Her foreign minister Britain Robert Jenrick visited a center immigrants for deportation and stated that irregular Albanians found in his country should be arrested and sent back to Albania.
In particular, he praised the staff there for their work “finding Albanians, arresting them, putting them on buses, taking them to the airport and sending them back to Tirana.”
This resulted in a strong reaction from Tirana, with the Albanian Foreign Ministry claiming that the British minister had used “hate speech”.
“Through this note, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its concern over the latest statements with discriminatory rhetoric against Albanians,” the statement underlines.
Albanians made up 42% of people headed to Britain using small boats between May and September last year, according to the British government.
In November, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said a comment by the British government singling out a community “sounds more like screams from a madhouse”.
Rama and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had a telephone conversation in mid-December on the same issue.
Source: News Beast
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