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Linta: Amendments aim to get Serbs to give up on property
BELGRADE - The objective of the amendments tabled by Croatian members of the European Parliament (EP) to the progress report for Serbia is to get Serb refugees and expellees from Croatia to give up on their demands for a return of their seized flats and other property rights, says the president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, Miodrag Linta.
Linta condemns Tomasic's statement on minorities
BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta most fiercely condemned on Friday the pro-ustasha statement of Croatian MP in the European Parliament Ruza Tomasic who said that the status of national minorities in Croatia should be called off and that all members of national minorities are 'political Croats.'
Stefanovic: Croatian president's statement- scandalous
BELGRADE - Nebojsa Stefanovic, vice-president of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), qualified on Friday as scandalous the statement by the newly-elected President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic that all Serbs in Croatia are Croats.
During the election campaign, Grabar Kitarovic addressed all citizens of Croatia as "Croats".
Number of asylum seekers increases in December
Number of asylum seekers increases in December
BELGRADE -- Last year, about 16,500 people "had the intention to seek asylum in Serbia," and December saw a drastic increase in their number.
3,400 people requested asylum that month, heard a conference organized by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Belgrade on Thursday.
Number of asylum seekers increases drastically in December
BELGRADE- Last year, about 16,500 people had the intention to seek asylum in Serbia, and December saw a drastic increase in the number of asylum seekers, with 3,400 people requesting asylum that month, it was said at a conference organized by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Belgrade on Thursday.
Linta: New Croatian president must advocate Serb rights
BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, Miodrag Linta, on Monday urged new Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarevic to demand that Zoran Milanovic's government honour the rights of ethnic Serbs that are guaranteed by the constitution, the law and international agreements signed by Croatia.
DSS: Croatia's new president has no respect for Serb rights
BELGRADE - President of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Sanda Raskovic Ivic said on Monday that in it scontacts with Croatia's new president, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Serbia should insist on protecting the rights of the Croatian Serbs and solutions to the the problem of Serb refugees and missing persons from the 1991-1995 conlfict.
Croatian law on minorities "not implemented"
Croatian law on minorities "not implemented"
BELGRADE -- Croatia's constitutional law on minority rights remains a "dead letter" even though it was adopted 12 years ago.
This is according to Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, and a deputy in the Serbian National Assembly on the ruling SNS party ticket.
Macedonia, Croatia tackle corruption
Macedonia, Croatia tackle corruption
Officials' involvement in organised crime raises the issue of cross-border security.
Macedonian and Croatian police continue to co-operate to bring to justice current and former high-level officials suspected of corruption including cross-border fraud, experts said.
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Serbs insulted at peaceful protest in Glina
GLINA - Serbs were verbally attacked and insulted during a peaceful protest against the decision of the local government in Glina, central Croatia, to ban memorial services and commemorations at the site where the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin once stood and in which Croatian Nazi troops Ustashas massacred 1,500 Serbs back in 1941.