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The project on "Promotion of ecoremediation in national parks and camps" co-financed under the Regional Cooperation Programme 2012 of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative has been successfully concluded.

The project, realized with the partnership of associations from Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro aimed at changing the culture of decision-makers on the protection on environment in national parks. The project was realized mainly through field missions, case studies and trainings aimed at sharing information about how to reduce the impact on natural resources through ecological and low cost solutions and using it also as a tool to foster tourism in the region.

The Project was led by CHARGO Net Poslovni Projecti from Slovenia with the participation of MEDIX doo (MNE) and MEDIA Contact (CRO).

The Brochure is enclosed (Croatian Language).

In the margins of the Special meeting of the XVI Adriatic and Ionian Initiative held in Athens , the AII Secretary General had a preliminary conversation with the future Chairman in Office of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative , Minister Lagumdzjia . Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold the AII Presidency from june 2014 to May 2015.

This first contact permitted to lay the basis for the future cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat with the Bosnian Authorities .

It was observed that the future Bosnian AII Charmanship will fall in a very significant period encompassing the last phase of the preparatory process of the EUSAIR and its first implementation phase .

A Calendar of events for future intergovernmental activities will be sketched as soon as possible and will take a specific shape where most of the activities will be tailor cut in order to serve the implementation of EUSAIR.

Ambassador Pigliapoco will visit soon Sarajevo to fine tune the activities of the Permanent Secretariat and the future Bosnian Presidency.

The project on "Sustainable Child and Youth Tourism in function of Rural Development of Region" co-financed under the Regional Cooperation Programme 2012 of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative has been successfully concluded.

The project, including partners from Serbia, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia, aimed at improving cooperation through exchange of knowhow and practices among the partners and service providers in the field of Child and Youth Tourism.

Promoting child and youth tourism means decrease seasonality as well as creating a sense of community among young people and increasing their knowledge and experience about the region in which they live.

The project was led by the National Tourism Organization of Serbia in partnership with HF Eko Etno Groupa (CRO), Kompas Novo mesto (SLO), GAL Bassa Padovana (ITA) and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

The Brochure released is enclosed.

A Special meeting of the Adriatic and Ionian Council ( Ministers of Foreign Affairs ) was held in Athens under the Albanian Presidency of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative on on 6 February 2014.

Not foreseen in the regular Calendar of events of the Presidency, it was convenend by the Chairmanship - back to back with the stakeholders Conference of the EUSAIR - to stress the convinced support of the eight Governments to this process deemed fundamental for the future of the eight participating Countries.

The meeting formally and solemnly gave evidence of the Adriatic and Ionian Iniziative being the INTERGOVERNMENTAL ANCHORAGE of the macroregional process and confirmed the full support and engagements of the Eight Governments to the EUSAIR.

Opening the meeting , the Chairman in Office Minister Bushati expressed the warmest thanks of the Eight Ministers to the European Commission and personally to Commissioners Damanaki and Hahn for their continuous support and for encouraging AII to organized the AI Council back to back with the Stakeholders Meeting .

The Special meeting of the AI Council offered the opportunity to take stock of the Intergovernmental activity of the first part of the Albanian Presidency and made possible a discussion , at Ministerial level , of the preparation of the final phase of the macroregional process and of the actions that , in each and every Country , were put in place in order to prepare the ground for the fundamental document , the Action Plan , which will be adopted in the second part of the year .