{"id":27005,"date":"2021-12-09T20:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=27005"},"modified":"2021-12-09T21:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:47:43","slug":"rama-meets-escobar-biden-administration-strongly-endorses-open-balkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-meets-escobar-biden-administration-strongly-endorses-open-balkan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama meets Escobar: Biden administration strongly endorses Open Balkan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama received Thursday afternoon the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and the US Special Envoy to the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar.<\/p>\n<p>Rama described the meeting as \u201cvery fiends\u201d, highlighting that the main theme was \u201con the excellent partnership between Albania and the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>PM Rama noted that Escobar had affirmed that the Biden administration supports the Open Balkan initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the meeting also focused on Albania\u2019s role in the region as well as the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Escobar said during an earlier visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina that the US endorses an initiative that is based on \u201cfair principles\u201d and that is open \u201cto all six countries of the Western Balkans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US Special Envoy, Open Balkan needs to regulate the common market and raise to EU levels so that its 20 million inhabitants can actually gain out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama received Thursday afternoon the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and the US Special Envoy to the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar. 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