The Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building (Serbian: Зграда Савезног секретариjaта за народну одбрану, romanized: Zgrada Saveznog sekretarijata za narodnu odbranu, lit.
[6] The Association of Serbian Architects launched an initiative for the submission of candidature for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, also saying 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.
[7] It condemned the government decision and marked potential demolishing of the "Building A" as a "definitive loss of our culture" as it is a "monument of suffering and brutality of NATO forces".
[14] The Minister for Construction and Infrastructure Goran Vesić confirmed that he received authorization from the Government of Serbia at a public meeting to sign a memorandum that the complex will be leased for 99 years to American offshore companies.
[17] In response, Ecological Uprising political party announced the launch of a petition to prevent the sale of the complex, and to build a memorial centre dedicated to the victims of 1999 NATO bombing on that site instead.
[21] On January 17, 2025 the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments said that it will not remove Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building form the Central Register.
[1] In addition to cascading forms, facades are characterized by the application of contrasting materials - robust, brown-red stone from Kosjerić and white marble slabs from the island of Brač.