Minister Gordan Jandroković received OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek

Minister Jandroković pointed out the importance of the cooperation between Croatia’s institutions and the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in promoting and protecting the rights of national minorities. With respect to that, he thanked High Commissioner Vollebaek for his contribution to the positive development, as well as to the setting up of peace and stability in Croatia and the region as a whole. Emphasizing Croatia’s progress in all of the areas, Minister Jandroković said that the protection of minority rights is one of the political priorities, aimed at creating a society of mutual tolerance, peace, and prosperity. That is why the legal framework for the protection of minority rights in Croatia has too been set up in accordance with the highest standards.

High Commissioner Vollebaek, who has been involved once as the co-chair of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, and later as the Norwegian foreign minister and OSCE chairman, in numerous international community activities in these areas, commended the achievement and reforms that Croatia has carried out since its gaining of independence, especially noting the protection of minority rights.

The two collocutors also exchanged opinions about the political situation and minority rights protection in the region, with a special emphasis on the countries containing members of the Croatian national minority.