Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Milimir Vujadinovic spoke today with representatives of the homeland associations of the people of Bileca, Trebinje and Ljubinje and pointed out that the state is working intensively to ensure that each of our children from the region visits their home country, the Republic Serbia, at least once during their schooling.
In view of that, Vujadinovic welcomed the upcoming visit of 50 of the best students from Herzegovina to the mother country - the Republic of Serbia, during the celebration of the Serb Unity Day, realized under the patronage of former MP Dejan Stosic and with the support of the Homeland Association of People from Bileca in Serbia, during which primary school students, fifth to the eighth grade, are planned to visit the most important institutions of the state, Serbian Orthodox Church, museums, University Library in Belgrade, as well as Kragujevac, Knic and Novi Sad.
Representatives of the homeland associations of the people of Bileca, Trebinje and Ljubinje presented to the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region their activities with which they provide support and help to their compatriots in the homeland. They also requested support, primarily from the media, for the visits of children and businessmen from Serbia to Serbian municipalities in Herzegovina, as well as for a donor campaign for the church in the village of Prebilovci.
The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region informed the representatives of the homeland associations about the specific activities that the state of Serbia has implemented and is implementing in the Herzegovinian municipalities, as well as about the numerous projects that realised in them through direct financial support from Serbia.
The meeting was attended, on behalf of the Homeland Association of People from Bileca in Serbia, by Dejan Stosic, member of the Board of Directors, and Borislav Krkelic, Deputy President, as well as Milivoje Rupic from the Association of People from Trebinje "Jovan Ducic" from Belgrade and Milovan Pecelj from the Association of People from Ljubinje in Belgrade.