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General Staff Building, Belgrade
The General Staff Building (Serbian: Зграда Генералштаба, romanised: Zgrada Generalštaba) is a complex of government buildings, that formerly housed the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence of Yugoslavia and the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, now partially housing the Ministry of Defence of Serbia (in the non-damaged part, tower of "Building B"). It is located in Savski Venac, Belgrade.
The complex was heavily damaged during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and was left largely derelict.
The official name of the building is Federal Secretariat of People's Defence Building (Serbian: Зграда Савезног секретариjaта за народну одбрану, romanised: Zgrada Saveznog sekretarijata za narodnu odbranu), as it was originally used by the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and is registered by that name in the Registry of Cultural Heritage Properties. From 1992 until 1999 it was used by the Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The complex of buildings, intended for the headquarters of the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence of Yugoslavia and the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, was built from 1955 to 1965.
On 29 April 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the complex was bombed twice in the space of fifteen minutes. Deserted at the time, the bombing was largely seen as symbolic due to the complex’s representation of the state, rather than for immediate tangible purposes. It was bombed once again nine days later, around midnight on 7 May 1999.
Except for removal of the entrance annex of the "Building B" in 2014, the complex has not been repaired since and are Belgrade’s most famous ruins.
In 2015, the clearing of rubble from "Building A" was conducted, aiming to stabilize the structure. Around 5,000 square meters of "Building A's" central structure was entirely demolished, and the concrete structural beams of the street-side face were repoured.
In 2017, the Government of Serbia circulated plans for demolishing the remaining parts of the "Building A" in order to eventually rebuild it to its original appearance. The Association of Serbian Architects launched an initiative to establish the structure as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, also stating that the government of Serbia wanted to remove it from the Registry of Cultural Properties, but due to the long legal procedure chose the other path. It condemned the government decision and marked the potential demolition of "Building A" as a "definitive loss of our culture", declaring it a "monument of suffering and brutality of NATO forces". In 2015, on the 16th anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing of Serbia, the Serbian government organized a ceremony in front of the complex, which some observers interpreted as the evidence that the ruins have indeed become a de facto war monument.
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General Staff Building, Belgrade
The General Staff Building (Serbian: Зграда Генералштаба, romanised: Zgrada Generalštaba) is a complex of government buildings, that formerly housed the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence of Yugoslavia and the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, now partially housing the Ministry of Defence of Serbia (in the non-damaged part, tower of "Building B"). It is located in Savski Venac, Belgrade.
The complex was heavily damaged during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and was left largely derelict.
The official name of the building is Federal Secretariat of People's Defence Building (Serbian: Зграда Савезног секретариjaта за народну одбрану, romanised: Zgrada Saveznog sekretarijata za narodnu odbranu), as it was originally used by the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and is registered by that name in the Registry of Cultural Heritage Properties. From 1992 until 1999 it was used by the Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The complex of buildings, intended for the headquarters of the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence of Yugoslavia and the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, was built from 1955 to 1965.
On 29 April 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the complex was bombed twice in the space of fifteen minutes. Deserted at the time, the bombing was largely seen as symbolic due to the complex’s representation of the state, rather than for immediate tangible purposes. It was bombed once again nine days later, around midnight on 7 May 1999.
Except for removal of the entrance annex of the "Building B" in 2014, the complex has not been repaired since and are Belgrade’s most famous ruins.
In 2015, the clearing of rubble from "Building A" was conducted, aiming to stabilize the structure. Around 5,000 square meters of "Building A's" central structure was entirely demolished, and the concrete structural beams of the street-side face were repoured.
In 2017, the Government of Serbia circulated plans for demolishing the remaining parts of the "Building A" in order to eventually rebuild it to its original appearance. The Association of Serbian Architects launched an initiative to establish the structure as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, also stating that the government of Serbia wanted to remove it from the Registry of Cultural Properties, but due to the long legal procedure chose the other path. It condemned the government decision and marked the potential demolition of "Building A" as a "definitive loss of our culture", declaring it a "monument of suffering and brutality of NATO forces". In 2015, on the 16th anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing of Serbia, the Serbian government organized a ceremony in front of the complex, which some observers interpreted as the evidence that the ruins have indeed become a de facto war monument.