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Missing in Action: Albania’s voice nowhere near key events discussing integration

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TIRANA TIMES OP-ED The Bled Strategic Forum, a regional activity that gathers the “who is who” of regional politics and a variety of international actors who are relevant to the Western’s Balkans fate wrapped up its works this week. The Forum is being organized in the idyllic setting of lake Bled Slovenia since more than a decade. This year, the key forum that got all the public and media attention. The featured the recently appointed US Special Envoy for the WB Mathew Palmer, RCC Director Majlinda Bregu and all the Ministers of Foreign Affairs form the regions countries, all except…

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