Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Venizelos holds telephone talks with Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister Evangelos Venizelos held telephone talks from Brussels today,
Wednesday, 23 July, with Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati
regarding the matter of the ongoing administrative restructuring of
Albania, which changes the local administrative entities into regions of
special importance for the Greek National Minority.
Today’s talks come as a follow-up to a letter given by Mr. Venizelos to Mr. Bushati on 10 June, as well as a number of diplomatic demarches on this issue. Mr. Venizelos stressed how critical and sensitive this issue is, and the need to move ahead to the resolution of the pending issues between the two countries, without adding new issues.
As Mr. Venizelos stressed, the guide on all issues must be European practice, particularly now that Albania, having gained the status of candidate country for accession to the EU, has additional obligations, given that the country is evaluated based on its compliance with the European acquis and the Copenhagen criteria.
Today’s talks come as a follow-up to a letter given by Mr. Venizelos to Mr. Bushati on 10 June, as well as a number of diplomatic demarches on this issue. Mr. Venizelos stressed how critical and sensitive this issue is, and the need to move ahead to the resolution of the pending issues between the two countries, without adding new issues.
As Mr. Venizelos stressed, the guide on all issues must be European practice, particularly now that Albania, having gained the status of candidate country for accession to the EU, has additional obligations, given that the country is evaluated based on its compliance with the European acquis and the Copenhagen criteria.
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