SARAJEVO, May 9 (FENA) – Predrag Mitrovic, Deputy Mayor of Sarajevo, Dimitris Kourkoulas, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to BiH, Osman Topcagic, Head of Direction for European Integrations in BiH signed on Thursday in Sarajevo at new Council of Ministers’ building, “Declaration on BiH’s European Futureâ€.
That completed a series of public tribunes “Meeting Europe†initiated by the EC Delegation to BiH in late 2007, together with the EU institutions, Direction for European Integrations of BiH and EU Infocentres at municipalities towns throughout BiH. The campaign is aimed to offer as many information as possible through dialogue with the citizens about BiH’s European integrations road.
Support to the EU integrations processes was expressed by signing of the Declaration.
Text of the Declaration states, among other, that Sarajevo supports progress of BiH towards the fulltime membership to the EU and that the EU is a family of European, democratic countries which work together to improve the lives of its citizens.
High Representative to BiH Miroslav Lajcak is of the opinion that success of this campaign only confirms that the European alternative is the only one and the best alternative for BiH’s development.
The “Meeting Europe†campaign started in September 2007 in Banja Luka. It was financed from the funds of the European Commission. Public tribunes were organized at the signing ceremonies which assembled representatives of authorities, civic society and all persons interested for the European future of BiH.
Apart from Sarajevo, the following towns participated: Banja Luka, Bihac, Prijedor, Tuzla, Pale, Gorazde, Mostar, Siroki Brijeg, Livno, Jajce, Rudo, Foca, Neum, Grude, Brcko, Bijeljina, Zenica, Doboj, Trebinje and Bileca.
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