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(4 years ago)The foreign ministers of Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and Czechia have urged the chief of European Union diplomacy to urgently put the Western Balkans in line at the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council, naming the region as of particular importance. In a letter sent to the boss [...]
In a letter sent to EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrell, these states said that given the war in Ukraine and the impact it may have on EU countries, the Council of Foreign Affairs must discuss strategy in the Western Balkans during April.
The ministers said that “since only a few weeks have passed since our last discussion of the Western Balkans, the geopolitical situation has experienced a major change due to the unprotested and untested aggression of Russia towards Ukraine”.
“In this context, the Western Balkans have a particular significance, given the key strategic position as the region surrounded by EU member states”, says on paper.
The top diplomats of the five EU states praised the visit Borrell paid in March in Skopje, Tirana and Sarajevo, which, according to them, witnessed the European bloc's strong commitment to the Western Balkans.
“The EU has to do everything to prevent the damaging effects of attack on Ukraine in the Western Balkans. It is even more urgent than ever before to give a boost to the region's EU-“integration process, the letter says.
In all, the ministers sought to accelerate the visa liberalisation process for Kosovo, launch membership negotiations with Albania and Northern Macedonia, grant the country's candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and speed up the negotiation process with Montenegro and Serbia.
