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11/05/2017

The Central Bank of Montenegro Governor, Mr Radoje Žugić, Phd, met with the technical assistance coordinator from the National Bank of Belgium, Mr Xavier Hawia who visited CBCG today. The intention of the visit was to define areas in which cooperation between CBCG and the National Bank of Belgium could be intensified.

To that effect, possible aspects of the future cooperation between the CBCG and the National Bank of Belgium were discussed at the meeting today. The Governor Žugić expressed his gratitude for the given chance, pointing out that this proposal comes at the right moment, having in mind the fact that the CBCG initiated and carried out a number of activities with the aim of implementing the best practice and introducing European standards. In this respect, the Governor emphasized it would be very useful and important if the CBCG could receive support in the segments of supervision function, payment operations, financial and banking operations, as well as in the area of communications. 

The National Bank of Belgium representative showed his respect for organizing numerous meetings in the CBCG in the past days, this being the occasion to get acquainted more closely with the activities this institution carries out, as well as for identifying areas cooperation beetwen the two banks can be intensified to the mutual content.