PRIME MINISTER MIRKO CVETKOVIC OPENS FACULTY IN MEDVEDJA – Oct 9, 20090

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• 9. October 2009.

MEDVEDJA – The Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, along with the Ministry of Education, and with the financial assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the support of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Mission to Serbia, provided classes in mother tongues for students in Medvedja belonging to the Serbian and Albanian communities. Departments of Nis University’s Faculties of Economics and Law will be ceremoniously opened by Mirko Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, at 1 pm on Monday, October 12, 2009. The first matriculation books will be delivered to students by Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, and by Zarko Obradovic, Minister of Education.

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO PARENTLESS AND SOCIALLY IMPERILED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS0

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• 29. September 2009.

In accordance with clearly specified criteria for an open competition for secondary school students’ scholarships and the available budget, the Coordination Body is going to award scholarships to 151 students, out of whom 57 of them are from Presevo, 55 from Bujanovac and 39 from Medvedja. The overall value of the awarded scholarships is three million and twenty thousand (3,020,000) dinars. The scholarships were given to all students without one of the two parents, as well as to poverty stricken ones, provided all of them had achieved good school results during the previous school years. The total of 819 secondary school students, out of whom 444 are from Presevo, 256 from Bujanovac and 119 from Medvedja, entered the open competition, which the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia announced on June 25, 2009. Any objections to the rank list of the applicants, which should be supported by appropriate documentation, as well as requests, should be submitted to the Office of the Coordination Body immediately after the issuing of the rank list and not later than eight days.

September 23, 20090

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• 23. September 2009.

Aleksandar Vesic, Assistant Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning, stated yesterday that reforms not only at the national level, but also at the local one, are necessary in the field of environment. At a press-conference that was held upon completion of the project entitled „Safety of the Local Environment“, Mr. Vesic said that local self-governments should have special offices for taking care of the local environment. He added that 30 per cent of the laws that Serbia should bring into line with the European Union refer to environmental protection. He also said that industrial contamination poses the greatest risk to environment. Thomas Moore, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, who provided assistance with implementation of the project, said that the Serbian rivers are very polluted, particularly those in South Serbia, and added that they served for dumping waste.

September 22, 20090

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• 22. September 2009.

The Center for Development of the Jablanica and Pcinj Districts NGO began implementaing a project for reduction of povrety in Serbia, which is funded by the EU.

September 18, 20090

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• 18. September 2009.

The Republican Ombudsman’s offices are going to be opened in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja by the end of this year. Each of them is going to work on specific workdays; while in the meantime, the premises of the offices will be used for other purposes. The offices’ employees are going to be part of the Ombudsman’s expert team that will be in charge of contacting the citizens and receiving their complaints. Members of ethnic minority communities will be particularly encouraged to apply for the job in the offices.

PRESS RELEASE – September 17, 20090

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• 17. September 2009.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

As part of the activity “One Thousand PCs for Schools in Serbia”, Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, and Goran Ciric, Director General of the Public Enterprise of PTT Traffic “Srbija”, are going to donate seven PCs and two printers to the IT Room of the elementary school “Bora Stankovic” in the village of Klenike, situated in the municipality of Bujanovac. Minister Markovic and Director General Ciric are going to deliver the IT equipment to students of the school at 1 pm tomorrow, September 18, 2009.

Free access to the website of the PE of PTT Traffic “Srbija” has been provided, via the Internet, to students of the elementary school “Bora Stankovic.”

THE COORDINATION BODY’S OFFICE DISTRIBUTED ITS OPEN COMPETITION FUNDS0

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• 4. September 2009.

The Coordination Body Office’s commission reached a decision on funding the projects included in the open competition for implementing the projects of associations of citizens in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja in 2009, as well as a decision on financing the projects included in the Program for distribution and use of the funds for the programs of achieving and  improving social and minority rights, as well as particular qualities of the minorities in the territory of the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja in 2009.