LUXEMBOURG, Oct 19 /ATA/ – The European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Albania Isabel Santos called on the European Union to keep its word on opening the accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia as she addressed the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
“The two countries have done everything that we have requested from them to start the negotiations. It is unacceptable that they have continually been denied that progress,” Santos stated.
“My request is pretty clear. You have said that the first Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) will be held before the end of this year. I would like to hear from you the commitment for a date for the first intergovernmental conference for Albania and North Macedonia, because we cannot always say that that the first Conference will take place next month, next month and so on, but his next month never comes,” she said.
“Our investment in the region is very important, as well as the dialogue with the two countries, but they want us to deliver and we must show them results,” MEP Santos insisted.
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