The West is whipping up hysteria around the Russian humanitarian center in Serbia
Western media statements about the alleged military component of the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in the city of Nis are speculations. This was stated today by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
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“We believe that speculation in the press about an alleged military component of this center does not have any factual basis. The center has provided assistance during natural disasters many times since its deployment. Many citizens of Southern Europe have witnessed this work,” Zakharova said.
According to Zakharova, representatives of the Russian Federation and Serbia have repeatedly approached the leadership of the European Commission with proposals to join the work from the center,
“Invitations to presentations and briefings that we held at this joint center were systematically ignored by EU and US representatives,” Zakharova 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.
During the war in Yugoslavia, NATO planes bombed residential areas of the city and its surroundings with cluster bombs. As a result of these barbaric actions, 15 people were killed and 18 were injured.
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