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Albanian President rejects new foreign minister

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TIRANA, Jan. 10 – Albania’s President, Ilir Meta, rejected on Wednesday evening Prime Minister Edi Rama’s proposal to appoint 28-year-old, Kosovo national Gent Cakaj as the new foreign minister, creating a new rift in the President-PM relationship. In a public letter  directed to Rama published by Meta himself, he addressed, as political experts have been doing over the last week, all the regional and global challenges Albanian diplomacy will be facing next year. Some of these challenges include Albania’s upcoming OSCE presidency as part of the Trojka organization, its expectation to open accession negotiations with the EU and the need…

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