Skopje, 2 April 2023 (MIA) – Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani is to take part in the Ministerial Meeting on the Western Balkans in Rome on Monday at the invitation of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani.

Osmani is set to deliver remarks at the two sessions on European integration process of the countries of the Western Balkan and will also address the conference “New vision for the Western Balkans: EU accession and regional security,” co-organised by Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of International Affairs and OBC Transeuropa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release on Sunday.

The meeting will be chaired by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and will be attended FM Bujar Osmani, Foreign Ministers of North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström, in his role as President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, reads the press release.

In addition to the ministers of foreign affairs from the countries in the region, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström, the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, renowned experts and political analysts from think-tank institutes from the region, as well as high representatives of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Regional Cooperation Council, OSCE Secretariat and CEFTA will attend the conference “New vision for the Western Balkans: EU accession and regional security.”

“The initiative is in line with Italy’s renewed role as a leading player in the Western Balkans and aims to foster dialogue and regional cooperation, as well as to relaunch the European integration process of the countries in the region,” reads the press release.

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