The United States supports the opening of EU accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania without delay, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
“We support the opening of EU accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania without delay. We are engaging at the highest levels of government to demonstrate our commitment to the aspirants’ European paths,” tweeted Price.
United States President Joseph Biden on Wednesday signed an Executive Order that expands the range of emergency measures in the Western Balkans, including the blocking of property and suspending the entry into the U.S. of certain persons acting against the Prespa Agreement and the Ohrid Framework Agreement and their implementation, undermining peace and regional cooperation. It says that any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity of any area or state in the Western Balkans; to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the Western Balkans, will be sanctioned.
