Serb National Council

Serb National Council
Serbian National Council - National Coordination Council of the Serbian National Minority in the Republic of Croatia
Croatian: Srpsko narodno vijeće
Serbian: Српско народно вијеће
AbbreviationSNV
PredecessorUnion of Serbian Organizations
Formation1997[1]
TypeUmbrella organization
Legal statusElected political, advisory, and coordinating umbrella organization
PurposeProtection of interests of and rights of Serbs in Croatia
HeadquartersGajeva 7, Donji grad, Zagreb
Region served
Croatia Croatia
Membership
Prosvjeta
Serb Democratic Forum
Serbian Community of Rijeka
Serbian Community of Istria
Joint Council of Municipalities
Independent Democratic Serb Party
Baranja Democratic Forum
Association of Serbian Refugees and Expellees from Croatia
Some of parishes of Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia
MPs and prominent individuals
Official language
Croatian
Serbian
President
Vacant
Secretary
Branko Jurišić
Websitesnv.hr

The Serb National Council (Serbo-Croatian: Српско народно вијеће, Srpsko narodno vijeće) is an elected political, consulting and coordinating body which acts as a form of self-government and autonomous cultural institution of the Serbs of Croatia in matters regarding civil rights and cultural identity.[2][3] The council's main focuses are human, civil and national rights, as well the issues of Serbs of Croatia identity, participation and integration in the Croatian society.[3] Since 2000 the council is a member of the Federal Union of European Nationalities.[4]

The body was established as the national coordination of Serb community in Croatia in 1997, in the aftermath of the Croatian War of Independence and defeat of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina. The legal basis for its establishment was extracted from the international Erdut Agreement signed in 1995 which ended the conflict in the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia by granting rights on cultural autonomy in exchange for peaceful reintegration. Serb National Council network consists of 94 regional and local (municipal or town) councils with the total of 1581 councilors.[5] They are elected every four years at the National Minorities Councils and Representatives Elections with the most recent one being organized in 2019.

  1. ^ "Srpsko narodno vijeće-o nama". Serb National Council. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  2. ^ "About SNV". Serb National Council. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  3. ^ a b "Serbian National Council". UNHCR. Archived from the original on 2014-07-03. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  4. ^ Nikola Bajto (ed.). SNV 25 (in Serbian). Zagreb: Serb National Council. ISBN 978-953-7442-63-7.
  5. ^ "Serb National Council-Српскo нaрoднo виjeћe". Federal Union of European Nationalities. Retrieved 13 March 2020.