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TIRANA, March 29 – Albania’s defense ministry said the army secured $10 million from the United States in a fund raising meeting at NATO headquarters to dispose of all excess ammunition by 2013.
Albanian authorities held a donors’ conference in Brussels to fund a EUR35.5 million ($47.6 million) project to dispose of about 90,000 tons of excess ammunition stored in old army depots.
Tirana has set EUR8.5 million ($11.4 million) for the project, compiled from a NATO structure and which is to end in four years.
A massive blast at a munitions disposal factory near the capital, Tirana, in 2008 killed 26 people and injured 300.
Albania, a former communist country, joined NATO last year.
