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Mr. Haxhinasto: Hello. It was a pleasure meeting with General Syrén, who is also Chairman of the EU Military Committee. The meeting was held in the framework of the cooperation between Albania and this Committee. As the Republic of Albania, we have several objectives, firstly in the framework of signing an agreement for the nearest cooperation, to participate and to increase our contributions in different operations and in all the security challenges that the common policy of defense and security of the EU has. Secondly, the other objective of short-term cooperation is achieving to sign an agreement of exchanging classified information. As you well know, Albania is an active and direct contributive member not only of the common EU policy, but also that of defense. Our capacities are growing. In this framework, we participate in many operations like the ones in Chad, Africa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Other teams also participate in Afghanistan, which is one of the main contributions Albania provides outside its borders in terms of security. This contribution will continue to strengthen in full cooperation with the EU Defense Committee. It was a pleasure to have the General here and I estimate that this meeting will provide a new impulse to the cooperation between the Republic of Albania and the EU in the security area.
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