The conference “Our region, three main challenges and three solutions”, supported by the Office of the UN Special Representative to Kosovo, is underway in Gjilan/Gnjilane. The conference gathers five mayors of municipalities in the east region as well as officials from the Office of the UN Special Representative to Kosovo, OSCE and civil society.

Mayor of Gjilan/Gnjilane and host of the conference, Lutfi Haziri, said his municipality has an inter-border and inter-municipal cooperation that can be used as a model for the other regions. “This cooperation has had an influence on other municipalities in the region and around Kosovo to be engaged in joint programmes to facilitate and solve common problems. I can say there is a lot in common between municipalities when it comes to challenges and their solutions”, Haziri said in his opening remarks.

Some of the topics addressed in the conference include extremism and the role of local authorities in preventing it, inter-municipal cooperation and the role of the region in inter-border cooperation.