(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The European Commission announced Wednesday the release of an additional euro 1.5 million in humanitarian funding to assist refugees and migrants in Serbia and Macedonia. The aid will help with the provision of basic emergency services such as drinking water, hygiene, health care, shelter and protection for refugees and migrants. Overall EU humanitarian aid to support refugees and migrants in Serbia and Macedonia now amounts to 1.74 million euro, said the EU's executive body in a statement.
The new EU aid comes a day before the Western Balkans Summit in Vienna, due tomorrow (Thursday), to be hosted by Austrian Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann.
EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of the European Commission for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic and Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for the European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, will represent the EU at the Summit in Vienna.
The Summit will build on the progress made since the Berlin Summit in August last year, and will seek to further develop the co-operation between the 6 Western Balkans countries , Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia, noted the statement.
The one-day summit will focus on migration - one of the main topics of the Summit, and also discuss regional cooperation and religious dialogue and anti-extremism. The Summit will include parallel sessions for the Heads of Governments, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Economy.
"The Western Balkans region faces many challenges, from the urgency to tackle security and migration issues to the need to address economic and political difficulties in many countries. The Western Balkans Summit in Vienna will give us an important opportunity not only to discuss the present challenges, but also our common future," commented Mogherini.
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