TIRANA, May 30 – The countries of the Western Balkans gathered in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Tuesday to discuss for two consecutive days the challenges that the region has for energy security.
The Deputy Prime Minister, at the same time Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Belinda Balluku and the Deputy Prime Minister of North Macedonia for Economic Affairs, Fatmir Bytyçi, in a statement to the media, emphasized the need for regional cooperation.
Balluku stated that North Macedonia and Albania have long started to cooperate, especially with regard to the new project of the port of Vlora, where a navigable gasification is foreseen.
“North Macedonia and Albania have long started to cooperate, especially in terms of the new project, which is the Vlora port project, where a navigable gasification is foreseen, which will also have other developments, such as the distribution of liquefied gas to other countries of the region, as well as the production of electricity through molecules that will come from the United States of America,” said Balluku.
While Bytyçi announced that the future should be based on the mutual cooperation of the states of the region.
“I know that we have not yet done much work with Corridor VIII, I hope very soon we will have good roads and much faster movement, but I think that the subject of energy is a subject in which we must continue to cooperate,” the Deputy Prime Minister of North Macedonia for Economic Affairs, Fatmir Bytyçi said. /argumentum.al
