TIRANA, May 9/ATA/- Representatives of the civil society organizations, ambassadors and experts of the Western Balkans Fund attended Tuesday the ceremony on “the first Call for Project Proposals”.
During the ceremony the representatives expressed their evaluations about the 18 leading project organizations from the 6 Balkan countries, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania.
In attendance at the ceremony was also the Albanian Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Ditmir Bushati who praised the Western Balkans Fund initiative, where for the first time 84 regional organizations have been involved in 18 concrete cooperation projects.
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Almir Shahovic, expressed his country’s uninterrupted support for the Fund as the initiative of the regional countries .
For his part, Executive Director of the Western Balkans Fund, Gjergj Murra stressed that the implementation of the 18 selected projects are already underway and expected to have a concrete impact on increasing regional cooperation and contacts between people.
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