Prime Minister Edi Rama held a meeting this Friday with socialist mayors, where he emphasized that a key priority is the strengthening of emergency services. He noted that special focus is being placed on firefighting units, which face difficulties during the peak summer season due to frequent wildfires.
Rama announced that the production of firefighting vehicles will also begin, and these will be made available to municipalities.
“We are aware of the inherited shortcomings in the logistics related to firefighting services. For this reason, we have approved a project presented by the Minister of Local Government, concerning the mobilization of the necessary funding by utilizing the capacities of a company that is a newly established joint state-private enterprise within our Ministry of Defense system. We will begin to provide municipalities with the firefighting vehicles that are essential,” Rama said.
Rama also stated that a task force on waste management will be established, along with the drafting of a comprehensive plan ranging from public awareness to concrete actions.
“We are working to review the waste collection system. We have already addressed the issue of waste processing, but I am referring to waste that generally remains a problem, especially during the tourist season, in municipal areas that are not urban zones. For this, it is necessary to establish a task force between the central government and local authorities. The Minister of Environment and Local Government has been tasked with drafting a short-term, medium-term, and long-term plan, from mass awareness campaigns to the concrete steps that need to be taken,” Rama stated.
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