Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is the highest law in the province in accordance with the Constitution of Serbia. Vojvodina is an autonomous province of the citizens who live in it, established on the basis of specific national, historic, cultural and other characteristics of the area, as multinational, multicultural and multi-confessional European region.

Statute articles

Article 1.

Vojvodina is an autonomous province of the citizens that live in the province, within the Republic of Serbia.

Vojvodina is a region in which the traditional multiculturalism is preserved, and other European principles and values.

AP Vojvodina is an inseparable part of Serbia.

Article 6. National rights

In Vojvodina, the Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Croats, Montenegrins, Romanians, Roma, Bunjevci, Ruthenians and Macedonians, as well as other numerically smaller national communities that live in it, are equal in exercising their rights.

Among the statute's 70 other articles are guarantees of human rights, minority rights, the use of the minority languages and alphabets, and the banning of capital punishment and human cloning. In the official use is the Serbian Language and Cyrillic alphabet and minority languages Hungarian, Slovak, Croatian, Romanian and Ruthenian and their respective alphabets, in accordance with the law and the provincial Assembly decision. Application of the Serbian Latin alphabet in the organs and organizations of the AP Vojvodina Provincial Assembly shall be regulated in accordance with the decision law.^[1]

See also

• Vojvodina
• Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2004
• Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2008
• Vojvodina Autonomist Movement
• Vojvodinian Academy of Sciences and Art

References

1. ^ http://www.vojvodina.gov.rs/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=&task=doc_download&gid=133

External links

• [1] (Serbian, English)