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Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania sign three documents for better regional cooperation

Belgrade/Skopje, 29 July 2021

President Aleksandar Vucic and prime ministers of North Macedonia and Albania Zoran Zaev and Edi Rama signed three documents in Skopje today, which will facilitate trade in the region and enable a single labour market, as well as mutual assistance in emergency situations.

The leaders of the three countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in facilitating import, export and movement of goods in the Western Balkans, and a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in free access to the labour market in the Western Balkans at the regional economic forum, within the Mini Schengen initiative, and the Agreement on Cooperation in Disaster Protection in the Western Balkans.

The first memorandum will increase and improve economic cooperation, simplify the procedures related to import, export and movement of goods.

The purpose of the Disaster Protection Cooperation Agreement is for the Contracting Parties, in accordance with their available capacities, to assist each other in the event of a disaster and when the requesting Contracting Party is unable to deal with the consequences of the disaster using its own resources.

The Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation on Free Access to the Labour Market aims to simplify the procedures for all contracting parties to obtain work permits for citizens of each of the three countries, as well as to use the obtained work permits in the territory of any of them.

It was announced at this gathering that the new name of the "Mini Schengen" initiative will be "Open Balkans".