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Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Eighth Sitting of the Committee on Interethnic Relations
At the sitting held on 21 November, the Committee on Interethnic Relations discussed the Draft Culture Bill and elected Committee members into a Special working group for the preparation of the text of the draft bill regulating the general issues of the position of members of national minorities and election of national minorities’ national councils.
At the sitting held on 21 November, the Committee on Interethnic Relations discussed the Draft Culture Bill and elected Committee members into a Special working group for the preparation of the text of the draft bill regulating the general issues of the position of members of national minorities and election of national minorities’ national councils.
The sitting was chaired by the Committee Chairperson, Ana Makanova-Tomanova, and was attended by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Novica Antic and associates and the representatives of the Standing Conference of Cities and Municipalities.
State Secretary Novica Antic briefed the Committee members on the Draft Culture Bill stressing that the Bill enables the alignment with the Constitution of the
In the course of the debate the Committee members discussed the National Culture Council’s manner of deciding, budgetary allotments for cultural development for the national minorities and the social component of independent artists’ status.
The Committee members concluded that before the next Committee sitting all Deputy Groups forward their comments on the Draft Culture Bill in writing to the Committee so that they can be forwarded to the Ministry of Culture in due course.
The Committee members unanimously elected Members of Parliament Mujo Mukovic and Jaroslav Hrebnik as representatives of the Committee in the Special working group for the preparation of the text of the draft bill regulating the general issues of the position of members of national minorities and election of national minorities’ national councils.