The city of Rijeka is the second city in Croatia in which the diplomatic and consular representative office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Republic of Croatia has been inaugurated.
The Consulate General of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located at the address Pul Vele Crikve 1. The competence of this Consulate General includes the following counties: Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Istria, Lika-Senj, Zadar, Šibenik-Knin, Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva.
The first diplomatic and consular representative office of BiH in Croatia was opened in 1993 in Zagreb and now, after almost 30 years, in Rijeka.
GORAN PALČEVSKI, ZLATKO KOMADINA AND BISERA TURKOVIĆ
On the occasion of the inauguration, speeches of welcome were given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bisera Turković, the deputy mayor of the City of Rijeka, Goran Palčevski, and the president of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Zlatko Komadina.
According to the deputy mayor of Rijeka, Goran Palčevski, it is a great honour that Rijeka was chosen to open the second diplomatic and consular representative office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Croatia.
“We see this act as a wish to raise the existing good relations between our two countries to an even higher level, and we also get a place where businessmen can meet in order to deepen business cooperation, and all citizens who need adequate help can get it,” he said Palčevski.