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The service in the Security Council has had a positive impact on increasing the profile of Albania in the international arena, said Foreign Minister Olta Xha\u00e7ka in an interview for the show “Top Story”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
While on an official visit to New York, as Albania prepares to take over the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council, Xha\u00e7ka says that \u201cnow we have the opportunity to be heard and to influence as we have not done in these 65 years of membership at the UN \u201d.<\/p>\n
“Albania was voted by a very significant majority of 175 votes here in the UN General Assembly and emerged as an undisputed candidate of the Eastern European group which is a pretty large group. Undoubtedly, this group also includes countries like Russia, countries like Belarus, Azerbaijan or Armenia. We are saying that they can have different problems and different interests and different influences. Given that we have come as an uncontested candidacy means that, we enjoy respect and appreciation for the role that we<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n “The opportunity to be in the Security Council today gives us more voice, gives us more importance, gives us more weight,” said the Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n “It gives us the opportunity to increase our profile, it helps us to expand the relations and connections that we did not have for various reasons, whether geographical or the limitations of our diplomatic service in countries and organizations, the cooperation with them deepens during the Security Council and will go further, will help meet the long-term objectives of Albania’s foreign policy. “So in this sense it really gives us weight and really helps us to be as constructive as we have been, but even more so with a special weight in foreign policy.”<\/em> Xha\u00e7ka said in her interview with journalist Sokol Balla.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n top channel
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