The Speaker of the Parliament, Lindita Nikolla, greeted this Tuesday with a message on the International Day of Peace.

Among other things, Nikolla emphasizes that Albania has become a prominent contributor to peace and continues to contribute to increasing cooperation, security, tolerance and understanding in the region and beyond.

“In 1981 the UN General Assembly decided that September 21 should be celebrated as International Day of Peace.

Today, forty years later, Albania has become a prominent contributor to peace and continues to contribute to increasing cooperation, security, tolerance and understanding in the region and beyond.

As a NATO member country, Albania has sent its sons and daughters on peacekeeping missions to many hotbeds of war and conflict around the globe.

Our country successfully fulfilled the mandate of the OSCE Presidency during the difficult year 2020, when the tensions and problems created by wars and conflicts were added to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the next two years, 2022-2023, Albania will contribute to world peace and security, not only through example, but also through its decision-making as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

World peace starts with peace in every country. It is most easily achieved when all nations progress and develop, increase well-being and offer equal opportunities and rights to all citizens, regardless of political beliefs, ethnicity or religion, age, gender, origin or economic status.

Albania is a small country, but the strategic partnership with our great allies, the US and the EU, as well as the contribution to the security and peace, to the smile and happiness of children and citizens of the whole world, make us a great country,” Nikolla writes.