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24. September 2014.

PRIVATIZATION OF MEDIA

On August 15, the Privatization Agency issued a call for collecting letters of interest for the privatization of over 60 media outlets in Serbia, including Radio Leskovac, RTV Vranje and Radio Medvedja.

The call was issued on the basis of the new Law on Public Information, which stipulates that all  media, with the exception of the public RTS and RTV services, should be privatized by July 2015. 

Under this law, which entered into force on August 13, the media were supposed to submit a privatization initiative by September 15.

24. September 2014.

SMUGGLING OF MONEY PREVENTED IN PRESEVO

Customs officers at the Presevo border crossing prevented the attempted smuggling of more than 50,000 euros, which a three-member family tried to carry across the border.

By a detailed inspection of the “BMW X5” vehicle  with the Slovenian registration plates, which was, accompanied by his parents, driven from Croatia to Macedonia, by a Croatian national with ethnic Albanian background, the customs officers found a total of 83,100 euros.

24. September 2014.

EMBASSY OF MALAYSIA DONATED COMPUTER EQUIPMENT TO PRIMARY SCHOOL “”GORNJA JABLANICA” IN MEDVEDJA

The Embassy of Malaysia was pleased to get acquainted with the elementary school “Gornja Jablanica” and to donate it computer equipment valued at 300.000 dinars, which was procured according to the list drawn up by the school. The funds for the donation were raised at a Malaysian charity bazaar, which is a traditional charity event organized by the Embassy of Malaysia for the third year in a row.  The “Gornja Jablanica” primary school is the second school that received a donation from the funds raised at the said charity event.

23. September 2014.

Nis: Scalded Children Are Recovering

Nis - A three-year old A. J. from Presevo, who fell into a cauldron of boiling water a few days ago, is successfully recovering at the Children's Hospital in Nis. She sustained spacious injuries, which aren’t deep. Unlike her, a two-year old A. E. from Bujanovac will need transplantation of the skin on his left upper thigh.

22. September 2014.

CUSTOMS OFFICES PREVENTED THE SMUGGLING OF CHICKEN FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

Customs officers at the checkpoint near the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija managed to prevent the smuggling of 180 kilograms of frozen chicken thighs, which were of American origin. The Customs Administration stated that the customs officers, thanks to an in-depth control on the Lucane – Bujanovac road, and in collaboration with members of the Gendarmerie, decided to stop the “Golf 2” car with Bujanovac license plates, which was being driven by a Serbian citizen of the Albanian nationality.  When asked what he had to declare for an extraordinary customs control, the driver said that he had a small quantity of chicken thighs   for his personal use. 

This was followed by a detailed check of the vehicle, which revealed that there were 12 15-kilogram boxes of frozen chicken thighs in the car.  The boxes with the drumsticks were arranged all around the car, in the trunk, on the back seat and were covered with a blanket, as well as in the area in front of the passenger seat.  It was clearly written on the boxes that the chicken was of American origin and with a valid expiration date.

After the drumsticks had been discovered, the driver said that the meat was brought to the village of Dobrosi by an unknown person, who had the goods previously transported by truck to the said village. The driver didn’t have any supporting documentation for the controversial chicken.  The meat was immediately handed over to the veterinary inspection, while infringement proceedings were instigated against the 63 -year-old passenger.  

The Customs Administration reminds us that at the end of this February, at the Gradina border crossing, a Serbian citizen was prevented from attempting to smuggle out of Bulgaria 48 kilograms of meat hidden in the tank for storing gasoline , while the vehicle was operated on gas.

No one in South Serbia is surprised any more by the news that the police occasionally catch smugglers of chicken meat. The smuggling of meat from Kosovo and Metrohija became a serious business in 2000, when the province was placed under the protectorate of the international community.  As a rule, the goods arrive in Bujanovac mostly over the hills between Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija, where the smugglers made ​​makeshift roads. The meat is brought in vans to Bujanovac, where it is stored and then distributed further on.   The retail price of chicken drumsticks from Kosovo and Metohija in Bujanovac is between 1.2 and 1.4 euros, which is much less than the regular price of meat in Serbia, while an 18-kilogram package of meat costs an average of 16 euros.

The smuggling ring is extremely well developed, and how lucrative the job is shown by the data that the meat in Kosovo and Metohija is up to three times cheaper than in other parts of Serbia, while the smugglers earn tens of thousands of euros from one smuggling of several tons of meat. According to unofficial information, around 16,000 kilograms of meat without proper documentation is seized, on the average, in South Serbia’s Pcinj district per year. The greatest amount of smuggled meat was found in Bujanovac and its surroundings.  

The informed resources claim that chicken comes to Kosovo and Metohija, via the ports in Albania, from the United States, while pork and beef come from Argentina and Brazil. That meat is bacteriologically improper, because it had been frozen and thawed several times.

According to unofficial information, Gnjilane is the center of illegal trade.  The meat comes to Kosovo and Metohija’s town from the Montenegrin ports. From there it is transferred to Serbia through the porous administrative line. However, everyone in the smuggling chain earns well from it. It’s usually five percent of the value of the goods, although there are those who work for a salary of 500 euros per month. Everyone is engaged in the business, both the Serbs and Albanians, as well as individuals from the police and customs.

Source: Vesti, Dnevnik and Coordination Body

19. September 2014.

SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED

Vranje - Customs officers at the Presevo border crossing prevented an attempted illegal border crossing of eight immigrants from Syria. 

As announced by the Customs Administration, a van with Bulgarian license plates, which was en route from Bulgaria to Serbia, was stopped at the Presevo border crossing at about midnight.  

19. September 2014.

MORE YOUNG PEOPLE IN NATIONAL COUNCILS

The Novi Pazar-based NGO “Urban In” implements the project entitled “Active Youth for Active National Councils”. The project is aimed at increasing youth participation in the work of national councils of national minorities and their influence on decision-making in order to increase the level and quality of the achievements of minority rights and the integration of minorities in the Serbian society. The project is funded by the EU, while it will be implemented in the territory of Sandzak and South Serbia (the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja ), Vojvodina and Belgrade. 

18. September 2014.

MEMBERS OF OUR PEACE MISSION IN CYPRUS TRAINED IN THE „JUG“ BASE NEAR BUJANOVAC

37 soldiers, including four girls, set off from Kuršumlija today to a six-month peacekeeping mission in Cyprus. Their task will be to provide security of the facilities located at the border between the Turkish and Greek parts of the island. This is the seventh group of the Serbian soldiers that has joined the peacekeeping mission in Cyprus, while all of them had previously undergone training and testing of their capabilities at the „Jug“ base near Bujanovac.  

On that occasion, the Chief of Staff, Gen. Ljubisa Diković, said that our soldiers truly represented the Army and the citizens of the Republic of Serbia in the best possible way not only in the mission in Cyprus, but also in all of our missions around the world.  

Source: Politika daily, Vojvodina Broadcasting Corporation – Channel 1 and Coordination Body   

17. September 2014.

EU DONATES 20 VEHICLES FOR ROMA ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

As part of the project “We are Here Together – the European Support to the Roma Inclusion”, which is worth 4.8 million euros, funded by the EU and implemented by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, twenty local self-governments received “Dacia” all-terrain vehicles, which were   presented to them at the Palace of Serbia, in the presence of Minister Jadranka Joksimovic, the Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Peter Burkhard. 

16. September 2014.

MR. STANKOVIC AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMPETENT GOVERNMENTAL BODIES VISITED THE HOUSEHOLD IN MEDVEDJA THE LIVESTOCK OF WHICH IS AFFECTED BY THE “BLUETONGUE” DISEASE

Zoran Stankovic, the President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, accompanied by Budimir Plavsic, the Head of the Department for Animal Health Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture, Slobodan Draskovic, the Mayor of Medvedja, and the authorized representatives of the veterinary institutions from Nis and Lebane and veterinary inspectors, visited  the household whose flock of sheep was affected by the “bluetongue” disease.

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