Serb National Council
Serbian National Council - National Coordination Council of the Serbian National Minority in the Republic of Croatia | |
Prosvjeta Serb Democratic Forum Serbian Community of Rijeka Serbian Community of Istria Joint Council of Municipalities Independent Democratic Serb Party Baranja Democratic Forum Association of Serbian Refugees and Expellees from Croatia Some of parishes of Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia MPs and prominent individuals | |
Official language | Croatian Serbian |
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President | Boris Milošević |
Secretary | Branko Jurišić |
| Website | snv.hr |
The Serb National Council (
The body was established as the national coordination of the Serb community in Croatia in 1997, in the aftermath of the Croatian War of Independence and defeat of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina. The legal basis for its establishment was extracted from the international Erdut Agreement signed in 1995 which ended the conflict in the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia by granting rights on cultural autonomy in exchange for peaceful reintegration. Serb National Council network consists of 94 regional and local (municipal or town) councils with a total of 1581 councillors.[5] They are elected every four years at the National Minorities Councils and Representatives Elections with the most recent one being organized in 2019.
History
History of Serb Cultural Autonomy in Croatia
The contemporary Serb National Council postulate its cultural tradition in historical precedence of non-segregationist and non-territorial bodies of Serb cultural autonomy in the territory of modern-day Croatia. Section Four (4) of Article One (1) of the Statute[6] of the Serb National Council explicitly enumerate following historical foundations of Serb cultural autonomy based on which the body function:
- A) Historical documents issued by Emperors of the House of Habsburg in 1690, 1691, 1695, 1706, 1713, 1715, 1732 and 1743 and explicitly naming the 1779 Declaratory Rescript of the Illyrian Nation.
- B) Austro-Hungarian Empirelegal articles of 1790, 1848 and 1868.
- C) Patriarch of Karlovci Samuilo Maširevićon 10 October 1868.
- D) The Law of the 14 May 1887 and other acts related to Serb rights enacted by the Sabor (Parliament) of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.
- E) 1918 document of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.
- F) Documents of the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia affirming Serbs from Croatia, together with Croats, as equal constituents of the Council and its work which represent the foundation of the post-World War IICroatian constitutional organization.
Dissolution of Yugoslavia
The first multi-party elections in the
On 8 December 1991
Erdut Agreement and the UNTAES transitional authority
Formation
The Serb National Council
Statute
The Serb National Council’s Statute consists of 29 articles.[6] According to Statute Article 2, the legal bases for the establishment of the Council are:
- Provisions from Constitution of Croatia
- Croatian Constitutional law on national minorities rights
- International laws on human rights and freedoms and the rights of ethnic and national communities and minorities (Helsinki Final Act, Paris Charter and other relevant OSCE documents, European Convention on Human Rights with protocols, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Genocide Convention, Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant Treaties signed by Croatia)[6]
Structure
The Serb National Council structure consists of the Assembly, the Presidency, the Supervisory Board, the president, the deputy president and vice presidents. Permanent working bodies of the Presidency are:
- Committee for the selection, appointment and organization
- Committee for Human Rights in the constitutional and legal position of the Serbs
- Committee on education and youth
- Committee for return, reconstruction and socio-economic position of Serbs
- Committee on Information, publishing and documentation
- Committee for Cooperation with the Serbs in other countries.[6]
Regional and local councils
Criticisms
The Council is the target of criticism from Croatian
Presidents
- Milorad Pupovac (1997–2019; 2020–2025)[12]
- Boris Milošević (2019–2020, 2025–)[13]
Other
There are other organisations in the ex-Yugoslav region with the same name, notably the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija and the Joint Council of Municipalities.
See also
References
- ^ "Srpsko narodno vijeće-o nama". Serb National Council. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ^ "About SNV". Serb National Council. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ^ UNHCR. Archived from the originalon 2014-07-03. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ISBN 978-953-7442-63-7.
- ^ a b c "Serb National Council-Српскo нaрoднo виjeћe". Federal Union of European Nationalities. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Statut Srpskog narodnog vijeća" (PDF). Serb National Council. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- Goldsmiths College. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ a b c d Pupovac, Milorad (20 August 2011). "Usud Srpskog narodnog vijeća" [Destiny of the Serb National Council] (in Serbian). Zagreb: Novosti (Croatia).
- ^ "HSP: Srpsko narodno vijeće provocira hrvatsku javnost". 5 January 2012. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ^ "Srpsko narodno vijeće potiče huškačke i radikalne poteze". Dalmacija News. 7 January 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ^ Radio.net (2012-07-24). "SDF urges gov't to stop non-transparent financing of SNV". T-portal. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ^ "Boris Milošević umesto Pupovca na čelu SNV". N1 Srbija (in Serbian (Latin script)). Retrieved 2020-07-26.
- ^ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Boris Milošević nije više predsednik SNV-a". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
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