PM to meet with French investors

Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić will be meeting with 40 directors and officials of French companies visiting Serbia.

Izvor: B92

Wednesday, 10.06.2009.

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Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic will be meeting with 40 directors and officials of French companies visiting Serbia. The companies are all members of the MEDEF organization of French companies, Djelic’s adviser for economic and financial issues, Goran Radosavljevic, told B92. PM to meet with French investors Some members of MEDEF, such as Danone and Alcatel, have already invested in Serbia. The meeting will also be attended by officials of French companies that have yet to invest in Serbia. Government officials would present to them Serbia’s investment potential, Radosavljevic said, while certain specific projects, mostly in the infrastructure sector, would be put on the table. “Primarily, these are investments related to Corridor 10—EUR 1.5bn is planned to be invested this year and next in Corridor 10. Then there’s the possibility of cooperation on building the Corridor 10 railways—we know that railway transport is one of the best things to come out of France,” the adviser said. “In the tender called at the end of the year for the construction of two new blocks at the Obrenovac-based thermo-electric plant, of the five companies that qualified, two were from the French capital—that is, the EDF company competed through two of its daughter companies,” he explained. “Projects in the energy sector are also expected, as well as local communal infrastructure—primarily, water treatment and recycling. These are just some of the projects that will be offered to the French companies,” Radosavljevic said. He said that France was the tenth biggest investors in Serbia, with some EUR 450mn of direct investment. The adviser said that these talks were expected to persuade French companies to invest even more. The meeting will also be attended by French Ambassador to Serbia Jean-Francois Terral. Mirko Cvetkovic (FoNet, archive)

PM to meet with French investors

Some members of MEDEF, such as Danone and Alcatel, have already invested in Serbia.

The meeting will also be attended by officials of French companies that have yet to invest in Serbia. Government officials would present to them Serbia’s investment potential, Radosavljević said, while certain specific projects, mostly in the infrastructure sector, would be put on the table.

“Primarily, these are investments related to Corridor 10—EUR 1.5bn is planned to be invested this year and next in Corridor 10. Then there’s the possibility of cooperation on building the Corridor 10 railways—we know that railway transport is one of the best things to come out of France,” the adviser said.

“In the tender called at the end of the year for the construction of two new blocks at the Obrenovac-based thermo-electric plant, of the five companies that qualified, two were from the French capital—that is, the EDF company competed through two of its daughter companies,” he explained.

“Projects in the energy sector are also expected, as well as local communal infrastructure—primarily, water treatment and recycling. These are just some of the projects that will be offered to the French companies,” Radosavljević said.

He said that France was the tenth biggest investors in Serbia, with some EUR 450mn of direct investment.

The adviser said that these talks were expected to persuade French companies to invest even more.

The meeting will also be attended by French Ambassador to Serbia Jean-Francois Terral.

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