the crisis in several related areas: to guarantee the basic rights of immigrants and the management of the humanitarian crisis, to ease the migration flows and fight against human trafficking, as well as integration of immigrants into the new host societies that would welcome them or their integration after their repatriation to their countries of origin. Humanitarian handling of refugees and migrants is an obligation for each country, the same as the recognition of the rights pertaining to them under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention of 1951 relating the Status of Refugees and its Additional Protocol of 1967 and the Council of Directives of the European Union no. 95 of the year 2011 and no. 32 and 33 of the year 2013. Our country cannot be avoided by these obligations, modify, suspend or postpone them, but should rather handle them as even more necessary in times of crisis. Values and principles of solidarity, human rights and fundamental freedoms cannot represent only “discourse exercises”, but they should be guiding our reflection and vision in facing the migration crisis. We must realize that there are the serious violations of human rights in countries and regions involved in armed conflict and plagued by poverty that push hundreds of thousands, millions of people, to feed the massive migration flows. Measures undertaken by states that are incompatible with European standards of human rights, not only are detrimental to social cohesion, but they are actually ineffective and counter-productive for crisis management. It is really required a “paradigmatic” change in relation to migration give an end to the “race” of European countries to return migrants and to raise walls, wire netting and other barriers. In connection with the existing and expecting flows of migrants and refugees, a present and unquestionable phenomenon in today's Europe, Albania remains in a state that is still unprepared properly. While ideas for the development of potential host, registration and assistance centers for transit passing are numerous, no specific steps have been taken to have such reception facilities. Given the need for cooperation with international organizations specialized in this field, greater transparency is required in this regard in order to allow the general public and society to be well-informed, which will bring simultaneously the reduction of any xenophobic opinions. The spirit of solidarity and standards of human rights should be in the focus of commitments of the political leadership and joint action. There is not excessive to say that, a wider interaction should be ensured with civil society and international non-governmental organizations in the field of human rights. These partners have valuable expertise and the instruments of action mechanisms that are necessary for a wider geographic and demographic impact. While a large number of people is continuously seen attempting to cross the territory of several European Union countries by any means, being more welcome in these places, the Albanian asylum authorities do not follow the same rhythm and meaning with these developments. Individuals caught illegally passing the border in order to come or to leave Albania, even though they are clearly part of these flows, even though seeking protection from the Republic of Albania and are clearly in terms of benefitting such defense, are denied completely or postponed endlessly the entering into asylum procedures. This leaves them completely uncovered at the risk of court decisions that do not take into consideration their need for protection and their specific position as refugees, which ultimately leads to return to the countries they came from and the violation of the “non-refoulement” principle. This panorama appears while in a regional context and beyond of the crisis, it remains a rather great concern the profilization of refugees based on the nationality and failure to guarantee the right of access to asylum procedures, without discrimination. This concern also involves the fact 90

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