PRESS RELEASE : Foreign Secretary’s meeting with Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama [July 2023]

The press release issued by the Foreign Office on 19 September 2023.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly held a meeting with Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, on 18 September 2023 during the UN General Assembly in New York.

A Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson said:

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama discussed UK-Albania co-operation on key areas of mutual interest such as Ukraine, Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) and illegal migration at a meeting during the UN General Assembly in New York.

They recognised the strength of the current partnership and the progress the two countries have made on shared priorities, particularly on migration and the new prisons returns arrangement, since the Prime Minister’s visit to the UK in March.

The Foreign Secretary welcomed Albania’s leadership on European and international security, including through the Berlin Process meetings in Tirana, as well as NATO and the UN Security Council.