner of the European Union for Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the Foreign Minister of Macedonia. In this panel, which was chaired by a senior representative of the Republican Institute, in this panel I had the opportunity to present the major problems that Albania faces today, the great commitment of the Democratic Party for the integration of Albania into Europe as the best future for Albanians, but also the extremely serious obstacles, such as the transformation of the elections into an electoral farce due to the power, drugs and the narco-state as a factor destroying the Albanian being.
The aberrant, evil, regional initiatives of Edi Rama and Aleksandar Vučić, with which they have tried in every way to de facto replace the process of membership in the Union, of integration into the European Union, with processes like the Open Balkans or with the last letter they wrote without taking anyone's opinion except their government, which they wrote and published in 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' where they requested a second-rate membership, a new procedure that does not exist in the European Union. So, there was a very great interest, as you saw, in the speech and in the presentation I made of the reality of Albania.
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