On Wednesday, December 11th, 2013, the AACC held in its premises in Klagenfurt its regular assembly, where members from Austria and Slovenia were present. The President Bernard Sadovnik stressed in his report the successful four years of activities of the Centre, especially on the field of cross-border projects between Austria and Slovenia. One of the main tasks was the netting and the cooperation among municipalities from Slovenia and Austria. Also some Austrian companies were able to enter the markets of Slovenia and the other countries of former Yugoslavia with the support of the Centre. Present members of the AACC greeted the successful cooperation of the Centre with the Carinthian Country and the cooperation contract, concluded already in 2012 between the Sarajevo Canton and the AACC. In future the AACC will even more orientate itself as a competency center for Southeast Europe to institutional cooperation of regions and municipalities in this area. In front of these tasks is the cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially with the Sarajevo Canton. Accordingly the AACC assembly elected with all votes into the new Executive board besides the former President of the Government of the Posavina Canton Mijo Matanović (now delegate in the federal parliament) also the former President of the Government of the Sarajevo Canton Fikret Musić and the President of the Association of Austrian-Bosnian Friendship , Nedžad Ajnadžić . Also the Mayors Ferdinand Vouk (Velden, Austria) and Franc Mužič (Brda, Slovenia) will participate in the Executive board. Bernard Sadovnik and the former superintendant of ORF Gerhard Weis were reelected as the President and Vice-President. The Secretary-General remains Filip Warasch .
