The Srpska Times
Stanimirovic: Croatia refuses to register Serbian schools
BELGRADE- Not a single Serbian school in the Slavonija-Baranja region in Croatia has been officially registered, even though there are 3,800 Serbian children attending elementary and secondary schools, said the president of the Independent Serbian Democratic Party, Vojislav Stanimirovic.
“The government avoids registration for in that case we would
have the right to hire exclusively Serbian teachers,” Stanimirovic said.
He told Vecernje Novosti that diplomas from Serbian schools are
tacitly recognised both in Croatia and Serbia, but that these are in
fact diplomas issued by “non-registered schools.”
Stanimirovic said that under pressure from the EU, Croatia will have
to introduce Cyrillic signs at entrances to majority Serbian
communities.
“This must happen. The existing laws must either be implemented or
changed. It is ridiculous to have signs in other minority languages and
no such signs only in places with a Serbian majority,” Stanimirovic
said.
(Agencije/Frotnal)
