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24/01/2011

The Governor of the Central Bank of Montenegro, Mr. Radoje Žugić, paid the official visit to the Bank of Slovenia and talked to his counterpart, Mr. Marko Kranjec.

The Governors expressed their mutual satisfaction with regard to the high level of cooperation and understanding between the two institutions. Žugić and Kranjec agreed the continuation of common activities through the creation of a plan of technical cooperation between the Central Bank of Montenegro and the Bank of Slovenia. The Governor Radoje Žugić invited the Slovenian colleague to visit the Central Bank of Montenegro in order to arrange the formalization of this cooperation by signing the official agreement.

The official cooperation between the Central Bank of Montenegro and the Bank of Slovenia was initiated in 2003 with the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation in Banking Supervision. At the initiative of the Slovenian Governor Kranjec, the cooperation was deepened in September 2009 through an intensified bilateral technical cooperation within the programme of bilateral cooperation of the Bank of Slovenia and central banks in South East Europe.