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Support to preserving multilingualism in Serbia
Belgrade,
18 February 2011
State Secretary of Culture Snezana Stojanovic-Plavsic stated today that the Ministry extends full support to various artistic and educational programmes of national minorities in Serbia.
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of 21 February, International Mother Language Day, Stojanovic-Plavsic stressed that the Ministry of Culture set aside over RSD 40 million in 2010 for co-financing media projects in minority languages, specifying that there were 72 projects in 12 languages (Albanian, Bulgarian, Vlach, Hungarian, Roma, Romanian, Slovak and others).
Representatives of the Slovak and Serbian National Commissions for UNESCO Ludovit Molnar and Trivo Indjic also underlined the importance of cherishing and promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
President of the International Ethno Centre Babka Pavel Babka annouced a presentation of national minorities’ folk and traditional arts and crafts at the Babka Gallery in Kovacica, under UNESCO’s auspices.
The first multimedia Encyclopaedia of Slovak Naïve Painting in Serbia was presented at the conference, composed under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and UNESCO, comprising 60 authors and over 1000 prints and reviews of domestic and foreign art historians.
The works of Pavel Hajko, Laslo Dvoracko, Adam Mezin and Ivana Dulic were also presented at the conference.
International Mother Language Day is celebrated in remembrance of students killed in Dhaka in 1952 when protesting because their mother language was not declared official.
In 2006 Serbia ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. There are over 30 national minorities in Serbia and as many languages.
Representatives of the Slovak and Serbian National Commissions for UNESCO Ludovit Molnar and Trivo Indjic also underlined the importance of cherishing and promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
President of the International Ethno Centre Babka Pavel Babka annouced a presentation of national minorities’ folk and traditional arts and crafts at the Babka Gallery in Kovacica, under UNESCO’s auspices.
The first multimedia Encyclopaedia of Slovak Naïve Painting in Serbia was presented at the conference, composed under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and UNESCO, comprising 60 authors and over 1000 prints and reviews of domestic and foreign art historians.
The works of Pavel Hajko, Laslo Dvoracko, Adam Mezin and Ivana Dulic were also presented at the conference.
International Mother Language Day is celebrated in remembrance of students killed in Dhaka in 1952 when protesting because their mother language was not declared official.
In 2006 Serbia ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. There are over 30 national minorities in Serbia and as many languages.
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