The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, present at the Sixth National Conference on the “Right to Information” said that the country has made great progress in the field of legislation. “Many of the things that appear to us and are pointed out to us either by the public or by the parties we interact with as deficiencies can be repaired without any particular difficulty and without the need for a long time,” he said.
He added that Albania is ranked seventh, with a radical change from 2014. “Albania was 86th in the classification until in 2014, we take the first serious step by transforming our legal base and today if you click on Albania you will find it in seventh place, in terms of legislation”, he added.
The Prime Minister further stated that the right to information is a right guaranteed by the constitution. According to him, the journalists are not responsible for extracting investigative secrets from the file, but the prosecution body itself.
“The treatment of information that belongs to the public, belongs to the media, to all interested parties as a right sanctioned by law, while it is treated as a power exercised abusively over all those I mentioned, is undoubtedly a space, an impetus to create a lot of mystery, a lot of rumours, a lot of poison on the facts, and then to give opportunities to all kinds of speculations, when the facts are what they are.
The right to information and the provision of information are not investigative secrets. Investigative secrets are released by the prosecutor’s office, not by the journalist. The journalist does not have access to investigative secrets,” he said/ abcnews.al
