“The Future“ NGO from Veliki Trnovac once again bedazzled the Bujanovac audience with its members’ creative skills. Last Friday, young members of the said organization performed the “Our Home” play to the audience for the first time.

Following a  successful Serbian language project, which gathered together the young from Presevo and which was organized by the International Human Center NGO from Presevo, the Center for Tolerance and Integration of South Serbia decided to make the same move.

Vranje – Russian furniture companies “Italika“ and „IP“ are going to purchase from „Simpo“ the goods valued at  two million euro. Contracts on  the purchase were signed in Vranje by representatives of  those firms and by Sladjan Disic, Director General of „Simpo“.

Vranje – A Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation by and between four municipalities of the Pcinj district and the USAID was signed in Vranje. The said MoU was signed by Presidents of the Municipalities of Bujanovac, Presevo, Vladicin Han and by the Mayor of Vranje.

Bujanovac – Several ambassadors to Serbia visited the “Jug” army base, which is situated near Bujanovac, with the aim of familiarizing themselves with development plans for that army complex, which is going to become a training center for those participating in peace missions. Zoran Jeftic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Defense and Head of the Team for Coordinating the Activities for Development of the “Jug” Army Base, said that training capacities of the base would be increased primarily for national needs.

Presevo – In the period from the end of this April until now, de-miners found and destroyed 25 cluster bombs in the territory of the village of Bustranje, said yesterday Emil Jeremic, Director of the “Norwegian People’s Aid” office in Serbia.  He said that since April 29, 2011, de-miners checked almost 100,000 m2 of land near the village of Bustranje. A total of 194,804 m2 of land near the village of Bustranje, which is mostly used for farming, should be examined.

The Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in partnership with the UN’s PBILD program, organized a four-day training for representatives of non-governmental organizations in the period from June 1 to 4, 2011.  The training was focused on the organizations whose projects deal with and address the issues of the young.

Vranje – In the first three months of this year, businessmen from the Pcinj district exported and imported goods and services valued at the total of 67 million US dollars.   When it comes to foreign trade, a surplus of six million dinars was produced, while most of the region’s foreign trade, around 85 per cent of it, was conducted by the city of Vranje. In the first quarter of the year, Vranje’s companies exported to foreign countries the goods and services valued at almost 31 million dinars, which is almost by one half more than in the same period last year. Also, their imports, which amounted to 25 million US dollars, were by 20 per cent greater than the last year’s ones. Actually, businessmen from Bujanovac were the only businessmen in the region that exported by one fourth less than they had done in the previous year.