CIAO DATE: 11/03

Prespa Economic Task Force Report: Barriers and Incentives to Cross-Border Economic Development

Abstract

Building upon the positive co-operation undertaken to date, mainly concerning the protection and management of the Prespa Lakes region and the Prespa Park following the trilateral Declaration by the Prime Ministers: Mr. Costas Simitis, Mr. Ljubco Georgievski and Mr. Ilir Meta, of 2 February, 2000, and in the spirit of the joint message delivered on 29 September 2000 by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Mr Aleksandar Dimitrov, Mr Paskal Milo and Mr George Papandreou at the Otesevo Conference as well as the conclusions of the afore-mentioned conference (co-organised by the EastWest Institute, the Council of the Europe and the OSCE) and the conclusions of the trilateral cross-border co-operation meeting, Korca ­ Kozani ­ Bitola, adopted in Kozani, September, 2001, EastWest Institute in close collaboration with its partners, (the Regional Enterprise Support Centre (RESC) in Bitola (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), the Centre for Inter-Balkan Cooperation (CIBC) in Kozani (Greece) and the Regional Development Agency (RDA) in Korce (Albania), launched a process for the creation of the Prespa Economic Task Force.

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