Members of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Board supported in Sarajevo today the concept of the 2011-2013 strategy and work programme of the organization, and agreed to finalize it in time for the approval by the RCC Annual Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on 22 June.

The new strategy will define RCC activities over the next three years, based on the region’s needs, and focusing on projects with added regional value, in the priority areas of the RCC work: economic and social development, infrastructure and energy, justice and home affairs, security cooperation, building human capital and parliamentary cooperation in South East Europe.

The strategy has been prepared in close cooperation with the European Commission, with substantial input from other RCC members, particularly those from South East Europe.

The RCC Board was also presented with the quarterly report of Secretary General Hido Biscevic on the Secretariat’s activities in the period February-May 2010, available HERE.

The RCC Board meets quarterly and provides the RCC with operational guidance and supervision. It consists of those RCC members contributing to the budget of the RCC Secretariat as well as the European Union, represented by the Troika, consisting of the EU Presidency, the European Commission and the Council Secretariat.