Prime Minister Designate Radovan Višković received today delegation of the Association of Municipalities and Cities of Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka led by the President of the Association Ljubiša Ćosić within holding consultations with regard to formation of the new Government. 

During the meeting, Mr. Višković informed representatives of the Alliance about the program concepts of the future government of Republic of Srpska emphasizing that the priority was pursuing balanced development of the Republic of Srpska and its local communities.

Representatives of the Association pointed out that it was necessary to work further on opening of new and expanding existing business zones in the future as well as on  strengthening the concept of free zones while also working actively to improve the business environment in their local communities.

Another subject of discussion was realted to changes and amendments to certain legal solutions which would improve functioning and fairer redistribution of certain revenues and  different organization of certain services in local administrative bodies in order to have more successful functioning of municipalities and cities.

They emphasized that the Government's support to municipalities and cities was the greatest and most visible and measurable in the period from 2018 to 2022.

Representatives of the Alliance expressed special thanks for the financial support of the Government of the Republic of Srpska in 2020 which, as they emphasized, was extremely helpful considering that the liquidity of their budgets was threatened due to consequences of the pandemic of coronavirus.