Faces & Places

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen Visits Serbia

12/7/2023

The histories of Israel and Serbia are connected in many ways, marked by enormous suffering but also by perseverance, said Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen during his visit to Serbia. “In the darkest days of the Holocaust, Jews and Serbs were together, facing unimaginable persecutions, as victims of the most brutal forces of evil,” said Cohen. After laying a wreath at the monument to those who died in the Nazi camp Staro Sajmište, he emphasised that the memory of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Roma who experienced unimaginable horrors and made the greatest sacrifice is preserved in that holy place.

WEF Members Visit Serbia

12/7/2023

During the visit to Belgrade, the World Economic Forum members attended a meeting with the AI team of the Office for IT and eGovernment about the Forum’s new initiative – AI Governance Alliance. Later they had the opportunity to meet with the IT and Entrepreneurship team Director in the Office of the PM of Nenad Paunovic, EMBA, who presented them with the new bioeconomy hub in Serbia, the BIO4 campus. Great discussions were started, and new collaborations are expected yet to come.

2nd Korea-Serbia Information Access Centre Opening Ceremony

12/7/2023

The Information Access Center is a representative cooperation project of the Republic of Korea in the sector of information and communication technologies aimed at developing countries. In his welcoming speech, Ambassador H.E. Lee Jeong assessed that the opening of the second information access centre in Serbia is a symbol of close relations between the two countries, express-

Embassy of Egypt Hosts Reception on the Occasion of Revolution Day

13/7/2023 ing the hope that another centre of this type will contribute to the strengthening of citizens’ IT skills and the digitisation of society, which is one of the main tasks of the Government of Serbia. The opening was attended by the State Secretary in the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government, Čedomir Rakić, the Mayor of the City of Nis, Dragana Sotirovski, and the VP of the Korean Information Society Agency, Lee Jae Ho.

Ambassador of Egypt to Serbia H.E. Bassel Salah hosted a reception on Revolution Day, the national holiday of Egypt, commemorating 115 years of relations between Serbia and Egypt. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabić, and the Speaker of the Parliament Vladimir Orlić, as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps, among others, the ambassadors of the USA, Russia, Turkey, France and Italy. Ambassador Salah expressed his pleasure that the dignitaries at the meeting are celebrating the anniversary of the magnificent revolution that changed the way of life in Egypt and initiated drastic changes in all fields.