Minister calls govt. decision "shameful"
Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajić today described <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=03&dd=06&nav_id=57625" class="text-link" target= "_blank">a recent government decision</a> to withdraw an anti-discrimination draft law as "shameful".
Saturday, 07.03.2009.
12:47
Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajic today described a recent government decision to withdraw an anti-discrimination draft law as "shameful". He told Belgrade daily Danas that his ministry, although having officially proposed this legislation, was not even consulted when the decision was made to pull it from the parliamentary procedure. Minister calls govt. decision "shameful" "They [the government] did not ask me to take part in the negotiations with the SPC and other religious communities, but even if they did, I wouldn't have accepted. This is shameful and disgraceful for the government of Serbia, to treat church demands in this way. They do not wish to change some provisions or to further work on them, they object to the spirit of the law and they'll do everything to prevent its adoption," Ljajic said of the religious leaders. Asked whether his position in the Cvetkovic cabinet will be brought into question if the religious communities manage to change the essence of the law, he said: "I cannot believe that this will be the outcome. I sincerely hope that other members of the government will not allow it and will stand up to the prime minister's intention." "The Council of Europe, all most relevant European institutions dealing with human rights, have given agreement to this text of the law, but not in Serbia, the Church it seems knows better than any of them and for this reason it is given an opportunity to amend the alleged mistakes." Human and Minority Rights Minister Svetozar Ciplic and PM Mirko Cvetkovic announced earlier, also according to the same newspaper, that they will try to harmonize the Draft Anti-Discrimination Law with the objections over two of the document's articles voiced by a group of Serbia's traditional churches.
Minister calls govt. decision "shameful"
"They [the government] did not ask me to take part in the negotiations with the SPC and other religious communities, but even if they did, I wouldn't have accepted. This is shameful and disgraceful for the government of Serbia, to treat church demands in this way. They do not wish to change some provisions or to further work on them, they object to the spirit of the law and they'll do everything to prevent its adoption," Ljajić said of the religious leaders.Asked whether his position in the Cvetković cabinet will be brought into question if the religious communities manage to change the essence of the law, he said: "I cannot believe that this will be the outcome. I sincerely hope that other members of the government will not allow it and will stand up to the prime minister's intention."
"The Council of Europe, all most relevant European institutions dealing with human rights, have given agreement to this text of the law, but not in Serbia, the Church it seems knows better than any of them and for this reason it is given an opportunity to amend the alleged mistakes."
Human and Minority Rights Minister Svetozar Čiplić and PM Mirko Cvetković announced earlier, also according to the same newspaper, that they will try to harmonize the Draft Anti-Discrimination Law with the objections over two of the document's articles voiced by a group of Serbia's traditional churches.
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