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Albania-Kosovo 400 kV power line inaugurated

Xinhua, June 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

A 400 kV power transmission line connecting Albania and Kosovo has been officially switched on, the Albanian Daily News reported Wednesday.

"This is an important day for our common integration path, starting from energy and continuing through all sectors," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said at the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.

The 241-kilometer-long project cost 29 million euros (31.9 million U.S. dollars), and was covered by the Albanian government.

"We should together move forward to further advance our very ambitious project of creating a regional energy market," said Rama, referring to an initiative proposed by Germany in 2014 to improve regional infrastructural and economic cooperation.

Albanian Energy Minister Damian Gjiknuri said that the Albanian government will next year start to build a power line connecting Albania and Macedonia, which is expected to be completed by 2018.

The Albanian government will enable the connection through a power line of Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia with Albania and further, with Italy and Central Europe, the minister said.

Kosovo is a southern province of Serbia, which borders Albania. It unilaterally declared independence in 2008. Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo's independence, though most leading European countries and the United States have exchanged diplomats with Kosovo. Endi