Montenegro takes over Adriatic Charter chairmanship

At the meeting of the Adriatic Charter (A5) countries in Skopje on Wednesday, Montenegro took over the chairmanship of this important regional initiative from Macedonia for the next half-year.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Rocen attended the meeting of the A5 along with his counterparts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo (as observer) and discussed the ways to further improve the successful cooperation under this initiative. The most important proposal put forth was the initiative for joint training and deployment of a team of instructors from the region for the purposes of ownership transfer to Afghan authorities, which has been recognised as a way toward lasting stability of the country.

The attendants at the meeting welcomed the continued open-door policy of NATO and the new strategic concept of the Alliance, and reiterated that a Euro-Atlantic perspective for the Western Balkans is a precondition for the lasting stability of the region.

The meeting concluded that regional cooperation under A5 is an indispensable framework for good neighbourly relations between the countries of the region. In this context, the meeting welcomed the Montenegrin chairmanship and voiced confidence in its success, especially in pursuing the jointly agreed objectives.

At the margins of the meeting, Ministers Milan Rocen and Antonio Milososki signed a bilateral agreement between Montenegro and Macedonia on mutual encouragement and protection of investments between the two countries.