Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha criticized on Wednesday the agreement signed two days ago in Italy between Prime Minister Rama and the Italian counterpart, Meloni. 

He said that Albania does not guarantee respect for the rights of refugees, as he said that he will not accept this agreement because it contradicts the constitution. 

"Italy is a friendly country that has given extraordinary and all-round help to Albania and the Albanian nation. For Albania, Italy is the main partner of bilateral cooperation and the most intensive exchanges in all fields. 

Albania has an agreement with Italy signed years ago, according to which, Italy returns to Albania, every refugee from third countries that passes from Albania to Italy. 

For the DP, yesterday's surprise agreement, signed in Rome by the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni and Prime Minister Edi Rama, after a secret preparation, is harmful and unacceptable for the following reasons. 

- The agreement incites a wave of xenophobia and this severely damages the morals and the virtue of hospitality of the Albanian nation. 

- The agreement is in open opposition to the Constitution of Albania and the European Convention on Human Rights, the decisions of the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Albania has its dark dictatorial history in relation to human rights. 

But Albania today, under the narco-regime of Edi Rama, is the place where more than 90 percent of power is concentrated in the hands of one man, it is the place of open denial of the precious rights of its citizens and MPs, it is the place of political trials and imprisonments. 
DP declares that the narco-regime of Edi Rama cannot guarantee the minimum respect of the refugees' rights. Proof of this is the inhumane treatment with death consequences of Iranian refugees in the Manza camp a few months ago by the Albanian police. 

Albania under the narco-regime of Edi Rama is today the country with the highest trafficking potential in Europe. Its territory is widely controlled by national and international drug trafficking criminal groups, connected as evidenced by the decoding of encrypted conversations and messages, at the highest level of power, Edi Rama, Taulant Balla, government officials and other officials. 

Thus, the establishment of refugee camps on the territory of Albania risks amplifying in a catastrophic way, criminal human trafficking, the slave trade, already problematic in our country. 

DP estimates that the establishment of refugee camps in Albania, where the rule of law has been replaced by the narco-state, constitutes a serious real danger for the country. 

DP informs our Italian partners and friends with full responsibility, that the signing of this agreement by Edi Rama was done only in the service of his ultimately degraded power. 

Edi Rama, with his tenders, concessions, PPPs, is involved in a multitude of multi-billion dollar affairs such as the burners or the construction of Dubai City, 12,000 apartments in the Port of Durrës, de jure with the businessman Al Alabar, but de facto with the billions of drug narcoeuros of the most powerful cartels such as Mexico's Sinaloa, directly linked to Edi Rama, as well as the billions stolen in cryptocurrencies from European citizens by Olsi Rama's direct partner, Amant Josifi, who has also been on the run for months in Dubai. 

DP adds here that Edi Rama is under international investigation for the scandal with Charles McGonigal. Edi Rama in 2017, bribed the head of the FBI for New York, Charles McGonigal, and used and paid him for attacks against the opposition, specifically the former president and former prime minister Sali Berisha, but also used him to impose multi-million fines towards businessmen in Albania, under the threat of being blacklisted by the USA. 

Rama, at the request of McGonigal, revoked the license of one oil company, contrary to the laws of the country, and gave it to another oil company, owned by Oleg Deripaska. The illegal revocation of the license has cost the country tens of millions of dollars in arbitration fines. 
McGonigal has fully accepted the guilt before the court of Washington, for six charges for the Albanian file, in which Edi Rama, his advisor Dorian Ducka and Agron Neza, a former officer of the Albanian secret police, are directly complicit. 

DP declares that under these conditions, Edi Rama is capable of signing and doing everything for himself to gain even a little bit of support that he does not deserve. 

Expressing the deepest gratitude and the deepest consideration for friendly Italy, the Italian nation and the Italian authorities, the PD declares that it cannot accept an agreement that comes in open violation of the country's Constitution, the European Convention of Human Rights, the laws international refugee agreement and the Albanian-Italian bilateral agreement on refugees.