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Brnabic participates in informal meeting of Western Balkan leaders in Tirana

Belgrade/Tirana, 17 July 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic stated today in Tirana, after an informal meeting of the leaders of the Western Balkans, that the meeting discussed the development plan for the Western Balkans announced by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the GLOBSEC Summit in May this year, as well as about the first drafts and projects that Serbia as a country should prepare.

Brnabic, who attended the aforementioned meeting at the invitation of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, said that they also discussed the initiatives that exist within the Open Balkans, as well as the summit within the Berlin Process, which will be hosted by Albania this year.

At this moment, Albania is completely focused on that summit and on what we can do additionally after the last summit that was in Berlin. We also discussed the initiatives we have within the Open Balkans, which are quite complementary with the Berlin Process summit, the Prime Minister said.

She emphasised that the Open Balkans continues to exist, that it continues with joint initiatives, recalling that just three days ago, a joint exhibition of OB was opened in the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris.

The working lunch in Tirana was also attended by the prime ministers of Montenegro and North Macedonia, Dritan Abazovic and Dimitar Kovacevski, as well as European Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi.

Brnabic expressed her hope that the development plan for the Western Balkans will come to life by the end of this year, so that from next year, in 2024, we will try to attract more funds from the EU partners for the economic growth and development of Serbia, and at the same time a new driving mechanism for European integration and bringing the Western Balkans closer to the EU.