BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
The Trade and Economic Advisor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in BiH Mr Lei Jianzhong and the Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) Gordan Milinić discussed the participation of the Chinese business delegation, which will have 200 members at the upcoming Sarajevo Business Forum (SBF), that represents, according to the interlocutors, a great opportunity for growing economic cooperation between the two countries and Chinese investments in BiH.
The Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) talked with the Mayor of the Municipality of Gradiška Zoran Latinović about possibilities for cooperation in the field of collecting projects and identifying new business possibilities disposed by the Municipality.
In accordance with the Embassy of Japan in BiH, the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH-FIPA and the Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH organized a meeting in Sarajevo with Mr Hirofumi Ono, General Director of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) based in Vienna, and associates in order to discuss the detailed preparations related to the visit for the first time of a large delegation of Japanese businessmen in a three-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of October 2016.
The Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) Gordan Milinić and associates talked with the Director of the company Natural Food Ltd. Vitez Mr Goran Papić, and the representative of the Municipality of Vitez Mr Armin Varupa about obstacles that the company faced on the way of expanding its business capacities.
The FIPA Director Gordan Milinić and the President of the FBiH Chamber of Commerce Mirsad Jašarspahić with associates talked about new possibilities for cooperation between the two institutions, joint activities on finding foreign investors, as well as about joint presentation at trade events in Bosnia and Herzegovina where opportunities of the BiH economy and investment projects are being presented.
Alex Boyd, a consultant of Business Strategy and Economic Development in the United States, talked with the FIPA Director Gordan Milinić and associates about projects that he realized in recent years in BiH.
Representatives Consulting Group SA from Vienna visited the FIPA and talked with the Director Gordan Milinić and his associates about services that this consulting firm offers, with special focus on the services of a risk assessment at financial markets and creating sustainable projects from the public-private partnership focused on renewable energy, building warming and waste management.
At the meeting with the Prime Minister of the Federation of BiH Fadil Novalić with a delegation of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA), led by the Director Gordan Milinić it was agreed a series of joint activities of the Government of the Federation of BiH and FIPA on attracting foreign investments to Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to reduce the number of unemployed people and to increase living standards of citizens.
The Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) Gordan Milinić and associates visited the Agency for Privatization of FBiH and talked with the Deputy Director Drago Vrbić and his Assistant Fikret Talić about the FBiH Privatisation Plan for 2016.
The Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) Gordan Milinić and the Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of Montenegro Miloš Jovanović signed on 22 March in Podgorica, a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions.