Macedonia: ** UPDATE ** – Vardariste Pound; 11/10/09 – SAV Formally Writes to EU Animal Welfare Intergroup Requesting Investigation Into Conditions At, and EU Funding of Same.

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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Macedonia – Previous SAV posts:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/macedonia-exposed-the-alleged-wonderful-conditions-at-vardariste-animal-pound-via-eu-funding-of-10000-euros-a-year-we-demand-eu-intervention-now-to-stop-this-terrible-abuse-of-animals-par/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/macedonia-eyewitness-report-of-skopje-macedonia-wants-eu-membership-but-the-eu-does-not-want-them-whilst-animal-abuse-and-suffering-continues-now-we-ask-the-eu-animal-welfare-intergroup-and-mep/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/macedonia-mayor-of-skopje-dog-killer-contact-him-and-the-eu-animal-welfare-intergroup-please-read-on/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/take-action-now-for-dogs-in-skopje-macedonia-video-footage-and-oipa-action-links/

LATEST ***

11/10/09 – SAV have today presented a letter to the President of the European Union Animal Welfare Intergroup relating to the disgusting current animal pound situation at Vardariste, Macedonia, along with the EU funding at this time to the municipality of 100,000 Euros each year.

Links to all SAV have been provided as evidence, along with photographs taken within the pound on 05/09/09.

A copy of the letter provided to the EU Intergroup can be seen by clicking on the following link:

Caroline Lucas Letter – Macedonia 

Note – we ask that the the policy currently being adopted at Leskovac City in Serbia:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/serbia-leskovac-city-makes-fantastic-model-authority-to-no-kill-animal-control-programmes/

be used as a future animal population management programme by all municipalities and governments within Balkans states.

SAV.

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Uk: SOS for Serbian Animals – Winter Newsletter and Ebay Shop Link

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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We have pleasure in providing you with access to the Winter newsletter as produced the wonderful Jean Bird at SOS for Serbian Animals, England, Uk.

SOS for Serbian Animals – http://www.serbiananimals.plus.com

Just click on this link to read the newsletter:    Winter newsletter 09

Please also visit Jeans ‘Tail Wags Shop at ebay and support Serbian animals with a purchase.

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Tail-Wags-Shop__W0QQ_armrsZ1

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SAV Presentation to Mr. Alain Hutchinson MEP – April 2009 – The Present Situation in Serbia

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Accessing the link ‘To Hutchinson’ below you will find a presentation made to Mr. Alain Hutchinson by SAV, during April 2009.

To Hutchinson

We trust that it will be of use to certain parties. 

All photographs are of the situation within Serbia during the last few years.

Photographs supplied where applicable by Serbian welfare campaigners / friends.

Regards SAV.

 

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Viet Nam: Global Action Needed to FREE 80 Endangered Moon Bears Being Held Illegally

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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This is a very important issue – Please take action as detailed below to help Animals Asia obtain freedom and care for 79 bears being held illegally and still suffering terribly every minute of each day.

Read the message from Jill below and then please take action as outlined in the information follwing; a sample letter is included for you to copy and paste and send, or there are a series of specific points given for you to include should you wish to write your own letter.

Please help Animals Asia free the bears NOW !

Thanks – SAV.

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Animals Asia Website = http://www.animalsasia.org/

Two years ago, the Vietnamese Government promised to rescue and transfer into our care 80 endangered moon bears being held illegally on farms in northern Vietnam. So far, we’ve received only one. This is despite constant appeals and lobbying to the authorities by Animals Asia and other international and local NGOs.

These bears desperately need your help! Please join our global letter-writing campaign to help us free the remaining 79!

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We’re planning to deliver all the letters we receive from around the world to the Vietnamese Prime Minister at the end of October. The bigger the piles of letters, the greater our hope of saving these poor bears from further misery in the wretched bile industry.

Over the past 24 months, we’ve tried every legal means available to us, but still the 79 bears remain in terrible conditions in small cages on farms in Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, even though they are clearly being held illegally under Vietnamese law. Because these bears are unmicrochipped, they should have been confiscated and transferred to a rescue facility.

So please, go to our website now to download a sample letter, or write one of your own – and please ask everyone you know to write as well, because time is running out for these bears!

If you choose to write your own letter, please be polite and please be quick!

For maximum impact, and to show the Vietnamese government that people all around the world want to see an end to bear farming, we need to collect all the letters together as soon as possible, so we can get them off soon.Although bile farming is illegal in Vietnam, the practice is still widespread. The farmers drug the bears with ketamine, restrain them with ropes, and repeatedly jab their abdomens with unsterile four-inch needles until the gall bladder is found, then the bile is extracted through a suction pump. The bears are regularly subjected to this agonising process and remain trapped in small cages for years – the mental and physical torture they endure is difficult to imagine.

 

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 Please don’t put this off until tomorrow – these 79 bears have waited long enough.

Thank you for taking the time to help them.

Jill

Jill Robinson MBE
Founder and CEO
Animals Asia Foundation

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** Take action **** Take action **** Take action **** Take action

Strength in numbers !!

We need your help to convince the Vietnam government to enforce the law and release these bears into our care. Join our campaign now and send us your letter for presentation to the government.

You can use our sample letter below, and either:

1. Copy and paste the Sample Letter below into your email and send to info@animalsasia.org

2. Print, sign and mail/fax to your nearest Animals Asia office

We need original emails and letters to prove that there is widespread international support for our campaign.

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 – send to info@animalsasia.org 

The Honourable Prime Minister
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Mr Nguyen Tan Dung

Dear Honourable Prime Minister,

I would like to congratulate the Vietnamese Government on your endeavours to help Vietnam’s endangered species of Asiatic black bear, and for working in partnership with Animals Asia Foundation to close down bear farms across Vietnam and confiscate illegally-held bears.

In September 2007, 80 illegally-held bears were identified on farms in Quang Ninh Province. Under Vietnamese law they should be confiscated and transferred into the care of a suitable bear rescue centre, such as the one established by the Central Forest Protection Department and Animals Asia Foundation in Tam Dao National Park.

I am concerned to hear that so far only one of these 80 bears has been confiscated and the other 79 are still being held illegally on these farms. I also understand that these farms continue to extract bear bile illegally and sell the bile to overseas tourists, which is a clear contravention of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of which Vietnam has been a signatory since 1994. Illegal bear bile extraction was captured by Vietnam TV1 and shown on national TV in early June 2009.

The Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao National Park has the capacity to receive the 79 bears and Animals Asia has signed an agreement to look after these bears, on behalf of the Vietnamese Government, for the rest of their natural lives. Animals Asia has committed staff and funds and is prepared to take full responsibility for the bears’ veterinary treatment and ongoing management. The Vietnam rescue centre has taken in 29 bears to date and it is ready to take the 79 bears from these farms.

I understand the Central Forest Protection Department in Hanoi has been enormously helpful in encouraging the confiscation of these bears and working with Animals Asia in the construction of the sanctuary which has been developed to hold at least 200 confiscated bears.

Following widespread international publicity of the plight of these 79 bears, all of whom are clearly held in violation of the laws of your country, I write to ask that you order they be confiscated and transferred into the care of Animals Asia’s Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao National Park.

Yours sincerely,

 Name and nationality:

 

OR YOU CAN WRITE YOUR OWN LETTER AND EMAIL IT TO ANIMALS ASIA.

Points to include in personal letters:

1.      There are currently 79 bears held illegally on farms in Quang Ninh province.

2.      The bear farmers continue to extract bile illegally from these bears and sell it to tourists.

3.      Under Vietnamese law, these bears should be confiscated.

4.      Animals Asia Foundation has a rescue centre in Tam Dao National Park, which is ready and waiting to receive these 79 bears.

5.      Animals Asia will provide veterinary care and a sanctuary for the bears for the rest of their lives.

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Serbia: Attempt to ‘Punish’ Serbian NGO Animal Shelter ? – Investigation Report Into Vaccination ‘Procedures’ Uncovers Discrepancies

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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** Latest 10/09/09 ** :

Today, additional government pressure is being placed on NGO shelters within Serbia.

We refer to our recent post of 31/07/09 (link below) and veterinary inspectors who wrote to EPAR shelter and demanded that 174 dogs at the shelter must immediately be re-vaccinated.  As we declared in the post, “All of the dogs which the inspectors require to be vaccinated were vaccinated on 21/07/2008, almost one year ago to the day”.

Link:  https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/serbia-ngo-requests-to-government-ministry-for-information-about-zoo-animals-result-in-order-from-ministry-for-ngo-to-re-vaccinate-its-animals-or-face-massive-fine/

On 10/09/09, EPAR shelter have received another letter from the republic veterinary inspection information department declaring that veterinary inspectors will visit EPAR shelter to see if vaccinations of the 174 dogs which were demanded on 24.7.2009 have been undertaken.

The Director of the Veterinary station is one Mr Antun Orcic; he is the husband of veterinary inspector Matilda Orcic. Mr Orcic did not want to do the booster vaccinations of all 174 dogs.

Regardless, Veterinary Inspector Matilda Orcic demanded that booster vaccinations be given, even though the dogs were vaccinated approximately one year ago and according to our investigations (see report below), the duration of the vaccination is 3 YEARS.  According to us, the dogs are still covered by their current vaccination, and will be for around another 2 years.

EPAR shelter have sent a request/letter to the veterinary station today, declaring that any vaccinations on any dogs must be financed from the republic budget, as this is in agreement with the Veterinary law. 

It must be made very clear that EPAR shelter, which is simply an NGO which undertakes the care and protection of stray dogs delivered to the shelter, are not the legal owner of all the strays.  The owners of unmarked, unsterilised stray dogs which often end up at EPAR shelter are in some circumstances the tax paying citizens of Subotica City.  These taxes should contribute to the national budget, which should provide (out of the national budget) for the costs of vaccinating stray dogs at EPAR shelter.  It is not the responsibility of an NGO to suddenly be declared the ‘owner’ of all stray dogs at its shelter, and subsequently have to independently cover the costs of all the vaccinations.

These stray dogs at EPAR shelter may or may not have had a past owner – if they did, the owner would have been a taxpayer.  As the government does not have any system to aid identification of an animals owner, such as a microchip, the past owner of many animals simply cannot be identified.  But, because of this, either the original owner of the animal, or the state (if never owned animals) are responsible for the vaccination costs of dogs at EPAR shelter, not the NGO.  This declaration is clear in Article(s) 140. and 141. of the Veterinary Law. 

It would appear that by declaring EPAR shelter as the ‘owner’ of all strays which come through their front gate, and requesting they (EPAR) pay for animal vaccinations, the government are attempting to punish EPAR shelter in yet another way.

Article 55. of the Veterinary Law allows for shelters to take in the animals, but for official veterinarians to visit the shelter, do any necessary vaccinations, and then forward to the state a monthly reoprt of the number of animals vaccinated.  The vets are subsequently financed for their vaccinations out of the state budget.  See report below for detailed information.

So, EPAR shelter is Not the legal ‘owner’ of the stray dogs at its shelter.  It is simply a haven providing a home and shelter for the animals.  Now the government are attempting to ruin EPAR shelter by forcing costs and fines onto them for failing to cover costs for animal vaccinations which should not financially be their responsibility anyway ! 

The vaccination costs of stray animals living at a shelter is NOT the obligation of the shelter, it IS the obligation of the government.

Is this a Serbian government attempt to destroy EPAR shelter and the animal welfare organisations / shelters of Serbia ?

** Possibly the following investigation which has recently been undertaken may be the reason why there are attempts to destroy EPAR shelter.  We leave you to read the report below into our investigation and decide for yourself if what is happening is pure chance, or if there is a deeper reason why the veterinary profession and the government may wish to silence EPAR shelter. **

Please read on for full details of our investigation.

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 INVESTIGATION REPORT

 

We have an opinion now that the veterinary profession in Serbia, may be undertaking unnecessary work in relation to routine animal vaccinations, possibly charging both individual Serbian citizens and at the same time, the Serbian state, for the costs of the same (ie. One single) unnecessary vaccine.

Overview:

Under Serbian law, Article 55 of the Veterinary legislation demands that:

1)      everybody who  is the owner of an animal(s) must contact veterinarians who have a permit for undertaking the program of control for infective animal disease(s).

2)      it is the responsibility of the animal(s) owner to  keep vaccination documentation for a period of at least 2 years.

But owners of animals do not have any more obligations with regard Rabies vaccination(s). This is specifically a vaccination which must be performed / undertaken by a qualified veterinarian.

As far as we see, the term ‘vaccination’ means both 1)  the physical vaccine (vial) itself and 2)  the administration (application) of that vaccine to any animal.

A ‘vaccinator’, ie. the veterinarian, is one who vaccinates.

Important:  Veterinarians do not have a legal permit for the distribution of vaccines, but only for the administration (giving) of a vaccine to an animal.

The vets receive (via a distribution network) doses of the vaccine for Rabies which is called ‘Nobivac Rabies’. 

For 2007, the veterinarians within Subotica city alone were given 15,000 doses of the Nobivac Rabies vaccine. 

In 2008, 35,980 doses of the Nobivac Rabies vaccine have been allocated in Subotica.

NOBIVAC RABIES :  An inactivated vaccine for the immunization of dogs, cats, cattle, sheep, goats, foxes, ferrets and horses, and in principle all healthy mammals against Rabies.

Source – http://www.intervet.com/ipg/companion-animals.aspx

SAV contacts / Serbian campaigners have previously requested, and now actually have documented evidence of the numbers of vaccines provided (distributed) to veterinarians in all major cities within Serbia.  It is understood that the Republic of Serbia has paid a Dutch company named ‘Intervet’ for the legitimate, legal supply of all vaccines used in the Republic of Serbia.

‘Marlo Pharma’ http://www.intervet.com/contacts/serbia_and_montenegro.aspx  of Belgrade were the organisation responsible for the importation (into Serbia) and distribution within Serbia of the vaccine (including needles etc) to all the specific veterinary institutes around the country.  The other organisation is called ‘Net Vet’, also of Belgrade; who have a permit for the importation of ‘Rabdomun’, a very similar Rabies vacine.   The registration of both vaccines detailed is undertaken by a state organisation named ‘Agencija za lekove’ – a public agency with responsibilities for both human and veterinary medicines.

The veterinary institutes around the country were then responsible for forwarding on – allocating / distributing the vaccine doses to the regional / local veterinary facilities, who would then be responsible for the vaccination of any animals requiring innoculation within their specific region.

The current arrangement is that all the veterinary stations involved in this programme, being those which are located throughout Serbia, each send a monthly report to the National Veterinary Institute and the Veterinary Department of Serbia, detailing specifically how many doses of the (Nobivac Rabies) vaccine they have given in their individual national region (municipality) for that (1 month) period.

As a result, once they have been supplied with the monthly information from the individual (municipal) regions, the Republic of Serbia (government) then finances (pays back) the individual regional / municipal  veterinary stations for undertaking their monthly vaccination work – ie. the administration of the dose of vaccine to animals by the vaccinator.

But, now, following campaigners investigations, the vaccination rules seem to have changed a little.

The alleged situation now is that Mr. Micovic, the Director of the government Veterinary Department, is personally demanding that veterinary stations undertaking the application of antirabies vaccines can now ask the individual animal(s) owner to pay for the ‘application’ of the (Nobivac) Rabies ‘vaccination’ to their animal !

A conflict of terms it would appear to be, between ‘application’ and ‘vaccination’.

Individual animal owners are being told to finance a Rabies ‘application’ of the vaccine, whilst a Rabies ‘vaccination’ can be paid for directly from the national budget, without any cost to the animal owner.

This alleged ‘demand’ by Mr. Micovic is simply that, nothing more than a demand by him; it is not Serbian law / legislation, and is completely in opposition to the Serbian Veterinary law, Articles 140 and 141, which specifically state that antirabies vaccinations MUST BE FUNDED from the Republic of Serbia’s budget !

So, if the public are all specifically being asked (demanded via Mr. Micovic) to individually fund the ‘APPLICATION’ of the antirabies vaccination out of their own pocket for their own animal(s), where is all the money going which has been allocated and should be provided free of charge to Serbian animal owners by the Serbian Republic for exactly this same thing – in this case termed a ‘VACCINATION’ ?

We have concerns that the system now in place can allegedly lead to TWO individual charges and payments being made for every SINGLE (individual)  Rabies vaccine administered to animals; ie: we try to inform that:

1)                  The animal owner is individually charged by the regional veterinary station for the ‘APPLICATION’ of the vaccination; one payment made directly by the animal(s) owner;

2)                  Using the parallel system available, veterinary stations involved in the ‘VACCINATION’ programme, continue to send a monthly report to the national Veterinary Institute and the Veterinary Department of Serbia, detailing specifically how many doses of the vaccine they have administered to animals (ie. vaccinated) in their specific region / municipality for the latest (1 month) period. 

In each of the 135 cities within Serbia the prices being charged by veterinarians for the ‘APPLICATION’  of a vaccine to individual animals varies considerably.  It is 800 dinar in Belgrade, 500 dinar in Subotica, and 800 dinar per animal in Novi Sad, for example.

On 31/07/09, various telephone calls were made by SAV and Serbian campaigners to the European manufacturer of the anti Rabies vaccination at their contacts in both the Uk and Serbia.  In both cases, we were verbally informed that the re-vaccination (ie. Booster) times for animal species depended largely on the Rabies situation within individual nations. 

Reference to the vaccination manufacturers web site Data Sheet http://www.intervet.co.uk/Products_Public/Nobivac_Rabies/090_Product_Datasheet.asp  states that the duration of immunity is 3 years, and that for dogs and cats, booster vaccinations only need to be given every 3 years after the primary vaccination. 

SOURCE – Nobivac Rabies – Data Sheet information detailed below:

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Introduction 

Company name: Intervet / Schering-Plough Animal Health 

Address: xxxxxxxxx

Milton Keynes, England, Uk.

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Telephone: 01908 xxxxxxx (Customer Support Centre)

Telephone: 01908 xxxxxxxx (Switchboard)

Fax: 01908 xxxxxxxx

Website: www.intervet.co.uk

Presentation

Inactivated vaccine containing > 2 I.U. Rabies virus strain Pasteur RIV per dose. Also contains Aluminium phosphate as an adjuvant. 0.1 ml Thiomersal are added as a preservative.

Uses

For the active immunisation against rabies to reduce clinical signs and mortality.

Onset of immunity: an adequate serological response (> 0.5 I.U.) has been demonstrated 2 to 3 weeks after vaccination.

*** Duration of immunity: ***   3 years.    ***

Dosage and administration

A single dose inoculation of 1 ml is sufficient irrespective of size, species or breed of animal. Sterile equipment should be used for administration. Avoid contamination of vaccine with traces of chemical sterilising agents. Do not use chemicals such as disinfectant or spirit to disinfect the skin prior to inoculation.

Primary course and booster vaccination:

Dogs & cats

Primary vaccination age* 3 months or older
*** Booster vaccination every 3 years ***
    

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As well as checks in the Uk, checks within Serbia undertaken on 31/07/09 can reveal that the national Serbian policy for Rabies re-vaccination is in accordance with the manufacturers guidance; ie. every 3 years. 

This 3 year re-vaccination period was verified by a very distinguished authority at the Serbian Faculty of Veterinary  Medicine via e mail on Thursday, September 03, 2009.  SAV and also Serbian contacts have copies of this mail as evidence should it be required in future.

Taking the individual Subotica ‘application’ charges of 500 dinar being demanded from each animal owner, and with almost 36,000 vaccine doses being provided to Subotica in 2008, does this not mean that there is a maximum potential of

500 dinar x 36,000 doses = 18,000,000 dinar to be made for ‘applications’.

The current exchange rate is approximately 1 Euro = 92 Serbian dinar.

500 dinar (Subotica charge) divided by 92 dinar/Euro = approximately 5.4 Euros per ‘application’ in Subotica.

=>    5.4 Euros per ‘application’ x 35,980 doses (2008) in Subotica = 194,400 Euros. 

 These are additional finances to the ‘vaccination’ funding being provided out of the state budget.

So, if the monthly paperwork is being submitted for the (state funded) ‘vaccination’ of animals in any region, whilst at the same time veterinarians are charging individual animal owners for the ‘application’ of a vaccine, one has to ask

So where is all the ‘application’ money going ?

– money which is being taken directly from the public for a procedure which, according to our information regarding Serbian animal welfare legislation, should be provided to veterinarians indirectly via the state budget ?

 To date, the Serbian government have declined to provide any responses.

This report and post is now being provided to Members of the European Parliament who have responsibilites with the EU Animal Welfare Intergroup – http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/

 

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24/08/09: GLOBAL LAUNCH OF CAMPAIGN TO SAVE ‘STARA PLANINA’ Animals and Plants – ** International Supporters, Your Individual Help is ESSENTIAL ** – Please Copy and Send Letter Given (in Post Below) to Serbian Embassies Internationally – Full Details and Info Below.

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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Remember;

without the destruction by the human species, it is a wonderful World !

We are delighted to be working with our friends at the Serbian Association for Conservation and Sustainable Development in highlighting the devastation to flora and fauna in Serbia with the current and future proposed construction of ski resort facilities at Stara Planina.

 

A petition about Stara Planina can be signed by clicking on the following link.

Please give just one minute of your time to sign this.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-staraplanina-petition

Please review some of our previous posts regarding this important campaign:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/serbia-more-major-environmental-destruction-planned-your-help-needed-to-raise-global-awareness/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/serbia-environmental-destruction-at-babin-zub/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/serbia-beautiful-environmental-region-of-serbia-to-become-ski-centre-please-read-and-take-action/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/serbia-please-give-your-petition-support-to-save-serbian-beautiful-river-rzav-from-government-and-industry-abuse/

Our most recent post can be viewed via the following link.  This link is especially important as it provides a photo gallery of just some of the beautiful and endemic (native to a certain region) flora and fauna which are under threat by (current and proposed) construction work at Stara Planina :

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/serbia-campaign-to-save-flora-and-fauna-at-stara-planina/

Over the past few weeks we have been working on our plans to help save Stara Planina, and we are now ready to move forward with the next phase of the campaign.

Your help is essential in making this effective.  It does not matter where in the world you reside; the more international supporters who take part in the campaign, the better.

At the end of this SAV post you will find a ‘Sample Letter’ relating to the environmental devastation caused by the construction work at Stara Planina.  It is a long letter, but it contains essential and legally important information which justifies why this construction should immediately be halted.  Please take time to read it and learn how many legally protected plant and animal species are under threat.

Below, you will find a ‘Contact Guide’ directory of worldwide Serbian embassies, including their web site address, postal address and more importantly, their e mail contact details.  The e mail addresses are especially important. 

Wherever you reside in the World, there will be a Serbian embassy either in or very near to your home country.  We would ask that you please:

1)                  Use the Serbian embassy information guide below to find your national or nearest Serbian embassy.

2)                   Once you have done this, make a copy of the sample letter given below also and paste it into your embassy link found in 1 above.

3)                  If you wish, you can attach one or more pictures of the work at Stara Planina from our gallery which are also provided on this post.

4)                  Fill in your name and your nationality at the very end of the sample letter.  Your address is not required to be given.

5)                  Click on ‘Send’ – your sample letter (and photos if attached) will then be sent to your national Serbian embassy.

If we can get campaigners to send letters to Serbian embassies all around the world, then the Serbian government will have no choice but to accept that there is an international outcry about what is happening to flora and fauna at Stara Planina.

Do not expect to get anything in return for any mail(s) you send. 

Past animal welfare campaign experience with the Serbian government has shown us that they tend to keep issues and policies and decisions very close to their chest.  Unlike other national governments, writing to campaigners about issues and informing them of the situation is not the policy with the Serbian government.

Thank you for your help and support with the campaign to save Stara Planina.

If you wish, and we would advise, you could also ‘CC’ your (sample) letter to the following addresses; these will be in addition to your embassy e mail address which you have selected earlier from the listing 

** COMPLETE BLOCK LISTING (Government and Media – see directly above) ** –

This is an additional ‘CC’ list to add to your embassy contact selected earlier (as above).

predsednikvladesrbije@gov.rs,  kabinet.zpv@sr.gov.yu,  muprs@mup.gov.rs,  kabinet.potpredsednika@gov.rs,  foreignpress@srbija.sr.gov.yu,  oliver.dulic@ekoplan.gov.rs,  kabinet@ekoplan.gov.rs,  info@ekoplan.gov.rs,  webmaster@ekoplan.gov.rs, kabinet@mpravde.sr.gov.yu,  office@sepa.gov.rs,  slavisa.popovic@sepa.gov.rs, Ivica.radovic@ekoplan.gov.rs, Radislav.momirov@ekoplan.gov.rs  ,  maric.ljiljana@ekoplan.gov.rs,    svetlana.draskovic@ekoplan.gov.rs,  jasmina.jovic@ekoplan.gov.rs,  jzivanovic@predsednik.rs,  kabinet@minpolj.gov.rs,  svenik2003@yahoo.com,  snezana.poledica@minpolj.gov.rs, kabinet@mfin.gov.rs,  dusan.pajkic@minpolj.gov.rs,  direkcija@skijalistasrbije.rs, kabinet@merr.gov.rs,  press@merr.gov.rs,  nrs@vinca.rs,  stavretovic@zzps.rs,  beograd@zzps.rs,  jasmina@zzps.rs,  sladjana-krasulja@zzps.rs,  maja@zzps.rs, 

redakcija@gradjanski.rs,  redakcija@blic.rs,  redakcija@novosti.rs,  sr@radiosubotica.co.rs,  redakcija@politika.rs,  redakcija@glas-javnosti.co.yu,  radisa.kricak@b92.net,  zeljko.bajic@b92.net,  redakcija@kurir-info.co.yu,  redakcija@dnevnik.rs,   aleksandra.gazivoda@b92.net

 

SERBIAN EMBASSY CONTACT GUIDE;

Please either use the link below, or alternatively, the full embassy details in the following international list to find your national Serbian embassy. 

Source:    http://www.offshorewave.com/embassies_show.php?country_id=183

International Embassy List;

This is an alphabetical (A-Z) listing of worldwide Serbian embassies.

Make a copy of the ‘Sample letter’ at the end of this post, and send to youur national and other national Serbian embassies.  Also ‘CC’ your letter to all detailed on the ‘Complete Block Listing’ given above.

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Donika Kastrioti 9/1
TIRANA
ALBANIE
Miroljub Zarić, otpravnik poslova

Tel. +3554 / 2223-042, 2232-091
Telex: 2256
Fax: 2232-089
E-mail: ambatira@icc-al.org
web: www.tirana.mfa.gov.yu

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
7, Rue des Freres Benhafid
B.P.366, HYDRA
ALGER
ALGERIE
Vladimir Kohut, ambasador

Tel. +21321 / 691218, 69-27-04, 69-23-26
Telex: 66-076
Fax: 693-472
E-mail: ambasada@ambserbie-alger.com
Web: www.ambserbie-alger.com

EMBAIXADA DA REPÚBLICA DA SERBIA
Rua Comandante Nzagi 25/27, Alvalade
LUANDA
REPUBLICA DE ANGOLA
C.P.3278
Branko Nikolić, otpravnik poslova
Phone +244 222 / 321-421, 320-393
Fax: +244 222 / 321-724
E-mail: serbiaemb@snet.co.ao

 

EMBAJADA DE LA REPÚBLICA DE SERBIA
Marcelo T.de Alvear 1705
1060 BUENOS AIRES
ARGENTINA
Gordana Vidović, ambasador

Tel. + 5411 / 4812-9133, 4813-3445, 4813-3446
Sekretarijat: + 5411 / 4811-2860
Fax: + 5411 / 4812-10-70
E-mail: serbembaires@ciudad.com.ar

 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
4 Bulwarra Close
O’Malley, ACT 2606
CANBERRA
AUSTRALIA
Lepša Štulić, otpravnik poslova

Phone + 02 / 6290-2630, 6290-29-48
Telex: 62-317
Fax: +02 / 6290-2631
E-mail: serbembau@optusnet.com.au

CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
12, Trelawney Street, Woollahra, N.S.W.2025
SYDNEY
AUSTRALIA
Aleksandar Besarabić, generalni konzul
P.O.Box 190 Edgecliff, N.S.W.2027

Phone +612 / 9362-46-37, 9362-30-03, 9362-46-38
Telex: 20-676
Fax: 9362-45-55
E-mail: gkrssid@froggy.com.au 

BOTSCHAFT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Rennweg 3
1030 WIEN
OSTERREICH / AUSTRIA
Dragan Velikić, ambasador

Phone + 431 / 713-25-95, 713-25-96, 712-12 05
712-64-88, 713-42-77
Telex: 135-398
Fax: 713-25-97
E-mail:embassy.vienna@mfa.rs
Web Site: vienna.mfa.rs

BOTSCHAFT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN-WIEN
Konsularabteilung
Johannagasse 1-3, A-1050 WIEN
Kosta Simonović,
šef konzularnog odeljenja

Phone + 431 / 544-75-85, 544-75-86
Fax: 544-75-95
E-mail: consulate.vienna@mfa.rs

PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA TO THE OSCE AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN VIENNA
Rennweg 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Miroslava Beham, ambasador

Phone + 431 / 714-13-45, 714-13-41
Fax: + 431 / 713-25-97
E-mail: mission.vienna@mfa.rs
Web: osce.mfa.rs

GENERALKONSULAT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Schallmooser Hauptstrasse 99
5020 SALZBURG
OSTERREICH / AUSTRIA
Zoran Jeremić, generalni konzul

Phone + 43662 / 845-254
Fax: 845-25-44
E-mail: gkserbien-salzburg@utanet.at
Web Site: salzburg.mfa.gov.yu

 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Rumjanceva 4
220034 MINSK
REPUBLIC BELARUS
dr Srećko Đukić, ambasador

Phone +375 17/ 284 29 84; 284 29 90
Fax: +375 17 233 92 26
E-mail: minsk.embassy@mfa.gov.yu
Web: www.ambasadasrbije.info/

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Avenue Emile de Mot 11
1000 BRUXELLES
BELGIQUE
Radomir Diklić, ambasador
Phone +322 / 647-2652, 647-5781, 649-6545
Consular Section: +322 / 649-8349
Fax: 647-29-41
E-mail: ambaserbie@skynet.be

 

MISSION DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE AUPRES DE L‘ UNION EUROPEENNE
Avenue Emile de Mot 19
1000 BRUXELLES
BELGIQUE
Roksanda Ninčić, ambasador

Phone +322 / 649-82-42, 649-83-65
648-65-36, 646-99-98
Fax: 649-08-78
E-mail: mission.serbia.eu@mfa.rs

 

GENERALNI KONZULAT REPUBLIKE SRBIJE
Vojvode Radomira Putnika 2
51000 Banja Luka
Jadranka Derajić, generalni konzul

Phone +387 51/ 227-040, 227-060
Fax: +387 51 / 213-901
e-mail: konzulat.bl@mfa.gov.yu 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA      

Obala Maka Dizdara 3a
Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Grujica Spasović, ambasador

Phone +38733 / 260-090, 260-080
Fax: 221-469
E-mail: srbamba@bih.net.ba

EMBAIXADA DA REPÚBLICA DA SERBIA
Ses Avenida das Nacoes, Q 803, lote 15
Cep 70409-900 BRASILIA
D.F. BRAZIL
Dušan Gajić, ambasador

Phone +5561 / 3223-72-72, 3223-62-22
Fax: +5561 / 3223-84-62
E-mail: embiugos@nutecnet.com.br
Web site: paginas.terra.com.br/noticias/embaixadaservia/

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Veliko Trnovo 3
1504 SOFIA
BULGARIE
Danilo Vučetić, ambasador

Phone +3592 / 946-16-35, 946-16-33
Telex: 23-537 YUAMBA
Fax: 946-10-59
E-mail: sofia@emb-serbia.com
Web Site: www.emb-serbia.com

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
118 00 Praha 1, Mostecka 15
REPUBLIQUE TCEQUE
Vladimir Vereš, ambasador

Phone: +4202 / 57-53-20-75
Sekretarijat: +4202 / 57-53-03-93
Konzularno odeljenje: +4202 / 57-53-39-49
Telex: 183284
Fax: +4202 / 57-53-39-48
E-mail: srbambacz@vol.cz

AMBASADA REPUBLIKE SRBIJE
Pantovcak 245
ZAGREB
CROATIA
Radivoj Cvetićanin, ambasador

Phone +3851 / 457-90-67, 457-90-68, 4573 330, 4573 334
Fax: 457-33-38
E mail ambasada@ambasada-srbije.hr

GENERALNI KONZULAT SRBIJE
Erazma Barcica broj 9
51000 RIJEKA
CROATIA
Mira Jegdić, žeran

Phone +38551/ 337-420, 337-421
337-343
Fax: +38551/ 337-361
E-mail: konzulat-rijeka@ri.hinet.hr
Web; www.konzulat-srbije-rijeka.hr

GENERALNI KONZULAT SRBIJE
204 Vukovarske brigade br. 2
VUKOVAR
CROATIA
Bojana Ristić, generalni konzul

Phone +38532/ 441-016, 441-183,
441-184
Fax: +38532/ 441-015
Web: www.gk-srbije-vukovar.hr
E-mail:
generalni.konzulat@gk-srbije-vukovar.hr 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
2, Vasilissis Olgas Str., Engomi,
1903 NICOSIA
CYPRUS
Mirko Jelić, ambasador

Phone +35722 / 777-511, 772-924
Fax: 775-910
E-mail: nicosia@serbia.org.cy
Web Site: www.serbia.org.cy

EMBAJADA DE LA REPÚBLICA DE SERBIA
5ta Avenida, No. 4406, entre 44 y 46,
Miramar Playa,
la Habana,
CUBA
mr Milena Luković-Jovanović, ambasador

Phone +537 / 204-24-88, 204-26-07
Telex: 512-137
Fax: 204-29-82
E-mail: ambsrbhav@embajadaserbia.co.cu

 

DANNEMARK
Vida Ognjenović, Ambasador
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Svanevaenget 36
21000 COPENHAGEN
Phone +45 / 3929-7161; 3929-7784
Fax: 3929-7919
E-mail: serbianemb@city.dk

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
33, Al Mansour Mohamed St.,
ZAMALEK
CAIRO
ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Dejan Vasiljević, ambasador,

Phone +202 / 2735-40-61, 2736-54-94
2736-70-94 
Telex: 21-046 YUAMB UN
Fax: 2735-39-13
Web-site: www.serbiaeg.com
E-mail: serbia@serbiaeg.com
E-mail: konzul@serbiaeg.com

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
W15 K26, House No.923,
P.O.Box 1341
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
Aleksandar Ristić, otpravnik poslova

Phone +25111 / 551-7804, 551-5659
Fax: 551-4192
E-mail: serbembaddis@ethionet.et

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Kulosaarentie 36
00570 HELSINKI
FINLAND
Vera Mavrić, ambasador

Phone +3589 / 684-74-66, 684-85-22
Telex: 122-099
Fax: 684-87-83
E-mail: ambascghki@kolumbus.fi, yuambafin@kolumbus.fi
Web: www.kolumbus.fi/info.ambasghki/

 

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
5, Rue Leonard de Vinci
75016 PARIS
FRANCE
Dušan Bataković, ambasador

Phone +331 / 40-72-24-24, 40-72-24-10
Secrétariat : 40-72-24-17
Telex: 645-846
Fax: 40-72-24-11, 40-72-24-23
E-mail: ambasadapariz@wanadoo.fr
Web: www.amb-serbie.fr

CONSULAT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
7, Quai General Sarrail,
69006 LYON
FRANCE
Miloš Ušćebrka, šef Konzulata

Phone +33 437 249 401
Telex: +33 478 306 086
Fax: +33 478 240 173
E-mail: consulat.yu.lyon@free.fr

MISSION PERMANENTE DE SERBIE AUPRES DU
CONSEIL DE L’ EUROPE
26, Avenue de la Foret-Noire
67000 STRASBOURG
FRANCE
Dragana Filipović, ambasador 

Phone +33390/ 22 15 88
Fax: +33388/ 36 09 49
E-mail:

mis.serbia.coe@fr.oleane.com

GERMANY

BOTSCHAFT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Taubert Strasse 18
D-14193 BERLIN
Milan Gojković, otpravnik poslova

Phone +4930 / 895-77-00, 895-77-0222
Telex: 304-652
Fax: 825-22-06
E-mail: info@botschaft-smg.de
Web Site: berlin.mfa.gov.rs

Konzulati RS

 

GENERALKONSULAT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Thueringer Strasse 3
D-60316 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Rajko Kolarov, generalni konzul

Phone +4969 / 9043-6760
Fax: 433-149
E-mail: info@gksrbfra.de

Konzulati RS

GENERALKONSULAT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN

Harvestehuder Weg 101
D-20149 HAMBURG
Spasoje Milićević, žeran

Phone +4940 / 416-22-60, 416-22-612
Telex: 213-937
Fax: 410-47-47
E-mail: gk_hamburg@web.de

Konzulati RS

GENERALKONSULAT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Bohmerwaldplatz 2
D-81679 MUENCHEN
Nataša Rašević, Žeran
 
Phone +4989 / 982-475-21, 982-47-50, 982-475-72 
Telex: 524-840
Fax: 981-319
E-mail: gk-minhen@t-online.de

Konzulati RS


GENERALKONSULAT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Taubenstrasse 4
D-70199 STUTTGART
Dobrivoje Vujičić, žeran

Phone +49711 / 601-706-0, 601-706-22,
601-706-71, 601-70-636, 601-706-32
Telex: 722-618
Fax: 649-40-48
E-mail: gk-stutgart@t-online.de

 GENERALKONSULAT DER REPUBLIK SERBIEN
Klosterstrasse 79
D-40211 DUESSELDORF
Vlado Ljubojević, generalni konzul

Phone +49211 / 239-55-00
Telex: 858-68-27
Fax: 679-86-36
E-mail: yukonzdis@freenet.de 

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
106, Vassilissis Sophias Ave.
11527 ATHENES
GREECE
Dragan Županjevac, ambasador

Phone +30210 / 777-43-44, 777-43-55
Fax: +30210 / 779-64-36
E-mail: beograd@hol.gr
Web: www.embassyofserbia.gr 

CONSULAT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
25, Evrou St.
11527 ATHENES
GREECE

Phone +30210 / 777-43-44, 777-43-55
Fax: +30210 / 779-64-36

CONSULAT GENERAL DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Komninon 4
54624 THESSALONIKI
GREECE
Milan Dimitrijević, generalni konzul

Phone +302310 / 244-265, 244-266,
244-267
Telex: 412-605
Fax: 240-412
Web site: www.consulatesrb.gr
E-mail: srbcons@otenet.gr

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Groot Hertoginnelaan 30
2517 EG The Hague
The Netherlands / HOLLAND
Čedomir Radojković, ambasador
 
Phone + 31 70 / 363-23-97, 363-23-93, 363-68-00
Fax: 360-24-21
E-mail: embassy.hague@mfa.gov.yu
Web site: users.bart.nl/~yuambanl

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Dozsa Gyorgy ut 92/b
H-1068 BUDAPEST VI
HUNGARY
Dejan Šahović, ambasador

Phone +361 / 322-98-38, 342-85-12,
352-88-47, 322-14-36, 322-14-37, 342-0566
Telex: 225-117
Fax: 322-14-38, 352-88-46
E-mail: budapest@amb.srbije.net
Web: http://budapest.mfa.gov.rs/

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
3/50 G.Niti Marg Chanakyapuri
110021 NEW DELHI
INDIA
Nataša Đorđević, otpravnik poslova

Phone +9111 / 2687-36-61, 2687-20-73
Telex: 72 365
Fax: 2688-55-35
E-mail: office@embassyofserbiadelhi.net.in
Trade: trade@embassyofserbiadelhi.net.in
Consular Affairs: consul@embassyofserbiadelhi.net.in
Web: www.embassyofserbiadelhi.net.in

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
J.1.Cokroaminoto No.109
JAKARTA PUSAT
INDONESIA
Zoran Kazazović, ambasador

Phone +6221 / 314-35-60, 314-37-20, 334-157
Telex: 69-139 YUAMBA IA
Telefax: 314-36-13
E-mail: embjakarta@serbian-embassy.org

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Velenjak avenue, 9 th street, nr. 9
TEHERAN -19858 P.O.Box 11365-118
IRAN
Fahrudin Mekić, otpravnik poslova

Phone +9821 / 2241-25-69, 2241-25-70,
Fax: 2240-28-69
E-mail: serbembteh@parsonline.net

 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Jadriya Babil District Mahala 923, ZUKAK 35, Building No.16
BAGHDAD
IRAQ
Dragan Pješivac, otpravnik poslova

P.O.Box 2061 Alwiyah
Phone +9641 / 778-78-87
Teleks: 212-277
Fax: +9641/778-04-89
E-mail: embsrbag@yahoo.com

AMBASCIATA DELLA REPUBBLICA DI SERBIA
Via dei Monti Parioli 20
00197 ROMA
ITALIA
dr. Sanda Rašković-Ivić, ambasador

Phone +3906 / 320-07-96,320-08-90,
320-08-05 (dezurni), 320-09-59
Telex: 616-303
Fax: 320-08-68
E-mail: amb@ambroma.com

 

CONSOLATO GENERALE DELLA REPUBBLICA DI SERBIA
Via Matilde Serao 1
20144 MILANO
Ivana Pejović, generalni konzul
 
Phone +3902 / 481-20-19, 481-24-90, 481-72-47
Telex: 353-676
Fax: 4801-04-26
E-mail: gkserbia@milano-gk.191.it 

CONSOLATO GENERALE DELLA REPUBBLICA DI SERBIA
Strada del Friuli 54
34136 TRIESTE
Vladimir Nikolić, generalni konzul

Phone +39040 / 410-125, 410-126
Telex: +39040 / 460-067
Fax: +39040 / 421-697
E-mail: gkrstrst@spin.it

 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA – KUWAIT
BLOCK NO. 7
STREET NO. 12
WILLA 3
JABRIYA – KUWAIT
KUWAIT
Zlatan Maltarić, otpravnik poslova

Phone:   +965 / 2532 75 48,
             +965 / 2532 75 49,
             +965 / 2532 54 02
Telefax: +965 / 2532 75 68
E-mail: embrskw@qualitynet.net

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Sh.Turkiya 14-16
P.O.Box 1087
TRIPOLI
S.P.L.A.J.- LIBYA
Dušan Simeonović, ambasador

Phone +21821 / 333-54-04, 333-33-92, 333-08-19
Telex: 20705
Fax: 333-41-14
E-mail: serbianembassy_tripoli@yahoo.com

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Ul. Pitu Guli 8, SKOPLJE
MAKEDONIJA
Zoran Popović, ambasador

Phone +3892 / 3129-298, 3131-299, 3128-422,
3129-305
Fax: 3129-427, 3131-428
E-mail: srbamb@unet.com.mk
Web: www.scgembassy.org.mk

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
23, Avenue Mehdi Ben Barka
B.P.5014 Souissi
RABAT
MAROC
Stanislav Stakić, ambasador

Phone +212 537 752 201, +212 537 753 770
Fax: +212 537 753 258
E-mail: sermont@menara.ma

EMBAJADA DE LA REPÚBLICA DE SERBIA
Av. Montanas Rocallosas No.515
Lomas de Chapultepec
11000 MEXICO: D.F.
MEXICO
Milisav Paić, ambasador

Phone +5255 / 5520-05-24, 5520-25-23
Telex: 177-13-31
Fax: 5520-99-27
E-mail: embajadaserbia@alestra.net.mx

 

AMBASADA REPUBLIKE SRBIJE

PODGORICA

Montenegro
Zoran Lutovac, Ambassador

Phone: 00382-20-667-305, 00382-20-667-565
Fax: 00382-20-664-301
Consular section:
Phone: 00382-20-667306
E-mail: embassy.podgorica@mfa.rs

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Drammensveien 105
0244 OSLO
NORWAY
Vladislav Mladenović, ambasador

Phone +47/ 23 08 68 58; 23 08 68 57
Fax: +47/ 22 55 29 92
E-mail: ambasada@serbianembassy.no
Consular:
Phone +47/ 23 08 68 52;
konzularno@serbianembassy.no
Web site: www.serbianembassy.no

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
AI.Ujazdowskie 23/25
00-540 VARSOVIE
POLOGNE
Bogojević Radojko, ambasador

Phone +4822 / 628-51-61, 625-60-41, 625-60-52
Fax: 629-71-73
E-mail: embassy.warsaw@mfa.rs
 

EMBAIXADA DA REPÚBLICA DA SERBIA
Av.Das Descobertas 12 – Restelo
1400-092 LISBOA
PORTUGAL
Duško Lopandić, ambasador

Phone +35121 / 301-53-11, 301-53-12
Telex: 12-103
Fax: 301-53-13
E-mail: serviaemba@netcabo.pt

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Calea Dorobantilor Nr.34
RO-BUCHAREST
ROMANIA
Zoran. S. Popović, ambasador

Phone +4021 / 211-98-71, 211-98-72, 211-98-73
Telex: 92-535
Fax: 210-01-75
E-mail: mail@ambserbia.ro
Web: www.ambserbia.ro 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Mosfiljmovskaja 46
R-119285 MOSKVA RUSSIA
Jelica Kurjak, ambasador
 
Phone +7499 / 147-41-06, 147-90-08
147-41-05, 147-41-08
Telex: 414-423
Fax: +7495 /937-96-15,
+7499 /147-41-04
E-mail: ambasada@co.ru

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Butkova 38
81104 BRATISLAWA
SLOVAKIA
Danko Prokić, ambasador

Phone +4212 / 544-31-927, 544-31-928, 544-31-929
Konzularno odeljenje: 544-31-935
Tel./Fax: 544-31-933
E-mail: embassy.serbia@internet.sk
Web site: bratislava.mfa.gov.rs

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Slomskova 1
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
dr Predrag Filipov, ambasador
 
Phone +3861 / 438-01-11, 438-01-10
Sekretarijat: 438-01-20
Fax: 434-26-88, 434-26-89
E-mail: ambasada@ambasadasrbije.si
Web: www.ambasadasrbije.si

EMBAJADA DE LA REPÚBLICA DE SERBIA
Calle de Velazquez 162
E-28002 MADRID
SPAIN
Jela Baćović, ambasador
 
Phone +3491 / 563-50-45, 563-50-46, 564-22-50, 562-60-40
Fax: 563-04-40
E-mail: office@embajada-serbia.es
Web site: www.embajada-serbia.es

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Seminarstrasse 5
CH-3006 BERNE
SUISSE
dr Milan St. Protić, Ambasador
 
Phone +4131 / 352-63-53, 352-63-54, 352-63-55
Telex: 912-848
Fax: 351-44-74
Web Site: www.ambasadasrbije.ch
E-mail: info@ambasadasrbije.ch

 
CONSULAT GENERAL DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
Alfred-Escher-Strasse 4,
8002 ZURICH
SUISSE
Svetlana Stanković, žeran

Phone +44 20 20 273; 20 20 274;
Fax: +44 20 20 278
E-mail: info@konzulat.ch
Web site: www.konzulat.ch

MISSION PERMANENTE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE
AUPRES DES NATIONS UNIES
5, Chemin Thury
CH-1206 GENEVA  SUISSE
mr Slobodan Vukčević, ambasador

Phone +4122 / 839-33-44, 839-33-41
Fax: 839-33-59
E-mail: misija-zeneva@bluewin.ch
 

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Valhallavagen 70
P.O.Box 26209
S-10041 STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
Prof. dr Ninoslav Stojadinović, ambasador

Phone +468 / 218-436, 218-482, 218-485, 247-748
Fax: 218-495
E-mail: serbiaemb@telia.com

AMBASSADE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE SERBIE

4, Rue de Liberia, 1002 Tunis-Belvedere
TUNISIE
Ivan Kandijaš, otpravnik poslova

Phone +21671 / 780-624, 794-626, 783-057
Telex: 18-399
Fax: 796-482
E-mail: amb.serbia@gnet.tn

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Paris Caddesi No. 47,
P.K.28
06691 Kavaklidere,
Ankara,
Turkey
Vladimir Ćurgus, ambasador

Phone +90312 / 426-02-36, 426-24-32
Telex: 46-680
Fax: 427-83-45
E-mail: embserank@tr.net

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
2134, Kalorama Road, N.W.
WASHINGTON.D.C.20008
USA
Vladimir Petrović, ambasador

Phone +1 202 / 332-0333
Fax:+1 202 / 332-3933, 332-5974
E-mail: info@serbiaembusa.org
Web site: www.serbiaembusa.org
 

PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS
854, Fifth Avenue
NEW YORK, N.Y.10021
Feodor Starčević, ambasador

Phone +1 212 / 879-87-00, 879-87-01, 879-87-02,
879-87-03
Fax: 879-87-05
E-mail: info@serbiamissionun.org
Web: www.un.int/serbia/

CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

62 West 45th Street, 7 Floor,
NEW YORK, NY 10036, USA
Branko Radošević, generalni konzul

Phone: 991212/ 5964 241
Telefax: 991212/5964 363
E-mail: consulategeneralserbia@verizon.net
Web: www.serbiaconsulatenyc.com

CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

201 East Ohio Street, Suite 200
CHICAGO, IL 60611
Desko Nikitović, generalni konzul

Phone: 1 (312) 670-6707
Fax: 1 (312) 670-6787
E-mail: info@scgchicago.org
Web site: www.scgchicago.org

HONORARY CONSULATES

Mr. Jonathan Lawrence Vinnik
Honorary Consul General of the
Republic of Serbia 
Attn. Kim Kilmer
1700 W. Lincolnway
Cheyenne, CO 82001
Phone: (307) 635-8931
E-mail: vinnik@worldnet.att.net

Mr. Steven H. Katich
Honorary Consul General of the
Republic of Serbia 
999 18th Street, Suite 2250
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 898-2353
E-mail: stevenkatich@hotmail.com

Mr. Gregory Rusovich
Honorary Consul General of the
Republic of Serbia 
Transoceanic Shipping Co. Inc
32 East Airline Drive
Kenner , LA 70062
Phone: (504) 465-1000
Fax: (504) 465-1023
E-mail: Gregory@transoceanic.com  

Mr. Alex Machaskee
Honorary Consul General of the
Republic of Serbia 
Key Tower
127 Public Square, Box 33
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 344-2010
Fax: (216) 344-2015
E-mail: alex1801@aol.com

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
28 Belgrave Square
LONDON SW1X 8QB
UNITED KINGDOM
Dejan Popović, Ambasador
 
TEL 44 207 235 9049
FAX 44 207 235 7092
E-mail: london@serbianembassy.org.uk
Web Site: www.serbianembassy.org.uk

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To: the Diplomatic representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia,

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I give my full support to the call that the Decree of mountain tourism development program on Mt. Stara Planina (Official Gazette of Republic of Serbia: No. 85/2007), now be declared as illegitemate.

The names of all animal and plant figures detailed within this letter are classified under their full scientific (species) names in the petition found at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-staraplanina-petition

I request that the Government of Serbia, as a signatory of existing international environmental legislation, respects all existing Serbian and international laws and conventions associated with same. 

I request a full revision of the Spatial and Master Plan for Nature Park Stara Planina and I request full consideration be given to alternative tourism development (agro-ecotourism, ethno tourism) and other sustainable and legal measures for improving the quality of life of the Mt. Stara Planina rural communities.

I am aware that Canadian and Serbian companies / organisations jointly constructed the Master Plan for tourism development on Stara Planina including a pre-investment study with physical and technical characteristics of ski center. During their work, they completely ignored the necessary legal procedure to contact the Institute for Nature Protection, and by that ignored the environmental protection law 

These violations of the legal procedures broke the Law for Protection of Natural Environment by articles No. 34, No. 49, No. 51 and No. 127 (Official Gazette of Republic of Serbia: No. 66/91, No. 83/92, No. 53/93, No. 67/93 and No. 153/2004). 

Within the now proposed Nature Park at Stara Planina, will be constructed about 40 ski lifts, nearly 30  ski tracks (in total length of more then 100 km) and 2 large tourist complexes on locations which are of exceptional significance for conserving the biodiversity.

This huge tourism center will have capacity for up to 40.000 people (according to the Master Plan) and is situated on the shoulders of the highest parts of the mountain – peaks Midzor (2170m), Babin zub (1758m), Tupanar (1964m).  The cost of the project during several developing years is between 260 million and 300 million Euros.

One of the centres (the largest one) will be on one peat meadow Jabu Dko ravni, which opposes the Ramsar Convention for wet-lands which Serbia has ratified. Also, Dojkino vrelo peat meadow, also on the list of high priority localites for protection under Ramsar Convention, will be used as a water source for the future ski resort.

Unforunately, the Government of Serbia already has constructed the first ski lift in the Babin zub area in 2006, without any planning documents and violating Serbian legislation.  

The first ski track was opened on 30th December 2006 next to the peak Babin zub, causing huge erosion. Therefore, this was the first big illegal activity and destruction which was conducted on the Mt. Stara Planina by the Government of Serbia (Ministry of Infrastructure and Ministry of Economy and Regional Development).

On that occasion, 6 official laws of Republic of Serbia were violated: also additional to this were a Decree on the Protection of Park of Nature Stara planina (Official Gazette of Republic of Serbia: No. 19/97),  Law for Protection of Natural Environment and a Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities.

On Babin Zub, ski lifts have already been constructed and enormous forest complexes have been cut through for planning ski routes.  On the barren steep mountainous ground, inevitable land slides and erosion have been initiated and it is only a question of time when the remaining thinned out fragments of century old spruce forests will also be damaged. Immeasurable destruction has already been made by widening the existing road to the ski lifts. Forest complexes have been destroyed and water errosion is already causing significant damage.

The amount of money which Republic of Serbia (Ministry of Infrastructure and Ministry of Economy and Regional Development) wants to invest only during 2008 in building ski paths, infrastructure and equipment for artificial snow and ski lifts, is 31,213,000 Euros. Such a sum is sufficient to provide 100,000 sheep, 500 tractors with  accessory machinery and finance of up to 20,000 Euros per Stara Planina house-hold for tourist categorization, house reconstruction and adaptation for ethno tourism. The stated amount is enough for supporting development of at least 500 house-holds willing to start agricultural or any other kind of production, processing or services (with 100% financing from the state),

However, it is neither possible to find evidence of social surveys of local communities nor details of local community consultation by the creators of the Spatial and Master Plan (Ministry of Infrastructure and Ministry of Economy and Regional Development for Stara planina. Since this is the case, it is not honest to claim transparency in realization of this project.

It is claimed that the Master Plan has been built upon detailed analysis of recognized potentials of Stara planina. Another serious anomaly of the project is to highlight that there is a 5 month season under snow at altitudes above 1700 metres. In recent years, the Balkan Peninsula is one of Europe’s region’s where climate change is most recognizable. Ironically, the opening of the first ski lift on the mountain on 30th December 2006 is remembered for the season when MINIMAL QUANTITIES of snow fell in Serbia.

Sadly however, on that day, illegal government activities became official. 

The Serbian Government proclaimed in 1997 Stara Planina as a Nature Park, enjoying the First Category of Protection – as of utmost importance for the country. 

Stara Planina also has the status of a significant International region. It is on the list for International Important Birds, on the list for International Important Plant Areas, on the list of Prime Butterfly Areas in Europe, on the preliminary list of Cross-border Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO protection (Man and Biosphere, UNESCO), on the list of Important Ramsar Sites (peat meadows), on the Emerald list (sites significant for conserving the European ecological network), and also on the list of cross-border protected region placed in the European programme Green Belt (IUCN), on the list of ProGEO geological heritage sites under The European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage.

There are 344 moss species on Mt. Stara Planina. Among them are numerous species which are supposed to be protected by various international and Serbian laws. Species that live on decaying wood and peat meadows are very threatened. One great danger for these species are the hydro-geological works, because of great changes in the water balance of their habitat. Under great threat is Buxbaumia viridis, which is protected within the Bern Convention and Habitat Directive in the whole of Europe, because of habitat destruction (wet tree trunks) which is threatened because of the forest destruction.

With ski-centre construction on the Jabucko ravniste, the peat meadow and water usage from Dojkino vrelo peat meadow, two most important peat meadows will be destroyed. This is a direct threat for all peat meadow associated moss species.

Diversity of flora in the Serbian part of the Stara Planina mountain (the other half is in Bulgaria) with at least 1195 growing plant species, of which 116 (9,7% from all recorded species) are locally or regionally endemic. Endemics are the most threatened category and also the most important floristic elements for the biodiversity. An example of the danger of wild tourism development is seen in the near extinction of Winged Bell (Campanula calycialata) which grew only on Stara planina.  One part of this fragile population was destroyed during the first phases of the project.

On Stara Planina grow 9 species from the World Red List,

42 species are on the  European Red List of which 4 are CRITICALLY endangered, 3 species from the Habitat Directive (Gentiana lutea), 45 species from the CITES list (41 species of orchids), 179 species with the regional IUCN threat status, 14 species from the National Red List and 153 species from that are protected in various ways by the Serbian national legislature. Also, 21 plant species are LOCALLY CRITICALLY endangered (IUCN YUCR)

From the Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities (Official Gazette of Republic of Serbia: No. 50/93) 40 species are present and therefore IT IS ILLEGAL to damage and destroy their habitat. The Bern Convention also protects 2 species growing on the mountain.  Peat meadows are habitats for dozens of endemic plant species. On the peat meadows of Stara Planina, grow about  50-70 endemic species on average, one of the most important is Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), a very rare and very threatened insectivorous plant species which became extinct in other parts of Serbia. It should be remembered that mountain peat meadows today represent the most scarce and threatened World ecosystems. According to IUCN categorization, they are specified among fragile (very sensitive) ecosystems, in which the smallest changes of abiotic and biotic factors are CRITICAL (the disappearance of only 1-2 species can result in total COLLAPSE of the system.). 

Construction of ski tracks (which involves both logging and bulldozing activites) on fragile steep slopes will unavoidably begin a process of erosion; this has already happened on some parts of the mountain where development was illegally started.

On Stara Planina live 136 species of butterflies, of which 3 are protected by the Bern Convention, 4 are declared as national rarities by the Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities by IUCN categorization.

Of the butterflies that live on Stara Planina, THERE ARE 6 ENDANGERED SPECIES.

From the European conservation concern, there are 14 species recorded which are crucially dependent on peat meadow vegetation – and at least three of the species are living on the territory of the planned mega ski resort (Babin zub, Midzor, Topli Do).

Considering fish fauna of the mountain (26 species), the most important is Brown Trout In addition, in the cold mountain rivers lives the Golden Loach (Sabanejewia aurata) which is under protection by the Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities. Also, the Bern Convention issues protection of six fish species which also live in the streams and rivers of Stara Planina Mt.

With the use of mountain springs as water sources for the demands of proposed tourist accommodation facilities, severe damage to the current water balance is expected, and the resulting effects on aquatic animals will be extremely harmful. Numerous streams and small rivers that are fragile ecosystems will also be threatened by pollution from effluent and drainage.

On Stara Planina live 18 species of amphibians and reptiles, of which 10 are protected under the Bern Convention, while 8 are protected by the Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities. It is almost certain that many species will be lost if  and when the works proceed.

So far, 206 bird species are recorded on Stara Planina. From that number, 140 bird species are protected by the Bern Convention, but some of them have ALREADY BECOME EXTINCT recently on Mt. Stara Planina due to human activity.

Localities are under consideration for development which will endanger nesting / bird species which have bred there in the recent past and which are currently protected by both the Bern Convention and the Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities.

It is of great importance for every one of the above flora and fauna species that THEIR HABITAT REMAINS PRESERVED, and is not ruined by government ploitical ignorance of environmental legislation.

There are some 60 species of mammals on Stara Planina, among which some are very rare, including the Snow Vole (Chionomys nivalis), also an extremely rare living fossil of Tertiary origin which lives on the highest slopes of the mountain; it is directly threatened by the ski resort.

Together with Snow Vole, under the Decree on the Protection of Natural Rarities, an additional 19 mammal species and their habitat are protected. Under the direct threat of habitat destruction are the Lynx (Lynx lynx), Marbled Polecat Vormela peregusna, Mole Rat (Spalax leucodon), Suslik (Spermophilus citellus), Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens) and the Southern Water Shrew (Neomys anomalus). The Bern Convention, Apendix II is protecting 6 species: Suslik (S. citellus) Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), Marbled Polecat (Vormela peregusna), Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), Wild Cat (Felis silvestris) and Otter (Lutra lutra), while Apendix III also protects an additional 12 species.

Only the Grey Wolf and Wild Cat in Serbia are not protected by law and sadly enough, considered as game animals by Serbian hunters who have a love for the destruction of nature. Animals detailed above, especially those from Apendix II, are now seriously threatened with habitat destruction from the building and future existence of the ski resort.

According to many scientific findings, this kind of tourism is likely to be unsustainable due to climate change (higher warming temperatures and lower snow yield), strong competition in the region and diversity destruction which will take result.

It is vigorously recommended that an alternative of rural (agro / eco and ethnic) tourism should be developed and made profitable on a sustainable basis without  any major habitat destruction.

This would require less investment and would benefit and preserve the local communities. This kind of tourism would very much improve the quality of life of local people by enabling them to find additional outlets for their food and craft products and local services.

Eco-tourism has been previously recommended by IUCN as the only acceptable kind of tourism development of this region. Also the World Bank is now working on a project with local communities to improve ecological management of Stara Planina Nature Park (142,000 ha), biodiversity and sustainable natural resource-use incorporated in a major agricultural and rural development program, for example including c.30,000 ha of grasslands under sustainable grazing.

Finally, I feel that the current proposals and objectives set by the current government of Serbia for the development of Stara Planina ski resort facilities are generally illegal under existing environmental and flora / fauna protection legislation as previously detailed.

I will be presenting this information to my own national government political representatives asking them to express their concerns to your (Serbian) government with regard Stara Planina development.

The proposals for development of this facility are not acceptable; I ask you to stop all development, or face a possible legal challenge under the international legislations detailed above.

Yours truly,

Name :

Nationality :

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Serbia: NGO Requests to Government Ministry for Information About Zoo Animals Result in ….. Order From Ministry for NGO to Re-Vaccinate Its Animals or Face Massive Fine

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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Five days ago (late July 2009), one Serbian animal welfare organisation (EPAR of Subotica city) filed a charge with the government requesting that they forward a list of euthanasia, forensic results and diagnosis relating to deaths of animals in Palic Zoo, located 6km from the city of Subotica in Northern Serbia.

In a response sent by Mr. Micovic, Director of the government Veterinary Department, Mr. Micovic declares that the zoo does not come under the control of, or basically have anything to do with Republic Veterinary Inspectors.

According to our information and the new Serbian law for animal welfare, republic veterinary inspectors must be involved with all aspects of animal welfare WHEREVER animals are present in the country (Serbia).

In the past, republic veterinary inspectors who have visited and inspected the EPAR shelter many times, and always having found everything to be correct, have, on 26th July, now written to EPAR shelter and demanded that 174 dogs at the shelter must immediately be re-vaccinated.  All of the dogs which the inspectors require to be vaccinated were vaccinated on 21/07/2008, almost one year ago to the day.

If the dogs are not vaccinated, then EPAR have been informed that they will be punished by the veterinary inspectors.  EPAR will be fined 3,000,000 dinar and the President of EPAR will personally be fined 300,000 dinar.

EPAR shelter has many times requested that the veterinary station at Subotica visits EPAR shelter and undertakes a vaccination of all the dogs who are not already vaccinated.  Those dogs, the 174 vaccinated by EPAR in 07/2008 could also be re-vaccinated now, one year later.

EPAR shelter, being a shelter which takes animals from the streets and animals which are delivered / left at the entrance of the shelter, requested that a veterinary inspector attends the shelter and undertakes the vaccinations using money from the republic budget allocated for such vaccinations. 

But in return, the veterinary station director has responded in writing and demanded that the EPAR shelter pays 500 dinar out of its own funding for each and every dog which they declare has to be vaccinated.

174 dogs x 500 dinar = 87,000 dinar.

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Quite understandably, EPAR consider that this is a pressure being put on them by the government simply because of the original EPAR charges relating to information requests about Palic Zoo and the requests for copies of information and documentation about the standards for animals at the zoo.

EPAR are correct to think that they are being punished by the government for requesting information which should now be provided in accordance with the new animal welfare law of Serbia.

EPAR have also campaigned hard for the government to investigate further and to prosecute people and organisations in relation to hunting issues throughout Serbia. 

The government have done nothing about this in the form of any prosecutions, but they have now attempted to impose an 87,000 dinar penalty on EPAR shelter for vaccinations which should be funded out of the national budget.

Please view the following very recent photographs (26/07/09) taken at Palic Zoo and then ask yourself if you consider that animals here should be exempt from any veterinary inspections by government authorities.

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Brown Bear in its ‘enclosure’

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Conditions suitable for a roaming animal ? – it would appear not

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View of same enclosure in another direction

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Brown Bear Enclosure with Adjacent Leopard Enclosure

The Palic Zoo website is at the following, with a link to the ‘animals gallery’:

   http://www.zoopalic.co.rs/index.php/gallery2/action/list/?g2_itemId=224

Pictures taken of the zoo animals by independent investigators in recent weeks at the Palic zoo are shown above.  We consider that in the least, especially in relation to the conditions in which the Brown Bear and its neighbour, the leopard are kept, the very, very least which should be done by the government is to send veterinary inspectors into the zoo to check on the health of individual animals and as importantly, animal living conditions.

SAV have been in contact with international zoo check organisations; supplying photographs of the animals and living conditions where necessary.  This is an on-going task and we are awaiting responses.

So it is rather strange; an animal welfare organisation (EPAR) asks for information on animal welfare at a Serbian zoo; and the government responds by informing that the zoo inspections have nothing to do with their veterinary department inspectors, and yet at the very same time the government veterinary authority demands that the animal welfare organisation which originally asks the questions now has now been instructed to immediately vaccinate 174 dogs at their shelter, at a cost of 87,000 dinar, of which the government wants nothing to do with funding !

This situation is currently under investigation by campaigners, and we think and hope that we will have some breaking news on the veterinary vaccination procedures in the very near future.  Information obtained to date appears to be very interesting !

Please watch for new posts and updates which we hope to publish within the next 3 or 4 days.

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