Belgrade to Host Pan-Serbian Meeting

Serbian President Boris Tadic has scheduled a meeting of the Council for Cooperation with Serbs in the Region in Belgrade on Friday, Balkan Insight has learned.

Those attending will include the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, Nebojsa Radmanovic, chair of Bosnia's State Presidency, Nikola Spiric, Prime Minister of Bosnia, Milorad Pupovac, from Croatia, Srdjan Milic and Andrija Mandic from Montenegro, and Serb commiunity leaders from Albania, Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania and Hungary.

On the agenda will be the development of good neighborly relations and improving the position and rights of Serbian communities in Balkan countries.

The Council was established in December 2009 in Belgrade in order to better help Serbs preserve their identity, culture and language.

Council members include the Serbian President, who chairs the Council, the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, and other government ministers.

The previous session of the Council was held in Belgrade on the eighth of February this year in Belgrade.