LAUNCHING OF NEW POSTAL STAMPS “MUSEUM EXHIBITS”

Belgrade, December 9, 2005 – TRH Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine organised today the launching of a new series of the postal stamps called “Museum Exhibits” inspired by valuable art collection from the Royal Palaces in Belgrade.

Co-organisers of this unique presentation at the White Palace were the PTT Serbia and “Jugomarka” www.jugomarka.co.yu. The guests included Mr. Dejan Jovanovic, Deputy Minister of Economy for Telecommunications and Post, Mr. Milan Jankovic, General Director of the PTT Union of Serbia and Montenegro and Mr. Dragan Kovacevic, General Director of the PTT Serbia.

“I am especially honoured to have the opportunity to attend this extraordinary presentation thanks to Their Royal Highnesses,” Mr Jovanovic said.

Mr. Kovacevic said the decision to bring those museum exhibits to the broad daylight was motivated by the fact they had been away from the public eye for long time, while Mr. Jankovic added that both in cultural and artistic sense, those motives on the stamps represented the state treasure.

“I am happy because these stamps will go around the world as of today to become the ambassadors of our country and represent it in the best possible way. It will be continuity and a meeting point of both traditional and contemporary in a new image of our country, which we all together should contribute to,” Crown Prince Alexander II said.

New postal stamps and envelops printed for the launching day, carry the art works of famous painters and craftsmen: Xaver Franz Winterhalter, Portrait of a Girl with Blue Ribbon, Andrea Alovigi, The Worship of the Child, Biaggio d'Antonio, Madonna with Jesus Child and Two Angels, Vlaho Bukovac, The Regret, The unknown artist, Wedding Cachet,

Enemond-Alexadre Pettitot, Vase, The Unknown artist, Louis XIV at horse, Porcelain Collection from Sevres, Antonio Canaletto, One Chanel from Venice, Nicolas Poussin, Venus and Adonis.