Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, is visiting Austria and lobbying for faster admission of Kosovo to Interpol and Europol. According to a press release issued by the Interior Ministry, Hyseni has had an opportunity to meet counterparts from Austria, Hungary, and the Western Balkans countries and has also met Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock and Europol director Rob Wainwright. Hyseni stressed the need for advancing the cooperation between Kosovo Police and Europol and said he hoped Kosovo’s application for Interpol membership would be addressed in the upcoming meeting of the organisation’s executive committee.