Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Albania Issues New Biometric Passport
Tirana | 09 October 2009 |
M. Interior Lulzim Basha (left) visiting Aleat's production point
The new document is one of the principal conditions for the EU to include Albania in its list of countries whose citizens can travel without a visa to the Schengen bloc of states.
The new biometric passports cost 50 euro, and are being produced by Aleat- a local joint-venture of the French company Sagem, with the American Enterprise Fund.
Since they were launched after the June 28 parliamentary elections, 220,000 applications for new passports have been received by the company, and a further 208,000 have been distributed.
Speaking during a visit at the central production point in Tirana, Minister of Interior, Lulzim Basha, praised the work of the company and claimed that the process was moving forward at a fast pace.
“I have no doubt that with this pace, in the first quarter of next year; Albania will have the largest number of biometric passports as a percentage of the population in the region,” Basha said.
He called on the public to apply for the new passports, calling them “an investment for visa free travel into Europe.”
The government is currently working to extend the application process in Albania’s embassies aboard, in order to serve the country's large emigrant communities.
