Compromise
“Our official offer is to solve this (Kosovo) problem in the realistic way is to reach a compromise - but the idea has not been elaborated during the (Belgrade-Pristina) dialogue.” – IVICA DAČIĆ, SERBIAN FIRST DEPUTY PM AND FOREIGN MINISTER
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CHEN BO, NEW AMBASSADOR OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TO SERBIA
THE NEW MERCEDES-BENZ GLE
ALL KINDS OF STRENGTH The new Mercedes-Benz GLE has a wealth of innovations. The active suspension system E-ACTIVE BODY CONTROL on a 48-volt basis is a world first. The interior is even more spacious and comfortable, with a third seat row available on request. The infotainment system has larger screens, a fullcolour head-up display with a resolution of 720 x 240 pixels and the MBUX Interior Assistant. The new 4MATIC ensures great agility on the road and superior performance off the beaten track. The GLE will receive a completely new range of engines. In 1997 Mercedes-Benz founded the premium SUV segment with the launch of the M-Class. Since autumn 2015 the model family has borne the name GLE, emphasising its positioning as an SUV in the E Class model family. At present Mercedes-Benz is highly successfully represented with seven models in the SUV segment (GLA, GLC, GLC Coupé, GLE, GLE Coupé, GLS, G-Class). The new Mercedes-Benz GLE will be presented to the public in Serbia for the first time at the 54th Begrade International Motor Show (20 to 31 March 2019). It will be in the dealerships in shotly after fair.
H.E. Chen Bo was born in January 1970 in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, where she completed her university studies. From 1992-96 she worked at the Directorate for Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, before serving – from 1996-99 – as attaché and third secretary at the Embassy of China to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. From 1999 to 2004 she returned to the Directorate for Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before serving as head of the Directorate for Europe at China’s MFA. She worked as an advisor-counsellor at the Embassy of China to the Republic of Serbia from 2006-08, before taking on the position of advisor and deputy general director of the Directorate for Europe at China’s MFA. From 2014-15 she was deputy to the Mayor of the City of Tangshan, Hebei Province, and from 2015-19 served as ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
ADOLFO ORIVE, NEW PRESIDENT & CEO OF TETRA PAK
The Board of Directors of the Tetra Laval Group has appointed Adolfo Orive as President and CEO of Tetra Pak as of 1st April 2019. Orive, who arrives in Serbia from the position of vice president for the Cluster of North, Central and South America, joined Tetra Pak in 1993. He has previously held several management positions within the group, including serving as CEO of the cluster for Colombia and Spain, and vice president of the cluster for Northern and Central Europe. Orive joined Tetra Pak’s global leadership team in 2014. Orive (55) graduated in industrial engineering at Mexico’s Ibero-American University, before earning his master’s degree in business administration at the Institute of Technological Autonomy of Mexico (ITAM).
INFRASTRUCTURE
SERBIA TO INVEST €530 MLN IN NEW ROADS Serbia’s government plans to invest €530 million in the construction of a high-speed road linking Zrenjanin to Novi Sad and a Zrenjanin-Belgrade motorway. Investment in the construction of the 56 km-long Belgrade-Zrenjanin motorway will total 280 million euro, while a further €250 million will be invested in the 50 km-long Zrenjanin-Novi Sad expressway. The government is already in talks with Chinese partners for the construction of the Belgrade-Zrenjanin motorway. Earlier this month, the Serbian government said it approved a project for the construction of a motorway rather than an expressway to link Belgrade to Zrenjanin, given the economic development of the Banat District. Chinese company ZORANA MIHAJLOVIĆ Shandong Linglong said in August it plans to invest $994.4 million in the construction of a tyre factory in Zrenjanin.
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