Djukanovic to lead the delegation at the London Summit
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Djukanovic will lead the delegation at the London Summit.
Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic will lead the delegation of the Government of Montenegro at the London Investment Summit of the Western Balkan countries, which will be held on February 22, 2016. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is the organizer of the summit. The prime ministers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Serbia will also take part in the summit.
The event will be opened with key messages from the President of the EBRD, Sir Sum Chakrabarty and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. After meetings at the ministerial level, politicians, leading entrepreneurs and investors will discuss the development of transport links, opportunities for the development of renewable energy sources and the privatization program in the Western Balkans.
At the summit, SEELink, an innovative regional trading platform for securities listed on the stock exchanges in Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia, supported by the EBRD, will be represented. The London conference is expected to join the stock exchanges of Serbia and Slovenia to an initiative to strengthen the regional integration of capital markets.
It will also review the progress made in the previous biennium in the context of the investment potential and business opportunities of the regions in order to attract foreign direct investment and cross-border cooperation projects.
The meeting is planned in the format of four sessions - the premier and three separate thematic sessions. Within the framework of the special session of the Prime Ministers of the Western Balkans, participants will be presented with investment potentials and opportunities for cooperation.
Chairman of the Government of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic also plans to hold a number of bilateral meetings with other participants of the Summit.
The investment summit is an opportunity for participants, officials and representatives of the political and business community to further demonstrate the investment opportunities that Montenegro has.
Bilateral meetings and negotiations on the sidelines of the Summit will also provide an opportunity to advance Montenegro's foreign policy priorities and real progress in improving the business climate, and also provide a good incentive for further convergence in the area of economic cooperation between the countries of the region.
This is the second such summit on the issue of the Western Balkans. For the first time, the EBRD's investment forum in February 2014 brought together all heads of government in the region.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been present in the Western Balkans since the early nineties, and today it is one of the largest institutional investors in all countries of the Region. Last year, the bank invested about € 1 billion in various projects related to the development of energy efficiency, infrastructure, agro-industrial complex and support of financial institutions.
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