CALL ON ALBANIAN BUSINESSMEN TO INVEST IN SERBIA

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October 14th

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said today at the opening of the Serbia-Albania Business Forum in Nis that businessmen and investors from Albania were welcome and that the doors of the government of Serbia and the Serbian market were wide open to them. Vucic said at the business forum which was also attended by Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama that Serbs and Albanians were the two biggest nations in the Balkans and that they should not allow others to continue governing their relations. He pointed out that the two countries have managed to build friendship and must now work to develop economic cooperation and increase trade. It is important to behave rationally. Irrespective of political differences, we have managed to build trust because I believe that we want friendship, Vucic said and stressed that the two countries were linked by their common strategic commitment to joining the EU. The Prime Minister thanked the businessmen from Serbia and Albania for coming in large numbers to the forum, stating that he and Rama were very proud that the hall where the forum was being held is full.
Vucic also said that he was happy that the forum was being held in Nis, in south-eastern Serbia, for which he said was an intersection of roads and good business and a place that would represent the center of progress in Serbia and the entire region. He noted that some progress has been made in trade between the two countries and said that the trade of only €102 million was very small. We want to dramatically increase this trade, the Prime Minister said. The Serbia-Albania Business Forum was attended by about 300 representatives of companies and businessmen from both countries, and it was the first large meeting of Serbian and Albanian businessmen, which should contribute to the approximation of Serbian and Albanian business communities. The hosts of the forum were President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce Marko Cadez and President of the Business Albania Association Ljuan Bregazi. After the plenary part of the forum, bilateral meetings of businessmen were held, during which representatives of the business communities of Serbia and Albania discussed concrete cooperation and joint projects. The forum brought together companies from the food industry, trade, electrical and mechanical, civil, chemical, metal and wood industries, as well as from the field of tourism and hospitality, and telecommunications. A memorandum of understanding for establishing an Albanian-Serbian industrial and trade chamber, with headquarters in Tirana, was signed at the forum.

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