November 28^th

This year’s second-in-line Forum of Advanced Technologies surpassed last year’s performance, as it was estimated at the working meeting of the organizers of the forum. According to the Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic the Forum was progressing and the City would be the general sponsor of the Advanced Technologies Forum the following year. He assessed that today’s meeting was actually the beginning of preparations for the next forum and that the potentials of Nis in the field of information technologies were far greater than all that was currently happening in our city in this area. The Mayor praised the working team that realized this year’s forum and pointed out that Nis was slowly regaining the epithet of the “City of Electronics”, which it used to have, i.e., achieving the goal to which we all strived for Nis to be the City of Advanced Technologies. “Our greatest potential is people, university, professors and students. We all have to work together and promote the potentials we have”, the Mayor said.

November 28^th

Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic signed an initiative for the proclamation of the May 18^th – to be the Day of Remembrance for the women who were victims of violence. According to the Mayor all of us together, we need to encourage and empower as many women as possible to report violence because domestic violence is not only a matter of the family, but of the entire society. “I believe that the adoption of the new Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence will certainly help, because violence against women in the family does not only affect a direct victim. It is important for us as a local self-government to make life better for both women and men, because everything that is good for one is good for others as well. The fact is that women, although legally defined as equal to men, are not. We need to take care more about gender equality, because a higher quality of life is achieved with a higher level of equality. Also, we will try to act in different ways and raise the awareness of people about violence against women and in general of gender equality. We have already networked, we have adopted several documents dealing with these issues, but the contribution of the fight against violence against women must be given the entire public,” said Mayor Bulatovic. The initiative for proclaiming May 18^th – Day of remembrance of the women who are victims of violence, have been launched in Nis by the Commission for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities of Nis City Assembly and Women’s Assembly Member Group.

November 28^th

Nis airport, where 9 regular lines were introduced in a year, welcomed 100.000^th passenger today. It is Miljana Todorovic, who arrived at the Nis airport from Eindhoven. Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic, presented the small gift to Ms. Todorovic in memory of this moment, which is significant for the Nis Airport Constantine the Great and the City of Nis. “Constantine the Great Airport represents a new development opportunity not only for the city of Nis, but for tourism in Serbia in general. The 100.00^th passenger is a historic record for the Nis Airport and we expect that, by the end of this year, the figure will reach 120.000 ” said the Mayor at this occasion. He added that the works on the reconstruction of the airport building would begin by the end of this year. The assistance from the Government of Serbia, is very im portant to us, which, together with us, is doing everything possible to ensure that the Nis Airport operates in the best possible way.” According to the Mayor, in the coming period, the expansion of airport capacity could be expected, which, in fact, means simultaneous service of two aircrafts, i.e.380 passengers on board and 380 passengers on departure. Nis Airport has recorded a constant increase in the number of passengers compared to 2014. Namely, the total number of passengers at Nis Airport during 2014 was 1,333.