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SARAJEVO, May 19 (FENA) - Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bisera Turković participated today in a video conference of foreign ministers of the Western Balkans and senior EU officials.
During the video conference, Minister Turković spoke with the European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi, as well as numerous foreign ministers from EU Member States.
The conference focused on measures to recover and further combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, prospects for strengthening regional cooperation and EU integration capacities of the Western Balkans in the post-COVID-19 period, in the context of conclusions and declarations adopted at the recently held EU-Western Balkans Summit in Zagreb, under the Croatian Presidency of the EU Council.
Minister Turković emphasized the importance of continuing the implementation of necessary reforms with the aim of including our country in EU integration as soon as possible, and the need to further strengthen regional cooperation in all areas of primary interest to the economies of all Western Balkan and EU countries. She stated that the European Union has once again proven itself as a strategic partner in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, and expressed confidence that the European Union will support the implementation of numerous regional projects as soon as possible, the Press Service of the BiH Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.
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