Arsakeio Foundation opens school in Tirana

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TIRANA (ANA-MPA - I. Patso) -- Greece's Education Minister Evripides Stylianides attended the inauguration of new school grounds belonging to the private Greek-Albanian school operated in Tirana by the Greek "Arsakeio" chain of schools - the first of the chain founded outside of Greece.

Also attending were Albanian Education Minister Genc Pollo, ruling New Democracy (ND) party Central Committee Secretary Lefteris Zagoritis, former Albanian prime minister Fatos Nano, a number of former Albanian foreign ministers and Greek ambassadors to Tirana, as well as the former rector of Athens University and current president of the Greek Foundation of Culture Georgios Babiniotis.

In speeches at the opening of the new school, the two ministers said it would act as a bridge of friendship between Greece and Albania.

Earlier, Stylianides and Pollo had a brief meeting at the Albanian education ministry and expressed their satisfaction at the good level of bilateral ties in the education sector. According to the Greek minister, this cooperation would continue and would be built up "into a model of international cooperation that will be an example for other Balkan states".