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GORNJI MILANOVAC MUNICIPALITY BUYS NORWEGIAN HOUSE
The Gornji Milanovac municipality reported on Feb. 26 that it had bought the Norwegian House for RSD11.9 million.The mayor of Gornji Milanovac, Dejan Kovacevic, said that the sale contract put to rest the months of rumors as to who the new owner might be. He added that the municipal authorities would make a plan for the maintenance and reconstruction of the building.
Norway's ambassador to Serbia, Arne Sannes Bjornstad, welcomed the sale as "very good news." The Norwegian House needed change and a solid economic basis. This decision is part of the solution, and I welcome it, the ambassador said to BETA.
The Norwegian House, a museum and a hospitality facility, was built in 1987 to celebrate Yugoslav-Norwegian friendship in World War II. It went bankrupt last November over a debt of RSD362,577.
The Norwegian House was built thanks to donations from the Society of Yugoslav-Norwegian Friendship, the Gornji Milanovac municipality, the Norwegian government and a construction company, Graditelj.
The museum housed a permanent exhibition devoted to citizens killed in World War II Nazi concentration camps in Norway, a 120-seat conference hall and a restaurant that actually paid the Norwegian House's bills.
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