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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama talks on Wednesday and discusses the fallout from a controversial and violence-fuelled Euro 2016 qualifying fixture against Serbia.
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SOUNDBITE (English) Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania:
"The whole story, since the anthem started to be sang when the whole stadium started to shout 'Kill the Albanians, kill the Albanians', so the situation was very heavy psychologically, (and the situation) became heavier for them because of our squad playing very well and practically being superior to them in the second half of the played 40 minutes, and when the famous drone flew over the reaction was just the explosion of something that was boiling there and before there."
SOUNDBITE (English) Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania:
"I am not going in Belgrade to enter a stadium and revisit the memories of a football game. Politics and state politics cannot be driven by football matches and by what happened in a football stadium, and not only that but what happened is a very clear indication that we are in the right direction trying to overcome a very painful past, and it is a very clear indication that the peace that we have achieved is still very fragile and we have to build on it and we have to make our relations credible and our effort for peace stronger."
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Albanian PM discusses football brawl in Serbia
Friday, October 24 2014Category:Soccer