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PRESS RELEASE – VISIT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM PRESEVO, BUJANOVAC AND MEDVEDJA POSTPONED FOR NOVEMBER, 180
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- 9. November 2009.
THE VISIT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, WHO ARE SCHOLARS OF THE COORDINATION BODY FOR THE MUNICIPALITIES OF PRESEVO, BUJANOVAC AND MEDVEDJA, TO BELGRADE ON NOVEMBER 10, WHICH YOU WERE INFORMED OF ON FRIDAY THROUGH OUR PRESS RELEASE, HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. THE AGENDA AND THE SCHEDULE OF THE VISIT REMAIN THE SAME. WE ARE KINDLY ASKING YOU TO ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES FOR THE POSPONMENT. WE ARE GOING TO INFORM YOU OF ALL DETAILS OF THE VISIT OF SOUTH SERBIA’S STUDENTS TO BELGRADE IN A TIMELY MANNER.
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- 6. November 2009.
BELGRADE – On Tuesday, November 10, 152 secondary-school students from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, who received scholarships from the Coordination Body, will come to Belgrade. They are going to visit the most important governmental institutions, and towards the end of their visit, which is for many of them their first visit to Serbia’s capital city, President of the Coordination Body, Minister Milan Markovic, and Minister of Education, Zarko Obradovic, are going to ceremoniously present scholarship contracts to them. In addition, President of the Republic of Serbia, Boris Tadic, Chairwoman of the National Parliament, Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, and Assistant Mayor of Belgrade, Radmila Hrustanovic.
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COOPERATION BETWEEN THE COORDINATION BODY AND THE YOUTH FORUM FOR THE EDUCATION OF ROMA (OFER)0
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- 3. November 2009.
The “Youth Forum for the Education of Roma” (OFER) NGO gave joy to Bujanovac children by presenting them with valuable gifts. The total of 142 children from vulnerable and socially jeopardized groups received sets of textbooks, which has made it possible for them to be educated under the same conditions as other children of their age.
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- 2. November 2009.
Slobodan Draskovic, the mayor of Medvedja, stated yesterday that the local self-government had provided a location for construction of a prison. According to the Serbian government’s project, the prison should be for 450 prisoners.
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- 30. October 2009.
Political representatives of Albanians from Bujanovac and Presevo submitted to the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights a document on their initiative for establishing the National Council of Albanians. Saip Kamberi, the mayor of Bujanovac, stated that the procedure for developing electoral rolls was underway.
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- 28. October 2009.
„Turker“, a renowned Turkish company, is going to become a majority owner of Bujanovacka Spa. The company will be obliged to invest in the Bujanovac wellness center and in development of tourism in the region. Minister Mladjen Dinkic and his Turkish colleague Omer Dincer signed agreements on cooperation in the fields of economy and infrastructure.
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- 21. October 2009.
A six-member group of local parliament members, which consists of two representatives of the Democratic Party (DP), one representative of the G17+ Party and three representatives of PhD Stojanca Arsic and PhD Miodrag Milkovic Group of Citizens, was established in Bujanovac. The aim of the group is to negotiate with the Albanian majority in the assembly about re-involvment of Serbs in the local government. Zoran Antić from G17+ was appointed the head of the gropup.
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- 20. October 2009.
Representatives of the USAID’s PPES (Preparedness, Planning and Economic Security) Program are going to sign a contract with the Presevo and Bujanovac Development Agency (PBDA). Under the contract, the agency is going to take a group of entrepreneurs from South Serbia and Sandzak to the International Agricultural Fair in Pristina, where they’ll participate in it.
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PRESS RELEASE ON A SESSION OF THE NARROWER COMPOSITION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COORDINATION BODY – 19. October 2009.0
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- 19. October 2009.
It was agreed at an extraordinary session of the narrower composition of the presidency of the Coordination Body that the remaining working groups should be set up in the coming period, in accordance with what was specified in the Agreement on the Principles of Reconstruction of the Coordination Body. Over the next two weeks, in addition to the Working Group for Education, Culture, Information, Youth and Sports, which operates successfully, the other working groups, which include the Working Group for Economics and Infrastructure Development, the Working Group for Political Integrations, the Working Group for Security and Judiciary, the Working Group for Strengthening Local Self-Government Capacities and the Working Group for Healthcare and Social Welfare Policy, will be established.
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- 15. October 2009.
The Ministry of Human and Minority Rights began developing electoral rolls for ethnic minorities yesterday. This activity will last over the next 120 days, after which the national councils of ethnic minorities in Serbia will be elected. The election of members of these councils will take place at the beginning of next year. The Albanian ethnic minority, which according to the 2002 census has around 61,000 members in Serbia, without Kosovo and Metohija, will elect its representatives in the council for the first time.
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- 14. October 2009.
Saip Kamberi, President of the municipality of Bujanovac, as an authorised representative of the Albanian ethnic minority in Serbia, submitted a request for developing a special electoral roll for the election of the National Council of that minority.
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OSCE SUPPORTS COORDINATION BODY0
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- 14. October 2009.
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia Dimitrios Kypreos stated for the FoNet news agency that the OSCE Mission to Serbia provided utmost support to the Coordination Body for South Serbia and added that it was a factor that could considerably contribute to the settling of tensions and to the implementation of trust-building measures. He said that a dialogue among members of different peoples was very important for resolving all the issues, because, in addition to economic development, it is an “excellent step towards overcoming everything bad from the past.” Ambassador Kypreos believes that the opening of departments of the Faculties of Law and Economics in Medvedja is a positive step towards the strengthening of multiethnic society in South Serbia.
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