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10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW<br />

Representation in public administration (%)<br />

Representation in the society (%)<br />

Roma, 0.02<br />

Muslims, 2.46<br />

Serbs, 11.24<br />

Albanians, 2.51<br />

Bosniaks, 5.62<br />

Serbs, 28.73<br />

Albanians, 4.91<br />

Bosniaks, 8.65<br />

Croats, 0.76<br />

Roma, 1.01<br />

Muslims, 3.31<br />

Montenegrins,<br />

74.76<br />

Croats, 0.97<br />

Montenegrins,<br />

44.98<br />

Even Article 15 of the Framework Convention for the protection of national minorities prescribes<br />

that the country that has ratified this document has to “create necessary conditions for efficient<br />

participation of national minorities in cultural, social and economic life and public affairs, especially<br />

those they are involved in.” The Law on Minority Rights and Freedoms also defines proportional<br />

representation in public bodies and bodies of local administration.<br />

However, a number of public bodies and institutions violate the Constitution, international standards,<br />

and national regulations. At the level of the government (ministers, directors of directorates and<br />

councilors of cabinets) only two Albanians are employed. Out of nine members of the Judicial Council,<br />

only one member belongs to a minority population and the same situation is at the Prosecutorial<br />

Council, in which only one member of a minority population is employed among 11 members of the<br />

Council. The Special Antiterrorist Unit (SAJ), as the elite unit of the Police Directorate, has no minority<br />

members, and the percentage of minorities in the Agency for National Security is negligible. Out of<br />

260 people employed at the Central Bank, less than 4% belong to a minority population.<br />

Results of the research of the Ministry for<br />

Human and Minority Rights showed a large<br />

number of institutions that are mononational,<br />

which says some about the relations our<br />

“civic” country has towards interculturalism.<br />

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Although the Law on Minority Rights and Freedoms<br />

defines proportional representation in public<br />

bodies and bodies of local self-government, the<br />

situation in practice is completely different.

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