Author:
Fonet
The Council members are presidents of 11 national minorities councils, ministers and representatives of the ministries of public administration and local self-government, culture, education and sport, justice, religion, and interior.
The Council's rules of procedure was adopted at the session and the full agreement on many issues concerning the exertion of rights of national minorities in the republic was reached. The Council's priority task is to establish cooperation with all relevant institutions in the country, especially with the Serbian Parliament's Committee on Inter-Ethnic Relations, the Serbia-Montenegrin Ministry on Human and Minority Rights, as well as with all republic ministries.
The Serbian government stated that this cooperation aims to further improve the exertion of rights of national minorities so that Serbia could be a truly multicultural country.