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October 20, 2009 0
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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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October 15, 2009 0
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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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OSCE SUPPORTS COORDINATION BODY 0
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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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October 14, 2009 0
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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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PRIME MINISTER MIRKO CVETKOVIC OPENS FACULTY IN MEDVEDJA 0
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- 12. October 2009.
The Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, in the presence of President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Milan Markovic, Minister of Education Zarko Obradovic, Deputy Chief of the US Mission to Serbia Troy Pederson, Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia Dimitrios Kypreos, representatives of the embassies of Greece, Austria and France to Serbia, President, Vice-President and professors of the Nis University, representatives of the districts, cities and municipalities of South Serbia, as well as of students, opened, on October 12, 2009, the departments of the Nis University’s Faculties of Economics and Law in Medvedja, where students belonging to the Serbian and Albanian communities will attend classes in their native tongues.
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PRIME MINISTER MIRKO CVETKOVIC OPENS FACULTY IN MEDVEDJA – Oct 9, 2009 0
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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.
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SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO PARENTLESS AND SOCIALLY IMPERILED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 0
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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.
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MEETING WITH MINISTER OF EDUCATION HELD 0
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- 25. September 2009.
A meeting between mayors of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja on the one side, and Zarko Obradovic, Minister of Education, on the other, was held in an atmosphere of constructiveness and openness. The meeting was initiated by Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, for the purpose of facilitating the understanding of major issues in the field of education in the said three municipalities.
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September 23, 2009 0
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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.
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September 22, 2009 0
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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.
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PART OF THE ACTIVITY “ONE THOUSAND PCs FOR SCHOOLS IN SERBIA”0
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- 21. September 2009.
As part of the activity “One Thousand PCs for Schools in Serbia”, Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government and President of the Coordination Body for South Serbia Milan Markovic and Director General of the Public Enterprise of PTT Traffic “Srbija” Goran Ciric donated, on September 18, 2009, to the IT Room of the elementary school “Bora Stankovic” in the village of Klenike, the Bujanovac municipality, seven PCs and two printers.
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