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Investment in Sazan, Meçollari: It contradicts the Constitution, 45 ha will no longer be under the administration of the army

Investment in Sazan, Meçollari: It contradicts the Constitution, 45 ha

Former Deputy Commander of the Naval Force, Artur Meçollari, declares that the concession of the island of Sazan conflicts with ecological issues, the national security strategy, and the Constitution.  

Meçollari said in MCN that these 45 hectares will no longer be under the administration of the army.

"Yes, the President of the Republic of the country kept the request of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff in the drawer for two years to remove it from the expansion plan, finally after President Trump's victory, since the Prime Minister named it "Trump Island." The President signed the removal of part of the Sazani Island from the expansion plan. This allowed the Prime Minister to create, to be a strategic investment in this part of the island. The Prime Minister has finished working with the President. The President should know this. The issue is that this is in violation of the Constitution because it falls under the SAA just like the Port of Durres. The SAA, which is a claimed thing, requires that there be a tender and Article 27 of the SAA entered into force in 2013, but the law on strategic investments that falls under the SAA. Based on Article 122 of the Constitution, the SAA has priority compared to the law on strategic investments. The issue of the Port of Durres is the same as the island of Sazan, it is in the Constitutional Court. We hope that the Constitutional conditions will be in another Constitution, they will call it constitutional and not legal.
If the Constitutional Court will consider the investment problem properly in the Port of Durres, constitutional, it is not legal right, so it will stand on the side of the conditions and not the side of the Prime Minister, it will create a precedent for strategic investments.
It is planned to be high on the top of the hills. Sazan is accessible from two hills. The infrastructure of the Naval Forces is that jetty, or pier that is being built before the second war, which are isolated because they are small and have entered and accommodated in Sazan.

Rama has not mentioned for 3 years that NATO has, based on Pashalimani's studies, the Gulf of Vlora. This means that from a strategic point of view, the investment is at odds with NATO's vision for the Gulf of Vlora. We only have one island. The problem is not where we will place the cannons. We have a part of an alliance and this opportunity that our capacities in the alliance do not have, is not the armed force but our geographical capacities.

One of the strongest points of its geography is the Gulf of Vlora, which connects Karaburun, the Pashaliman base, and Sazan Island. This coincides with the offer made by the government in 2019 to NATO.

"The third is the island of Sazan, which is not a space that has its entire territory protected. The entire Bay of Vlora should be declared complete because the Bay of Vlora has a defect, the entire water circulation occurs once every 50 years and as such needs special protection ," he said. 


Meçollari considered President Begaj part of a category of people who hide behind state secrets.

" I have also found documents that are not mandatory to be classified, but have been classified solely so that the injured party does not win.

Begaj has an obligation to notify that the property has been removed from the distribution plan. At the moment the property is removed from the distribution plan, the first person who has the right to return this property is the legal owner.

"Do you know why President Begaj kept it for two years? Because he wanted to negotiate with the prime minister. It is understood that he negotiated something but he lost a lot because now the prime minister no longer needs Begaj ," said Mecollari. 

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2025-02-15 13:01:41