Prishtine, 17 July 2019
Today, the Minister of Local Government Administration Adrijana Hodžić, hosted in a meeting Goran Milevski, Minister of Local Self-government of the Republic of North Macedonia, accompanied by his delegation.
Minister Hodžić, thanked Minister Milevski, while praising him for the work and the commitment shown in strengthening the supervision over the work of the municipalities of North Macedonia.
Additionally, Minister Hodžić emphasized that the cooperation that Kosovo and North Macedonia have is quite important, with regards to the implementation of the Cross-border Cooperation Programme IPA II 2014-2020, a Programme that is jointly drafted by the two countries and which aims at strengthening the cooperation between institutions and organization in the border region in order to have a more sustainable economic and social interaction.
In this regard, within the Corss-border Cooperation Programme Macedonia – Kosovo IPA I 2010 – 2013, the Ministers of both countries discussed about the implementation of the Strategic Project “Establishment and opening of a joint border point in Stanicic – Bella Noce, Gijlan – Kumanove”, a project which reaches the amount of 1,200,000.00 Euro.
Despite these strategic projects, it was discussed also about the proposals for new strategic projects within IPA II and IPA III.
At the end of the meeting, Ministrja Hodžić thanked Minister Milevski for the fruitful cooperation and partnership between the two countries.