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25.1.2017

The Speakers of both Houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH Šefik Džaferović and Safet Softić talked with the officials of Bursa on the possibilities of economic cooperation

The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH PA) led by the Speaker of the BiH PA House of Representatives Šefik Džaferović and the Speaker of the BiH PA House of Peoples Safet Softić, which is on a several-day official working visit to the Republic of Turkey, talked today with the governor of Bursa Izzettin Kucuk about the possibilities of economic cooperation between our country and this rich and industrial developed Turkish province.

During a cordial and friendly conversation, which was attended also by the President of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for BiH in the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey Hakan Cavusoglu, it was stated that the province and the city of Bursa, as the center of the Turkish automotive, textile and agricultural industries can play an important role in deepening and strengthening the economic cooperation between two countries.

Bursa Governor Izzettin Kucuk said that big businessmen in that province are showing the increased interest for the investments in friendly Bosnia and Herzegovina, adding that the authorities in our country should work on the adaptation of the industrial zones that could offer the administrative and financial reliefs for big investors from Turkey.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Šefik Džaferović and the Speaker of the House of Peoples Safet Softić have said that Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a country that is implementing the intensive economic reforms on its path towards EU and NATO membership, at this moment needs mostly higher investments that would strengthen the reform path and economy and ensure a better life and standard of citizens.

Both sides have supported the idea that a large bilateral conference would be soon organized,  devoted to the economic cooperation between two countries, which would gather at one place a  representatives of BiH and Turkish government institutions, as well as a representatives of businessmen, chambers of commerce and other institutions dealing with the development of economy. The purpose of this conference, as it was said at the meeting with the governor of Bursa, would be to consider all possibilities and conditions for strengthening economic cooperation between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to identify the main industries that offer conditions for the stable investments as the results of these investments would be more concrete.

The Deputy Mayor of Bursa Abdulkadir Karlik also spoke with the Delegation of the BiH PA, he has presented the economic, cultural and tourist potentials of the city.

The BiH PA Delegation has also visited the Honorary Consulate of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bursa, during the talk with the honorary consul Muzaffer Cilek the delegation has praised the activities of the consulate to ensure the political, economic and cultural cooperation between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina. (end)

 


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