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Gojkovic signs Memorandum on cultural cooperation with North Macedonia, Albania

Belgrade/Ohrid, 8 June 2022

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Information Maja Gojkovic, Minister of Culture of North Macedonia Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska and Albanian Minister of Culture Elva Margariti signed today at the Open Balkans Summit in Ohrid the Memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation in the Western Balkans with the aim of promoting cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding.

The ministers of culture signed the Memorandum in order to expand regional cooperation, encourage cultural development and investment in the sector of art and culture and employment of artists in the Western Balkans.

The Memorandum aims at creating conditions for facilitation, expansion and deepening of the institutional cooperation in the field of culture, and the signatory countries will promote regional mobility of artists and professionals and will examine the establishment of residential programmes in order to provide artists and professionals with conditions for extended stays, use of work space and resources, individually or in groups, in their fields of expertise.

The ceremony of signing the Memorandum on cultural cooperation was attended by the leaders of Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania – President Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski and Prime Minister Edi Rama respectively.