TIRANA (Reuters) – Albania is in talks with NATO to build a naval base at Porto Romano, a port underneath building on its Adriatic coast, Prime Minister Edi Rama stated on Friday.
Rama advised a information convention that Porto Romano, located shut to the coastal city of Durres and meant because the nation’s greatest port, would have a business part in addition to a army naval base.
The army base could be constructed and co-financed by NATO and Albania, he stated.
“We will soon go back to Brussels to continue our discussions regarding our proposal…for the installation of a NATO naval base in the new port in Durres,” Rama added.
Back in May, Rama stated his authorities was additionally providing NATO its Pashaliman naval base some 200 km (124 miles) south of Tirana. Pashaliman was arrange by Moscow as a submarine base in the Nineteen Fifties to host 12 submarines close to Vlore, the place the Adriatic and Ionian Seas meet.NATO is already reconstructing Kucova Air Base, some 80 km (50 miles) south of Tirana, that shall be utilized by the alliance.Albania turned a NATO member in 2009.
(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga, Editing by William Maclean)
