TRIP TO AUSTRALIA WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE

Belgrade, November 21, 2005 – Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine told reporters at the Royal Palace today that their trip to Australia was a great and good experience.

Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Kathreine had a number of meetings with the Serbs from Australia, Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Australian officials and diplomats accredited to Canberra who gathered under the auspices of our Embassy and H.E. Ambassador Milivoje Glisic.

Crown Prince Alexander told the news conference that 35,000 people of Serb origin live in Australia and that many of them were ready to invest in their old homeland.

HRH Crown Princess Katherine told reporters that the topics in the meetings she had with the Australian officials, the heads of the hospitals she visited, and the doctors, included the aid which the Australian health system could offer to our hospitals and the establishment of the offices of the Princess Katherine’s Lifeline humanitarian organisation in Melbourne and Sydney.

“I told our people that both at home and abroad we have to work together in the interest of our country. I often told them that only the unity saves the Serbs,” Crown Prince Alexander II said when asked about the main issue he had discussed with the Australian Serbs.

Crown Prince Alexander II added that he and Crown Princess Katherine, as patrons of the SPC St. Sava College, which will be built near Sydney, were very proud because our Diaspora in Australia will have the first such school which will also be open for students of other ethnic origins.

Their Royal Highnesses visited Australia from November 9 – 14, upon the invitation by the SPC.