ROYAL COUPLE ON HUMANITARIAN MISSION IN THE UNITED STATES

Chicago, Belgrade 3 October 2006 – Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine during their visit to the United States after a successful Charity Event in the Chicago Athletic Club attended services at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Merrillville, Indiana.

After the Church Ceremony, Their Royal Highnesses joined more than 800 guests at a Serbian Sisters humanitarian luncheon in Hobart Indiana where HRH Princess Katherine was a keynote speaker.

HRH Princess Katherine pointed out the very difficult situation in the Medical institutions of Serbia. In particular, those there are dealing with children health care.

"I don't think it's God's will for those babies to die because they were born in Serbia," she said.

In addition, she exposed hard living conditions of more than 600 000 refugees, very high unemployment rate, insufficient social funds and other fundamental problems of the Serbian Society.

HRH Crown Prince Alexander II expressed his belief that this visit will further strengthen relations between Serbia and the United States. The example for future collaboration was recently established with sisterhood of Chicago and Belgrade, the State of Illinois and Serbia. The benefits would be economic, health care, cultural and sport cooperation. If Serbia takes advantage of building on this wonderful relationship there would be mutual benefits for the people of Serbia, Illinois, Chicago and Belgrade.

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