Balkan Forum in Thessaloniki

Dear Sir/Madam

The development of contemporary foreign infrastructures and networks is the motivation for promoting effective transnational cooperation on the field of entrepreneurship and innovation as well as for captivating significant investment projects.

Meanwhile, the modernization and development of corporate, transport, technological and energy infrastructures constitute a major prerequisite for the financial convergence and coherence of the Balkan countries and round regions.

Promoting the strategy of parallel development requires a brand new approach, not only based on planning and collaboration, but also built on the principles of mutuality and public interest, a matter indisputably concerning the people and the society.

Opportunity shall be taken by the conversation that has officially commenced in a European level, concerning the process of integration of the rest of the West Balkan countries in the EU, the Ministry of Interior (Sector of Macedonia and Thrace) is the 1^st Balkan Forum on April 5 & 6, 2019, in Thessaloniki, aiming the designation of the significance that the trans-Balkan infrastructures and networks do have, as levers of endorsing entrepreneurship and innovation in the Balkan countries.

The Balkans primarily demand stability, financial support, security, development and prosperity.

We strongly believe that the 1^st Balkan Forum will be the beginning of a series of critical initiatives for promoting the cooperation of the Balkan countries and people. We are looking forward to discussing our mutual Balkan future.

Yours sincerely,

The Deputy Minister of Interior (Sector Macedonia and Thrace),

Eleftheria Chatzigeorgiou