(ANSA) - TIRANA, 21 MAG - "Trieste can represent for Albania the outlet to Europe and Albania can represent for our markets the outlet to the whole Balkan area. That is why as institutions we have decided together with the Albanian government to start a fruitful cooperation to foster mutual investments." This was announced by the president of the Fvg Region, Massimiliano Fedriga, at the end of a series of meetings with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and some ministers of the Albanian government, in Tirana. Fedriga referred to new connections and relations between the Trieste airport and those in Albania. But the purpose of the mission started today by the Fvg governor is not only about ports but about all kinds of "opportunities from the business point of view and from the investment point of view," Fedriga specified. "In the meetings we had today we are working to strengthen cooperation between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Albania, and there are many opportunities." The governor is convinced that Albania can be an interesting country "for all those near-shoring activities that have become fundamental given the new global context where tensions, especially between Western democracies and the Far East, risk putting our production system in crisis or otherwise affecting it." For this reason, too, therefore, Fgv "cannot but look to the Balkan area and Albania, a friendly country, to develop new oportunities for development, for the security of our production system," he concluded. (ANSA).