[ALBSA-Info] Kathimerini

[Agron Alibali]

ATHENS, Monday, August 28, 2000 Updated: 08/28/2000
10:54 GMT 

Durres oil project to proceed

A $50 million Greek project to build an oil depot in
central Albania will continue despite an initial
decision by Tirana to freeze work, the Albanian
government promised on Saturday.
"We are fully committed to find a solution with the
lowest possible cost," Albanian Finance Minister
Anastas Angeli told journalists in the northern Greek
town of Florina, on the sidelines of the Prespes 2000
meetings between Greek, Albanian and Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia officials. Earlier, Angeli had
met Greek Deputy National Economy Minister Yiannis
Zafiropoulos, with whom he discussed funding for
Albania through a Greek program of Balkan aid.

Last week it emerged that Tirana had ordered Hellenic
Petroleum SA and Mamidakis oil firms, as well as
DIEKAT construction, to cease work on the project at
the port of Durres, claiming the installations would
interfere with a World Bank master plan for the area.

The three companies had already invested $10 million
in the project.
 

 


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