Serb National Council

Serb National Council (Croatian: Srpsko narodno vijeće, Serbian Cyrillic: Српско народно вијеће) is an elected political, consulting and coordinating body acting as a form of self government of Serbs of Croatia in matters regarding civil rights and cultural identity.^[1]

The organisation was founded in July 1997 after the Erdut Agreement, and its founding members were:

• Serbian Cultural Society Prosvjeta (SKD Prosvjeta)
• Serbian Democratic Forum (Srpski demokratski forum)
• Serbian Community of Rijeka
• Serbian Community of Istria
• Joint Council of Municipalities of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Syrmia
• Independent Democratic Serb Party
• Baranja Democratic Forum
• Association of Serbian Refugees and Expellees from Croatia
• Representatives of several church municipalities of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia
• Members of the Croatian Parliament of Serbian ethnicity

Other

• There are also other same-named organisations in the ex-Yugoslav region, notably the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija (SNV KiM), which called on Kosovo Serbs to boycott the Kosovan parliamentary election, 2010.^[2]

References

External links

• Official website