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Albania’s PM Edi Rama to assume role of foreign minister

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TIRANA, Jan. 15 – Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Monday following President Ilir Meta’s rejection of 26-year-old, Kosovo national Gent Cakaj as the country’s new foreign minister, that he will be temporarily assuming the role.   “The President did not decree the foreign minister’s dismissal within his constitutional deadline. In line of the many violations that the new Constitutional Court will inspect. Until that day that is soon to come, I will be in the position de jure because we don’t have time to lose searching for the president,” Rama tweeted. During the weekend, the clash between Rama…

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