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Final Agreement on “Mini Schengen” Scheduled for January in Belgrade

Final Agreement on “Mini Schengen” Scheduled for January in Belgrade

During a two-day meeting in Tirana this past weekend, the leaders of Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia have reached an agreement on cooperation in several areas, primarily in the domain of emergencies and the labor market, and the next meeting within the “mini Schengen” initiative will be held in Belgrade in late January 2020.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and the prime ministers of Albania and North Macedonia, Edi Rama, and Zoran Zaev, spoke on Friday about the “mini Schengen” initiative, which is related to eliminating obstacles to the free movement of goods, capital, people and services between the three countries, and on Saturday they were joined by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic.

After the talks on Friday Vucic said that by the end of the year a decision would be adopted allowing for only an identity card being required for entering the territories of any of the countries included in the “mini Schengen”.

“I think that the next meeting will be historic,” Vucic told reporters in Tirana.

He added that the meeting also discussed a single labor market “which is now not 7.5 million but 12 million people.”

Vucic also said that work is being done on harmonizing customs services and expanding border crossings in order to improve truck throughput.

He said that those decisions would be signed in Podgorica or Belgrade, depending on the agreement.

Vucic said that he understands Pristina’s absence from the meeting, but that he cannot understand why there were no representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is certainly interested in the agreement, he said.

 

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