Ambassador Jović on the results of the economic forum in Bulgaria

He said that 30 companies from Bulgaria and seven from Serbia participated in the forum on Tuesday, and after the plenary part, direct meetings were held among the representatives of the companies at which business ideas were discussed.

"Three or four agreements have resulted from that, which will be formalized soon, and we already have an announcement that two Bulgarian companies will invest in Serbia very soon, one of which will be located in Šimanovci", said Ambassador Jović.

He added that there are Serbian companies that already have a developed business in Bulgaria, and that they talked with Bulgarian partners during the forum about further strengthening their capacities and placement of goods in the neighboring country.

Ambassador Jović stated that they discussed cooperation in the field of IT technologies, production and distribution of laboratory and medical equipment, machine industry, food and textile production and energy.

"I asked all participants to try and get concrete results of the talks soon, because it was already common practice in the previous years to have such forums, but we never had any concrete events after that", said Jović.

The Serbian side, the ambassador said, reminded of the recent meeting between presidents Aleksandar Vučić and Rumen Radev in Dimitrovgrad, when it was agreed that Serbia would additionally invest in the infrastructural equipment of the Pirot industrial zone, and that Bulgaria would bring its investors there.

"We have equipped that industrial zone to a good extent, and President Vučić promised the Bulgarian side that he would additionally prepare it for investors." Radev announced that the Bulgarian official delegation with the Minister of Economy will come to Dimitrovgrad in order to consider the possibilities of opening plants there as soon as possible, which would first of all help the Bulgarian national minority, but also everyone else who lives there", Jović said.

The Ambassador of Serbia in Sofia stated that a meeting of representatives of the Science and Technology Park from Nis and the Techno-Park from Sofia was held during the business forum, where the ground was prepared for signing several important cooperation agreements that will regulate investments between the two countries.

Source: Tanjug