15/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - Thirty regions from the Balkans and South Eastern Europe gathered on 11 and 12 June in the Greek city of Kavala for the constitutive assembly of the Association of Balkan regions, new regional committee of the CPMR, Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions in Europe. The priorities of the association will be to promote interregional cooperation in the Balkans and to facilitate cooperation by these regions with the European institutions.s