The President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Marko Cadez, announced that, after the Washington agreement, representatives of the American International Development Financial Corporation (DFC) would arrive in Belgrade on September 21 to prepare for the opening of the office, the first in the region, and faster implementation of agreed projects.
“It will be one of the first steps in the realization of the agreement on economic cooperation between Belgrade and Pristina, which will bring visible and concrete benefits for the economy of the entire region, through cheap loans to small and medium enterprises, financing infrastructure and support for private sector investment projects, food industry and logistics to high technology,” Cadez said, ahead of his departure from the United States.
For the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, according to him, the meeting in Washington, with the executive director of the DFC, Adam Boler, and the imminent arrival of their delegation in Belgrade, represents the continuation of cooperation with this American development agency.
Just as it is important for the DFC office to be opened as soon as possible and for the implementation of the agreed support to start as soon as possible, it is equally important for the economy that its activities and the projects it supports are implemented as efficiently as possible.
“Both the economy and the Belgrade office of the DFC will be able to count on the support of the Chambers of Commerce of Serbia and Kosovo, as business associations. We are ready to form a joint team to support faster and more efficient project implementation,” Cadez announced. Serbian Chambers of Commerce discussed specific projects in the field of energy, food industry, logistics and high technologies.
Cadez assessed that the American financial support for the construction of the Nis-Pristina highway section from Plocnik to Merdare, construction, ie modernization of the railway on the northern and eastern branches towards Pristina, as well as further connection of roads with the Albanian coast, ie the port of Durres on the Adriatic Sea.
“These are not projects important only for Belgrade and Pristina and our interconnection, but for the entire region of the Western Balkans. They will also facilitate the realization of ‘Mini Schengen’, a zone of common market and free movement of people, goods, services and capital according to the agreement from Washington, Serbia, Northern Macedonia and Albania, Kosovo will join,” Cadez concluded, Novi Magazin reports.
