(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 19 MAG - To facilitate the transport
system with the movement of people and goods and make a
contribution to the recovery of the economy and tourism across
the Balkan region, the leaders of Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and
Romania, who met today in a quadrilateral videoconference
summit, have decided to open their respective borders starting
from June 1st, in compliance with all prevention and safety
measures against coronavirus infection. Serbian President
Aleksandar Vucic and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov,
Greece's PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Romania's premier Ludovic
Orban have agreed on the need to gradually ease the restrictions
imposed on the Covid-19 pandemic, in light of the general
improvement in the epidemiological situation. The reopening of
the borders, it has been underlined, will contribute to a
gradual recovery of the national economies, favoring the return
to a full collaboration at the regional level. The meeting,
which was also attended by several ministers from the four
governments, focused on the common fight against coronavirus,
the measures needed to resume regional collaboration, regional
projects in the fields of transport, infrastructure and energy,
and the support of Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria for the
European integration perspective of Serbia, out of the four
countries the only one which is not yet part of the EU. Borissov
invited the leaders of Serbia, Romania, and Greece to a new
4-person meeting, on June 1st in Varna, on the Black Sea.
(ANSA).
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