Ambassador Yuri Kim part of the homage in honor of former President Bujar Nishani

Former President Bujar Nishani will be escorted to his last apartment this Thursday, while the country is in mourning.

Through a decision, the government declared June 2 a day of national mourning in honor of the late former president. The decision stipulates that in all public institutions the flag be lowered to half-staff.

Tributes to the Presidency continue today from 10:00, while honoring the former president, politicians, senior officials and his benefactors.

Arkmort, former president Bujar Nishani, arrived from Germany at the Morini border crossing in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

From 10:00, the former President was laid to rest in the central lobby of the presidency, from where relatives, friends, associates, including many citizens, paid homage in his honor.

Today, from 10:00 to 12:00, the official funeral ceremony of homage will take place according to the state protocol, to then go to the Sharra cemetery where Mr. Nishani will be buried.

The former president passed away on Saturday after being hospitalized for a month in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. He was initially hospitalized at the “Shefqet Ndroqi” hospital in Tirana, as he had post-covid complications.

He was then sent for more specialized treatment, but his health deteriorated due to pronounced pulmonary insufficiency in his lungs.