2009 SU: Contract Signing with Sports Venues

UB2009 CEO Zoran Jovanović, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Božidar Djelić & Minister of youth and sport, Snežana Samardžić Marković and

In the government of the Republic of Serbia building, directors of sports venues signed contracts with Company „Universiade Belgrade 2009″, thereby guaranteeing that all sports venues would be ready for the Universiade.

The signing of contracts with the directors of 41 sports venues was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Božidar Djelić, Minister of youth and sport, Snežana Samardžić Marković and UB2009 CEO Zoran Jovanović.

‘All sports venues to be used during the Universiade will be repaired and put in order by June 15th’, said the President of UB2009 Organization Committee, Božidar Djelić. ‘The Universiade is a big and important sports event, to be held between July 1st and July 12th. It will bring some 10 thousand students from 140 countries worldwide to Serbia’, said the Deputy Premier for European integrations. He added that everyone was trying their utmost to make it the most memorable and positive thing in Serbia in 2009.

Minister of youth and sport, Snežana Samardžić Marković pointed out that sport is a good medium for promoting national identity of a country. The Universiade rewpresents a good opportunity to verify that and a chance for sport to bring to Serbia positive energy and optimism at the moment when the society is rocked by financial crisis.

‘I believe that this project will make us proud’, said Snežana Samardžić Marković.