16.12.2017.
The Minister of Defence: 300 million for the Reconstruction of the Military Academy in the Following Year
Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin, accompanied by Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces General Ljubiša Diković, State Secretary Bojan Jocić and Chief of Military Academy Major General Goran Zeković, visited the Military Academy and got familiarised with the degree of realisation of infrastructural works conducted in that high educational scientific establishment.
-The Military Academy is the pride of our armed forces. The entire world knows about the long tradition of military education in Serbia and there is a great interest of foreign partners in sending their officers, their cadets to be educated at our Military Academy. And because of that, but not because of that alone, but primarily for the comfort of our students, our children, we have decided to reconstruct the entire Military Academy. For this and the following year we have allocated some 300 million dinars for the works in the Military Academy, where we will renovate not only the plateau, but the interior, sports centre, accommodation, shooting range, everything that is required to our cadets for their education and for us to show once again how much we care about our future officers – Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin pointed out.He said that by raising the living standard, the quality of life and work enabled better and more successful education of the cadets.
- Likewise, we want to make the military profession more attractive, and we want the children to know and their parents to know, that when they come to the Military Academy, they come to the best accommodation, the best institution, where of course the best men work – the minister of defence stressed.
Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, General Ljubiša Diković said that the Military Academy trains the cadre for the needs of the Serbian Armed Forces – officers of different profiles, different branches and services – and that the high educational and scientific establishment, recognised among the armed forces of the world, needed to provide to its cadets the conditions for life and work that were provided by the most modern armed forces of the world.
- What you see today is the beginning of creation of conditions that will enable our cadets, our officers, our non-commissioned officers both in the process of advancement at bachelor studies and at Command-Staff and General-Staff Courses, to be trained even better for what they will be faced with once they have completed that level of education – General Diković said adding that according to the project, when the construction works were completed, the conditions that our cadets and officers would have, would indeed be at the world level.
- We are gladdened by the fact that, apart from speedily equipping ourselves with arms and military equipment, and we are also creating and improving conditions for life and work of our officers – Chief of General Staff said.The minister of defence and Chief of General Staff were familiarised about the degree of realisation of infrastructural works in the framework of rebuilding a military complex “General Jovan Mišković” in Belgrade, by Lieutenant Colonel Slobodan Starčević, Head of Infrastructure Department of the Sector for Material Resources of the Ministry of Defence and by Colonel Zoran Lučić, Head of Logistics Division at Military Academy. The works are performed by the Military Construction Institution “Belgrade”.
The minister of defence visited the Sports Centre of the Military Academy and within it the new cardio-centre and fitness gym.
