OHRID, Republic of North Macedonia: Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia discussed setting up a common market at a summit Sunday , weeks after the European Union snubbed bids by Skopje and Tirana to open membership talks.
"We all want to be part of EU", but"it depends on them", he added. Serbia opened membership talks with the bloc in 2014.This new initiative is aimed at establishing the free movement of goods and people by 2021 in the divided region.But while Bosnia and Montenegro sent representatives to Sunday's meeting, Kosovo was absent.
The issue remains extremely sensitive in the Balkans region, which was torn apart in a series of wars in the 1990s that accompanied the collapse of Yugoslavia."It is also in the interest of Kosovo, its citizens and market that the border between Kosovo and Serbia be abolished" despite the unresolved dispute between the two countries, he said.