TIRANA, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Albanian coastal city of Durres hosted Saturday an informal meeting between the Prime Ministers of Western Balkans countries and European Union (EU) commissioner for enlargement Johannes Hahn.
During the meeting, Prime Ministers of Albania's Edi Rama, Macedonia's Zoran Zaev, Montenegro's Dusko Markovic, Serbia's Ana Brnabic and Kosovo's Isa Mustafa voiced support to the promotion of regional initiatives aimed at boosting cooperation.
More concretely, the leaders discussed about the economic project that was agreed during Trieste Summit held in July in Italy.
The project foresees the creation of a regional economic zone aimed at facilitating trade relations and economic cooperation between the regional countries.
After the PMs' closed-door meeting, Rama and Hahn held a joint press conference where they both praised the good will of the region's leaders to take cooperation to another level.
Rama announced the drafting of a working plan which defined the areas where the countries needed to work to step up their efforts in liberalizing market and getting closer to EU.
He noted that the economic project had full support of all countries while he praised the support given by the World Bank and other important international financial institutions.
Rama also said that the meeting would serve as a strategic reflection to make the region more attractive for foreign investments and more competitive.
On his part, Hahn said EU noted progress in Albania, and highlighted that EU supported initiatives which in the end served the best interest of citizens and their welfare.
