The debate on the concession of Butrint has been reignited again. For this issue, the former deputy of the SP Auron Tare, also the former director of Butrint, was invited to the "Breaking" studio today.
He responded to the general director of policies at the Ministry of Culture, who called everything that is happening in the Butrint park developmental and described all the environmentalists' statements as political statements to politicize the whole issue of the park. Butrint.
"What is happening today in Butrint, apart from the part of the grant, of Butrint under the management of a foreign fund, which is the first and unique case in the world, has never happened, but the pressure that is happening inside the protected area of Butrint is one of the things that I personally was part of a team with Lord Rama when he became the Minister of Culture, that created the Butrint National Park, 29 square kilometers, protected area under the "Ramsar" convention and later in the year In 2000, when I was director, it was declared a UNESCO world heritage. Both I and Mr. Rama have been partisans of the concept brought by 2 of the most important people of cultural heritage in England. to protect those landscapes from what would happen to the area in tourist development.
So a premonition about 25 years ago. We knew what was going to happen, or at least we understood it from the advice and experience of three people, and Mr. Rama and I were part of this team that created the national park of Butrint, a protected area precisely to prevent it from being destroyed, what has happened the last 2-3 years.
Tell the lady of politics that due to the great pressure of tourism and development and Albanian builders, a good part of the protected area that was announced when Mr. Rama was the Minister of Culture, he announced it himself, that is, he signed the area itself as a protected area.
It has already been removed, but from the area of Ksamil to Pema e Thaë and beyond it has been removed from the protected area.
Meanwhile, the pressure of the constructions has come so hard inside the park of Butrint, it has bitten it so hard that this year the police themselves, with the denunciations of some people, went and in the area down in the Vivaritjana Canal they threw whole tons of inert to create a kind of artificial beach, which was not only done within the protected area, where the Albanian government and institutions, including the institution of the politician who spoke, have a legal duty.
So, if SPAKU or another institution asks these people, they have a legal duty to protect it because it has been declared a protected area and that area has been filled during the winter with tons of inert material to create that type of beach, which not only it was done inside the protected area, but it also creates a very big problem for the environment, because it interrupts the natural breathing of the sea and the lake.
Now if the lady in question or the head of the area in question have reason to say that these are political debates, I don't know, but I belong to this government and this majority, that I was both a deputy and the director of important institutions and I don't I have reason to speak against or invent things, which are not in the field, but if the lady and the lady's boss both go together and see him there in the field, we will see that Auron is saying what happened in reality", said Tare.