Prime Minister Edi Rama will meet this Tuesday with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during his 4-day visit to the US, where he traveled on the occasion of the start of Albania's mandate in the UN Security Council.

Yesterday, he met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York with UN Secretary General António Guterres.

Nevertheless, this meeting of PM Rama with Secretary Blinken will comes after the decision of the US for Albania to be co-authors of the positions on the issue of Ukraine in the United Nations Security Council.

During a press conference a few days ago, Prime Minister Rama announced that the United States has chosen Albania as a co-creator of positions on the issue of Ukraine, in the United Nations Security Council.

Since the beginning of this year, Albania is a non-permanent member of this Council. For Rama, the selection of Albania is a new and very big responsibility, but also a confirmation of another position of the country in the international arena.

Albania will be a special partner of the United States in the Security Council, for perhaps the hottest global issue at the moment, which according to Rama is an appreciation for the attitudes and the role it's to play.

With its position as a non-permanent member, relations with the United States, as he stressed, have taken on a new dimension, which is enriched with this new fact.

"The creation of this US-Albanian couple in the Security Council to be co-sponsors of the Ukraine issue has been undertaken to guarantee an active and continuous engagement with concrete initiatives that both countries, already close partners in this process, will undertake", has said Rama a few days ago.