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Sweden, Albania’s friend without looking for anything in return

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By Elsa Hastad* What is a relation? How does it start? How do we get our first impressions from a country? I asked my friend in Tirana, he is my age and his family worked in the chrome mines. His father worked there, his uncle worked there, and he worked there himself. They had drilling machines from Sandviken, from Atlas Copco and the loader was from Volvo. His father told him that this was the best drilling equipment in the world. And it came from Sweden. That was his first meeting with my country. That is how it starts. The…

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