On Thursday, 7 August 2014 Mayor Zoran Janković hosted the Mayor of Tetovo, Dr Teuta Arifi and members of the Tetovo delegation from Macedonia for the official visit at the City Hall.

The Mayor of Tetovo, Dr Teuta Arifi and the delegation visited Ljubljana in a desire to learn about the good practice in the area of European projects, culture, infrastructure, data and traffic processing, predominately parking arrangements.

Dr Teuta Arifi is a Doctor of Philology – Albanian Language and Literature. She served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs in 2012 and also holds the position of Vice-President of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), an Albanian party of the governing coalition. Teuta Arifi was the first Albanian woman to be elected in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia in 2002 and re-elected as Member of Parliament in 2006, 2008, and 2011 as Chair of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and the Committee for Cultural Issues. The Mayor is very active in the area of peace institutions, national minorities and the OSCE organisation. She is a member of the Macedonian delegation at the Council of Europe and the head of the Macedonian parliamentarian delegation at the Parliamentarian Assembly of NATO.

Two years ago she has been elected as the Mayor of Tetovo and is considered to be very progressive. Teuta Arifi is also a professor of History of Albanian Language and Literature at Tetovo and the University of Skopje.