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Project narrative
In Tirana, on October 30, 2003, Chinese Ministry of Defense is reported to have donated $650,000 worth of devices and equipment for Albanian engineering troop: the aid was handed over the engineering forces of Engineering-Constructing Battalion in Babrru, Tirana. Chinese aid is accorded in the context of military cooperation agreement signed between both countries. Attending the ceremony of the occasion were the chief of the General Staff of the armed forces, Lt-Gen Pellumb Qazimi; the Chinese ambassador in Tirana, Tian Changchun, as well as a team of Chinese officers who had come on this purpose.
Staff comments
No other source for this transaction could be found. Classified as vague flow type and flow class. Gen Qazimi assessed that "today's aid will improve the infrastructure of our engineering forces". Chinese ambassador, in his address, emphasized that the "assistance will continue also in the future, in the interest of both countries".