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MN ENG 56 01.Indd Paunović: We Are Sombor Finances Continuously and Councils of National Consistently Implementing Minorities, One Measures That Are Million Dinars Improving Minority Rights Earmarked 56 Minority NewsAugust 2019 Bošnjak: Legal Solutions Have Been Significantly Improved Highest Amount Slovak Folk Festivities: 100 Granted for Roma Years With the People, In Culture the People, For the People HIGHLIGHTS EDITORIALEDITORIAL 4956 SomborGovernment Finances Committed Councils to of NationalImproving theMinorities, Status One Million Dinars The Merge(Not) of the the Traditional choice? and the ofEarmarked Minority Rights There is a bit more thanContemporary a month left until the elections for members On September 6, the Director of the Go- of national councils of national minorities. The members of the Thevernment City of OfficeSombor for willHuman fund and councils Minority of We22 nationalcan rightly minorities say that August will be was exercising full of events their rightin which to elect members their nationalRights, Suzana minorities, Paunović, metwith witha total the OSCEof one ofrepresentatives. national minorities The first played precondition a key role. for votingNeither is the to tropicalenrol in theheat millionHigh Commissioner dinars allocated for National for this Minorities, year. This norSpecial the Voters’ vacations List for prevented National Minorities.them from Accordingdevoting tothemselves the website to is the first time that the work of national the organization of numerous events, thus marking their national Lamberto Zannier, and she informed him communitiesabout the implementation has been ofsupported the activities in holidays.of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, thisof the way Action and Planthe conditionsfor the Realization are ofmet the by the conclusion of the Special Voter List will be done 15 days before theRights Hungarian, of National Croatian, Minorities. German and Onthe the elections, second onweekend October of 19.August, Whether the holiday the call was of themarked Ministry by the of Bunjevac minorities. Allocating funds SlovaksPublic Administration in Bački Petrovac. and other This year, government Slovak national bodies to festivities the members were to finance the work of national coun- dedicatedof the national to the minorities centenary to of register their founding in the Special and the Voters’ cultural List and will cils is a legal obligation, but few local artisticbear fruit program will be clearin the after hall thisof the date, Slovak because, Vojvodina with theTheater exception was de- governments have fulfilled it. Sombor Hosts "Europe dicatedof the few to thenational arrival councils of Slovaks that to active the Lowerly propagate Earth. The the presenceimportance of provincialof voters’ officials,registration led and by elections,Provincial othersPrime haveMinister not Igor yet includedMirović, as in My City" Conference wellit in theas the agenda. presence of the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, A Book of Poetry by Peter Pelegrini, testified to the importance of this holiday. Onthe September Consul 20, Sombor General hosted the "Europeof By October 19, all those who aim to be in one of the national in MyBulgaria City" conference Promoted on protection and in exer- ThecouncilsI same can weekend submit was their celebrated lists. By thein families conclusion of Islamic of this denomina issue, the- cise of human and minority rights. The confe- Republic Electoral Commission approved 20 electoral lists of 11 rence was organizedNishville by the German Foundation tion. Kurban Bajram was congratulated by the Prime Minister, the "Konrad Adenauer", in cooperation with the Primenational Minister, minorities. and manyIt is difficult ministers, to forecast who showed how many that alllists citizens will be TheCity collectionof Sombor and of thepoetry German “Hidden Association Sen- ofregistered, the state but,were on equally the b importantasis of the to approved them. ones, it iszbog evident toga ses”"Gerhard" by Consul Sombor. General of the Republic thatš there are deep divisions in some national communities. For of Bulgaria in Niš, Edvin Sugarev, his Theyinstance, also the showed Ruthenian this at community, the celebration which, of althoughthe national being holidays a less first book in Serbian, was promoted ofnumerous Bunjevacs community and Hungarians. (according The to central the last celebration census, 14,246 of Dužijanca citizens on August 9, as a part of the literary Daydeclared - one asof membersthe four holidays of this community) of što the uzdišemo Bunjevac already zanational „starletama“ has 4 electoralminority koje - program of the Nisville Jazz Festival. was held on 15 August. The following week, the Hungarian national The Consul General of the Republic of lists,s while in the previous elections in 2014 they had a total of 7 minoritylists. The celebratedreasons behind its holiday. this division St. Istvan are, of course,Hungary dissatisfaction was marked Bulgaria further said that the book of by a formal ceremony in Novi Sad. poetry and its promotion in Nishville with the existing situation in the community, desires and plans are a logical consequence of his many Thesefor its improvement,manifestations, or somethingas well as else.many Onother the events other hand,that are a more held years of cultural cooperation with Niš, Certificates Awarded to throughoutnumerous community the year, send - the a clear Slovak message community that members – has, for ofthe mino time- NKC and Nišville. Participants in the Summer ritiesbeing, cherishonly two the lists memory registered. of their Those ancestors, who believe their traditions, that factions but School "We and alsowithin that a theycommunity are oriented are detrimental towards creating for the something overall interests new, con of- temporary.the community Numerous as a whole projects would to be say funded that thisby the is a Budget good sign, Fund but, for theMembers Others. of Overcoming the CES the Borders" Minoritieswhat is interesting also support about this. these Tradition lists is cannotthat they be bothescaped, come however, from “Carpathians” from Vrbas wethe have same repeatedly political party,witnessed i.e., thatthe leadingtradition candidates can also be on presented the lists at the Ukrainian Lemko inare a membersmodern way. of the By same merging dominant the traditional political party. and Willcontemporary these and Participants in the Summer School of In- terethnic,Culture Intercultural Festival and Inter-Con- minorities,similar situations they makesay that the they voters’ are decisionsnot “cocooned easier orcommunities” more com- that stick to the old, tried-and-true recipe, but that they are also fessional Dialogue (AID), held at Srebrno plicated? OnJezero, August were 1, awardedamateurs diplomas of the “Carpat for suc-- turned to contemporary creativity, which, at least in our country, hians”cessful Cultural completion and of Educational activities in aSociety week- is not often tied to members of minorities. fromlong Vrbasseminar traveled held from to Ukraine August to 26 per to- form at the 20th International Lemko 30 different national minorities live in Serbia September 1 under the title "We and Culturethe Others. Festival Overcoming “Bells of theLemko”, Borders.” held in Monastirsk from August 2-4. On the margins of the festival, the meeting of the Presidency of the World Federation of Ukrainian-Lemko Associations was alsoPromotion held. of the Book "Stories from Diaspora and Saint Homeland Stephen of Countries" Hungary Celebrated The book "Stories from Diaspora and Home- Theland formal Countries" ceremony, by Admir with Lisica the was presence promoted in the Bosniak National Council on September of Provincial officials and representatives 15. of the National Council of the Hungarian NationalThe book Minority,is about people marked who St. began Stephen their e er for all (István)journey of to Hungary, Diaspora theafter Hungarian the end of thenati Se-- and ONE newsl onalcond holiday, World inWar, Novi but Sad also onabout August successful 21. St. BosniaksIstván is from celebrated the homeland as the countries founder in ofthe Christianityregion. in Hungary, the founder of the Hungarian state, and the first unifier www.minoritynews.rs of all Hungarians. Minority News Portal OUR INTERVIEW: IVAN BOŠNJAK, STATE SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT LEGAL SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED he protection of the rights of national minorities is of particular importance for each country. Our country is making great efforts in this area, and special emphasis is placed on relations with neighbouring coun- tries, with intergovernmental mixed committees playing a key role in this regard. Three intergovernmental T committees are currently active: with Croatia, Romania, and Hungary, and all three are co-chaired by our interlocutor Ivan Bošnjak, State Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. We spoke with Secretary Bošnjak about the results of the work of these bodies, as well as about the situation in the Bosniak National Council. Intergovernmental mixed committees of these committees and the most with Romania. There is also a signed on national minority issues, which ex- significant results that have emerged agreement with the Republic of North- ist as a mechanism to promote further from this increased engagement in the ern Macedonia on establishment of minority rights in
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