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The municipality of Kanjiža has been very active in the field of participation in various EU funded Programmes, ever since they became available to Serbia. It has valuable human resources and is development oriented. That is why Kanjiža was an active member of the Serbian negotiation team ever since the beginning (from 2008), and its task was to contribute to the establishment of the Banat-Triplex Confinium – EGTC. Apart from our municipality, other Serbian municipalities became observer members in 2009, and they are as follows: Novi Kneževac, Čoka, Senta, Ada, Kikinda, Žitište and Nova Crnja, Unfortunately, the national regulations were not yet established for Serbian settlements to become full members of the partnership. Still, even as an observer member, Kanjiža understands and seeks the potential of trilateral cooperation. Even though it already has a relationship with some of the settlements covered by the EGTC, other connections can be established with municipalities with similar interests and goals: enabling a quality socio-economic situation for the population, development of local and regional -economy, -agriculture, -tourism, -culture. Coming to this point, Kanjiža, in cooperation with other municipalities might initiate participation in EU Programmes of an entire region in Serbia- the Tisa region. Kanjiža is a co-signer of the Protocol of Cooperation of the Tisa region along with six other municipalities: Novi Kneževac, Čoka, Senta, Ada, Bečej and Novi Bečej. Improvement of inter-municipal cooperation is an important long-term goal for Kanjiža, because it is obvious that only with mutual trust, experience exchange, use of human resources can bring about comparative advantages in the region and in the big family of the European Union. Our municipality sees EGTC as an organization which is willing to take on challenges in order to contribute to the overall development of the region, and as a potential partner in such enterprises.
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