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Bulgaria has sent 12 construction engineers to Albania today to assist in the assessment of the buildings affected by the earthquake. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva before Albanias interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Ghent Tzakai. The two spoke in Bratislava at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe OSCE.A team of engineers arrived in Tirana at the request of the Albanian side made by Mr Tsakay by phone to Minister Zaharieva late last week. Immediately after receiving the request the Deputy Prime Minister contacted the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works and with their assistance the University of Architecture Civil Engineering and Geodesy recruited 12 specialists under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bogomil Petrov from the Department of Building Materials and Insulations. . At 6am they left Bulgaria with a technique to determine the likely compressive strength of the concrete to scan the reinforcement and to ultrasound the concrete and by 5pm Bulgarian time the team left Tirana for Durres. Tsakai thanked Bulgaria for the immediate response to the calls for help. Your reaction is to a true friend and your true friends know each other at times like this. It is estimated that we will need close to 700 million. Over 7000 people are homeless said Ghent Tsakai. Immediately after the earthquake the government also allocated BGN 200000 in financial assistance to Albania from the MFA budget. During his meeting with Ghent Tsakai today Minister Zaharieva reiterated Bulgarias consistent support for the start of EU membership talks with Albania.
