Latest News

Fires, Greece and Albania ready to renew the agreement in the field of Civil Emergencies

: Published: Wednesday, 08 June 2022 11:20

Albania and Greece have agreed to renew the agreement in order to strengthen the bilateral cooperation in the field of Civil Emergencies, time when both countries are facing such issues as fires and at the time that our country is determined to increase and modernize the response capacities.

The fire hearths on the Sazan island and Mirdita region are neutralized

: Published: Tuesday, 07 June 2022 13:17

The fire hearths on Sazan Island are neutralized after the continuous work from land and air interventions.

122 effectives of the Armed Forces, 9 vehicles, and 2 ships were engaged in the operation launched three days ago to extinguish the fire. The air intervention started this morning. Canadair Cl - 415 joined our forces, as support by Greece, in the framework of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism. The situation in Sazan Island is under control, even though effectives are still working to avoid any possible re-ignition of flame.

Fire in Sazan, Albania receives assistance by civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union

: Published: Tuesday, 07 June 2022 13:01

Although keeping the situation under control, after a 48-hour operation of controlling and extinguishing the fire on Sazan Island, air intervention was deemed necessary.

For this purpose, a Canadair CL 415 aircraft sent from Greece is joined today early in the morning to extinguish the fire from the air on the island of Sazan. The Canadair CL 415 aircraft will intervene to extinguish the fire from the air in support of the Civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union (Emergency Response Coordination Center - ERCC), following the request of the National Civil Protection Agency.

Naval exercise "GroupEx - 22" takes place, Peleshi: We will increase the capacities; we are ready to host “Defender 2023"

: Published: Friday, 27 May 2022 15:36

For two consecutive days, members of the Naval Force of the Albanian Armed Forces conducted on the country's coast the exercise "GroupEx-22". Defense Minister Niko Peleshi, being present at the beginning of this exercise, considered it as very important especially at this moment of the increase of standards of the AAF.

During his speech, Minister Peleshi spoke about an ambitious plan that the Ministry of Defense and the government have for Cyber Security: "For the Naval Force we also have ambitions and plans to increase our fleet in the medium term, and to increase our maintenance capacity, as we talked with the commander. We are in the process of identifying the best ways to a better response to all maintenance needs, but also, as I said, we have plans for the construction, purchase of other vessels as displayed in the capacity objectives." - said Defense Minister.

Steering Committee Meeting of the NATO Security Force Assistance Centre of Excellence convenes in Albania

: Published: Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:08

For the first time, Steering Committee Meeting of the NATO Security Force Assistance Centre of Excellence (NATO SFA COE) meets outside the host country, Italy. On the 26th of May, the first 2022 session of the NATO SFA COE was held in Golem, Durrës. The members of the Committee discussed the current projects of the center, the presentation of the draft work program for 2023, etc.

The center consists of three countries, respectively, Italy as a host country and Albania and Slovenia in the role of sponsoring countries. Austria will soon become part of this center, also as a contributing partner country.