Personnel Recruiting Center Celebrates 12th Anniversary of Creation, Petro Koçi: Human Capacity Our Priority

Published: Friday, 21 June 2019 15:17

Personnel Recruiting Center (PRC) one of the most important structures in the Armed Forces, celebrated the 12th Anniversary of its creation. A ceremony was organized at the premises of the Ministry of Defense.
Attending the event, Defence Deputy Minister Petro Koçi, besides thanking all the staff for the hard work, he stated that the center will continue to be modernized with more modern and faster application systems serving the military. He also paid particular attention to the development of human capacity of the Armed Forces, which he considered a priority.

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Gjirokastra, AAF test the emergency response capability

Published: Friday, 21 June 2019 11:11

For three days, officers of Gjirokastra Regional Support Detachment tested their response capabilities to assist the population in cases of natural disasters.

In the coded training "Gërhoti 2019", RSD troops improvised extinguishing the fires on difficult terrains and urban areas, the evacuation of people from earthquake ruins and the provision of first aid.

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US helps the AAF with firefighting equipment, Xhaçka: from today we are more prepared

Published: Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:04

The US European Military Command, through the US - Embassy in Tirana, donated to our Armed Forces fire equipment of $361k value. The presentation ceremony was attended by the Defense Minister Olta Xhaçka, the US Charge d'Affaires in our country Leyla Moses-Ones, Deputy Chief of General Staff of Armed Forces, Brigadier General Manushaqe Shehu, Senior Officers in the Albanian Armed Forces and effectives involved in civil emergencies, who will use the new equipment.

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Armed Forces begin the construction of a Bailey bridge in Mirdita

Published: Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:43

The Engineering Battalion of the Support Command began work on the construction of a Bailey bridge in Jezull village. The new bridge, which will be about 25 meters long and will have a load capacity of about 45 tons, is being built in cooperation with the municipality of Mirdita, which has previously built its concrete legs.

The construction of the bridge will significantly facilitate the movement of 1,150 inhabitants of the villages of Jezull and Sheshaj, in the Administrative Unit Rrëshen and villages Prosek and Rrushkull of the Administrative Unit Kthellë.

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Minister Xhacka in Germany: Justice Reform has frightened anti-reformist actors

Published: Friday, 14 June 2019 10:17

During her visit in Berlin, the Albanian Defence Minister, Mrs. Olta Xhacka was welcomed at a special meeting by the German Defence Minister, Ursula von der Leyen. The conferred about the intensification of relations between the two countries and the European perspective of our country.
Minister Xhaçka thanked her counterpart Ursula von der Leyen for the generous support and assistance that Albania has received from the German Government, while praising the special role that Germany plays as a guarantor of security and stability in the region.
Xhaçka and Von der Leyen mostly focused on the country's integration processes into the European family and on the anticipated vote for the opening of Albania's membership negotiations.

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