The 17th Session of the Council of National Minorities of the Republic of Srpska was held

The seventeenth session of the Council of National Minorities of the Republic of Srpska was held on March 21, 2019, in the premises of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska.

There were nine members of the Council present: Vesna Temelkoska Vukovic, president, Tonko Jankovic, deputy president, Jadranka Latinovic, Laslo Tot-Bojnik, Aleksandar Masic, Marija Buganik Pranjic, Mladen Lunic, Bojan Radic and Stevo Havreljuk.

The response to a letter from the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees that requested the opinion and position of the Council in relation to the Draft Resolution on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, was discussed. In this regard, the Council agrees and supports the proposed text of the Draft Resolution.

Also, the Council agrees with all recommendations proposed to the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe, aimed at improving the application of the Framework Convention.

The Council appointed its representatives in the interdepartmental Working Group for the Development of the Third BiH Report on the Application of the Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in BiH. Marija Buganik Pranjic was proposed as a member and Vesna Temelkoska Vukovic, as deputy member of the working group.