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Coronavirus – Foreign minister: Peace, developments in West Balkans in Hungary’s interest
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Peace and developments in the Western Balkans are in Hungary’s national security and economic interests, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.
Budapest is providing comprehensive aid to the region’s countries, including Albania, and helping with their European integration processes, the minister said at a joint press conference held in Tirana with his Albanian counterpart Ghent Cakaj.
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Szijjártó welcomed that the European Union “is finally starting negotiations with Albania”. The uptake of talks, he added, was also “a Hungarian success”.
“Where the European Commission failed for eleven years, the Hungarian commissioner for enlargement succeeded in a few months,” he insisted.
Hungary is calling on the commission to make up for “wasted time” by speeding up the accession negotiations and holding the first round of talks by the summer. “Otherwise, we’ll lose so much time that the credibility of the integration process will be undermined.”