Spanish FM: W. Balkans integration priority

Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos spoke in Brussels on Thursday about the integration of the Western Balkans.

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Friday, 05.02.2010.

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Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos spoke in Brussels on Thursday about the integration of the Western Balkans. He said that the Spanish EU presidency has included the integration of the Western Balkans as one of three key items in its foreign policy program. Spanish FM: W. Balkans integration priority European Union membership of the Western Balkan countries is "the most immediate of three main spheres of the EU's foreign policy activity to which the Spanish presidency wishes to pay most attention," underlined Moratinos at the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. For this reason, he added, a meeting between top-level Western Balkan and EU officials is planned to take place in Sarajevo in May in order to confirm the guidelines for the region's stability and European future. "The first sphere which," according to him, "is the most immediate and ensures the future, the betterment and the stability of the EU itself, is the group of countries that wishes to join the European family, and that is enlargement." "Accordingly, the Spanish presidency has set enlargement as its absolute priority during the six months of its presidency of the Union," said Moratinos. The Spanish foreign minister, answering questions posed by European Parliament MPs, emphasized that the Spanish EU presidency would devote attention to Croatia in the hope that the country progresses as much as possible and completes membership talks by the end of the year if not by June.

Spanish FM: W. Balkans integration priority

European Union membership of the Western Balkan countries is "the most immediate of three main spheres of the EU's foreign policy activity to which the Spanish presidency wishes to pay most attention," underlined Moratinos at the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

For this reason, he added, a meeting between top-level Western Balkan and EU officials is planned to take place in Sarajevo in May in order to confirm the guidelines for the region's stability and European future.

"The first sphere which," according to him, "is the most immediate and ensures the future, the betterment and the stability of the EU itself, is the group of countries that wishes to join the European family, and that is enlargement."

"Accordingly, the Spanish presidency has set enlargement as its absolute priority during the six months of its presidency of the Union," said Moratinos.

The Spanish foreign minister, answering questions posed by European Parliament MPs, emphasized that the Spanish EU presidency would devote attention to Croatia in the hope that the country progresses as much as possible and completes membership talks by the end of the year if not by June.

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