Podgorica, New York, (MINA) – Countries of the Western Balkans should use intensively all the regional cooperation mechanisms in order to achieve better connectivity, while at the same time building more solid foundations for competitive and prosperous societies, it was heard at a working breakfast between foreign ministers of the Western Balkans Six.
The meeting, which took place on the margins of the UN General Assembly session in New York, was hosted by Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council Goran Svilanovic and the meeting was also attended by EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn.
According to a press release from the Montenegrin Foreign Ministry, the officials noted that the countries of the region are making progress towards the EU in line with their own accession agendas and that it is important for them to remain committed to reforms and the perspective of EU membership, regardless of the challenges that they are faced with.
“The participants in the meeting agreed that the countries of the Western Balkans should use all the instruments for regional cooperation in order to have better connectivity, while building more solid foundations for competitive and prosperous societies, based on European values,” the press release said.
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