ROYAL COUPLE HOST WORKING BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS OF THE HELLENIC BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

Belgrade, 22 October 2009 - Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine hosted a Working breakfast for members of the Hellenic Business Association today at the White Palace.

Guests were addressed by HRH Crown Prince Alexander II, Admiral Vasilis Ntertilis, President of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Business Association (HBA) and Mr. Dusan Babac, member of the Privy Council.

HRH Crown Prince Alexander II greeted the guests and emphasized: "It is a great pleasure for my wife and I to welcome you to the White Palace. Greece is a country with whom Serbia has excellent political, cultural and economical relations for centuries. I understand that so far total Greek investment in Serbia is over three billion Euros, which is a great support for our economy. I strongly believe that if work together we can bring many more investors and I am willing to offer my assistance and support to improve the situation further in all of these areas", stated the Crown Prince.

Speeches were also delivered by Admiral Vasilis Dertilis and Mr. Nikolaos Karakostas, Director of HBA.

They pointed out that Greeks were pioneers in investing in Serbia and that so far the capital they invested in our country through business deals, exports and taxes made a huge contribution to Serbian revenue. He also thanked very much Their Royal Highnesses for their great support for all these years pointing out that with teamwork they can help promote economic cooperation between Greece and Serbia even more.

At the working breakfast there were representatives of more than 40 companies, including Eurobank EFG, Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank, Oil Refinery, Metropol Palace, Veropoulos, Vojvodjanska Bank and many others.

The Hellenic Business association of Serbia is a private, non-government, non-lobbying, non-profit organization established in 2003. Its members consist of 41 local legal entities with a minimum of 50% Greek capital, currently employing more than 26.000 people in Serbia.

The Greek owned companies in Serbia, are involved in various business segments (banking, food and beverage, telecommunications, retailing, tourism, constructions, heavy industry, various services etc), thus managing to bring Greece at the top of the list of the foreign investors in Serbia, with a total invested capital which exceeds 3 billion Euros, and which keeps increasing.