24.04.2018.
Centre of the Ministry of Defence Voždovac officially opens
On the occasion of marking the Serbian Armed Forces Day, a ceremony was held in the Municipality of Voždovac where the Deputy Mayor of the City of Belgrade Andreja Mladenović handed over the new premises of the Centre of the Ministry of Defence Voždovac for use.
Apart from the President of the Municipality of Voždovac, Aleksandar Savić, and Head of the Belgrade Regional Centre of the Ministry of Defence, Colonel Dragan Stojčić, the ceremony was attended by representatives of the City of Belgrade, centres of the Ministry of Defence, local self-government and large technical systems with which the Belgrade Regional Centre has long and successful cooperation.
Pointing out that the City of Belgrade once again showed that the attitude of the state and local self-government towards the Armed Forces has been changing for better in the recent years, deputy mayor of the City of Belgrade Andreja Mladenović congratulated all members of the Armed Forces on their holiday and wished them even better conditions of life and work.
- The fact that the Armed Forces is main pillar of this country has been highlighted in recent years by all levels of state power, from the president and the supreme commander, through the Government, to the local self-government. This also shows that the attitude of municipalities towards the military and defence obligations is extremely important, and it is no coincidence that members of the Armed Forces were once present in all local self-governments. After a certain interruption and everything that was happening in the last decades, there has been a certain delay in these relations, which we are now raising again to the required level. One of the centres of the Ministry of Defence, to which we paid special attention in the past two years, is certainly the Centre in Voždovac, which now gets significantly better working conditions. The city, with its municipalities, got certain obligations, especially in emergencies and disaster response, and in this respect, there are numerous jobs ahead of us, that we, in cooperation with the army, the police and local self-government, will certainly perform very efficiently. When it comes to Voždovac, now we have a new, completely customized space that allows the Voždovac Centre of the Ministry of Defence to fulfil all the tasks that are set before it. By coming to that centre, recruits will now be able to gain a different, much better picture of the power of the state and its army and to feel that they are necessary and significant for the people and the state they belong to, Mladenović said.
Expressing satisfaction that the employees at the Voždovac Centre will have significantly better working conditions in the future, the President of the Municipality of Voždovac pointed out that the local self-government in the municipality of Voždovac has been giving significant and rightfully deserved attention to the defence work.
- Certainly, employees in the defence system, just like everyone else in local self-government, deserve quality working conditions at the level of time we live in. If we were unable to create such conditions two years ago, now it is fulfilled and I can proudly say that with the help of the City of Belgrade we are in the situation that exactly on the Serbian Armed Forces Day we are going to hand over new and modern equipped rooms where employees will be happy to receive all those who are to meet with the military obligation and the Serbian Armed Forces here, in the Centre, for the first time, Savić said.
Thanks to the representatives of the City of Belgrade, the Municipality of Voždovac and the Secretariat for Property, which assisted and cooperated in arranging the new Centre of the Ministry of Defence, Colonel Stojčić pointed out that the work done by the regional and local centres of the Ministry of Defence is extremely important and these are places where young people meet military and defence obligations for the first time.
- It is therefore very important what the conditions in which the employees of these centres work. The first picture of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence is gained in the local centres of the Ministry of Defence; here, young people enlist, ask for military schools, and volunteer for military service, find out the first information about the army and the obligations ahead of them as reserve members. That is why it is the duty of all of us, both members of the military, as well as the authorities in the state and society, local self-governments and large technical systems, that the conditions of life and work of the employees in those centres be at the level they deserve by their work and the significance of the jobs they perform, Colonel Stojčić said.
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