{"id":13337,"date":"2021-05-12T18:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=13337"},"modified":"2021-05-12T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:17:17","slug":"ambassador-soreca-albania-and-north-macedonia-ready-for-first-intergovernmental-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/ambassador-soreca-albania-and-north-macedonia-ready-for-first-intergovernmental-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Soreca: Albania and North Macedonia ready for first Intergovernmental Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albania and North Macedonia are ready to hold their first Intergovernmental Conference, but this will also depend on whether an agreement is reached between member states in June.<\/p>\n<p>These were the words echoed by the Head of the EU Delegation to Albania, Luigi Soreca, during a meeting with youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbania and North Macedonia have now fulfilled all the conditions that were requested by the Council. Both countries deserve to hold the first Intergovernmental Conference together\u201d, stressed the EU Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it is important to make all the necessary efforts to convince member states that the two Balkan countries have done what they were asked to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that all member states, the 27 of them, take this decision in June and now we are making sure that Albania and North Macedonia go through this process together. We need to assure that all efforts are made to convince member states that these two countries have undertaken all the necessary steps to launch accession negotiations\u201d, Ambassador Soreca said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/11\/eu-ambassador-soreca-albania-is-ready-to-start-membership-negotiations-in-the-eu\/\">Soreca: Albania is ready to start membership negotiations with the EU<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/11\/eu-no-longer-focused-on-the-region-says-former-deputy-minister\/\">EU no longer focused on the region, says former deputy minister<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/10\/not-ready-to-be-in-the-eu-but-more-than-ready-to-enter-the-full-track-of-negotiations-says-albanian-pm-for-euronews\/\">\u201cNot ready to be in the EU, but more than ready to enter the full track of negotiations,\u201d says Albanian PM for Euronews<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albania and North Macedonia are ready to hold their first Intergovernmental Conference, but this will also depend on whether an agreement is reached between member states in June. These were the words echoed by the Head of the EU Delegation to Albania, Luigi Soreca, during a meeting with youth. \u201cAlbania and North Macedonia have now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ambassador Soreca: Albania and North Macedonia ready for first Intergovernmental Conference - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/ambassador-soreca-albania-and-north-macedonia-ready-for-first-intergovernmental-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambassador Soreca: Albania and North Macedonia ready for first Intergovernmental Conference - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Albania and North Macedonia are ready to hold their first Intergovernmental Conference, but this will also depend on whether an agreement is reached between member states in June. 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