April 28, 20100

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• 28. April 2010.

US Financial Assistance for South Serbia

The United States of America have invested, through the USAID, over 70 million dollars in South Serbia, mostly in the infrastructure and development of economy and culture, said the US Ambassador to Serbia Mary Warlick after  talking to representatives of the local self-government in Vranje.

April 27, 20100

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• 27. April 2010.

Ivana Kovacevic, State Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Visits South Serbia
A regional fair of the youth non-governmental organizations “Inter-akcija (“Interaction”) was held in Vranje from 9.30 am until 3 pm on April 26, 2010, where the young of the Pcinj and Jablanica districts, including the young of the Albanian, Roma and Serbian ethnic backgrounds from the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, presented their ideas, plans and projects.

April 25, 20100

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• 25. April 2010.

The students’ „Vukov sabor“ is going to be held in Loznica and Trsic from May 19 to 23, 2010, stated the Loznica-based „Vuk Karadzic“ Culture Center, which is the organizer of the event. The guests of „Vukov sabor“ are going to be young Serbs, Albanians and Roma from the southern Serbian municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac, who are going to perform the educational and artistic program „You and I are We“ on May 21, 2010.

April 20, 20100

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• 20. April 2010.

According to Stephen Wordsworth, the British ambassador to Serbia, the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in which Serbia, the EU and USAID invested a total of 100 milion dollars, „stagnated for a long time because of the people who didn’t speak to one another, but the situation has changed over the past few years.”

April 15, 20100

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• 15. April 2010.

Belgrade – Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and Minister for Public Administration and Local Self – Government, said at the yesterday’s forum „South Serbia – From Frozen Conflict to Sustainable Solutions – Possibilities for Long-Term Integration and Regional Development“that there were problems in South Serbia and that the Serbian government and the Coordination Body were fully aware of them. „We are very far from any conflicts in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.

April 13, 20100

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• 13. April 2010.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) stated yesterday that it had provided, through the Economic Security Program, financial and technical assistance to a group of eleven small and medium-sized companies, so that those companies could represent themselves at the International Economic Fair in Mostar.

PRESS RELEASE0

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• 7. April 2010.

On Thursday, April 8, 2010, Boris Tadic, President of the Republic of Serbia, is going to pay a visit to the municipality of Medvedja.

The Serbian President will visit the Faculty in Medvedja, where he is going to talk with students of the Faculties of Economics and Law. Representatives of the media are kindly asked to be present in front of the building of the Faculty at 11 am at the latest.

April 1, 20100

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• 1. April 2010.

Belgrade- The municipality of Vrsac is the absolute winner of a competition of local self-governments in promotion of investments in Serbia, which was organized in Serbia by the USAID’s Serbia Economic Growth Activity (SEGA) Program. The second award was won by Leskovac, while the third one went to Uzice. The awards were presented to the winners by the following members of the Serbian government: Mladjen Dinkic, Bozidar Djelic and Oliver Dulic. In the “Invest in Serbia” competition, which lasted from March 1 to 31, representatives of 28 Serbian municipalities had a chance to present to the professional jury their economic and investment potentials, as well as to exhibit those potentials at  the investment fair that was held at the Belgrade-based Hyatt Hotel yesterday.

March 31, 20100

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• 31. March 2010.

Vranje – Verica Kalanovic, Minister for National Investment Plan (NIP), is of the view that the government should invest more in South Serbia, but that it is also necessary for local self – governments to take more initiative in that respect.