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Diaspora assistant minister attends presentation in Leskovac

Belgrade, 18 December 2006

Serbian Assistant Minister for the Diaspora Miodrag Jaksic attended in Leskovac today the presentation of a project whose aim is to involve young educated people in a new investment cycle in this region to prevent a sizable brain drain from occurring.

Miodrag Stojkovic, left, and Vladan Marinkovic at today's press conference

Jaksic told a press conference that the two-day presentation at which the economic, cultural and educational capacities of Leskovac will be presented has been scheduled for December 28.

The project's initiator and promoter Miodrag Stojkovic said that once the new law on artificial insemination officially forbids reproductive cloning, Serbia will become one of the countries that have managed to legally regulate this sensitive issue.

Stojkovic said that by outlawing human cloning another type of cloning will be given the green light, namely therapeutic cloning which can be of enormous help in discovering the causes of certain hereditary illnesses.

He also added that new regulations are being introduced in the EU which envisage the use of human stem cells for testing new medicines.

Leskovac is ready to create conditions for the development of this field and application of genetic therapy, Stojkovic said and voiced hope that the project of medical application of stem cells will spread throughout Serbia.

He said he wants to help the young to remain in this city and added that now is the chance for those who have left the country to return.

President of the Leskovac municipality Vladan Marinkovic called on all citizens of Leskovac to come to Leskovac on December 28 and 29, where the project will be presented in the municipality building, and the centres of culture and health and contacts will be made between representatives of culture and the economy.