The governments of Kosovo and Albania held a joint session in the town of Pec on Monday and signed nine agreements to promote their mutual relations.

The agreements include joint customs control at the Morina border crossing, joint cooperation with international financial organizations and abolishing mobile phone roaming charges.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj voiced satisfaction with the signing of the agreements which he said would lead to a better future. “I know the people of Kosovo and Albania expect more from us and we will be unstoppable in doing what they expect from now on,” he said.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that Pristina’s decision to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was a political reaction to Serbia’s actions. He told the joint session that Serbia’s blocking of the recognition of Kosovo and demands to withdraw that recognition was “cynical support to criminal enclaves”, adding that Serbia was “not always honest” when it expressed the will to overcome problems from the past through dialogue. 

This was the fifth time that the two governments met. Their first joint session was held in Prizren in 2014. Monday’s session is reported to have cost 128,000 Euros.

A protest was staged before the start of the meeting by the families of Kosovo Albanians who died or were arrested and sentenced to prison terms following gunfights with Macedonian security forces in May 2015.