A special hospital for rehabilitation in Bujanovac Spa submitted to the Ministry of Health three projects for reconstruction of the roof, hydro therapy and mud treatment units and two floors of the building, as well as for procurement of medical equipment, which are valued at over 19 million dinars. The implementation of these projects would improve the services provided at this health resort in South Serbia.
READ MOREThe Coordination Body is of the view that a protest staged by representatives of the Albanian community, by which they demand solution of problems in education, is justified and that it is high time that the Ministry of Education began to resolve this problem more seriously and in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Serbia and the practice that is in effect for the other ethnic minorities.
READ MOREYou are hereby asked to provide on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, media coverage of a visit of Milan Markovic, Minister of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government and President of the Coordination Body, to the municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac.
READ MORERepresentatives of the Coordination Body, along with Dragan Vukmirovic, Director of the Republican Statistics Office, visited the municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac, where the training of municipal instructors for the forthcoming taking of the national census had beguan.
READ MOREThis year, the third generation of students enrolled in the Medvedja-based departments of Nis University’s Faculties of Economy and Law, among whom Albanian students, on the average, make up around 25 per cent of the students whose studying is funded from the budget of the Republic of Serbia.
READ MORERepresentatives of the Commission for Persons that Have Gone Missing During the 1999 War in Kosovo didn’t find any traces of a mass grave in the village of Sijarina, which is situated in the municipality of Medvedja.
READ MOREMilan Markovic, Minister of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government and President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, is of the view that the Albanians from South Serbia are justifiably disatisfied with a poor education system, but that they have no reason whatsoever to boycott the census.
READ MOREThere is a problem with teachers of Serbian in South Serbia, where it takes months to fill a single position of a teacher of Serbian.
READ MOREYesterday, 53 young leaders from Serbia, the USA, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia gathered together in Belgrade for a three-day seminar, which was organized as part of the US Program for Young Leaders from Central Europe, said the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
READ MOREThe Serbian Ministry of Interior’s open competition for ethnic minorities in South Serbia was successfully completed. Following a check made by the Security and Information Agency and the Ministry of Interior, 10 persons from Medvedja qualified for undergoing police training, as well as 20 persons from Presevo and Bujanovac each. The police training is going to last one year.
READ MORENis – The relocation of the Development Fund of Serbia from Belgrade to Nis, which occurred this February, already yielded some results. Sladjana Backovic, Director of the Fund, says that following many meetings, which had been held between representatives of the Fund and representatives of chambers of commerce and business associations from all over the country, especially of those from the southern and south-eastern Serbia, a visible progress was made in the field of economic activity:
READ MOREThe “Peace-building and Inclusive Local Development” (PBILD) program is a joint UN program for South Serbia, which is implemented by the following six agencies: the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), as the leading UN agency working on the said program, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The UN agencies cooperate with all the municipalities of the Jablanica and Pcinj districts, as well as with the official bodies of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, such as the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, the Ombudsman’s Office and the Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia.
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