The Director of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) Gordan Milinić informed the newly appointed Ambassador of Slovenia to Bosnia and Herzegovina HE Zorica Bukinac with the Agency's competence and activities in the field of foreign investments, promotion of the country and support to foreign investors.
Slovenia is
ranked at the 4th position among foreign investors in BiH with 486
million EUR invested, or 7.3% of the total amount of foreign investments in
BiH. The most important Slovenian investments are Petrol, Droga Kolinska,
Perutnina Ptuj, NLB, Telecom Slovenia.
It is
encouraging the fact that investments from Slovenia continue to raise compared to
previous years when they were largely slowed down. During 2016 Slovenia invested
42.1 million BAM and 15.5 million BAM in 2017.
The Ambassador
Bukinac pointed out that out of the total amount of Slovenian investments in
the world, 10% was invested in BiH. She also emphasized that in the next year
Slovenia will work on strengthening tourist and cultural links with BiH.
It was also
discussed about the economic conference that the Embassy of BiH in Ljubljana
plans to organize in the first quarter of 2018 with the aim to present BiH and its
opportunities for investing to Slovenian businesspeople.
A joint
cooperation was agreed on providing support to existing Slovenian investors in
BiH, as well as to new ones interested in investing in BiH.