The director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Dubravka Đukanović, has resigned from that position after being conditioned to submit a proposal to remove the protection from the General Staff bracket or to leave, reports FoNet information from Novi Magazin.
The source of Novi Magazin states that Đukanović was invited by the Ministry of Economy to a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Siniša Mali on Saturday.
At that meeting, she was told that she had to remove her protection from the General Staff or resign. She was given until Monday to think it over, but she immediately said she was resigning, the weekly's source said.
The resignation arrived at the Ministry of Culture on Monday, and on Thursday a person will be appointed to that position who is ready to do whatever is necessary so that the General Staff loses its status as a protected cultural asset.
The complex of the General Staff and the former Federal Secretariat for National Defense is triple protected.
The General Staff buildings, which were damaged in the NATO bombing, have the status of a cultural monument, the same status as the old General Staff building with the plot on which the entire complex is located, and as a spatial-historical unit, the area along Kneza Miloša Street also enjoys protection.
According to the information of Novi Magazin, the director of the Belgrade Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Olivera Vučković, is ready to resign because of the General Staff.
The Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure announced that on May 15, Minister Goran Vesić, on behalf of the Government of Serbia, signed a contract with the company "Affinity Global Development" on the revitalization of the complex of the former Federal Secretariat for National Defense, which is located on the corner of Knez Miloša and Minorities in the center of Belgrade.
