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Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission visits east Serbia

19 October 2015
  • Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Michael Uyehara (l), with the Mayor of Petrovac na Mlavi, Radiša Dragojević, looking through a monograph on Petrovac na Mlavi, 9 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • During his first visit to east Serbia the Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission, Michael Uyehara, arrives to a meeting with Mayor of Bor, Živorad Petrović (l) Bor, 9 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • Mayor of Zaječar, Velimir Ognjenović, holding a meeting with the delegation of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Zaječar, 10 September 2015 . (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Michael Uyehara (c), and the Mayor of Negotin, Jovan Milovanović (l), talking to journalists after their meeting in the municipal building, Negotin, 10 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • The Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Michael Uyehara (l) speak with the Head of Zaječar Police District, Goran Tomić, Zaječar, 10 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • During his visit to Požarevac, the Deputy of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Michael Uyehara, talking with the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) president and director of local radio station Boom 93, Milorad Tadić, Požarevac, 10 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • Delegation of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, discussing challenges the media are facing in Bor, with Radio Television Bor Director, Vladan Novović and Ist Media Press Center Director, Saša Trifunović, Bor, 10 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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  • Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Michael Uyehara, talking to the Vlach national minority representatives, Bor, 9 September 2015. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)
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In his first visit to east Serbia (Petrovac na Mlavi, Bor, Zaječar, Negotin and Požarevac), Deputy Head of the Mission, Michael Uyehara, held meetings with local municipal, political, academic and religious representatives.

Additionally, Uyehara met with local and regional media representatives and with the Head of Zaječar Police District. Discussions focused on current issues affecting the region with particular reference to prospects for local economic development, the media privatization process, the way local municipalities are coping with security and social issues arising from the ongoing refugee crisis, and the status of Romanian and Vlach national minorities living in east Serbia. He assured interlocutors of the OSCE’s continued engagement in the region and support for the improvement in the situation of national minorities throughout Serbia.