Serbia has started paying support to compatriots in Kosovo
Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said that today the government began disbursing financial assistance to the Serbs of Kosovo and Metohija.
All Serbian residents of the region seized by Albanian separatists will receive 100 euros, including children, and the unemployed will receive 200 euros, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Kosovo government intends to pay three thousand dinars (more than 25 euros) to every Serbian resident of the region who, by May 31 of this year, is vaccinated with at least one dose of the anti-Covid vaccine.
“This is a one-time financial assistance with which we want to show the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija that they are not alone and that their state always stands behind them,” Mali told Novosti. “One and a half billion dinars have been allocated from the budget for this.”
The Serbian Finance Minister noted that this assistance measure is being implemented as part of the third package of support for the economy and citizens to mitigate the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, and was included in the budget on the initiative of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Sinisa Mali noted that thanks to this type of support, a family of five will receive at least 500 euros of assistance from the state, and if one of its members is unemployed, then even more, “which is important.” According to the head of the department, “the rebalancing of the budget for 2021 made it possible to allocate significant funds for projects of assistance and support to the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija.”
“The funds are intended for material assistance to citizens, as well as for capital projects, such as the construction of new hospitals, kindergartens and educational institutions,” said the Minister of Finance.
Thus, a new university building will be built in Kosovska Mitrovica, which will house the rector’s office, new buildings will be built for the faculties of economics, law and natural sciences and mathematics.
The Minister also announced that a new Clinical and Hospital Center in Gracanica will be built, the Clinical Center in Kosovska Mitrovica will be reconstructed, and the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Kosovska Mitrovica will also be built.
Mali recalled that 17 new houses with 12 apartments of about 65 square meters each will be built in the Serbian enclaves in the north of Kosovo - Kosovo Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zvecan and Zubin Potok.
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