The Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) Gordan Milinić talked Kemal Alispahić, representative of the diaspora in Denmark, the Director of the Dan-Bos company with its headquarter in Denmark and member of the Association of Danish Industry (DI) about possibilities for economic cooperation with the BiH diaspora in Denmark.
Mr Alispahić stressed on this occasion that the
diaspora of BiH in Denmark has 20,000 people, that it is well integrated into
Danish society, and that a large number of people own their own companies from
various fields which are successfully running business.
Considering that at the meeting it was pointed
out the fact that Danish investments are almost no in BiH, Mr Alispahić said
that BiH had missed significant opportunities to improve economic relations at
a time when Denmark had an Embassy in the country, that certain Danish
investors were interested in the wood sector, but that the conditions for
running business were not eligible for their planned investment.
Mr Milinić presented activities that FIPA
carried out within its competence, with a special emphasis on established
contacts with target groups in the last three months, and stressed the need for
greater cooperation between the institutions and diaspora in all fields.
FIPA has expressed its readiness to provide
necessary assistance to all potential foreign investors who want to invest in
BiH, including diaspora with whom the Agency will strengthen cooperation this
year. It was agreed that the diaspora in Denmark will analyses possibilities
for finding new contacts with potential investors who will establish contact
with FIPA, both with business people from the diaspora and with Danes,
especially in the sectors of agriculture, tourism and wood industry.