Italy’s Deputy Minister Edmondo Cirielli, on behalf of Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, took part yesterday in the tenth Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting of the Berlin Process, a regional forum with the aim of fostering stability in the Western Balkans and keeping the region’s European perspective concrete.
The meeting, organised by the Albanian presidency, was also attended by the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, and the Foreign Ministers of the six Western Balkan countries. The event was an opportunity to discuss the geopolitical situation of the whole region and of the Western Balkans, while taking stock of the results achieved in the field of regional economic cooperation.
In this regard, Deputy Minister Cirielli praised the results achieved by the countries of the area in terms of economic integration, a fundamental goal also with a view to fostering regional reconciliation. To this end, the Deputy Minister encouraged the parties to work constructively and take advantage of all the opportunities offered by the existing cooperation frameworks.
Deputy Minister Cirielli also mentioned Italy’s important contribution to peace and stability in the region, reflected both in its extensive participation in KFOR and EUFOR Althea and in the Government’s renewed political commitment to the Western Balkans, which was at the centre of a series of high-level initiatives organised during the year at the request of Minister Tajani.
