Meta and Croatian counterpart discuss intensifying ties

TIRANA, Fe. 23 – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ilir Meta met with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Durda Adle۩ć, who was on a two-day visit in Tirana.
Meta and Adle۩ć shared the assessment on the very good level of relations of cooperation between the two countries, as an expression of the already politically consolidated will between the two governments.
Both sides expressed the will on further intensification and enhancement of economic cooperation, so that it would rise to the level of political relations and respond to the potentials of both countries.
The talks did also focus on the close cooperation in the framework of the integration process of both countries towards EU membership, albeit the stage of achievement for each of these two countries. An important topic was also visa liberalization between the two countries.
During their meeting, the interlocutors talked also on the cooperation in the context of regional initiatives and, in particular, on the proposal of the Croatian side to set up a Regional Firefighting Center in Croatia, which would serve to fight more efficiently the fires threatening the territories of the countries of the region, particularly during the summer months.
Both countries became new NATO members last year. Croatia is expecting to become in the next two years a full member of the European Union while Albania is compiling answers to a questionnaire on the candidate status to the bloc.