For the first time the summit of the Berlin Process will be held outside the borders of the European Union.
On October 16, Tirana will host the six leaders of the Western Balkans and key leaders of the EU, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
A new agreement will be added to the initiative aimed at cooperation between the countries of the Western Balkans in the alignment with the European Union. The leaders of Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are expected to sign the agreement for the mutual recognition of four professions, which include surgeons, midwives and veterinarians, which will be added to the professions already are arranged for doctors, dentists and architects. Also, it will be aimed to have joint declarations for the facilitation of trade and transport, for the protection of the environment and partnership for the climate.
Present at the next summit of the Berlin Process, which will be held in Tirana, will be the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, who, in addition to the need for regional cooperation, will also mention the act of aggression of Serbia in his address. in Kosovo on September 24, his adviser, Jeton Zulfaj, tells KosovaPress.
"On October 16, we will have the leaders' summit within the Berlin Process, where the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, will participate. There we are expected to have a new agreement for professions, where we will have four new professions that will be recognized by all six states of the Western Balkans. Here are surgeons, midwives…veterinarians, which will be added to the professions that are already regulated for doctors, dentists and architects. With this, we are managing to expand the number of professions that will be recognized in the region... I believe that we will have some joint declarations that will facilitate trade and transport, for the protection of the environment and a partnership for the climate", announced Zulfaj .
Zulfaj considers it necessary to discuss Serbia's terrorist attack in Kosovo among regional and EU leaders, even though the focus of the Berlin Process summit will be on economic cooperation.