JAKARTA – Minister of Foreign Affairs Sugiono encourages the expansion of bilateral cooperation between Indonesia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in various fields.
This was conveyed by Foreign Minister Sugiono when receiving an honorary visit from the Ambassadors of Bosnia and Gerzegovina (BiH) to Indonesia Armin Limo at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jakarta.
“In this meeting, Foreign Minister Sugiono and Ambassador Armin discussed various aspects of bilateral relations that have existed well between the two countries so far,” the ministry said in a statement, Thursday, May 22.
Furthermore, it was explained that this meeting was used to discuss the potential for economic cooperation that could improve welfare, including opportunities for trade cooperation.
In addition, Foreign Minister Sugiono also encouraged business players of the two countries to pay close attention to opportunities for expanding access to the Indonesian product market in BiH.
It is known, the total trade value between Indonesia and BiH in 2024 reached 12.8 million US dollars, with a trade trend that continues to increase after the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, this meeting also discussed consular cooperation efforts in order to intensify people-to-people contacts.
In this meeting, efforts to coordinate in dealing with global issues that are of common interest were also discussed through cooperation in multilateral forums.
Regarding the framework of strategic sector cooperation, the two discussed plans for BiH’s participation in the IndoDefence 2025 event on 11-14 June 2025 in Jakarta, as a forum for further exploration of engineering-military and defense cooperation between the two countries.
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