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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Over 18,000 Serbian citizens with right to vote from abroad

Belgrade, 20 October 2006

Spokesman of the Serbian Ministry for Diaspora Neda Maletic said that a total of 18,093 Serbian citizens living abroad will have the right to vote on October 28 and 29 at the referendum on the new Constitution of Serbia.

The voting will be organised in 40 Serbian embassies and consulates in 24 countries.

Just like for the citizens living in Serbia, the voting will be held on October 28 and 29 - from 7 am to 8 pm local time, and because of the time difference in countries such as the US and Canada, the vote will be held a day earlier - on October 27 and 28 so that voting can be completed at all polling stations by Sunday at 8 pm Central European time, Maletic said.

She added that Serbian citizens living abroad will vote in Serbian diplomatic and consular offices in Sydney, Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Brussels, London, Athens, Rome, Trieste, Milan, Toronto, Tripoli, Skopje, Moscow, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Washington, New York, Chicago, Bratislava, Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, the Hague, Bern, Geneva, Zurich, Stockholm, Malmo, Oslo, Algiers, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Damascus and Pretoria.

She stated that the selection of polling stations was made according to the number of Serbian citizens living in a specific area, adding that the minimum number for opening a polling station is 100 registered voters.

The largest number of voters for the upcoming referendum are registered in Germany - 6,190, France - 1,673 and Switzerland - 1,495, while in the US a total of 840 voters were registered at all three polling stations.

Maletic explained that the embassies and consulates were given little time to update lists of voters and that is why the number of registered voters is smaller than it might have been.