Serbia

On Friday 30 July Assistance. Advocacy. Access – Serbia (AAA-Serbia), Nerina Cevra, representing the CMC and Dragoljub Duricic, Serbia's most famous drummer held a press briefing at the Belgrade Media Center on the status of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the upcoming celebration in Belgrade. More information about AAA- Serbia is available on their website (in Serbian): http://www.ppps.org.rs/.

Dragoljub Duricic and 23 of his drumming friends (plus a trumpet player!) joined AAA-Serbia to celebrate EIF on Sunday, 1 August 2010 at 20.30 at the Square of Nikola Pasic in Belgrade city. Hundreds of people attending the concert signed AAA-Serbia's petition for Serbia to join the convention. A thousand information flyers were distributed in the city center as well as hundreds of other materials including more detailed pamphlets (some in English), treaty text, T-Shirts and bags marking the occasion. Members of local survivors' groups from eight municipalities of Serbia also attended the concert.

Dragoljub Djuricic, the most famous drummer in the entire territory of former Yugoslavia, is also an internationally renowned performer and artist who was among the most dynamic figures of the Serbian democracy movement. He remains a symbol of that change today. During the 1990s civil society demonstrations, Dragoljub Djuricic led a group of 30 drummers in front of a million people gathered on the streets of Belgrade. Djuricic and drumming colleagues played at the numerous rallies throughout the country leading to a new era in Serbia in the year 2000.

The Organization of Civilian War Victims in Kraljevo in cooperation with AAA-S organised a celebration of EIF with a petition signing event and a presentation for the media on the same day. Kraljevo in Central Serbia is the center of one of the counties affected by cluster bomb strikes, with areas still contaminated by cluster duds.

Jelena Vicentic, Assistance. Advocacy. Access - Serbia, jelena@ppps.org.rs

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