DPM Simović: Mojkovac is making progress, we will continue partnership and support

Podgorica, Montenegro (13 March 2019) – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Milutin Simović paid an official visit to the Municipality of Mojkovac. DPM Simović noted that Mojkovac is making progress. Valorisation of the municipality's potentials, primarily in agriculture and tourism, is going in the right direction thanks to the implementation of Government's policies aimed at supporting the development of Mojkovac and the North, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasised.

He said that the Government will continue to support and implement development and investment activities that will contribute to the further development of the local economy, job creation and improvement of the quality of life of citizens, equally in urban and rural areas of this municipality.

At a meeting with President of the Municipality Ranko Mišnić and his associates, the Deputy Prime Minister expressed satisfaction with the evident results in the local finances, regular fulfillment of local needs and obligations towards the State, as well as the satisfaction with the team work that gives results in creating a favourable environment for investments and implemention of development projects for the benefit of the citizens.

Furthermore, DPM Simović said that a significant development incentive for Mojkovac would be an additional EUR 900 thousand of revenues that the municipality will receive from the Government this year on the basis of the amended Law on Financing Local Self-Governments. The meeting agreed concrete activities on the construction of rural infrastructure, road and water supply, which the Government will support through the programmes of the Ministry of Agriculture. Simović also expressed special satisfaction with the successful implementation of the Žarski Ski Resort project, which will have significant effects on the development of tourism, the possibilities of placement of domestic products, the development of entrepreneurship and the creation of new jobs.

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