Linta: Refugees support new gov't in achieving priorities

BELGRADE – Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, said Monday that he is offering his full support to the new government of Serbia, headed by Aleksandar Vucic, in achieving the key priorities for the next four years.

Linta said that hundreds of thousands of displaced Serbs and other citizens of Serbia who have incurred damage to their person or property expect that the new government begins talks with Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) on the implementation of Annex G of the Vienna Convention on Succession.

Annex G states that the rights to which citizens or other legal persons of the former Yugoslavia were entitled on December 31, 1990, shall be recognized, protected and restored, and that every contract concluded under duress shall be considered null and void.

The Vienna Convention on Succession had been ratified by the parliaments of all successor states to the former Yugoslavia and came into force on June 2004.

Under international law and Serbia’s Constitution, Croatia and BiH, the Convention has stronger legal force than relevant local laws, and the first step in the implementation of the Convention would be setting intergovernmental commissions on Annex G implementation with Croatia and BiH, Linta said.

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