The Director of KfW Development Bank Office in Sarajevo Matthias Schmidt-Rosen visited FIPA and talked with the Director Gordan Milinić about projects that KfW will financially support in BiH and pointed out that the funds in the amount of 60 million EUR were provided for wind farm of Hrgud.
Thus KfW continues to support electro-energetic
projects in BiH after wind farms of Mesihovina and Podveležje for which contracts
were signed in the amounts of 72 and 65 million EUR.
KfW was also financially supported projects of
drainage, waste water treatment and water supply in Bihać, Zenica, Tuzla and
Banja Luka based on the Cooperation Agreement signed by the Government of
Germany and the Council of Ministers of BiH.
The Director Milinić pointed out that the job of
attracting foreign investment is complex task, that it requires the joint
efforts of the relevant institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that FIPA meets
with potential investors, that it presents investment projects, it cooperates
with foreign embassies in BiH, as well as the embassies of Bosnia and
Herzegovina abroad in order to find new contacts and potential investors.
The Director stated that FIPA works together with the
Council of Ministers of BiH to remove barriers for investors and that the
common goal is to reduce unemployment in the country and to improve living
standards, and he invited Mr. Rosen to direct potential investors to the
Agency.
The Director Schmidt-Rosen expressed his full support
to the FIPA work and pointed out that KfW will try, through its lines, to
animate as more as possible German companies for investing in BiH.