City of ZrenjaninRepublic of Serbia
Skupstinagrada ZrenjaninaAmbassador of Argentina in Zrenjanin: Agriculture as the Biggest Opportunity for Cooperation
The "Days of Argentina", the event that is taking place in Zrenjanin today, has been a good reason for His Excellency Rikardo Fernandes, the Ambassador of this country in Serbia, to visit our city. After the reception in the City Hall and talks with the Mayor Čedomir Janjić and his associates, the Ambassador Fernandes opened the exhibition "86 Years of Diplomatic Relations of Serbia and Argentina" and lecture "The Maldives – a Long Colonial History", held by the professior Slobodan Pajović, Ph.D., Coordinator of the Sector for the Latin America and Caribbean Islands of the Faculty of International Economy of John Nesbitt University.
The "Day of Argentina" in Zrenjanin ended with the coktail in the City Garden and the Argentinian music and wine.
Also, at the reception there were Mayor Deputy Saša Santovac, Chairwoman of the City Assembly, Prim. dr Eleonora Marjanović, Deputy Chairman of the City Assembly Ljubomir Stanisavljev and Secretary of the City Assembly Milan Mrkšić. The Ambassador Fernandes is for the third time in Zrenjanin today, having already visited the World Championship in Woman Handball 2013, and the last year's "Days of Beer", during the folklore festival "Children Dance for Peace in the World" when the performers form Argentina participated. He recalled the pleasant impressions of these visits.
After one-hour talks the Ambassador Fernandes thanked for the warm welcome in Zrenjanin saying that his country has always been supporting Serbia as today and that the warm welcome is an expression of respect to his country .
- We were talking about some issues of mutual interest for our cooperation. Our countries are vey similar, particularly regarding agriculture, and we have done even more in this field than a our set goals, first of all , due to advanced technologies used in agriculture . About a year ago a cooperation framework was reised as an important issue resulting in the signing of two agreemens by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of both coutnirs on 26 Nov 2014 – one refers to educaiton and culture, the other to science and technology. This framework is the basis for our future cooperation and now it is up to us to implement the projects regardins these agreemetns – pointed out the Ambassador of Argentina Rikardo Fernandes.
Today our city has had a great honour to welcome the Ambassador of a big country, as Argentina, who prommoted and represented his country to the citizen of Zrenjanin said the Mayor Čedomir Janjić.
- We are particularly glad that this is not his first visit to Zrenjanin. For me, the talks we have had were almost astonishing, when His Excellency presented all that his country can do for our agriculture – first of all new advanced tehcnologies – and we have agreed about the visit of investors and experts who will promote these new technologies and good achieved results to our agriculture producers – concluded the Mayor.
- We are particularly glad that this is not his first visit to Zrenjanin. For me, the talks we have had were almost astonishing, when His Excellency presented all that his country can do for our agriculture – first of all new advanced tehcnologies – and we have agreed about the visit of investors and experts who will promote these new technologies and good achieved results to our agriculture producers – concluded the Mayor.
