Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares arrived in Sarajevo on Thursday for an official visit, where he met with members of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency, Chair of the Council of Ministers Borjana Kristo and his counterpart, Foreign Minister Elmedin Konakovic. Albares expressed unequivocal support of his country to integration processes of BiH.

Albares and Konakovic signed the memorandum of understanding for strengthening the cooperation in the field of European integration. They expressed a firm commitment and support to Bosnia's accession to the EU – Konakovic in the light of BiH's most important strategic path of BiH, and Albares in the light of the Spain's EU Presidency which starts in about two months.

Addressing a press conference, the ministers said that the two countries still have a lot of room to expand cooperation in the sectors of economy and trade exchange, culture, and tourism.

Albares congratulated the current authorities at the state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina for their firm commitment to the European agenda and called for a swift government formation at all levels. Spain will follow the implementation of reforms in the candidate countries, he added.

Speaking of war in Ukraine, he emphasised the importance of the positions presented at the UN General Assembly, when the Russian aggression was condemned, adding that “we in European Union defend the principles on which the Union is grounded and we encourage Bosnia and Herzegovina to continue that path.”

Konakovic stressed the importance of aligning the Bosnian policy with that of the EU, and assessed the visit of the Spain's FM as one of the most important in the current term of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

He assessed the relations between the two countries as excellent, pointing out the possibilities in economic, export-import, tourist and other sorts of cooperation.