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Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke at the reception organized on the occasion of the beginning of Albania’s mandate in the UN Security Council.
Edi Rama: No one doubts the power of the Security Council. Our challenge is to do what is right and to do what is right. For a body as powerful as the Council, not being fair can not be an alternative, so we must unite with justice, as there will be no peace without justice.
Security can not be established and no longer lasting, without justice established. Thus, our opinion is that the Security Council should seek the achievement of peace and security, but also the establishment of justice, accountability. Through accountability we will be able to move towards reconciliation, which cementes lasting peace.
This is also the task for a small country like mine. We do not bring material power to the Security Council – at least not now – but power is not what the Security Council lacks. Nor is it just the power the Council needs to address the most pressing challenges today to world peace and security.
We are committed to bringing our voice, values and norms to the joint work of the Security Council, as a contribution to peace. We want to share with others the experiences lived, the lessons learned.
Our direct way to contribute to alleviating the suffering of those in need has been to give what we have, when we could, when we should have done: we have opened our homes and hearts to those in need of salvation and shelter; be they Jews during the Holocaust, when Albania became the only country to have more Jews after the war than before it, or for the half a million Kosovars fleeing the ethnic cleansing of Slobodan Milosevic’s cruel regime; or the thousands of MEK members who have taken refuge in Albania and, most recently, the thousands of Afghans who have fled Taliban reprisals.
We do not seek credit for this. It belongs to the dignity of every human being, regardless of beliefs, religion, ethnicity, gender or any orientation.
This is not a slogan – it is a lived practice. We do not act according to this code of honor because we can, but simply because we have to – it is part of the feeling of what we are as Albanians and what we want our children to be.
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