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The report of the expert group of the Council of Europe on the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovenia points out the need to define the status of the Serbian language as a minority language. The recommendations in the report which followed the fourth round of monitoring and relate to the Serbian language are …

“The Serbian diaspora should be included in the reforms that will be implemented by the future government, and money from abroad must be redirected toward investments instead of consumption, said the participants of today’s “Include the Diaspora in Reforms” conference held in the Tanjug Press Centre. The conference, which was organised by the Serbian Government Office for the Diaspora and …

The Serbia-Germany Forum association has been founded in Belgrade with the goal of improving economic and political cooperation between the two countries. Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić is an honorary member of the Forum. Relations between Serbia and Germany are important for the continued development of Europe, said Gerhard Schröder, the honorary guest of the Forum. Aleksandar Vučić, …

Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for the Diaspora, Slavka Drašković, said today to FoNet that Serbia is facing serious and comprehensive reforms, and that the diaspora needs to be involved both in terms of staff and capital. She said that Serbia now needs to make use of all of its potential where people and money are concerned. “Over one-third …

The Association of Serbian Clubs in Vienna has founded a Club for Serbian Businessmen in Austria, which aims to connect both Serbian and Austrian businessmen to Serbia and Republika Srpska, and to promote opportunities for investment in the region. The idea for establishing the association came from a survey conducted in 2010 among Serbian businessmen in the city, in cooperation …

The Austrian-Serbian Society (ASS) has become a full member of the Association of Bilateral Friendship Societies – ‘Partner to All Nations’ or PaN, a decision taken at the 56th meeting of the Board of PaN. The statement from the ASS outlines that during a recent meeting held between its management and the leaders of PaN, the need for more active …

Serbia does not accept the recommendation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the negation of refugee status for refugees from Croatia, and will continue to provide full protection and support to all refugees on its territory, according to a statement from the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released today. Serbia will continue to contribute as much …

The Serbian President, Tomislav Nikolić, spoke last night in Vienna with the Serb diaspora to call for unity, and said that Serbia will soon have a new government committed to EU integration and cooperation with friends around the world. Nikolić, addressing Serbs in Vienna, said that in around twenty days we will have a new government, “…which will be devoted …

To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the First World War, an Album of Memories of Our Ancestors from the Great War is being compiled. The Association of Warriors’ Descendants from Serbia, 1912 to 1920, in collaboration with the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the region, part of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, has launched …

Director of the Serbian Government’s  Office for the Diaspora, Dr Slavka Draskovic, talked to the Ambassador of Germany, Heinz Wilhelm, about Office activities, investments and diaspora events in the Federal Republic of Germany. The meeting at the Office for the Diaspora was also attended by Inge Erler, Head of the Culture Department and Marko Čadež, Press and Public Relations Counselor …