During her official visit to Greece and the Thessaloniki International Fair 2021, the FIPA Director Milica Marković had a meeting with the First Vice President of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry Emmanouil Vlachogiannis and a member of the Board of Directors of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry Charilaos Alexopoulos. It was stated that the biggest obstacles to more intensive investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina are complicated transport connections and the non-existence of a direct flight between the two countries, but that more and more Greek businessmen are interested in the investment potentials of BiH. In order to inform Thessaloniki businessmen with investment opportunities in BiH, FIPA, in cooperation with the Chamber, will organize a webinar to present the experiences of the current Greek investors in the country, as well as opportunities for new investments.

She also met with the President and General Manager of the Alexander Innovation Zone in Thessaloniki, Loufakis and Tramantzas Konstantinos. The situation in the ICT and BPO sector in BiH and Greece, innovations and start-up ecosystems, and possible cooperation between similar organizations in BiH were discussed.

She had a meeting with the Head of the Republika Srpska Representation in Thessaloniki, Jelena Jovanović-Athanasiou, and was informed about activities of the Representation. They agreed on joint cooperation with the aim to promote the country and investment opportunities.

The Director of FIPA also met in Athens with the Secretary General of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of International Economic Relations Ioannis Smyrlis and the General Manager of the Enterprise Greece Agency for Foreign Investment Promotion in Greece Georgies Filiopoulos and their associates, where the emphasis was on improving economic cooperation, which is not accompanied by excellent bilateral political cooperation.

The meeting was also attended by the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Greece, Ms. Milica Ristović-Krstić, and further plans were agreed regarding the preparation and implementation of the visit of the Greek business delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the organization of the Business Forum by the end of the year.

She also expressed FIPA's readiness to host Greek businessmen and to present the business environment, available investment projects and investment locations. They also discussed the intensification of cooperation between FIPA and Enterprise Greece, and the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation that would define the framework of further joint projects, taking into account the growing interest of Greek companies in BiH and the region, primarily in investment and then in trade cooperation.