The Speaker of the Assembly, Lindita Nikolla, received today the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, who is conducting an official visit to Albania.

President Nikolla underlined that Kosovo is a national priority of Albania and Albania-Kosovo cooperation is strategic, with a unique role for stability, security, development and the Euro-Atlantic perspective of the region. The intensification of cooperation between the Assembly of Albania and the Assembly of Kosovo is contributing to the acceleration of the integration of both countries in the EU, of Kosovo in NATO and its representation in international organizations.

Albania will continue to support and lobby for Kosovo’s admission to the Council of Europe and other international organizations. Dialogue supported by the US and the EU is the only path to peace. Albania welcomes the decision to resume the dialogue mediated by the EU. In partnership with our strategic allies USA and EU, Kosovo won the war and with this partnership it will also win peace.

The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, thanked President Nikola for the warm reception and congratulated her for the very close and productive cooperation with the Assembly of Kosovo. The cooperation between the institutions of the two countries must increase especially in the field of foreign policy, for which we must define concrete objectives.

Kosovo needs the support of Albania and the coordination of the two countries makes us a stronger voice in the region and more reliable of our partners and friends. Kosovo has been and will be for the continuation of the dialogue, based on the recommendations of our strategic partners, the USA and the EU, whose support facilitates and brings closer the realization of our national objectives.

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