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Post by radovic on Dec 7, 2007 12:55:18 GMT -5
Montenegro Fund for Minorities
Decrease text size07 December 2007 Podgorica_ Montenegro has set up a Fund for Minorities to help them preserve their religious, cultural and linguistic identities.
The Minister for Human and Minority Rights, Fuad Nimani, told journalists on Friday that the Fund was “necessary not just for the minorities, but also for the whole of Montenegro”.
“The funding will come from the state budget, 0.15% of which will be allocated to the new Fund. The work and various projects of the national councils of minority nations and national communities will be financed through the Fund”, Nimani said.
The Fund will consist of the director and 13 members of the Board.
Montenegro has a population of 630,000. Of the total, 43% are Montenegrins, 32% Serbs, 14% Bosniaks/Muslims, 6% Albanians and 1% Croats.
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