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The commission works will be headed by the two co-chairmen, Bogdan Mazuru, State secretary for European affairs, representing Romania and Milorad Djuric, Province secretary for culture representing the Republic of Serbia, MAE informs. The talks between the two delegations will be focused on the convening and signing of the commission’s working rules, as well as on the convening and signing of the Protocol of the first session of the Joint commission.

Ethnic Romanians in Timocului Valley accuses the fact they lack the right to study in Romanian language and the Romanian church is forbidden there. Otherwise, at the beginning of August, President Traian Basescu met the local authorities in Kladovo, in the attempt to solve the issues with which the Romanians in the region are confronted.

The Joint Inter-governmental Commission on National Minorities of Romania and Serbia was created based on Art. 11 of the Agreement between Romania’s Government and the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia referring to the cooperation in the field of national minorities protection, signed on Nov. 4, 2002 in Belgrade, entered into force on July 12, 2004.
The commission offers the needed framework for the examination and finding a solution to various issues members of the Romanian minority in Serbia are confronted with, and respectively the Serbian minority in Romania. The commission has the objective to adopt actions and measures to the benefit of the two related communities.