The Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja keeps on providing assistance to the neediest inhabitants of South Serbia. After allocating one –off assistance of six million dinars to persons with special needs, single mothers and parentless children, an open competition was announced for granting scholarships to parentless secondary school students from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, as well as to pupils coming from families with inadequate means of support.
READ MOREThe Serbian Ministry of Education approved the opening of extended departments of the Nis University’s Faculties of Law and Economics in Medvedja – said Milan Markovic, Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. He said that this decision would have a lot of positive effects on the life of the young in the three southern Serbian municipalities.
READ MORE„Our investigation is going to show if the bomb explosion in Presevo is linked to the attack on members of the gendarmerie near Bujanovac, which occurred last week. However, considering everything, the terrorist attack was aimed at causing trouble and restlessness, at compromising the capacities and abilities of the Serbian governmental bodies, at intimidating the Albanian population and at causing the Serbian population to leave Presevo“, said Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, who is constantly in touch with representatives of the local self-governments in these three southern Serbian municipalities.
READ MOREThe Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja shall pay six million dinars in the accounts of the three municipalities by the end of the year. The said amount is to be utilized as one-off financial assistance provided to persons with special needs, single mothers and parentless children. The first portion of the funds, one million dinars for each of the three municipalities, is to be trasferred by mid-September, while each of the municipalities is to receive their second million in the last quarter of the year.
READ MOREThe “Simpo” Company from Vranje opened a furniture showroom in Sarajevo on the showroom premises of 1,500 m2 where the entire range of products of this company is exhibited. Director of Simpo’s Company in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jovo Plotan, said that this was Simpo’s eight retail trade facility in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
READ MORE„Doubtlessly, the results that the Serbian government achieved in the field of infrastructure, particularly those referring to construction of Corridor 10, are visible. The construction of the modern highway, as well as a series of similar activities, indicate that we are a step closer to joining the European Union, as well as to having the visa regime for our citizens abolished.“ That is what, among other things, said Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic yesterday at the appropriate festive event, after he had visited the Levosoj – Presevo section of the modern highway Corridor 10. The said section of the highway is 22 kilometers long, whereas around 13 million euros were invested in it.
READ MOREToday, the Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic opened a 20 km – long section of Corridor 10 highway that stretches from Levosoj to Presevo. The construction of this highway section began on July 21, 2008, while it was opened for traffic on the occasion of marking one year’s long of work of the Serbian government.
READ MORELidija Janjic, Chairperson of the Civilian Resource Center and a member of the delegation from Bujanovac that was on a two-day visit to Zrenjanin, said at a press-conference that Zrenjanin had been chosen as an example of good practice or as a local self – government from which a great deal could be learnt about regulation and bringing of the interest of citizens in the non – governmental sector into line with the interest of citizens in the municipal government, particularly when the points at issue are inter – ethnic relations in a multi-ethnic environment.
READ MOREA constitutive meeting of the Working Group for Education, Culture and Providing Information was held on June 24, 2009. The issues discussed at the meeting include the biggest problems of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja in the fields of education, culture, sports and providing information. Ms Tinde Kovac-Cerovic, Chairperson of the Working Group,who is State Secretary of the Ministry of Education , pointed out that even though National Councils, in principle, made decisions about the issues of education of minority communities, the Albanian National Council hadn’t yet been established, so that all problems of the three municipalities in the sphere of education would be solved by the Working Group.
READ MOREBy investing 18 million dinars in expansion of the business premises, as well as in procurement of the equipment, the Serbian Ministry of Justice considerably improved working conditions of the municipal prosecutor’s office in Presevo, it was stated at a festive hand over of the new business premises.
READ MOREA delegation consisting of representatives of Bujanovac non-governmental organizations and local self-government wishes to familiarize itself with a good cooperation of the Zrenjanin local self – government with the non-governmental sector, said Lidija Janjic, a member of the aforementioned delegation.
READ MOREOver the next six months, sixty-six unemployed persons that are registered with the National Employment Office are going to get employed during performance of public works in the municipality of Medvedja. Under a contract that was recently signed with the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development, they will be engaged in several projects related to the local health center, tourist organization and the “Onova” public utility enterprise. A total value of the works is around nine million dinars.
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