Nikolic: Unstinting support for Red Cross activities

BELGRADE - With World Red Cross Day one day away, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic received a delegation of the Red Cross of Serbia on Wednesday, with whom he discussed the activities of the humanitarian institution.

Nikolic offered his total support for the activities of the Red Cross of Serbia and expressed particular interest in those concerning the setting up and maintaining of soup kitchens, the president’s press service said in a release.

Red Cross of Serbia President Dragan Radovanovic told Nikolic that last year saw the most successful blood donation campaign in Serbia so far.

Radovanovic said that Srbia's Red Cross is able to meet the needs of soup kitchen users, adding that humanitarian assistance problems present in Belgrade and Nis will be solved very quickly and efficiently.

World Red Cross Day is celebrated on May 8, the birthday of the founder of the humanitarian organization, Jean Henri Dunant.

The Red Cross of Serbia was one the first 15 Red Cross organizations to be created in the world.

A poll was run by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 160 countries across the globe in 2013 showing the organization as having 80 million members, over 17 million volunteers and more than 400,000 professional workers.

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