Dortmund: Ambassador Janković meets with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce management

17. May 2022.
As part of her trip to North Rhine−Westphalia, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Germany Snežana Janković has visited the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dortmund, which is in charge of economic cooperation between North Rhine−Westphalia and the Republic of Serbia. On that occasion, Ambassador Janković spoke with Stefan Schreiber, Managing Director of the Dortmund Chamber, and his deputy Wolf-Christian Erich. Consul General of the Republic of Serbia in Düsseldorf Branislava Perin was also present at the meeting.

Stefan Schreiber and Wolf-Christian Erich expressed their satisfaction with the Ambassador’s visit and informed her about the Dortmund Chamber ― counting about 65,000 members and covering an area of about 1.2 million inhabitants. They explained that the Chamber and its members were currently focusing on technology-oriented companies, modern industry, innovation, and the service sector. They assessed the economic relations with Serbia as being traditionally good. They added that members of the Dortmund Chamber had a long-standing and good cooperation with partners from Serbia, and identified the metal industry, agriculture, the furniture industry, the IT industry as well as the area of food safety as potential areas for improving the cooperation.

Thanking Mr. Schreiber and Mr. Erich for their reception, Ambassador Janković informed them about the very good overall economic cooperation between Serbia and Germany, the growing volume of foreign trade, and German investments in Serbia, which had led to the employment of over 76,000 workers. She emphasised Serbia`s readiness to further improve all forms of bilateral cooperation with Germany, primarily economic cooperation.

Ambassador Janković highlighted her readiness to support better connections and establishment of business relations between businesspersons by facilitating, on their behalf, direct contacts and thematic gatherings dedicated to certain branches of industry, noting that specific activities had been agreed upon in that regard.