Minister Gashi: The building of the Archives Agency will be completely renovated, the works will begin this year

26.06.2018

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Kujtim Gashi, visited today the State Archives Agency of Koso-vo. During this visit, the Minister met with the Chief Executive of KASA, Ramë Manaj, who informed the Minister on the situation, conditions and working conditions of this institution.

Minister Gashi said that "this visit is conducted in the framework of the visits that I am doing to the affiliated institutions of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, as well as to the Municipalities of Kosovo, to look closely at the situation in which these institutions carry out their activities".

The Minis-ter promised support to the Kosovo Archives Agency for the realization of a project that foresees ren-ovation of the building as a whole.

"We have completed a small intervention, we have put new shelves. Here we pledge that the Ministry of Culture and I as Minister will be in support of the Director, Management and Staff and also to start a new investment in this facility, a comprehensive investment including warehouse, facility, firefighting system and then acclimatization, humidity control apparatus and human and technical capacity building for this institution of special importance for our country. It is a project that is already ready”, and it will begin to be implemented soon, among other ministers said.

Further, Minister Gashi, speaking of the great importance of the archives in Kosovo, said that "as the archive material is of historical, cultural, scientific and cultural quality, it must be permanently preserved. Therefore, in accordance with the great importance of archival material, this investment in this facility is one of the priorities of the Ministry, so the investment procedures in this facility will be opened within a few days.

He also said that "we are interested to look closely at the state of the international archive facilities in the six Kosovo municipalities so that we can intervene there in the future as well. This visit aims our commitment, our efforts to change the state of affairs in these facilities of the affiliated institutions of the Ministry of Culture and we are extremely interested to start this project as soon as possible "added Gashi.

Also Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Kujtim Gashi said that together with the director we agreed to initiate the amend-ment to the Law on Archives.

On the other hand, the Chief Executive, Ramë Manaj, thanked for the visit, but also for the support of the Ministry and the Minister to invest in improving conditions and working conditions in archive facilities.

"At the meeting, we have tried to present the situation, conditions and working conditions, unfortunately badly inherited, the challenges we are faced with. The conditions are very restrictive and relate to insufficient facilities, lack of space and inadequate, lack of technology and lack of human capacity, and technical capacity for digitization. But given the promise of the minister, we hope that the situation in this agency will improve", said the Chief Executive Manaj.

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