Vaccine smuggling from Italy, Rama explains the statement: I was joking, the word was taken out of context

2022-10-10 12:19:42Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Vaccine smuggling from Italy, Rama explains the statement: I was joking, the
Edi Rama

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted after his statements made on Sunday at an event in Bergamo, where he stated that he smuggled vaccines.

"I am amazed that my account of a token amount of vaccines given to us by Italy at the darkest moment of the pandemic can inspire us to take seriously the word 'contraband' that I used to jokingly describe a fraternal cooperation that has saved human life".

"I feel compelled to underline that what the press reported about my speech yesterday in Bergamo about sending vaccines from Italy is clearly the story of a paradox that can in no way be interpreted by taking out of context a word used in jest."

This is specified by the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, returning to his speech yesterday at the event "Culture will save the world", also in the presence of the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry.

"The Italian government - explains Rama - has actually responded to an official request from Albania at a difficult time in my country due to the pandemic.

As I said, it was an urgent requirement and a symbolic amount of vaccines to start vaccinating our medical and paramedical staff. Of course, I didn't mean to say seriously that together with Minister Di Maio or other Italian institutions we did smuggling, God forbid! All the more that these doses were donated by the Italian government in Albania and were used in a moment of serious emergency".

"From the Italian side - continues the Albanian Prime Minister - it was also a sign of gratitude for sending, at a critical stage of the Covid epidemic in Italy, our doctors and nurses to support a brother country. It will always be a great place. pleasure to show this operation and to honor Italy, Luigi Di Maio and Giuseppe Conte for that breath of fresh air in complete danger of suffocation for an entire people, hoping that no one has too bad an idea to stuck with single words as the censors of freedom of expression in the dark times of Stalinism in Albania".


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