UN General Assembly
2013

country in the world, measuring the positive and negative media coverage. Switzerland was at the top; Albania was 161st. In truth, people around the world may not know that much about Albania, but what they think they know is not good. The film industry has not been kind to us — Wag The Dog, Taken, Taken 2. Even I was a bit scared to be in Albania after that. I hope one day Liam Neeson, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro can visit and see what a beautiful country it is and feel the potential that I feel. But I am not naive. Our problems are not all based in Hollywood. Some are real and damaging, such as corruption, which scars countries in the way the swish of a blade can scar a beautiful face. It deters legitimate investors from investing. It holds back progress. It stops people from believing there can ever be fairness. Corruption can and must be beaten if we are to build the economic rule of law we need, get the investment we