Four Western Balkan countries launched “100% Alignment with CFSP” platform

SKOPJE – Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani, together with the Albanian Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Olta Xhaçka, Kosovo’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Kreshnik Ahmeti, and the foreign policy advisor of the Montenegrin Prime Minister, Đorđe Radulović, launched the new “Western Balkans QUAD – 100% alignment with EU Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP)” platform on Wednesday.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the focus of the meeting was full alignment of the four countries from the QUAD group with the EU’s foreign and security policy in light of the new geopolitical reality, hybrid threats, energy crisis and economic consequences caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“After the Russian aggression on Ukraine, alignment with the CFSP, but even beyond that, with the positions and values of the democratic world, has become one of the most important priorities of the aspiring EU member states, but also as a clear message for where these countries belong,” stressed Minister Osmani at the meeting, MIA.mk reported. 

The Foreign Minister expressed his satisfaction with the establishment of the informal QUAD forum. Each one of these countries, he said, have demonstrated they are trustworthy partners of NATO and the EU, by aligning themselves with EU and U.S. sanctions, but also by providing concrete humanitarian and other technical assistance to Ukraine.