The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Ferit Hoxha, issued a statement on the X platform regarding the remarks by the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milojko Spajić, concerning the alleged involvement of officials from “at least two countries in the region” in coordinated hybrid activities, as well as the media interpretations and allegations that followed.

Emphasizing that, to date, no official accusation has been made against Albania, Minister Hoxha called for calm, restraint and responsibility in addressing reports based on anonymous or unidentified sources.

In his statement, Minister Hoxha wrote:

“A clarification before we become part of the noise or fuel unnecessary fires, which take much longer to put out.

I have seen the statement by the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milojko Spajić, regarding the alleged involvement of officials from ‘at least two countries in the region’ in coordinated hybrid activities. I have also seen the various media interpretations and allegations that have followed.

Media reports are part of public debate. We read and analyse them with due attention, but we treat them with the necessary caution, all the more so when they are based on unidentified sources or contain different or contradictory interpretations.

Although no official accusation has been made against Albania, I want to stress clearly and unequivocally that Albania neither is nor can be part of any destabilising scenario, either in Montenegro, a neighbouring country and a friend, partner and NATO Ally, with which we share the same objective of membership in the European Union, or anywhere else.

Albania stands out by doing precisely the opposite: investing every day in cooperation, mutual understanding, stability and the development of the region, as well as in broader European and Euro-Atlantic cooperation.

Speculation, media interpretations or domestic political debates in a neighbouring country cannot and should not artificially create problems between our two countries. We remain in continuous contact at all levels, and I have maintained such communication in this case as well, including with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ervin Ibrahimović, as well as with Deputy Prime Minister Nik Gjeloshaj.

This should also be borne in mind here in Albania. Different actors, including political ones, are welcome to obtain from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs any information they may need in order to avoid unnecessary debates and, above all, to prevent the country’s foreign policy from becoming the subject or instrument of domestic partisan debates and approaches.

Foreign policy always requires calm, restraint and responsibility.”