The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Olta Xhaçka, is in Bucharest, where she participated in the Munich Leaders Meeting, co-organized by Romania.

Minister Xhaçka said that in recent years the region has had stable development, as she emphasized that unresolved situations should not be allowed to threaten the progress made so far.

“Albania is a completely different reality today. The whole region is really different today. Different in the sense that there is a new spirit of cooperation in the majority of the region and between most of the countries in the region. If the Western Countries, EU and the USA in cooperation with local actors, such as Albania, which has been a factor of stability and pro-active regional cooperation, work together, with a clear vision and strategy, the Western Balkans will cease to be an area of concern and will become a peaceful and integrated region of Europe,” she said.

This high-level meeting is organized within the framework of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), also known as the Core Group Meeting, and provides a good opportunity to discuss the main security challenges in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, including the future of the Western Balkans and the Black Sea region, as well as the threat posed by Russia to the international order, taking into account the military aggression against Ukraine.