MILAN MARKOVIC, PRESIDENT OF THE COORDINATION BODY, INAUGURATES THE RECONSTRUCTED CENTER OF PRESEVO Milan Markovic, Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government and President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, is going to inaugurate the renovated center of Presevo on Monday, September 20, 2010.

The 11th. BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival) Polyphony The title of the 11th. BITEF Polyphony is “Arts and Theatre – Community Life”, which is BITEF’s accompanying program that will be opened at 12 o’clock noon today by “Mimart” theatre’s project “Limes” at the “Parobrod” (Steamship) cultural institution. This year’s Polyphony will be focused on open workshops and interactive presentations.

OMBUDSMAN IN SOUTH SERBIA The Office of the Republican Protector of Citizens in South Serbia operates at full steam and it has already achieved some visible results. The Office of the Protector of Citizens in the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja was opened on June 28, 2010. Two persons are employed there, Maja Zlatkovic and Bekim Ajdini.

MILAN MARKOVIC, MINISTER OF STATE ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT – NO TRADING IN THE SOUTH FOR THE NORTH – taken over from “Vecernje novosti” (the “Evening News”) Reform of Political System Completely Blocked Some politicians from South Serbia use national demagogy in order to maintain their own political positions. Such statements can’t do anyone any good. This is how Milan Markovic, Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government and President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, comments on the increasingly inflammatory statements coming from South Serbia.

On Monday, September 6, 2010, Minister Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja opened the sports - ground and kitchen at the “Vuk Karadzic” elementary school in the village of Levosoje, which is situated in the municipality of Bujanovac. The funds for the construction of the sports - ground were provided by “Telekom”, while the kitchen was furnished by the Public Enterprise of PTT (PE PTT) Traffic Serbia.

On August 10, 2010, a tournament in street basketball was held in the Bujanovac city square, by which the World’s Youth Day was marked. The tournament was opened by Saip Kamberi, President of the Municipality of Bujanovac. By this activity, the local Youth Office, which had organized the tournament, wished to animate the residents of Bujanovac, in particular the youth, and to point out to them that they should go in for sports.

On September 3, 2010, which is the day of liberation of the city of Vranje in World War II, the basic organization of the Red Cross of the Vranje Police Department, the Nis Institute for Blood Transfusion and the Vranje Blood Transfusion Office organized a blood donation activity at the Police Department in Vranje.

First grade students of the elementary school in the village of Reljan, as well as those in Presevo and in the villages of Veliki Trnovac and Zbevac, spent their first school day with Minister Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, who wished them a happy beginning of the school year in both Albanian and Serbian. 

ARMY PROVIDES MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO AN ALBANIAN VILLAGE Bujanovac – Yesterday, members of the Serbian Army visited Muhovac, an Albanian village situated in the municipality of Bujanovac and in the ground security zone, where they provided medical assistance to those who needed it.