The Council of National minorities adopted the Work Plan report for 2018

Date: 
29.01.2019 - 16:30

16th Session of the Council of National minorities of the Republic of Srpska was held on 29th January 2019, in the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska. The Session which was chaired by Vesna Temelkoska-Vuković, the president of the Council of the National Minorities of the Republic of Srpska, adopted the Work plan report for 2018.

It was emphasized that the Council of National Minorities had five sittings during the past year, on which questions of crucial importance for this category were discussed.

It was also stressed the importance of the participation of the Council of National Minorities in the project of the Council of Europe, last year in Sarajevo, named: Vertical and horizontal  cooperation and coordination of institutional capacities of national minorities  in BiH.

The members of the Council also assumed as very useful the working meetings with the delegations representing national minorities, held last year in June in Novi Sad and Belgrade.

The members of the Council also participated in the work of the working group for the Strategy for increasing and the protection of the rights of National minorities in the Republic of Srpska, in the period 2019-2023, as well as in the work of the regional conference on the theme: “ Tolerant and inclusive societies  in the Western Balkans”, in Podgorica.

On the 16th Session of the Council of National minorities of the Republic of Srpska the discussion was also held on the criteria for the election of the members of the Board of National minorities of BiH.