Source: “Tanjug” press agency / By the end of the month, the city of Nis will host a meeting in which the highest political representatives of Nis, Pirot, Toplica, Jablanica and Pcinj Districts will participate. The meeting with five mayors and 23 municipal presidents was initiated by the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, while the topic of discussion will be the political and economic stability of South Serbia.
READ MORESource: Pregled / Presevo – Presevo cattle-breeders got 55 heifers for breeding from the state. “Simmental heifers arrived when the cattle-breeders had already lost hope that they would get them, "said Miodrag Milkovic, Director of the veterinary station in Bujanovac, which is responsible for the Presevo municipality as well.
READ MORESource: Јugpress / Medvedja – Medvedja Mayor Slobodan Draskovic said that 30 to 50 people, along with the subcontractors, would find jobs at the "Termovent" factory in Medvedja, whose halls are undergoing reconstruction.
READ MORESource: Dnevnik / The agreement on donation of multi-lingual software to the Basic Police Training Center in Sremska Kamenica was signed by the Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Paula Thiede, Deputy Minister of the Interior Zeljko Kojic and Deputy Head of the German Embassy in Belgrade Michael Hasenau.
READ MORESource: Danas / Belgrade – A new generation of interns in state institutions was presented yesterday at the Palace of Serbia. Twelve young members of the Albanian, Bosnian and Roma ethnic minorities will spend the next six months at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Ministry of Culture and Information, the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society and the Office for Human and Minority Rights.
READ MORESource: Jugpress / Leskovac – The first cluster of fruit-growers from the Jablanica and Pcinj region was established yesterday at the Center for Development of Jablanica and Pcinj Districts. The EU "Progress provided support to the project.
READ MORESource: Dnevnik / Verica Kalanovic, Minister for Regional Development and Local Self-Government, visited Bujanovac last Friday and said that the government was ready to face a number of problems and that it recognized the importance of establishing trust with the Albanian minority. The Minister also attended a two-day conference "Bujanovačka agora", which was organized by the Centre for Regionalism, the event that the USAID funded through the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC).
READ MORESource: Press / Belgrade – Zoran Stankovic, the new President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, said that the Government of the Republic of Serbia gave him huge honor by having appointed him to that position.
READ MORESource: Jugpress / Medvedja – At the meeting of the Steering Committee of the EU PROGRESS, which took place in Medvedja yesterday, a total of over 200,000 euros was approved for new projects, which are aimed at further development of the Pcinj, Jablanica and Toplica Districts, as well as of the southwestern Serbia.
READ MORESource: Jugpress / Vranje – The final event of the "TED – Theatre for Ethnic Dialogue", which the “Generator” NGO, in collaboration with its partners, had been undertaking over the previous 10 months, was held at the students’ and pupils’ dorm in Vranje.
READ MORESource: Večernje nosvosti / The generation that has just completed training at the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica consists of trainees from police departments in Vranje, Leskovac and Belgrade, which means that they come from different environments, but during the training and the final examination they showed that this wasn’t an obstacle to acquiring new knowledge and skills by working together. This class is important because after many years 12 ethnic Albanians, who were among 109 beneficiaries of the basic police course, completed the training and they will be working in South Serbia.
READ MORESource: Narodne novine – Niš / Presevo – Although the municipality of Presevo is among the least developed municipalities in Serbia, it is one of the few ones that provides organized transportation for students who live up to ten kilometers away from the school they attend.
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