{"id":37212,"date":"2022-05-27T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=37212"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:22:42","slug":"abazovic-in-favor-of-open-balkan-confirms-montenegros-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/abazovic-in-favor-of-open-balkan-confirms-montenegros-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Abazovic in favor of Open Balkan, confirms Montenegro\u2019s participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montenegro\u2019s PM Dritan Abazovic has confirmed his country\u2019s participation in the upcoming meeting of the Open Balkan initiative, set to take place this June in Ohrid, North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>During an activity that took place today in Podgorica, Abazovic said that although Montenegro hasn\u2019t joined this initiative in the past, it has attended meetings as an observer.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting of the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Serbian president, Alexandar Vucic, invited Abazovic to join the next meeting of the regional initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Balkan initiative is a continuation of the Balkan mini-Schengen project presented in Novi Sad, Serbia on October 10, 2019, by leaders of Serbia, North Macedonia, and Albania.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Montenegro was governed by the Democratic Socialist Party (DPS) which at the time, didn\u2019t agree to participate along with the 3 above-mentioned Balkan countries.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Kosovo and Bosnia, and Hercegovina didn\u2019t support this initiative and continue to hold the same stance to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/23\/another-country-will-join-open-balkan-claims-balla\/\">Another country will join Open Balkan, claims Balla<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/20\/charles-michel-endorses-open-balkan-calls-for-inclusion\/\">Charles Michel endorses Open Balkan, calls on other countries to join<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/05\/18\/rama-hits-back-at-djukanovic-osmani-for-criticizing-open-balkan\/\">Rama hits back at Djukanovic, Osmani for criticizing Open Balkan<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu36902\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montenegro\u2019s PM Dritan Abazovic has confirmed his country\u2019s participation in the upcoming meeting of the Open Balkan initiative, set to take place this June in Ohrid, North Macedonia. During an activity that took place today in Podgorica, Abazovic said that although Montenegro hasn\u2019t joined this initiative in the past, it has attended meetings as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":37213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abazovic in favor of Open Balkan, confirms Montenegro\u2019s participation - 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\/abazovic-in-favor-of-open-balkan-confirms-montenegros-participation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abazovic in favor of Open Balkan, confirms Montenegro\u2019s participation - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Montenegro\u2019s PM Dritan Abazovic has confirmed his country\u2019s participation in the upcoming meeting of the Open Balkan initiative, set to take place this June in Ohrid, North Macedonia. 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