Albania must keep working ceaselessly in order to ensure it fulfills its accession-related obligations before the end of 2020, emphasized Thursday the Ambassador of the European Union in Tirana, Luigi Soreca.

The EU Ambassador also declared that if the conditions are not met, there will be no Intergovernmental Conference during an interview for the Deutsche Welle as he called on all sides to concentrate the integration. “When it comes to EU integration, each side can find a way to help Albania move forward”, Soreca stated.

Furthermore, Ambassador Soreca marked that the International Monitoring Operation (OMN) must keep up its work and that vetting process institutions are making stable progress.

“The convening of the Intergovernmental Conference is another thing, the adoption of the negotiating framework is the condition for convening the Intergovernmental Conference. To convene the Intergovernmental Conference for Albania, as you know since March this year, several conditions have been identified. There are some of them that still need to be met, and that’s clear, this is the reason why I say that the message is that the work must to continue. This was said by Minister Roth, this was said by Commissioner Varhelyi yesterday at the meeting.

What work must be done to continue? Firstly, as you mentioned, the Constitutional Court. In the last weeks, I have called several times for the Justice Appointments Council to accelerate work regarding the evaluation and ranking of candidates in the three open positions. As far as I have understood, in the coming days there will be Council meetings - KED - and it is important that KED comes up with a list that will be sent to the two appointing authorities, the President of the Republic and the Parliament for appointments”, pronounced Soreca among others.