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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.

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.

On the 8th and 9th of September the City of Kragujevac hosted the 38th Balkan Junior Athletics Championships. The Serbian minister of youth and sports Mrs. Snezana Markovic Samardzic pointed out that the ministry she has been heading considers and promotes youth, solidarity and sports as prime values. "Therefore I am pleased that the very city of Kragujevac hosts this year's Balkan Junior Athletics Championships in the year 2007 that the city's self government proclaimed as the year of sports and solidarity.
This weekend the City of Kragujevac is going to be youth and sports center of Serbia as well as the Balkans. Also, there are new sports facilities at the City's Stadium, which I had the opportunity to get round today, and I assure you that it does open new opportunities for city's sportsmen to achieve top-level results as they have already done in the past becoming well known in our country's sports history", said the minister Snezana Markovic Samardzic. The minister congratulated to the organizers on excellent job, at the same time expressing her belief that all Balkan junior athletes are going to be well received here.
On behalf of the host city the Mayor of Kragujevac greeted competitors, members of delegations and other guests, highlighting that in this year of sports and solidarity: “We had the honour that in such a year we were entrusted the organization of the event which is the biggest in the city's sports history. We have done our best to respond to the highest expectations, so I am looking forward to subsequent events of this kind to take place in our city." At the same time, the head of local authorities expressed his gratitude to the Serbian Athletic Federation and to the Ministry of Youth and Sports for placing their trust in Kragujevac, along with supporting the organization of 38th Balkan Junior Athletics Championships.

After two-day competition, which was attended by sportsmen from ten Balkan countries, overall the most successful team was the Rumanian team which won first place both in men's and women's competition, while the second place took the Serbian team with 32 medals, among them 10 golden ones. The third place in men’s was occupied by athletes from Turkey, while in women's by Greece.