Novo mesto Step Closer to Legalised Roma Settlement

Novo Mesto, 14 February - The Novo mesto municipality made a step forward on Thursday in resolving housing issues faced by a part of its Roma community. Representatives of the government and of the local community agreed on a transfer of land where a Roma settlement has been built illegally from the Defence Ministry onto the municipality.

Novo mesto Dolenjsko Roma Association president Dušica Balažek (left) and Agriculture Minister Franc Bogovič, who chairs the government Commission for the Protection of the Roma, (right) talking to the press. Photo: Rasto Božič/STA

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Dolenjsko Roma Association president Dušica Balažek (left) and Agriculture Minister Franc Bogovič, who chairs the government Commission for the Protection of the Roma, (right) talking to the press.
Photo: Rasto Božič/STA

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