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26 April 2021

OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports 13th RYCO Governing Board meeting




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Marina Živaljević



On 21 and 22 April, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Montenegrin Regional Youth Co-operation Office (RYCO) Chairperson and members of the RYCO Local Branch Office (LBO) organized the 13th RYCO Governing Board meeting in Podgorica.

Montenegro assumed the chair of the RYCO Governing Board, the highest decision-making body of RYCO, in January.

Vasilije Lalošević, Director of the Directorate for Youth and Sports in Montenegrin Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports and the Chair of the Governing Board, said that RYCO has the support of both the OSCE Mission and the Government. Both are committed to finding solutions to the problems of young people in Montenegro and the region. “I am glad that this year we are chairing the RYCO Governing Board, because we will do our best to create a healthy and productive youth policy in the best possible way. We thus show that Montenegro has leadership potential in this field,” said Lalošević. .

Andrea Mićanović, Co-Chair of the Governing Board, said: “It is both a pleasure and an honour to host you all in Montenegro and to organize this meeting in a hybrid format, during which we will exchanged our views, good practices and come up with decisions that would be in the best interest of RYCO and the youth in the region.”

The newly appointed RYCO Secretary General, Albert Hani, said that he would continue on the RYCO successful trajectory within the framework of the Berlin Process. “The work of RYCO is extremely important and we already made improvements in terms of co-operation and peace building process in the region. Communication will always be the focus of RYCO and we should strengthen it even more in the time to come,” said Hani.

Participants discussed relevant 2020 annual reports, as well as working materials and programmatic activities.

Former RYCO Secretary General Đuro Blanuša attended the meeting to ensure a seamless transition. The first Governing Board meeting in Montenegro was held virtually on 5 March and was also supported by the Mission.