Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha has spoken Thursday outside the Parliament about the TAP project and the rejection of the Russian offer for the pipeline project in Albania.

During his confession, Berisha stressed that he was offered staggering sums of money by Gazprom, but did not accept such a thing in the interest of Albania and the European Union, as he did not want Europe to have a Russian gas pipeline from the north and south of saj.

Moreover, he stressed that Albania had an essential role in the TAP project, as it was the only territory where Russian gas could not pass.

"And finally I want to say one thing. A message to those who declared Sali Berisha ‘non-grata’. I tell George Soros's mafia that only for TAP, Sali Berisha has been proposed the most fabulous amounts that anyone can imagine. But he stood up for the interests of his country and the interests of the European Union, as I was convinced that a gas leak from the north and south was the worst thing for Albania and Europe. I was offered by Gazprom.

The transatlantic pipeline today transported the first ten bits of gas to Italy. This is the pipeline of Europe without Russian gas. It is a great achievement for Europe, an achievement in which Albania and the government I headed played a decisive role after Azerbaijan and the president of that country.

To have the defining role of Albania, TAP could be TAP only if it passed through the territory of Albania, a territory in which Russian gas could not pass. An intensive diplomatic activity of several years took place around this axiom. Efforts were made to sabotage it, as everything was done for Russia to seize the southern corridor", said Berisha.