The Newly Appointed Ambassador of BiH to Slovenia Slavko Vučurević visited the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) where he discussed with Gordan Milinić the current economic and investment cooperation between BiH and Slovenia.

Mr Milinić informed the Ambassador Vučurević about activities carried out by the Agency in terms of attracting foreign investments in BiH, establishing contacts with new investors, and participation of the Agency’s representatives at events of an economic character where Bosnia and Herzegovina and its potential for investing are being presented.

He also highlighted the importance of economic diplomacy in promoting country and attracting investments, stressing that FIPA managed to animate the BiH economic diplomacy, during the two previous years, in the way that they started organizing investment conferences for presenting opportunities for investments in BiH.

It was pointed out that Slovenia has invested 468 million EUR in BiH so far, and is ranked at the 4^th position on the list of foreign investors. About 500 Slovenian companies have been operating in BiH, are employing around 15,000 workers.

According to the registered capital, the most important investors from Slovenia in BiH are: Mercator d.d. Ljubljana, Petrol Slovenska Energetska Družba d.d. Ljubljana, NLB d.d. Ljubljana, Droga Kolinska Živilska industrija d.d. Ljubljana, Cimos d.d. Avtomobilska industrija, Koper, Triglav INT d.d., Telekom Slovenije d.d. Ljubljana, etc.

FIPA and the Embassy of BiH to Slovenia will continue to work on organizing a business forum BiH-Slovenia that is going to be held at the end of 2018 with the aim to find new investors for BiH.

The Ambassador is expected to engage in establishing cooperation with businesspeople and economic associations of Slovenia in order to continue the trend of growth of Slovenian investments in BiH, as well as strengthening the BiH export.