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Security Messages for U.S. Citizens
 

U.S. Embassy Tirana American Citizen Services (ACS) has improved its messaging system.  In addition to issuing emergency messages, security messages, and normal messages (not relating to routine demonstrations) through email, the U.S. Embassy will also utilize SMS technology to send messages.  Whenever the ACS section issues emergency, security, or normal messages, we will send an abbreviated version in a text message to U.S. citizens who have registered via the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program and provided a valid mobile number.  Please add the following number to your contacts – 19028003544 – the ACS section will utilize this number to send text messages.  We encourage all U.S. citizens residing in, or visiting Albania, to update their registration information and include a valid mobile number (Albanian, U.S., or international) in order to take full advantage of this service.   

Information about routine demonstrations are posted on the U.S. Embassy Tirana’s website, under the heading “Demonstration Notices,” and will not be sent to U.S. citizens via SMS or email. Please monitor our website regularly for information about demonstration activities in Albania.

  • Potential Spontaneous Demonstrations

    2/7/2013: U.S. Embassy Tirana advises U.S. citizens of the potential for spontaneous demonstrations in response to the recent acquittal by the Tirana District Court of two individuals who stood trial for their role in the violent demonstrations which occurred on January 21, 2011. 

  • Attack on U.S. Embassy Ankara

    2/6/2013: U.S. Embassy Tirana reminds U.S. citizens to be aware of their personal safety and security following the February 1, attack on U.S. Embassy Ankara, Turkey. 

  • Public Gathering

    1/16/2013: The U.S. Embassy has learned that the Albanian Socialist Party (SP) will hold a memorial in front of the Prime Minister’s Office at Boulevard Deshmoret e Kombit and Mother Teresa Square on January 21, 2013, from 12:00, to 14:00. 

  • Exercise Caution when Observing Holiday Festivities

    12/28/2012: The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens that fireworks and celebratory gunfire are common in Albania, and both activities increase significantly during the holidays. Typically, fireworks and celebratory gunfire reach their peak frequency at midnight on December 31, and January 1. Serious injuries and/or deaths could occur as a result of stray bullets from celebratory gunfire. 

  • Public Service Outages and Ongoing Demonstrations

    12/19/2012: The U.S. Embassy in Tirana informs U.S. citizens of ongoing protests, including road blockages that continue to occur through the country as a result of continued disruptions in electrical service. 

  • Demonstrations

    11/27/2012: The U.S. Embassy has learned that the Red and Black Alliance (RBA) intends to hold a protest to support Albanian unification tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28, at the Morine border-crossing point on the Albania-Kosovo border. 

  • Public Service Outages and Potential Demonstrations

    11/15/2012: The U.S. Embassy in Tirana informs U.S. citizens that continued power outages are expected to occur throughout Albania over the next few days and possibly longer. 

  • Updated Information on Planned Public Gathering in Pogradec

    9/21/2012: This message is an update to the Security Message of September 18, 2012 regarding a public demonstration that was planned for September 19, 2012 in the city of Pogradec by the Albanian Imam League. This event has now been rescheduled for 12:30pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012, as a public gathering at the Cinema Hall in Pogradec. 

  • Explosion near Rruga Drago in Tirana

    5/9/2012: The Albanian State Police reported an explosion shortly before 8am on May 9, 2012 at a private residence on Rruga Drago, near the U.S. Embassy in Tirana. One person was reported killed. 

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