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Albania applied for membership in 2009 and became a membership candidate in 2014. Negotiations started in 2022, “but we had to wait until 2024, and the Hungarian presidency for the actual process to start,” Szijjártó said. The past two months, he added, had seen more progress than the previous 15 years.
Szijjártó said that opening the chapters relating to foreign ties and security policy was a good decision in view of Albania’s “excellent performance” in the field. The country, he said, was a reliable NATO ally and “has performed well in the UN Security Council”.
The minister said that Hungary had firsthand experience on the “enormous progress” that Albania’s economy had made in the past few years, as Hungarian companies in top positions on the Albanian market could attest to.
Hungary and Albania earlier signed an agreement on the training of 50 Albanian public servants at the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy, “because Hungary well remembers how complicated the EU accession process can be,” he said.
Asked about a remark by Estonian counterpart Margus Tsahkna that he felt Szijjártó was “playing for another team”, the minister said he was “absolutely right”. “We play for another team: he’s on the pro-war team, and I’m on the pro-peace team.”
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