SISAK SISAK, July 10 (Hina) - The Sisak-Moslavina County Serb National Minority Council held its constituent session in Sisak on Thursday at which prefect Djuro Brodarac called on the Council's members, as representatives of more than
30,000 Croatian Serbs, to bolster cooperation with the county and its bodies.
SISAK, July 10 (Hina) - The Sisak-Moslavina County Serb National
Minority Council held its constituent session in Sisak on Thursday
at which prefect Djuro Brodarac called on the Council's members, as
representatives of more than 30,000 Croatian Serbs, to bolster
cooperation with the county and its bodies. #L#
"The fate of all County residents and their children depend on the
results of that cooperation and on Serb-Croat relations," said
Brodarac.
"We wish to respect the constitutional law on national minorities'
rights, not because its implementation is a legal obligation, but
because Croats and Serbs make up the majority of the Sisak-
Moslavina County population, and the stability, security and
prosperity of the County depend in the first place on the
relationship and cooperation between the Croatian population and
the Serb national minority," the prefect said.
He added that Croats and Serbs in formerly war-struck areas were
living in equally difficult conditions, which is the result of
insufficient support from the state and a municipal infrastructure
that was being neither renovated nor built, which he said put the
brakes on economic progress and new jobs.
"This is why the majority of the population is closer to leaving
than returning to those areas," Brodarac said, adding that
"cooperation and the creation of better conditions for all should
be in the interest of us all".
County councils of the Albanian and Bosnian Muslim ethnic
minorities were also established in Sisak today.
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