By bne IntelliNews US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Albania on February 15 to reaffirm relations with a key partner in the region and assure Western Balkan countries of Washington’s support for their integration into the European Union. The US strongly supports integration into the EU for Albania, a Nato member and staunch ally in the region, as well as other Western Balkan countries. There have been heightened fears of instability in the Western Balkans since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Blinken said he was in Tirana on his first visit as secretary of state to Albania ‘be…