We, Berretti Bianchi - White Berets - Beli Beretka, together with Campagna per una Risoluzione Nonviolenta nel Kosovo (Campaign for a Nonviolent Resolution in Kosovo-Metohija), with Campagna Nazionale OSM-DPN (National Campaign for Conscientious Objection to Military Expenses and for Nonviolent Popular Defence) and with the support of the Association Gandhi in Action, opened a Peace Embassy in Belgrade on 27 July 1999.

Our first ambassadors have been Prof. Riccardo Luccio of Florence University and his wife Gabriella
Farabegoli. After them the Peace Embassy has been staffed by Francesca Vitale, then by
Maurizio Renesto and now by Rolando Cecconi, with the temporary cooperation of Angelo
Gandolfi.

The current address of our office in Belgrade is:

Peace White Berets BERRETTI BIANCHI ONLUS Mirovna Delvanja Protiv Rata Glasinacka 6/101 - 11000 Beograd Tel. 00381-11-4882508 Cell. 0333-7136818 e-mail: berretibelg@sezampro.yu

The opening of the Peace Embassy was made on request and in cooperation and coordination with the local NGOs and it works following the guidelines indicated by them.
In practice, its activity endeavours:

1. to keep communication open between people just emerging from war or still living under a regime of violence. Because of this, the embassy in Belgrade is in constant contact with its counterpart in Pristina, opened by the Kosovo Campaign, with which we collaborate;
   
   
2. to help the democratic process by methods and ways of reconciliation, also bringing humanitarian help to the refugees and people in general;
   
   
3. to bring about twinnings between towns in Serbia and in Kosovo and towns in Italy (and other countries), with the goal of developing, wherever possible, centres of local democracy;
   
   
4. to bring about twinnings between towns in Serbia and in Kosovo and towns in Italy (and other countries), with the objective of developing, wherever possible, centres of local democracy.
   
   

In this moment, the importance of the Peace Embassy in Belgrade rests on the necessity of building a process of reconciliation, by developing, in particular, contacts between the Serbian community and the Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija and keeping open channels of dialogue, communication and comparison between the various populations of Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Zrna Gora-Montenegro, with the essential aim of preventing new explosions of violence.