1st Balkan Rural Parliamentary Meeting was held on June 26-28, 2018 in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia as part of the European Union-funded "Active Local Regions for Economic Development of Rural Areas " project.

First Balkan Rural Parliament was bring together about 60 representatives of civil society, governments, and grass-root organisations from Western Balkan countries and Turkey, representatives of European Commission, national rural networks from all Europe, international networks and organisations and many other rural actors.

• to support regional and inter-sectorial cooperation of key actors for rural development of the Balkan;
• to express the voice of rural people in Western Balkan and Turkey;
• to promote self-help and action by the rural people, in partnership with civil society and governments;
• to define main recommendations about sustainable development rural communities of the Western Balkan and Turkey;
• to define main recommendations to EU institutions and national governments, related to EU integration of the region based on the regional needs and specificity of the rural areas.