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The assignment is one of many members of President-elect Donald J. ‘s inner circle. Trump with foreign countries that have outstanding political questions with the United States.
By Eric Lipton
Reported to Washington
The government of Albania has given preliminary approval to a plan proposed by Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, to build a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on a small abandoned military base off the coast of Albania.
The allocation is one of the various involving Mr. Trump and their prolonged circle of relatives who directly involve foreign government entities that will advance even if Trump will be at the rate of foreign policy related to those same nations.
The approval by Albania’s Strategic Investment Committee, led through Prime Minister Edi Rama, provides Mr. Kushner and his business partners with the right to move forward with expedited negotiations to build the luxury station on a 111-acre segment of the 2. 2 square – Mile Island of Sazan, which will be connected via ferry to the mainland.
Mr. Kushner and the Albanian government did not respond to comments requests on Wednesday. But when this project was questioned in the past, the two said that the evaluation was not influenced through the ties of Mr. Kushner with Trump or any effort to consult to ask for favors from the US government.
“The fact that such a family of the American entrepreneur shows interest in making an investment in Albania makes us very proud and happy,” a spokesman for Mr. Rama said last year in the New York Times when we asked questions about projects.
Affinity Partners of Mr. Kushner, an investment capital company supported with around $ 4. 6 billion in money, basically of Saudi Arabia and another sovereign budget of the Middle East, continues the allocation of Albania with Asher Abehsera, a genuine real estate framework that Mr. Kushner in Mr. The past had a team to build tasks in Brooklyn, N. Y.
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