Chairman of the Belgrade City Assembly Aleksandar Antic has said that in meetings with Chicago officials, a Belgrade delegation “gained access to new knowledge and technology of managing urban administration systems” and opened “channels for exchange of information” about investment opportunities.
“We need this kind of knowledge very much and we will try to implement it in Belgrade. We talked with our people who live and work in Chicago and we made many new contacts and opened channels for exchange of information about opportunities for investment in our country,” Antic said, cited by the Belgrade city administration on Wednesday.
Antic said that it would be particularly significant to finally realize the long-planned opening of a direct Belgrade-Chicago flight.
“This would enable our diaspora to get to Serbia faster and easier,” Antic said in an interview with a number of representatives of the Serbian diaspora at the Serbian Consulate-General in Chicago.
The Belgrade delegation, led by Mayor Dragan Djilas, is in the U.S. in order to become acquainted with the way large cities are being managed and different ways of financing infrastructure facilities.
The Belgrade delegation includes also city manager Aleksandar Bjelic.
Source Tanjug
