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"Why doesn't Albania buy a firefighting plane"/ Rama responds to critics: There are some calculations that need to be made

2025-08-13 12:55:00, Aktualitet CNA

"Why doesn't Albania buy a firefighting plane"/ Rama responds to

Prime Minister Edi Rama has responded to all critics who ask why Albania does not buy firefighting aircraft.

Through a reaction on the X platform, Rama writes that there are some calculations that need to be made and that the fires of recent days are by no means a matter of one or two or even three planes.

Meanwhile, the prime minister has paralleled the fire situation in Albania with that in Turkey, Spain, Greece, or Italy.

"A debate has erupted about why Albania does not buy firefighting aircraft, while there are some calculations that need to be made and the fires of recent days are by no means a matter of one or two or even three aircraft! Okay, it would be nice to have them, but...

By assuring everyone that we have more air assets these days than any year before, thanks to our fleet and support from the European Mechanism or the United Arab Emirates, I invite everyone to raise a question: What about our neighbors, Greece and Italy or Turkey and Spain, who are suffering worse than any other year, do they have a shortage of aircraft?!

Here is some information based on references from the Greek press itself about Greece, for example:

Greece has a total air fleet of 77 firefighting aircraft; there are around 20 helicopters; approximately 3,500 other vehicles and fire engines of all types and functions.

So, simply put. The more the better, without a doubt, but still, treating the consequences does not eliminate the causes, which are several, are the same for all countries that are suffering from fires this season (some much worse than us, by the way) and are much more complex than they seem when you count the planes", declares Rama./ CNA





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