We’re using the time until the discussion for opening accession talks with Macedonia and Albania is back on the agenda, to cooperate with Western Balkan leaders in order to achieve the best possible outcome at the next meeting, said Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas at a press briefing, answering the question of MIA’s correspondent in Athens regarding the discussion topics for PMs Zoran Zaev and Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ meeting in Thessaloniki on Thursday.

At our meetings, regardless if they are meetings in Greece with leaders of the Western Balkan countries or in Europe, we always strive to insist on our core policy that the European perspective of the Western Balkans benefits both Europe and the Western Balkans. Given that at the European Council on 17 and 18 October we had the conclusion that the discussion would reopen in the coming months, we are working to use this time period in co-operation with all the leaders of all Western Balkan countries to achieve the best possible outcome at the next meeting, Petsas said.