(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.

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