Protocol for mutual collaboration, development and promotion of mountaineering and mountain sports in the Balkan region was signed among the Federation of mountain sports of Macedonia, Bulgarian Tourist Union and the Mountaineering association of Serbia and Montenegro during the meeting in Vranje, Republic of Serbia, on October 18th 2003. The following years this initiative has been supported by the mountaineering unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Turkey. During the time this idea maturated and the mountaineers/representatives of these countries each year had meetings discussing the way and form of the Balkan Mountaineering Union (BMU) establishment.
Finally, the constitutive meeting of BMU took place on October 16/17, 2009 at the mountain of Bjelashnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the presence of delegates of all Balkan countries (Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina), as well as Croatia as observer. During the meetinga the BMU_statut was adopted and the Executive committee was established, and for the first president of BMU the vote of confidence was given to Prof. D-r. Jovica Ugrinovski, president of the Federation of Mountain Sports of Macedonia, one of the initiators of the Balkan mountaineers union setting up.
It was decided the publication of the joint on-line BMU Journal, as well as the annual championship in the following disciplines: mountain orientation, mountain biking, rock climbing, ski touring and mountain running.
After the official meeting the participants climbed the mountain Bjelashnica peak, and the wreaths were laid at the monument to the fallen mountaineers and to the children killed during the war in Sarajevo.
Members of BMU
ALBANIAN FEDERATION OF MOUNTAINEERING AND CLIMBING
Federata Shqiptare për Alpinizëm dhe Ngjitje
Ruge Kemal Stafa 260/1,
Tirana, Republika e Shqipërise
Tel: +355 4 2236 820
Cel: + 355 69 20 93 532
E-mail: janiziso@yahoo.com
President: Jani Ziso
Planinarski Savez Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine
Ul. Terazija BB, SRKC Skenderija
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel: + 387 33-555-685
Fax: + 387 33-555-685
E-mail: psbih1@bih.net.ba
psbih.ba
President: Mirza Azderovic
BULGARIAN TOURIST UNION
БЪЛГАРСКИ ТУРИСТИЧЕСКИ СЪЮЗ
ГР. СОФИЯ – 1000, ПК 427
БУЛ. ВАСИЛ ЛЕВСКИ № 75, ЕТ. 5
Tel: +359 2 987 34 09;
Fax: + 359 882 966 304;
E-mail: bts.secretar@gmail.com
www.btsbg.org
President: Доц. Д-р Венци Росманов
Hrvatski planinarski savez
Croatian Mountaineering Association
Kozarčeva 22
10000 Zagreb
Tel: + 385 1 48 23 624
Fax: + 385 1 48 24 142
E-mail: hps@plsavez.hr
www.plsavez.hr
President: Hrvoje Kraljević
HELLENIC FEDERATION of MOUNTAINEERING & CLIMBING - Observer member
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΑ ΟΡΕΙΒΑΣΙΑΣ – ΑΝΑΡΡΙΧΗΣΗΣ
5 Milioni str
AThens 10673 GREECE
Tel: 2103645904 fax: 2103644687
E-mail: info@eooa.gr
www.eooa.gr
President: Dimitris Georgoulis
Mountaineering Federation of North Macedonia
Federacija za planinarstvo na Severna Makedonija
Ul.11 Oktomvri 42a
1000 Skopje, R. of North Makedonija
Tel: ++ 389 2 3165 540
Fax: ++ 389 2 3165 540
E-mail: contact@fpsm.org.mk
www.fpsm.org.mk
President: Zoran Chitkushev
MOUNTAINEERING ASSOCIATION OF MONTENEGRO
Planinarski savez Crne Gore
Ul. Bracana Bracanovića 68/A, Podgorica
81000 Crna Gora
Tel: ++ 382 20 622 220
++ 382 20 622 157
E-mail: info@pscg.me
www.pscg.me
President: Darko Brajušković
MOUNTAINEERING ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA
Planinarski Savez Srbije
Adress: Andrićev venac 2
11103 Beograd
Srbija
Tel: +381113343103
E-mail: office@pss.rs
www.pss.rs
President: Iso Planić
Alpine Association of Slovenia
Planinska zveza Slovenije
Dvorakova ul. 9, p. p. 214,
SI-1001 Ljubljana
Tel: + 386 (0) 1 43 45 680
Fax: + 386 (0) 1 43 45 691
E-mail: info@pzs.si; international@pzs.si
www.pzs.si
President: Jože Rovan
TURKISH MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
Türkiye Dağcılık Federasyonu
Gazi Mustafa Kemal Bulvarı No: 17/10 Kızılay, 06420 – Çankaya / Ankara – TURKEY
Tel: +90 312 311 91 20
Fax: +90 312 310 15 78
E-Mail: info@tdf.gov.tr
Web Site: http://www.tdf.gov.tr
President: Prof. Dr. Ersan BAŞAR
CZECH MOUNTAINEERING FEDERATION
CESKY HOROLEZECKY SVAZ
Address: Nádražní 29/21
City: 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 273 136 385
Email: info@horosvaz.cz
Website: www.horosvaz.cz
President: Jan Bloudek
BALKAN MOUNTAINEERING UNION
Executive Board:
1. Dragoslav Gogić, president of BMU
Tel. +381 64 8612105
e.mail: dragoslavgogic@yahoo.com
2. Tatjana Ivanović
Tel. +382 67535516
e.mail: tatjanaivanovic2020@gmail.com
3. Zoran Chitkushev
Tel. +389 71 21 77 85
e.mail: citkusz@yahoo.com
4. Ermin Lipović
Tel. +38761144248
e.mail: lipa3@bih.net.ba
5. Martin Šolar
Tel. +38641627891
e.mail: martin.solar@pzs.si
