In order to improve friendship and cooperation between the City of Tuzla and the City of Rijeka and to contribute to the development of friendship relationships between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia, the mayors of the two cities agreed to initiate the official establishment procedure for friendship and cooperative relationships between the City of Tuzla and the City of Rijeka.

By signing the Letter of Intent, the mayors undertook, among others, to maintain constant ties between the administrations of Rijeka and Tuzla in order to promote dialogue, exchange experiences and carry out all joint activities that can encourage mutual improvement in all areas within the scope of their competences, encourage and support cooperation and exchange of experiences, ideas and information between citizens of Rijeka and Tuzla.

Also, the City of Tuzla and the City of Rijeka will carry out future joint activities with the fundamental goal of further positive development of the two cities and maintain a permanent relationship in order to justify the spirit of this agreement, and will also use joint forces in looking for partners to participate in certain projects, in particular in joint applications for EU programmes. An important segment of cooperation will be a further development of tourism.

Along with the signing of the Letter of Intent in Tuzla, Mayor Filipović visited and laid a wreath at the place of massacre of 71 young people and more than a hundred people wounded in the aggressor’s shelling in 1995.

Besides Mayor Filipović, the Rijeka delegation that sojourned in Tuzla also included Petar Mamula, deputy president of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Vojko Obersnel, president of the Rijeka Tourist Board and Petar Škarpa, director of the Rijeka Tourist Board.