TIRANA, July 20/ATA/-Albania’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ditmir Bushati highlighted on Friday at the Adriatic Trilateral initiative meeting in Budva the importance of cooperation between Albania, Montenegro and Croatia in the context of European integration and transformation of this region from an area of security into an area of development.
FM Bushati said further on that, “The enlargement process cannot develop in a vacuum, but it must be accompanied with instruments that also serve to the process of economic revival and political and social transformation of the Western Balkan countries”.
While positively assessing the NATO’s open door policy, the ministers expressed full support for Macedonia’s membership in the Alliance following the agreement Skopje and Athens reached and the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.
The ministers paid special attention to the progress and inter-action for advancing projects of strategic importance like the Adriatic-Ionian Corridor and the gas pipeline that will connect the Trans-Adriatic line with Croatia through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina, but even cooperation in the field of energy, tourism and environment.
The three ministers signed a joint declaration at the end of the meeting./e.xh//r.e/p.s./
