SHKODRA, May.30- The Greek ambassador in Albania, HE Konstantinos Kokossis, visited the local governmental offices in Shkodra to become more familiar with economic investment opportunities in the northern district.
During this visit, Kokossis was accompanied by the economic secretary of the embassy, Panagiotis Zaragas. Discussions with the mayor of Shkodra, Lorenc Luka, focused on the work of the local agovernment to create a strategy for the economic development of Shkodra.
Investment opportunities
Luka spoke to the ambassador about the many natural resources within Shkodra, such as its rivers, the lake, tourist sites such as the castle, its proximity to the border and to the sea. More work is being done to attract foreign investors and it was stressed that the new projects in the industrial park in the Koplik area are focused on addressing the unemployment issue. Given these resources, the mayor asked the ambassador to use his influence on Greek investors to consider Shkodra as a potential investment site.
Kokossis has talked about the new interest within Greece to shift investments from the public sphere, where it has financed projects in education and infrastructure, to the private one where businessmen have expressed their interest. Already, the public investment by the Greek government has renovated a school in the area of Ana e Malit, and also financed a small generators for the aqueduct. “The Greek government has in its projects a development program of 1.5 million euro, which will include the area of Porto Romano and Shkodra,” Kokossis said. The Greek ambassador expressed his confidence that soon Shkodra will experience a boom of Greek investment as he said he would return for another visit.
