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The fifth Committee of National Coordinators’ meeting, under the Croatian CEI Presidency, took place at the CEI Headquarters in Trieste on 4 October 2018.

On 12 September 2018, the CEI-Executive Secretariat signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group (SWG) of South-Eastern Europe aimed at promoting effective regional cooperation in the field of agriculture and rural development.

''Scientific diplomacy'' and the ''New Silk Road'' were on top of the agenda of the visit paid by Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to the CEI Headquarters in Trieste, on 7 February 2018.
 

Vladimir Makei, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, holding the current CEI Presidency, hosted for his counterparts a Working Lunch in New York on 21 September, on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
 

“Regional cooperation has remained a decisive tool to ensure cooperative relations and promote political dialogue. At the same time, regional cooperation proved helpful to mitigate the emergence of potential dividing lines between countries in and out the EU, in and out NATO, in and out the Macro-Regional Strategies established since 2008.

Under the title “The Western Balkans in the European Union: Perspectives of a region in Europe?”, the 2nd edition of the Reflection Forum was held in Trieste on 26-27 June, gathering experts working in national and European administrations and institutions, researchers affiliated with European think-tanks and universities from 25 EU and Western Balkan countries.

The Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE and the Belarusian CEI Presidency organised the OSCE-CEI High-Level Panel Discussion “Beyond the emergency: improving the international response to large movements of people” in Vienna on 9 June.
 

Christoph Leitl, President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, accompanied by a delegation of about 60 prominent businesspersons from Austria, visited the CEI Headquarters on 23 May.

The delegation was welcomed by Amb. Margot Klestil-Loeffler, CEI Alternate Secretary General, who illustrated the mandate and mission of the Organisation, of which together with Italy, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia, Austria is a founding member.

On 1 February, the Director of the UNESCO Office in Venice, Ana Luiza Thompson-Flores, paid a visit to CEI Secretary General, Amb. Giovanni Caracciolo di Vietri.

On 15 April 2016, the Headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London hosted the CEI annual Steering Committee (SC) and CEI Committee of National Coordinators (CNC) meetings. The events were held under the CEI Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for  2016. 

CEI Alternate Secretary General, Ambassador Margot Klestil-Loffler, and Deputy Secretary General, Counsellor Erik Csernovitz visited Sarajevo on 4 – 5 April 2016, in the framework of BiH CEI Presidency. They had a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Crnadak, and the CEI National Coordinator of BiH, Ambassador Miloš Prica, in order to discuss the priorities and upcoming events of the Presidency.

CEI Alternate Secretary General, Ambassador Margot Klestil-Loeffler, and Deputy Secretary General, Erik Csernovitz, paid a visit to Ljubljana on 1 April 2016.