At the session of the Bosniak Council in Montenegro held today, a unanimous decision was made to participate in the Census of Population, Households and Apartments.
As announced by the Bosniak Council, they invited "all members of the Bosniak nation in Montenegro, all citizens residing in Montenegro, as well as our citizens who are temporarily working abroad, to be at their addresses of residence in the coming days, participate and express themselves freely in the upcoming Census in Montenegro".
According to them, in the previous period, the Bosniak Council led and sublimated initiatives, in cooperation with, they said, other Councils-Councils of minority peoples and national communities with the aim of "establishing a dialogue with the Government of Montenegro and obtaining adequate conditions for a credible and legitimate Population pois".
They added that their demands were related to the enumeration process.
"For the purpose of transparency, better control of the entire procedure and with flexible deadlines for completing the Census of Population, Households and Apartments, we were persistent and persevering in this. The Bosniak Council also signed a joint agreement with all six councils of less numerous peoples, as well as with Prime Minister Milojko Spajić and the leaders of the parliamentary political parties of the government and the opposition. The agreement that was signed contains all the important demands of the Bosniak Council in Montenegro, which we processed in cooperation with other councils," the announcement reads.
The only request that could not be implemented, as they announced, concerns the impossibility of finding a software solution for listing persons in diplomatic and consular missions.
"However, as agreed, through the adopted amendments to the Law in the Assembly, the possibility of extending the census until the end of the current year is foreseen, so that the largest number of persons who are our citizens, who come to their places of residence, in the period before the New Year holidays, could be listed," the statement said.
As the announcement adds, with the adoption of amendments to the Law on Population Census, other legal prerequisites were created for the realization of the agreed goals foreseen by the Agreement.
"The census enumerators included a significant number of people from the ranks of minority nations, which was one of our demands. Also, in the expanded composition of the municipal census commissions, the Bosniak council got its members in: Podgorica, Bar, Bijelo Polje, Pljevlja, Petnjica, Plav , Gusinje, Rožaje and Berane. The Bosniak council also proposed members of the census commissions for the municipalities: Tuzi and Ulcinj, but the presidents of the census commissions there did not meet the demands of the Bosniak council," the council's announcement reads.
They added that they expect the membership of the Council representative in the team for the control of electronic data entry, as well as in the team that will work on the manual control of counting during data entry, which will function in the premises of the Directorate of Statistics.
"In accordance with the real possibilities, we believe that we have succeeded in significantly improving the conditions for the control and transparency of the Population Census procedure, and incorporating almost all of our demands that we considered significant in order to organize a legitimate Population Census, from the point of view of the members of the Bosniak people and the Bosniak Council as its institution in Montenegro. We hereby appeal to all citizens, and especially to our compatriots, members of the Bosniak nation, as well as all other nations, to express themselves freely on this list," the statement of the Bosniak Council states.
They also said that they appeal to their compatriots, who are temporarily absent from their place of residence and staying abroad, that, as they stated, during the census, at least one family member should be at an address in Montenegro and register himself and his family members.
"Bosniaks are aware that we are autochthonous and grounded in our homeland Montenegro, to which we are absolutely dedicated and in whose democratic construction we have selflessly participated. We are also aware that, in order to preserve our overall national, linguistic and religious identity, it is necessary that each our fellow countryman has no qualms about writing that his national or ethnic affiliation is Bosniak, that his religion is Islam, and that his mother tongue is Bosnian," states the statement signed by the president of the Bosniak Council, Suljo Mustafić.
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