TIRANA, July 4 – Prime Minister Edi Rama, who declared the end of the Open Balkans in recent days, will start a 2-day tour in the countries of the Western Balkans to promote the Berlin Process, an initiative which is chaired by Albania during 2023.
The Albanian Prime Minister has planned to meet with the 4 counterparts of North Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Montenegro and the President of Serbia on July 6 and 7.
He will start the tour from Skopje and after the meeting with Dimitar Kovacevski will travel to Pristina where he will meet with PM Albin Kurti. This will be the first meeting between them after the cancellation of the meeting of the Albanian and Kosovo governments. The meeting also takes place against the background of the increase in tensions in the north of Kosovo.
Rama and Kurti will meet around 16:00 and then there is expected to be a communication with the media. The Prime Minister and his staff have decided to stay the night of July 6 in Pristina and then on the morning of Friday July 7 they will travel to Sarajevo where they will have a meeting with Borjana Kristo, the head of the Council of Ministers. Afterwards he will fly to Podgorica where he will meet the acting Prime Minister, Dritan Abazovic.
The last leg of the tour will be Belgrade, where the Prime Minister will be received in a meeting by President Aleksandar Vucic. This will be the first meeting after the communications that Rama had with him and the Serbian authorities regarding the release of three Kosovo Police officers arrested by the Serbian police structures. /argumentum.al
