Skopje, 30 July 2021 (MIA) – Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani on Friday hosted Kosovo’s Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz as she is paying an official visit to North Macedonia. “Talks focused on our joint ambitions, from a regional point of view to improve regional cooperation, and also from the point of view of the two countries’ Euro-Atlantic accession ambitions since we see ourselves in the future as full-fledged members of the EU and NATO,” Osmani said voicing North Macedonia’s strong support to Kosovo’s membership in Euro-Atlantic mechanisms for cooperation and integration. Our diplomacy, he said, is prepared to put at disposal its experiences from the Euro-Atlantic integration process. The top diplomat said that various bilateral issues of mutual interest were discussed at both the ministers’ tête-à-tête meeting and the plenary session of the two delegations, where continuous political dialogue and commitment to enhancing good neighborly relations were praised. Osmani and Gërvalla reaffirmed the interest of the countries’ governments to conclude preparations for a joint governmental session, which has been postponed due to the parliamentary elections in Kosovo earlier this year. Several agreements should be signed at the session, envisaged to open fresh perspectives for cooperation. The two ministers agreed that infrastructural connectivity is key in the coming period, including transport, energy, economic and trade. Kosovo Minister Gërvalla-Schwarz, who is paying her first official visit to North Macedonia, said she has special ties with the capital Skopje. “I was born here and I spent much of my childhood here with my grandparents,” she told a news conference after earlier in the day attending the unveiling of a sign of a street in the Skopje Old Bazaar named after her father, eminent Kosovo Albanian writer and activist Jusuf Gërvalla.