PRESS RELEASE - 07.12.2012.

7. December 2012.

You are hereby invited to do the coverage of a visit of 231 secondary school scholarship holders of the Coordination Body’s Office for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja on Friday, December 7, 2012, which will commence at 12 am by their visit to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.

The scholarships will be awarded to the secondary school students by the Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the National Assembly Zoran Babic, Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Zarko Obradovic and President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medevedja, Zoran Stankovic.

The awarding of scholarships will be followed by a tour of the National Assembly of Serbia, as well as by a tour of the City Hall, where they will be hosted by a member of the City Council Milena Bicanin and by the Secretary for Education and Child Care Ljiljana Jovcic.

The scholarship holders will, thereupon, visit the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia and the White Palace.

All interested media are kindly asked to accredit their teams for the event according to the rules applicable in the National Assembly of Serbia and the Belgrade City Assembly. Enclosed herewith please find the agenda of the event.

To remind you, the Coordination Body announced a competition for scholarships for secondary school students from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. Priority in granting scholarships was given to the children that had lost one or both parents. Accordingly, 231 scholarships, in the amount of 6,000 dinars per month, were awarded until the end of the school year or by June 2013. This is the fourth year that the Coordination Body awards scholarships to students from these municipalities in South Serbia.

The Coordination Body organizes a visit to Belgrade as an additional reward to the students.

Agenda (pdf)