28. Jun participated at the UNGA Preparatory Process Global Compact for Migration at the United Nations Office in Geneva and the Aid & Trade Conference in London last week. In Geneva we met with H.E. Mr. Juan José Gómez Camacho, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations and H.E. Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations. In London we met with H.E Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and HRH Princess Lamia Bint Majid Al Saud, Secretary General and member of the Board of Trustees at Alwaleed Philanthropies.

The events served as follow ups to the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit we attended last year in Istanbul which was convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We were the only organization from the Western Balkans invited to the event which was attended by 55 Heads of State and Government. The meetings dealt with migration and optimizing humanitarian response to crises. After the events, we debriefed H.E. Petar Vico, Serbian Ambassador to the Netherlands in The Hague on our experience.

28. Jun will hold events on every continent over the next several months to celebrate our 5th year anniversary. The first took place in Shenzhen, China and the second in Perth, Australia last weekend and was attended by over 1000 people! With Australia and Asia now complete we will hold events in Europe (London) and North America (Toronto) next!

28. Jun Coordinator Aleksandar Golijanin met with Serbian Ambassador to Canada Mihailo Papazoglu in Ottawa last week to discuss strengthening ties between Serbia and the Diaspora. At the request of Dr. Ljiljana Niksic, Head of the Department for Diaspora in the Serbian Foreign Ministry, the embassy nominated 28. Jun for the ‘Majka Srbija’ Award; the highest honor bestowed by Serbia upon members of the Diaspora.

Registered as a Canadian Not-for-profit in 2012, 28. Jun has since opened chapters in over 20 countries with significant Serbian populations. Their major accomplishments thus far include the delivery of $1.5M worth of medical aid to Serbs in Gracanica in 2012, sending an additional 30 tons of aid to Serbs in Visegrad, Knin, Berane and Nis in 2013, organizing the global response to the 2014 Southeast Europe by running donation centers in the Diaspora and directing the airlift of urgent humanitarian relief, leading the successful #NoKosovoUnesco campaign in 2015 and presenting at the UN’s first ever World Humanitarian Summit and meeting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2016.

In an interview with BN television last week, 28. Jun President Filip Filipi Jankovic, cited an incident in 2011 when NATO troops used live ammunition on Serbian protesters in Kosovo as the event which lead to the creation of the organization.

Koordinator 28. Juna Aleksandar Goljanin se sastao sa ambasadorom Mihailom Papazogluom u Otavi prošle nedelje radi razgovora o jačanju veza između Srbije i njene dijaspore. Na predlog Dr Ljiljane Nikšić, predsednice odseka za dijasporu u Ministarstvu spoljnih poslova Srbije, ambasada je nominovala 28. Jun za priznanje „Majka Srbije“, najveće priznanje koje Republika Srbija može dodeliti članovima dijaspore.

Registrovana kako neprofitna organizacija 2012. godine, 28. Jun je od tada otvorio poglavlja u preko 20 država u kojima se nalazi srpska dijaspora. Njihovi najveći uspesi uključuju dostavu od preko 1,5 miliona dolara područiju Gračanice 2012. godine, kao i dodatnih 30 tona pomoći Višegradu, Kninu, Beranama i Nišu. 28. Jun je organizovao veliku akciju tokom velikih poplava 2014. godine tako što je oformio centre u dijaspori preko kojih su se sakupljala i slala humanitarna sredstva Srbiji. Takođe. 2015. godine, predvodio je #NoKosovoUnesco digitalnu kampanju, kao i prisustvovao prvom svetskom humanitarnom samitu u organizaciji Ujedinjenih Nacija, gde je imao priliku da upozna Ban Ki Muna, generalnog sekretara, 2016. godine.

U intervjuu za BN televiziju prošle nedelje, predsednik 28. Juna Filip Filipi Janković govorio je o incidentu 2011. godine kada su NATO trupe koristile živu municiju protiv sprskih demonstranata na Kosovu, što je bio jedan od povoda za osnivanje ove humanitarne organizacije.