Ministerial meeting of Central European Initiative

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić participated in a ministerial conference of the Central European Initiative, held on the fringes of the Western Balkans Conference 3 June in Vienna

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić participated in a ministerial conference of the Central European Initiative, held on the fringes of the Western Balkans Conference 3 June in Vienna.

“The CEI has long ago established itself as a promoter of European values,” said Pusić, adding that its member states had three common interests: cooperation, EU accession and the Eastern Partnership. The issue of security is the issue of energy and energy cooperation, said Pusić, underlining that in the previous months we had been faced with an unfamiliar situation in the relations with Russia.

Both the Conference on the Western Balkans 1914-2014 and the CEI ministerial meeting on the sidelines deal with the issues of EU enlargement, the role of EU as a peace project, economic situation in the Western Balkans, and future cooperation within the CEI. In attendance were the foreign ministers and high officials of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, as well as Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Füle.

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