Mehmet Kemal Bozay, Türkiye’s deputy foreign minister and director for European Union affairs, spoke in Tirana at the closing event of the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye, a joint programme of the EU and the Council of Europe marking a decade of partnership toward European standards.

Bozay briefed participants on the projects and work carried out in Türkiye under the programme, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

On the sidelines of the event, he met Jovica Palashevski, state secretary at North Macedonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Claus Neukirch, the Council of Europe’s director of programme coordination.