Why Serbian Republic in the Constitution there is no Serbian or Croatian or Bosnian language

Message from the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity Serbian Milorad Dodik that "RS will never accept Bosnian language because he has no history, has never existed, and promoted by international factors at the moment when the Serbs were not involved in certain processes from the time of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia" days is the subject of domestic public controversy.

Although the Dayton Peace Agreement and the Constitution of BiH official languages ​​in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian, the Republic of Serbian situation is different.

After the Constitutional Court in 2001. The decision on which entities are required to align their constitutions with the Constitution, and the Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats as constituent peoples in BiH, this right is recognized and at the entity level, a year later, though reluctantly, there has been a change in the Constitution of the RS customers.

"The right to equality of the constituent peoples constituted an equal right to the use of language. As the parliamentary majority in the RS refused to accept the Bosnian language as an official, we started kind of linguistic acrobatics. So we get the absurd situation that Article 7 of the Constitution of RS is that the official languages ​​of the RS language of the Serbian people, the language of the Bosniak people and the language of the Croatian people, "the news agency Anatolia Muharem Murselović, official of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at the time amendments to the constitution of the entity was a deputy in the National Assembly of RS.

In this way, Murselović explains, "there is a situation in the RS Official no Serbian or Croatian language, so we knocked the lever to initiate proceedings for the protection of vital national interests."

According to the Slobodan Popovic, deputy SDP BiH in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska, "the constitutional definition of the official languages ​​of the RS has opened a wide space to the issue of interpreters who want to, and the ability to RS President denies the existence of the Bosnian language Bosniaks and deny the right to decide how to call the language they speak. "

The absurdity of such a situation, says Mirsad Duratović Prijedor, is best felt in everyday life.

"In the area of ​​Prijedor in some local communities, where almost absolute majority are Muslims, as is the case in Kozarac and Mataruska Hill, children in elementary school are taught by the programs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian language and learn it as such in the introduction to testimony. And it's no problem recognized for enrollment in high school, because it is a question of law governed. But at the same time, in elementary schools in the town of Prijedor, the law does not apply, and Bosniak children have the opportunity to take classes on national subjects, "explains Duratović.

The fact that the issue of the use and naming of the Bosnian language something that decide local community and Bosnians can not in most schools in the RS to learn their mother tongue stressed and vice president of the National Assembly of RS Ramiz Salkic.

He pointed out that this problem is particularly pronounced in the eastern part RS.a, and that only after a census and determine how many people in RS speak Bosnian language things will improve.

Behzad Cirkin, deputy SDP BiH in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, said that the statements of the President of the entity's denial of the Bosnian language "denial of the Constitution, and thus a denial of RS".

Source: Anatolia

• 25 Aug, 2013
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