Serbian National Council
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The Serb National Council is elected political, consulting and coordinating body acting as a form of self government of Serbs
in the Republic of Croatia.
The organisation was founded in July 1997 after the Erdut Agreement
, and its founding members were:
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
in the Republic of Croatia.
The organisation was founded in July 1997 after the Erdut Agreement
Erdut Agreement
The Erdut Agreement , officially the Basic Agreement on the Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, was the agreement reached on November 12, 1995 between the authorities of the Republic of Croatia and the local Serb authorities of the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia...
, and its founding members were:
- Serbian Cultural Society Prosvjeta (SKD Prosvjeta)
- Serbian Democratic Forum (Srpski demokratski forum)
- Serbian Community of Rijeka
- Serbian Community of Istria
- Joint Council of MunicipalitiesJoint Council of MunicipalitiesJoint Council of Municipalities is a body that aligns the interests of the Serb ethnic community in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia in the Osijek-Baranja and Vukovar-Syrmia County, coordinate the law and provides initiatives and proposals to the institutions of government,...
of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Syrmia - Independent Democratic Serb Party
- Baranja Democratic Forum
- Association of Serbian Refugees and Expellees from Croatia
- Representatives of several church municipalities of the Serbian Orthodox ChurchSerbian Orthodox ChurchThe Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
in Croatia - Members of the Croatian Parliament of Serbian ethnicity
Other
- There are also other same-named organisations in the ex-Yugoslav region, notably the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija (SNV KiM), which called on Kosovo Serbs to boycott the Kosovan parliamentary election, 2010Kosovan parliamentary election, 2010The Kosovan parliamentary election was held in Kosovo on 12 December 2010 following a vote of no confidence in the government that brought forward the election....
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