Pursuant to the bilateral cooperation between Norway and Serbia, the demining of 4.3 km2 of the land in South Serbia began yesterday in the village of Bustranja, which is situated in the municipality of Presevo. Emil Jeremic, Director of the Norwegian People’s Aid in Serbia, says that there are around 16 km2 of land in Serbia with unexploded cluster bombs leftover from the period of NATO bombing activity.
READ MOREThe Serbian government, and thereby the Ministry of Interior, are committed towards improving the position of ethnic minorities and towards enabling their full involvement in society, said Ivica Dacic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, at a meeting on the general situation in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.
READ MOREThe “BSK Junior” basketball club from Bujanovac organized a visit to Belgrade for the youngest basketball team members. On April 18, 2011, fifty youngest basketball team members, who are from six to ten years old, paid a visit to Serbia’s capital city and to the sports hall in New Belgrade, where they watched the training in basketball of junior members of the “Partizan” basketball club.
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The Serbian, Romany and Albanian basketball players, who are from five to ten years old, are going to spend a day in Belgrade on Monday, April 18, 2011. Boys and girls from the multiethnic basketball club „BSK Junior Elita“ are going to watch basketball training of young members of the „Partizan“ basketball club. They are also going to visit trophy rooms of the „Partizan“and „Crvena zvezda“(The Red Star) sporting associations. A visit to Belgrade ZOO was also organized for them.
READ MOREBujanovac – Yesterday, a meeting between businessmen from Bujanovac and Presevo and representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development, the Fund for Development of Serbia and the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja was held in Bujanovac. In the full room of the Bujanovac community center, Dragijana Radonjic-Petrovic, State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy, and Sladjana Backovic, Director of the Fund for Development of Serbia, pointed out that their visit was aimed at making businessmen from South Serbia interested in both the Ministry of Economy’s grants and in the Fund for Development’s loans.
READ MOREThe Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development are going to have a presentation of the Ministry of Economy and Development Fund’s program at the community center in Bujanovac at 12 o’clock noon on Wednesday, April 13.
READ MOREMedvedja, Lebane – As part of the activity “Let’s Clean Serbia”, the cleaning of the Jablanica River, which is one of the dirtiest rivers in South Serbia, began. The river will be cleaned from Medvedja to Lebane and Leskovac. Involved in the cleaning activity are members of the Association of Fishermen “Veternica” and the Agricultural Inspection of the Leskovac region.
READ MOREBujanovac – Verica Kalanovic, Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister, said in Bujanovac that that municipality was suitable for foreign investments because it was situated next to Corridor 10. Following the meeting with Saip Kamberi, President of the Municipality of Bujanovac, and Natasa Filic, President of the Municipal Assembly of Medvedja, Ms. Kalanovic said that it had been agreed to submit a list of plots of land that were free for foreign investments in industry to the Agency for Foreign Investments as soon as possible.
READ MOREVerica Kalanovic, Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and Regional Development
READ MOREVranje – „Help“, the German humanitarian organization, concluded an agreement with fifty small businessmen in Vranje. The said agreement is on providing support to development of small businessmen’s dealings.
READ MOREAt a competition held at the Academy of Central European Schools (ACES), which was organized in Prague last weekend, schools from Subotica and Bujanovac were, among 101 competing schools from the region, selected as the best ones in the category of “conflict resolution” and “intercultural team work”.
READ MOREBujanovac – Over the next couple of days, 28 teachers from six primary and two secondary schools from the municipality of Bujanovac are going to improve their knowledge of Serbian at the “Naim Fraseri” primary school. The primary and secondary teachers at issue teach children whose mother tongue isn’t Serbian.
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