Residents of the 12 February settlement in Nis, who have been without electricity for seven months, protested today in Belgrade in front of the Ministry of Energy and Mining.
According to Belgrade media, representatives of the Opra Roma Association of Serbia and this settlement agreed on a temporary solution at a meeting with the head of the Cabinet of the Minister of Energy and Mining Dubravka Đedović.
According to the statements of the negotiators, a temporary solution was reached, to connect the households to the electricity grid within seven to ten days, and to continue the negotiations in the next six months with the aim of achieving a permanent solution.
At today's media conference, Jelena Reljić mentioned that the Opre Roma organization, which organized today's protest together with the locals, will monitor the development of the situation and will react accordingly.
In the Niš settlement "12. February" is home to 24 families who have not had access to electricity for seven months. They tried unsuccessfully to solve the problem for a long period of time.
