SISAK, Oct 5 (Hina) - The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Mission in Croatia opened in Sisak on Sunday the first in a series of seminars to train members of newly-established councils of
national minorities, the Zagreb-based Mission said in a statement.
SISAK, Oct 5 (Hina) - The head of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Mission in Croatia opened in Sisak
on Sunday the first in a series of seminars to train members of
newly-established councils of national minorities, the Zagreb-
based Mission said in a statement. #L#
Addressing participants in the seminar, Ambassador Peter Semneby
stressed the importance of the constitutional law on minorities,
which guarantees the election of minority representatives into
bodies of local and national authority, as well as in state
administration and judiciary.
The minority councils were elected in May this year in line with the
constitutional law on the rights of national minorities, reads the
OSCE statement. In the next parliamentary elections, other
councils and advisory bodies for minority issues at the local level
will be elected as well.
The seminars will be held in Sisak, and the forty members of
minority councils of the Serb, Bosniak, Albanian, Czech,
Hungarian, Italian and Ukrainian communities from six counties
will learn how to efficiently promote minority rights in their
communities and deal with the rights and duties of minority
councils at the municipal, town and county levels.
The seminars are financed by the OSCE Mission in cooperation with
the Council for National Minorities and the Serb Democratic Forum,
the Mission stated.
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