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. At the General Assembly, all NALAS former and future presidents also shared their views about the vision of NALAS network. They also called for extension of the Covenant of Mayors to South East Europe. In addition, the mayors from SEE presented their most successful municipal projects which contributed to improving decentralization in different municipal function areas in 2011.

Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South East Europe NALAS shared the local government experience of the region with the Iraqi local and national officials. Members of Iraqi Parliament and officials of Baghdad Governorate and local councils highly appreciated the expertise provided by NALAS in a conference held in Erbil/Northern Iraq.

ICT Media initiate the organization of the 13th edition of the conference "E-Government - From The National E-Governance to Cross-Border E-Project". The event is scheduled to be held on 08-09 March 2012.

The President of NALAS Vladimir Moskov, the Vice President Ozgen Keskin and NALAS Executive Bureau met mayors from Albania in attempt to assist the consolidation of the weakened from internal political polarisation Albanian Association of Municipalities.

NALAS President Vladimir Moskov participated in the forum "Governing in partnership – United to build a stronger Europe". Applying a model of governing in partnership to the European Union was the main topic of the discussions at the occasion which was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 12 December 2011.

NALAS intends to undergo an audit for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2011 conducted by an independent audit company

the 15th URBAN 2011 Fair will be held on 15-18 December 2011 in Istanbul/TURKEY

The 1st International Roundtable of the SEE Local Integrated Response Network will take place in Prishtina on 5 and 6 December 2011.

NALAS has moved to new offices

Last week the Turkish city of Bursa was the home of over one hundred local government professionals, civil servants and experts from South-Eastern Europe who came to the city to work together on some of the most difficult municipal tasks – municipal finances and solid waste management.