Serbian Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic said today that the Serbian government will try to maintain an economic growth rate of 6% to 7% and announced that during his mandate he will try to reduce the current unemployment rate of 21.6%.
Yaffa Ben Ari and Mladjan Dinkic
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Fonet
Participating in the Israeli Economic Forum, Dinkic called on investors from Israel to invest in Serbia and promised simpler procedures for getting licences as well as government support for creating new jobs.
He announced that Genex hotels on Kopaonik Mt and the Intercontinental Hotel in Belgrade will go private in November.
Department stores Beograd will be offered at the starting price of nearly $140 million similarly like in the process of Mobi 63.
Israeli Ambassador in Belgrade Yaffa Ben Ari said that Serbia needs to ratify the trade agreement between the two countries that Israel already ratified and noted that double taxation between the two countries should be legally regulated.
She recalled that the trade volume between Serbia and Israel in 2006 stood at nearly $34.4 million, with import from Israel standing at $21.9 million.
The Israeli Ambassador said that in the first quarter of 2007, trade stood at $10.5 million, of which $6.2 million were imports from Israel. She expressed hope that this year Israeli investment in Serbia will reach $750 million.