Through a Facebook post, Tritan Shehu accused the government of abandoning citizens stranded in the Middle East.
Tritan Shehu underlined that the government has left citizens without any support and no repatriation strategy.
Full reaction:
The Albanian government abandoned citizens stranded in the Middle East.
Another bitter testimony of this abandonment.
It left them without any concrete support, repatriation project or strategy.
And any announcement from our Ministry of Foreign Affairs was limited to some general "advice"...
Albania stood out as the only European country without any evacuation plan...
No designation of evacuation routes, no evacuation map.
No vehicle or aircraft was contracted to be used for this purpose.
No budget was set aside for these necessary purposes.
Nothing concrete, only a few general words were heard.
Abandonment, leaving those approximately 3500 stranded Albanians to their fate.
All returnees have achieved this entirely through their own efforts and very high personal expenses.
The government was asleep, as always, when citizens needed support.
While in other European countries this was and is the daily problem of all state structures, which are fully mobilized.
The photo belongs to the organized evacuation of citizens of North Macedonia.
Only Tirana abandoned its citizens.
