Serbian PM Vucevic is in Athens today for international conference, he will also meets with Lajcak

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A two-day international conference organized on the sixth anniversary of the signing of the Prespa Agreement begins today in Athens, and Prime Minister of Serbia Milos Vucevic will participate.

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Vucevic will participate in the panel "Western Balkans accession perspectives on the future of Europe: A period of stagnation or new momentum," and in addition to the prime minister of Serbia, special representative of the European Union for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Miroslav Lajcak will also address the meeting, as well as Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Vucevic is expected to meet with Lajcak beforehand.

EU commissioners, academics from Europe, former heads of state and experts will discuss the future of Europe after the EU Parliament elections, the integration process of the Western Balkans, geopolitical developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, peaceful settlement of disputes and dealing with the climate crisis, all during the International Conference for Peace and Sustainable Development, organized by the Alexis Tsipras Institute and the Zoran Zaev Foundation.

Several panel discussions will be held at the conference, including a panel where Zaev and Tsipras will answer questions related to the Prespa Agreement.

As announced, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will address the participants via video message before presenting the Prespa Award to UN Special Envoy Matthew Nimitz for his contribution to the agreement.

The Prespa Agreement was signed on June 17, 2018, ending the 27-year dispute between Skopje and Athens over the name of the country now called North Macedonia.

A few days ago, Tsipras and Zaev assessed in a joint op-ed that the Prespa Agreement proved that, even when the burden of history is great, where there is a will, there is a way, but at the same time they noted that over the past six years, not a single event that they had hoped for happened, and in that context mentioned the blocking of the accession process of North Macedonia to the EU first by France, and in recent years by Bulgaria.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)