Serbia “has done plenty to improve Roma position”

Serbia has done plenty to improve the position of Roma and it is proud of its minority self-government system, Human Rights Minister Milan Marković says.

Izvor: Tanjug

Sunday, 08.04.2012.

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Serbia has done plenty to improve the position of Roma and it is proud of its minority self-government system, Human Rights Minister Milan Markovic says. He added, however, that 2012 needed to be a year when their position in the society would improve. Serbia “has done plenty to improve Roma position” “This needs to be a year when the position of the Roma will for the most part be solved and this will be the most important job for us,” he said at a celebration of the International Roma Day on Sunday. The minister said that the government had appropriated RSD 230mn for the Roma community, adding that there had also been donations from the local self-governments and the Vojvodina budget. “The system of ethnic minorities’ national councils is something Serbia is proud of, it does not exist in any more developed form anywhere else and we are proud and happy about it,” Markovic stressed. He noted that the position of the Roma population was the most difficult when compared to all other ethnic minorities in Serbia. When asked about eviction of Roma from shanty towns, the minister said that a great progress had been made and added that the most successful examples were evictions from shanty towns under the Gazela Bridge. “According to current data, this year we enrolled 380 Roma students in high schools and 149 Roma students to faculties,” he concluded. Milan Markovic (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

Serbia “has done plenty to improve Roma position”

“This needs to be a year when the position of the Roma will for the most part be solved and this will be the most important job for us,” he said at a celebration of the International Roma Day on Sunday.

The minister said that the government had appropriated RSD 230mn for the Roma community, adding that there had also been donations from the local self-governments and the Vojvodina budget.

“The system of ethnic minorities’ national councils is something Serbia is proud of, it does not exist in any more developed form anywhere else and we are proud and happy about it,” Marković stressed.

He noted that the position of the Roma population was the most difficult when compared to all other ethnic minorities in Serbia.

When asked about eviction of Roma from shanty towns, the minister said that a great progress had been made and added that the most successful examples were evictions from shanty towns under the Gazela Bridge.

“According to current data, this year we enrolled 380 Roma students in high schools and 149 Roma students to faculties,” he concluded.

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