The third Open Balkan meeting convened on Monday where leaders discussed the Council.

The leaders of the countries involved in the process, the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, Macedonian MP Zoran Zaev, and President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic will formalize this initiative that aims at the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital signed five agreements.

Zaev and Vucic, accompanied by some of their ministers and the heads of their countries’ chambers of commerce, will arrive in Tirana this afternoon.

The first day is scheduled for an official dinner at a resort in Elbasan, which will be attended also by the representative of the Atlantic Council Jim O’Brien and Alex Soros, chair of the Open Society Foundation.

At 9 AM, at the Palace of Congress the countries’ three teams will also hold a virtual meeting with the EU commissioner on Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi CEFTA chief Emir Gjikic and the general secretary of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Majldina Bregu.

The first agreement will be signed by Rama, Vucic and Zaev is on the conditions for free access to the labor market. Other agreements were about joint schemes for electronic identification of citizens at border crossings, cooperation in the field of food safety, mutual recognition and economic operators.

Meanwhile, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina have refused to be part of this initiative, even after calls for cooperation.