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The U.S.Ambassador Paid a Visit to Kragujevac
His Excellency the U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Mr. Cameron Munter, paid a visit to Kragujevac where he met with the Mayor Veroljub Stevanovic. The goal of his visit was to attend the Dislocated Registry Office, the part of the Municipal Self-government where registry records from some Kosovo municipalities (Pec, Istok i Klina) are placed.
The Ambassador used this opportunity to review the realization of technical upgrading project for the Dislocated Registry Office that U.S. Embassy funded through UNHCR providing electronic guidance system for displaced population personal documentation, such as birth and citizenship records.
 -I am here in Kragujevac today in order to acquaint with the work of the Dislocated Registry Office, in addition to that I wanted to have a look at the way of life of displaced persons from ex-Yugoslavia. I am very content with what I have seen today in Kragujevac and I wish to congratulate to the Mayor and City's Administration on doing a great job and everything possible to help those people-said the Ambassador of the USA during this visit.
The Head of the Municipal Self-government Mrs. Slavica Kominac assured that within five minutes the personal documentation can be let to an individual, both in person or via electronic guidance system "Virtual Registrar". Baring in mind that registry records from those three Kosovo Municipalities contain information for 180 000 residents, this project made possible faster and more efficient way of dealing with this matter both to the clients and employees who are more quality work in the entrusted affairs.
October in Kragujevac
Laying wreaths on the several locations in the city and paying their respects to the victims by the Monument of Shoot Serbs and Jews in the city’s quarter Bagremar, marked the beginning of this year’s October in Kragujevac.
The mayor Veroljub Stevanovic with his associates along with family members and their inheritors, paid respects to the victims of revolutionary terror by the Monument at Gromovica ulaz.
 In the customary manner the Commemorative Academy "The third class from the fifth grade is called upon", was held at the First Kragujevac Gymnasium. This Academy was dedicated to the pupils shot in 1941, but also the secondary school pupils who wrote the best essays on the subject October in Kragujevac, were awarded.
In encounter, the 4th International Saloon of Antiwar Cartoon was opened. This event with profound antiwar message founded twenty five years ago, has gathered 237 authors from 40 countries who applied with 518 works this year. The jury’s decision was to award Saloon’s The Golden Plague to Serbian cartoonist Tosa Borkovic.
In the presence of numerous guests and representatives from the Embassies of Germany, Slovakia, USA and Israel, delegations of twin cities from France, Germany, Poland, Italy,
Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the poem "Blue Butterfly" by Richard Burns was performed at The Great School Lesson in Sumarice beside the Monument Dedicated to the Shot Pupils and Professors. The actors of Knjazevsko srpski teatar, Kir Stefan choir and Belgrade Singing Company Stankovic took part in the play directed by Belgrade based director Dragan Cirjanic, while the costume and set design was entrusted to Milivoje Stulovic.
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