Need of accelerating accession of Balkans to EU: Italy's FM

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, FEB 27 - At the sixth meeting of the Coordination Committee of Italy-Croatia ministers in Zagreb, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated, "I believe that on all major issues of international politics, we are in perfect agreement, on Ukraine" and "I want to thank (Foreign Minister) Gordan Grlić-Radman for the intense collaborative relationship and of identical views." "We are working very well in the Western Balkans, thanks to the Friendship Group, which we formed precisely because we want a European presence in the region and to accelerate the process of joining the EU," he added. "We must do it because we are closer than other countries; we must not allow Russia and Asian countries to intervene in the Balkans; our priority is stability," Tajani said, adding that he will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday. (ANSA).