On November 11th, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations in the Council of Ministers, Stasa Kosarac, visited the company, Mladegs Pak, in Prnjavor. Together with the mayor of this municipality, Darko Tomas, he visited the production plants and stated that a way must be found for the institutions to help export-oriented companies.

According to the Minister, the company Mladegs Pak is one of the most developed companies and the pearl of the economy in the Republic of Srpska. Mayor Tomas added that the coronavirus did not affect the scope of business of this company, and there were no layoffs, which speaks of its seriousness.

Minister Kosarac stated that they discussed how to improve the foreign trade of "Mladegs", considering that it exports to CEFTA countries, the EU, and further, and there are certain types of delays in the placement of products in some countries.

"We took the responsibility to discuss this issue in the coming period in order not to use the so-called customs barriers of those countries when it comes to the placement of this company's products." I will ask my colleagues to define this issue in the best possible way, and that justifies our political position that "mini Schengen" is the solution for a much better flow of goods, services and people," said Kosarac, adding that he thinks that the implementation of" mini Schengen "and do this part of the work in the best possible way so that businessmen have an accelerated pace of placement of goods in CEFTA countries, ie the countries of the Western Balkans.

He reminded that "Mladegs" is thinking about increasing export capacities, which will enable the employment of new workers, and that is very important today.

Mladen Pratljacic, who works in the company "Mladegs Pak" on export business, stated that a new factory for the production of ketchup with a capacity of about 100 tons per day will be put into operation next year.

"The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations helps us a lot in exports and we have good cooperation with them," said Pratljacic.