The Albanian government approved a decision to expropriate the lands where the cemetery of Greek soldiers killed in Albania during the Greek-Italian war of 1940-1941 will be built.

The cemetery is being built based on the agreement reached between the two countries in 2010 between Athens and Tirana for the search, exhumation, identification and burial of Greek soldiers in Albanian territory.

The total value of the expropriation is 733700 ALL and the procedural costs are in the amount of 50,000 ALL, which are handled by the Ministry of Defense, as the expropriation is done on behalf of this department.