(ANSA) - ROME - The Croatian population is declining, the number
of Muslims is increasing and even radicalism is growing. In
Bosnia, looking into the overall figures, more and more cases of
''foreign fighters'' leaving for Syria have been recorded. In
this alarming scenario, Italy's President Mattarella will fly to
Sarajevo tomorrow to take part in talks with Bosnia's tripartite
presidency and to participate, as a guest of honor, in the
leaders' summit of the ''Brdo Brioni Process'', an informal
meeting aimed to enhance the Balkans' integration. This visit to
Sarajevo also completes the missions already undertaken by
Mattarella in Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia,
confirming the close attention Italy continues to pay to Western
Balkans. And the Balkans pay attention to Italy, too, deeming it
as an important partner to develop dialogue with the European
Union and as a sponsor of the difficult process of integration
of different countries within the turbulent region. The informal
cooperation forum has the aim to bring together around the same
table all the leaders of the region in the presence of a high
representative of one of the EU leading countries. Even
Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and
Serbia take part in this initiative. (ANSA).
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