Serbia: US to build embassy on NATO-bombed land September 15, 2006 11:07 AM
BELGRADE, Serbia-The United States on Friday purchased a plot of land for its new embassy in Belgrade that was flattened by NATO bombs in 1999. A US$15 million (euro11.83 million) deal for the complex of buildings that included former Yugoslav Marshall Josip Broz Tito's residences and barracks that later housed elite military guard units, was signed between U.S. Ambassador Michael Polt and the Serbian government. The area in Belgrade's plush Dedinje district was flattened in May 1999 when the Western alliance intervened to stop former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown against separatist Kosovo Albanians. It neighbors the late Milosevic's headquarters. Polt said that the U.S. government plans to invest about US$100 million (euro78.9 million) in the construction of the complex, that will include the ambassador's residence and other embassy buildings. The current U.S. embassy in downtown Belgrade is considered too insecure for its diplomats. The new U.S. embassy "will represent a powerful symbol and a monument of friendship between the two states," Polt said. The deal had been postponed for years because of opposition from hard liners in the Serbian military who had said the embassy would be too close to other Serbian army military installations, including an underground military complex that used to be Tito's and Milosevic's bomb shelter. The Serbian military earlier this year announced the sale of its sprawling property now that the country and its military have further shrunken with the departure of Montenegro in May. http://www.serbianna.com/news/2006/02302.shtml [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
