Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region|
Headquarters of the governmental Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region in Belgrade. |
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Formed | 2 August 2012 (2012-08-02) |
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Preceding Directorate | |
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Headquarters | Vase Čarapića 20, Belgrade, Serbia |
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Employees | 19 (2017)[1] |
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Parent department | Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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Website | www.dijaspora.gov.rs |
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The Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region (Serbian: Управа за сарадњу с дијаспором и Србима у региону / Uprava za saradnju s dijasporom i Srbima u regionu) is a coordination body of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within Government of Serbia. It was constituted on 2 August 2012. Except for the central office in Belgrade, there is also a local one in Niš.[2]
The director is in charge of the Office, and is appointed by the Government of Serbia. The mandate of the director is 5 years.
The first director of the Directorate was Slavka Drašković.[3][4]
The jurisdiction of the Directorate is established by its statute:[5]
- Monitoring of the status of Serbian citizens that live outside of Serbia;
- Improvement of electoral rights of Serbian citizens in diaspora and assistance in preserving spiritual, cultural and national heritage of the Serbian people that live outside of Serbia;
- Improvement of ties between of Serbian citizens and their organizations in diaspora and the Republic of Serbia;
- Informing Serbian citizens and their organizations in diaspora about political actions of the Republic of Serbia;
- Assistance involving refugees, people of Serbian origins and citizens of Serbia that live in diaspora in political, economic and cultural life of Republic of Serbia and their return to Serbia.
- Realization of conservation strategy and strengthening the ties between diaspora and Serbia;
- Assistance in activities of diaspora parliament;[6]
- Involving diaspora in process of investing in small and medium enterprises;[7]
- Intercession in the process of removing administrative barriers for involving diaspora in the Serbian economy;
- Incitement of citizens of Serbia to get involved in the politics of the residing countries;
- Preservation of Serbian language via opening of schools and other institutions in diaspora;[8]
- Making of convergent portal towards diaspora;
- Improvement of cultural, economic and other forms of cooperation with the diaspora using human capital available in diaspora;
- Presentation of the diaspora in Serbia and raising awareness of the importance of diaspora;
- Enhancement and preservation reputation of Serbia in world, struggle against Anti-Serb sentiment.[8]