Skopje, 3 November 2022 (MIA) – A government delegation led by Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski will participate on Thursday in a Western Balkans leaders meeting as part of the Berlin Process Summit, held in the German capital. The delegation also includes Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Marichikj and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani. The Office of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said the summit will bring together the heads of government of the six countries of the Western Balkans, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Council President Charles Michel, and representatives of EU member-states from the area, regional and international organizations. The summit’s agenda includes several sessions where PM Kovachevski and leaders of Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro are to discuss regional cooperation and joint regional markets, energy stability and transformation, as well as the perspectives of the Berlin Process and strategic issues. Western Balkans leaders are set to sign three regional agreements on mobility, related to mutual recognition of identity cards, university degrees and professional qualifications. The Berlin Process, a formal of annual meetings initiated by the German government, was first held in Berlin in 2014, followed by Vienna in 2015, Paris in 2016, Trieste in 2017, London in 2018, Poznan in 2019 and Sofia in 2020. The Berlin Process focuses on strengthening and promoting cooperation between Western Balkan countries with the support of the European Commission, in terms of reform processes, joint markets, mutual recognition of professional qualifications and free movement of people and goods, so as to contribute to accelerated regional economic growth and development in the region.