Veliaj welcomes the former head of the CIA, Robert Gorelick

The Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, has received in a meeting Robert Gorelick, the former head of the CIA in Italy and other countries of the world, who has visited the Albanian capital for the first time. In a post on the X platform, Veliaj expresses his happiness about the conversation he had with Gorelick, […]

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