“Friends of Crimea” will appear in Serbia
The Serbian branch of the Friends of Crimea organization will be created before the end of the year.
Deputy of the People's Assembly of Serbia Alexander Seselj stated this at the plenary session of the V International Humanitarian Livadia Forum.
“At the end of the year, a branch of the Friends of Crimea organization will be created in Serbia with the aim of popularizing and establishing Russian Crimea and organizing cultural and economic cooperation,” Seselj said.
He also advocated the creation of another Russian-Serbian humanitarian center in Serbia.
“The Serbian-Russian humanitarian center is actively working, which played an important role in saving people from floods and fires. My party, the Serbian Radical Party, actively advocates for the creation of another such center in the Vojvodina region and for granting diplomatic status to the Center’s employees,” Seselj said.
The Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in the Serbian city of Nis was opened in 2012. It was created to provide humanitarian response to emergency situations in Serbia and other countries of the Balkan region.
Today, the Center has a number of operations to provide assistance and eliminate emergency situations in Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, and Slovenia.
The Center's rapid response capabilities were most fully demonstrated during the liquidation of the consequences of the devastating flood in Serbia and other countries of the Balkan region in May 2014. Russian rescuers were the first to come to the aid of Serbia. In two days, they evacuated over two thousand residents (including more than 600 children) from the flood zone in the city of Obrenovac, where the situation was most critical. As part of this operation, more than 140 tons of various humanitarian supplies were delivered to Serbia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, by aviation from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
An important area of the Center’s activities is humanitarian demining. Since 2008, a joint Russian-Serbian detachment has been working to clear the territory of Serbia from explosive objects.
In 2016, Western media threw a tantrum about the Center, claiming that it was a military base.
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