The Deputy President of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, Milimir Vujadinović, met with members of the association of refugees, displaced persons and immigrants Zavičaj in the House of the National Assembly.

Vujadinović welcomed the guests, stressing the fact that Serbs were the second largest nation in Europe in terms of the number of people living outside their homeland, and that made it very important to make a special endeavor and effort to ensure that all citizens of Serbia were looked after. According to him, special attention has been paid to this in recent years, when support from once only declarative, through the policy of the President of the Republic Aleksandar Vučić, became concrete, both to organizations and to individuals.

‘There is not a single place in Serbia today where at least one facility has not been built. Every town has a school, a kindergarten, medical care, that was not so in the past’, Vujadinović said.

Representatives of the Association spoke about the challenges they were facing as displaced persons. The focus was on the issue of property rights, which were being ruthlessly violated in the countries they had fled, and the issue of personal safety when they went there. A major problem pointed out by the participants of the armed conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia is the non-recognition of veteran status, and they noted the necessity to amend the Law on the Rights of Veterans, Military and Civilian War Invalids. Association representatives stressed their support to the official policy of the President of the Republic and the Government and that they wanted to officially express this with today’s meeting.

Member of parliament Marina Raguš expressed her satisfaction with the cooperation with the Association so far, which, according to her, has resulted in a number of significant undertakings, and she agreed with parliament member Dr Aleksandra Tomić that direct meetings needed to be more frequent, in order to achieve even more significant results.

Source: National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia

Photo: RS Government