Visit of the European Commission Representatives: Declarative Improvement of Minority Rights

Yesterday, Aniko Muskinja Heinrich, the Provincial Ombudswoman, and Eva Vukasinovic, the Deputy Provincial Ombudsmwoman in charge of national minority rights protection, talked to Mr. Rainer Hoffmann, a national minority expert representing the European Commission, and his associates about the position of and human rights issues faced by the national minorities' members.

Mr. Hoffmann was also introduced to the position that the major issue concerning minority rights exercise is a declarative, rather that substantial existence of will to work their development and advancement. It is necessary to provide for the conditions for the ethnic, aka national minority rights to be exercised in such a way that it also means an improvement of the quality of everyday life for all citizens of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, aka the Republic of Serbia.