In preparation for the diplomatic mission, the newly appointed Ambassador of BiH to Poland Ivan Dunđer visited the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) in order to have information about current economic and investment cooperation between the two countries.
The FIPA
Director Gordan Milinić informed the Ambassador Dunđer about the Agency's work
on attracting foreign investments, opportunities for investing in BiH and
attractive sectors for foreign investors.
He also
highlighted the importance of economic diplomacy in promoting country and
attracting investments, stressing that FIPA managed to animate during the two
previous years the BiH economic diplomacy in the way that they started
organizing investment conferences where are presented opportunities for investing
in BiH.
It was pointed
out that the current level of investments from Poland, according to the data of
the Central Bank of BH, amounts to 29.3 million BAM. In 2017, one million BAM
investments were registered from this country.
Some of the most
important field investments are: Organika BH d.o.o. Sarajevo, Aliplast Aluminum
Systems d.o.o. Konjic, Lublin and Inter Cars d.o.o. Sarajevo.
The Ambassador
is expected to establish cooperation with Poland's chamber system and other
associations in charge of economy, as well as regional chambers of commerce in
order to try to improve the inflow of Polish investments in BiH and exports.