During their two-days stay in the NALAS Secretariat in Skopje, on 27 August 2012 NALAS President, Mr. Ozgen Keskin and the two Vice Presidents, Mr. Djuro Bukvic and Mr. Anton Pershak hosted a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia and the Chair of the South-East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP), Mr. Nikola Poposki.

Extended Deadline: Request for Proposals for a Visual Solution for International Municipal Fair (NEXPO 2013)

On 27-28 July 2012 in Skopje, Macedonia, NALAS organized the workshop “Development of a cost and financing model in Solid Waste Management in South-East Europe” (CFM Project) and a meeting of NALAS Task Force on Solid Waste Management. Participants included CFM Project team, international, regional and local experts, NALAS Solid Waste Task Force Members and members of ZELS Environment Network.

Request for Proposals for a Visual Solution for International Municipal Fair (NEXPO 2013)

From 27-28 June 2012, NALAS Fiscal Decentralization Task Force held its meeting in Zagreb, Croatia. The meeting provided an overview of the developments since the last session of the Task Force, held in November 2011 in Bursa, Turkey.

It has now became a tradition that the Presidents of Associations of NALAS network get together annually to discuss and build common positions on priority issues. This year's meeting focused on Climate Change and was hosted by the the Romanian Association of Communes (ACoR), from 15 – 16 June 2012 at Danube Delta in Tulcea, Romania.

As part of the cooperation with the World Bank-Austria Urban Partnership Program, NALAS and its Fiscal Decentralization Task Force took part in the workshop on Modernizing Local Public Expenditure Management, organized in Mavrovo, Macedonia, from 15-17 May 2012.

Representatives of the NALAS Task Force on Sustainable Tourism participated at the conference “Destination Management and Branding in the Mediterranean Region: Sustainable Tourism in Times of Crisis”.

The Seventh NALAS General Assembly Meeting took place in Prishtina, on 29th and 30th March 2012. Over 100 participants from SouthEast Europe and beyond - mayors, municipal officials, experts and guest - participated at the events and contributed in the joint call for renewing commitment to fiscal decentralization.

The General Assembly of NALAS, consisting of 2 mayors from each member association, held its seventh meeting on 29 and 30 March 2012. This year the meeting was hosted in Prishtina, with a great support by the Association of Kosovo Municipalities.