Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha today inaugurated a highway linking his country with Kosovo, saying he was opening a "corridor of the Albanian nation.", according to dpa. The 60-kilometre, 1-billion euro (1.4 billion dollars) stretch of the road linking central Albania with Kosovo was constructed by the American-Turkish consortium Bechtel-Enka. Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was also present at the inauguration. "This corridor of the nation ends the partition of the Albanian nation," Berisha said. The inauguration occurred just ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Albania, in which the conservative Berisha and his Socialist rival Edi Rama are expected to run a close race. Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia last year, is inhabited by more than 2 million ethnic Albanians, who make up about 90 per cent of the population.
