In December, Albania hosted the Tirana Regional Summit on Interreligious and Interethnic Dialogue in South East Europe, in which 13 leaders from the region participated and which culminated in the adoption of the Tirana Summit Declaration.

Leaving it pending will delay regional integration and adversely affect the interests of all, including Belgrade, Podgorica, Skopje and Tirana.

UNDP Albania raised funds from Sweden (SIDA) to strengthen the national network for the political empowerment of women and establish a gender budgeting community of practice in partnership with Tirana University.

WARSAW It was two decades ago this summer that communist rule began to implode from Tallinn in the Baltic to Tirana in the Adriatic, ushering in free elections, market reforms, and expanded civil liberties. Since then, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have come a long way.

TIRANA In an era characterized by political polarization and policy paralysis, we should celebrate broad agreement on economic strategy wherever we find it. One such area of agreement is the idea that the key to inclusive growth is, as then British Prime Minister Tony Blair put in his 2001 reelection campaign, education, education, education.

Welcome with satisfaction the improvement and positive developments of regional cooperation in the field of migration, asylum and refugees and, in this regard, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding of the MARRI Regional Forum, and the establishment of the Regional MARRI Center in Skopje, as well as the conclusions of the MARRI Ministerial Conference held in Tirana (5 April 2005).