Press Release: Signature of nine agreements on visa facilitation and readmission between the European Community and all Western Balkans Countries by Vice President Franco Frattini and by the Portuguese Minister of Interior, Rui Carlos Pereira

The visa facilitation and readmission agreements were signed on 18 September 2007 in a ceremony that took place in Brussels with the participation, from the EU side, of Vice President Franco Frattini (from the Commission) and the Minister of Interior Rui Carlos Pereira (from the Portuguese Presidency) and, from the Western Balkan countries, of the Ministers of Interior of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.