MPs adopted a ‘lex specialis’ to speed up the redevelopment of the former Yugoslav Army headquarters in Belgrade, bombed by NATO in 1999 – an investment project involving Jared Kushner’s company.

By Milica Stojanovic

Serbian MPs on Friday adopted a so-called lex specialis , a special law on redeveloping the former Yugoslav Army General Headquarters in Belgrade, a landmark socialist-era building that was partly destroyed by the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Out of 171 MPs present at the session, 130 voted in favour of the law, 40 were against, and one MP did not vote.

The law aims to declare the redevelopment – which is already linked to the investment firm of Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law – a “project of importance for the Republic of Serbia”.

The buil

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