Berisha: Full coordination with Kosovo and the Albanian diaspora is a condition for the development of culture

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, has emphasized the importance of a national and coordinated approach to the development of Albanian culture.

Berisha emphasized that close cooperation between Albania, Kosovo and the Albanian diaspora is necessary for the advancement of national culture.

Berisha: The issue of culture, in one way or another, differs from one nation to another, but the issue of culture for an orphan nation such as the Albanian nation is a matter of its existence because we have no cousins.

But this requires a radical change in the approach to this problem. It requires a national approach, one that knows no borders.

Full coordination with the Kosovo authorities and the Albanian diaspora is a condition for the development and progress of our national culture.

An institutional cooperation with clearly defined mechanisms must be established between the two states and our diaspora community.

Joint initiatives in various fields of theater, film, and festivals between Kosovo and Albania should be a law in our effort to protect culture and its development.

Today we have more Albanians outside Albania and Kosovo than in these two countries.

Today we live in a time when the digital age makes distance virtual.

In this context, we pledge to make every effort so that every Albanian talent, wherever they may be, feels the support and backing of the Albanian government. To feel its interest.

Special institutions will be created for treatment.

There will be special statuses for Albanian eminences in the field of art and culture anywhere in the world.

It is very necessary.

Many years ago I had the opportunity to award the title of Honor of the Nation to three great personalities, two of whom did not live in Albania. Ismail Kadare was the first, but Ibrahim Kodra and Ernesto Sabato lived in Italy and Argentina.

Both of them, great colossuses, Ibrahim Kodra among the greatest painters, in friendly Italy, Ernesto Sabato, one of Argentina's greatest writers, but whose Albanian origin brought him and accepted with pleasure the title of Honor of the Nation.

This was a symbolic act, but we will institutionalize cooperation with every Albanian who has created, made a name for themselves wherever they are.