Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, said that the activities for integrating Albanians in Serbia’s social and governmental system would  resume, adding that that implied jobs for Albanians in the Customs Administration.

Minister Markovic pointed out that over 20 Albanians would get jobs in the Customs Administration and Tax Administration by the end of the year, adding that a new open competition for recruiting Albanians in multiethnic police was in progress. During a break from a meeting dedicated to ten years of operation of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Minister Markovic said that a lot had changed in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja since reconstruction of the Coordination Body, which took place over two years ago.

“A lot of things changed, primarily those in the fields of establishment of civil society, information and giving encouragement to the young, who will, in a few years’ time, be the most responsible persons for the way of living in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja”, said Milan Markovic, who is Minister of both Human and Minority Rights and Public Administration and Local Self-Government.

He said that that a department of the Faculty of the Economy would be opened in Bujanovac and that a maternity hospital would be built in Presevo, which would all contribute to the better integration of Albanians in Serbia’s social and governmental system.