Source: “Tanjug” press agency / By the end of the month, the city of Nis will host a meeting in which the highest political representatives of Nis, Pirot, Toplica, Jablanica and Pcinj Districts will participate. The meeting with five mayors and 23 municipal presidents was initiated by the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, while the topic of discussion will be the political and economic stability of South Serbia.

Source: Pregled / Presevo - Presevo cattle-breeders got 55 heifers for breeding from the state.  “Simmental heifers arrived when the cattle-breeders had already lost hope that they would get them, "said Miodrag Milkovic, Director of the veterinary station in Bujanovac, which is responsible for the Presevo municipality as well.

Source:  Јugpress / Medvedja - Medvedja Mayor Slobodan Draskovic said that 30 to 50 people, along with the subcontractors, would find jobs at the "Termovent" factory in Medvedja, whose halls are undergoing reconstruction.

Source: Dnevnik / The agreement on donation of multi-lingual software to the Basic Police Training Center in Sremska Kamenica was signed by the Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Paula Thiede, Deputy Minister of the Interior Zeljko Kojic and Deputy Head of the German Embassy in Belgrade Michael Hasenau.

Source: Danas / Belgrade - A new generation of interns in state institutions was presented yesterday at the Palace of Serbia. Twelve young members of the Albanian, Bosnian and Roma ethnic minorities will spend the next six months at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Ministry of Culture and Information, the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society and the Office for Human and Minority Rights.

Source: Jugpress / Leskovac – The first cluster of fruit-growers from the Jablanica and Pcinj region was established yesterday at the Center for Development of Jablanica and Pcinj Districts. The EU "Progress provided support to the project.

Source: Dnevnik  / Verica Kalanovic, Minister for Regional Development and Local Self-Government, visited Bujanovac last Friday and said that the government was ready to face a number of problems and that it recognized the importance of establishing trust with the Albanian minority. The Minister also attended a two-day conference "Bujanovačka agora", which was organized by the Centre for Regionalism, the event that the USAID funded through the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC).

Source: Press / Belgrade – Zoran Stankovic, the new President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, said that the Government of the Republic of Serbia gave him huge honor by having appointed him to that position.

Source:  Jugpress / Medvedja - At the meeting of the Steering Committee of the EU PROGRESS, which took place in Medvedja yesterday, a total of over 200,000 euros was approved for  new projects, which are aimed at further development of the Pcinj, Jablanica and Toplica Districts, as well as of the southwestern Serbia.

Source:  Jugpress / Vranje - The final event of the "TED - Theatre for Ethnic Dialogue", which the “Generator” NGO, in collaboration with its partners, had been undertaking over the previous 10 months, was held at the students’ and pupils’ dorm in Vranje.