Hundreds of citizens, environmentalists and journalists rallied outside the Prime Minister’s Office as Albania was considered as a site for dismantling Syrian chemical weapons. Protesters challenged a decision being discussed under intense international pressure, raising questions of transparency, environmental risk and who should bear the hazards of a foreign conflict. The government rejected the plan on 15 November after days of demonstrations across the country.
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Which issue brought hundreds of citizens to the Prime Minister’s Office in November 2013?
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Protesters raised environmental risk, transparency and sovereignty.
The 2013 chemical-weapons protest was only about domestic election campaigning.
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Environmental risk, transparency, sovereignty and outside pressure were central themes; party politics also shaped the protest field.