ПОЛИТИЧКО-ПРАВНИ ПОЛОЖАЈ СРПСКЕ НАЦИОНАЛНЕ МАЊИНЕ У САВРЕМЕНОЈ ЈУГОИСТОЧНОЈ И ЦЕНТРАЛНОЈ ЕВРОПИ
The Political and Legal Status of Serbian National Minorities in Contemporary Southeast and Central Europe

Summary/Abstract: The status of the Serbian national minority in Southeast and Central Europe is one of the questions that is left aside by social sciences in Serbia. In comparison to neighbouring countries, which in a scientific, political, social and national sense clearly defined goals and on the bases of them acted towards the protection of the identity of their co-nationals, Serbia stayed passive. Such a situation is conditioned by many factors, which in the past influenced the separation of relationships between kin-state and its closest diaspora. In the last decade, after the collapse of the second Yugoslavia, among others, questions concerning the status of co-nationals in former Yugoslav republics have been opened. As clumsy answers were given to many questions concerning the fall of the state of South Slavs in the Balkans, the questions in connection to life and status of co-nationals in neighbouring countries were also left without answers. Their status was/is discussed most often when it is necessary to achieve political goals in Serbia. Unlike this, in neighbouring and other European countries, cooperation with their diasporas, especially with co-nationals in neighbouring countries, is one of the important national and state issues. Following such an attitude, their constitutions affirm state and people's obligation to preserve contacts with co-nationals and help their survival. Most of the states issued special laws which developed mechanisms for fulfilling constitutional obligations. International standards for protection of national minorities allow such tendencies and treat them not only as legitimate, but also as necessary for strengthening trust and security in Europe.

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