US Ambassador to Montenegro Judy Rising Reinke has said the United States supports the Open Balkans provided that all Western Balkan countries are represented “fully and equally”.
Reinke said that in the Open Balkans there are no footnotes and no special conditions.
She further added that they support this initiative as long as it is fully in line with the principles of the European Union.
There is a simple set of conditions, and that is that the “Open Balkans” is fully and equally open to the six countries of the Western Balkans. No footnotes, no special conditions. So long as it is open to all and as long as all the principles within the Open Balkans are fully in line with the conditions that the EU would expect in the accession process. These are the conditions. This would give the countries of the Western Balkans a chance to build their economies, work to establish norms and regulatory principles for the free movement of people, goods and resources, and be better prepared as membership approaches. in the EU “, she said.
She also said that it does not matter if this initiative is supported by Russia, for her it is important what it is about in the Open Balkans.
“For me, the key is not who supports, but what it is about. “What we understand and support is an ‘Open Balkans’ which is equally open to all six Balkan countries and fully in line with European Union principles,” she said in an interview for VOA.
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