Novi Sad, 23 September – The AP Vojvodina Assembly president Juhász Bálint and vice-presidents Damir Zobenica, Aleksandra Maletić and Nemanja Zavišić received today, at the AP Vojvodina Assembly, the Ethnic Affairs Committee delegation of the National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China.
During the meeting with the Chinese delegation, headed by Bayin Chaolu, the Ethnic Affairs Committee president, the participants conversed about the steel friendship between the Republic of Serbia and PR China, which is paving a stable and promising path for partner cooperation at all levels.
President Juhász presented the rich multiethnic and multicultural structure of the AP Vojvodina to members of the Ethnic Affairs Committee.
"The legal regulation of minority rights in the Republic of Serbia may be used as an inspiring example to many other European countries as well. We are proud of the fact that the AP Vojvodina Assembly is the second most multilingual parliament in Europe, after the European Parliament, that there are 26 national communities who live in our province and have an opportunity to foster their national, confessional, cultural and linguistic diversity", Juhász said, adding that National councils of national minorities, in dealing with the issues such as education, culture, language and information, had certainly contributed to preserving the identity of their communities, as well as to strengthening the entire state and the system.
Head of the Chinese delegation Bayin Chaolu emphasised that China greatly appreciated the support and friendship with Serbia,
adding that the National Peoples Congress was interested in enhancing the relations, exchange of experience and good practice, with both the Serbian National Assembly and the provincial assembly. He underscored that the 56 different ethnic communities in China make a unique nation, adding that there was much to see and learn in the AP Vojvodina about the practice of good and harmonious coexistence and exercise of minority rights.
The two delegations also discussed strategic investments and important business activities of Chinese companies in our country, agreeing there was still a great potential for further cooperation and partnership.
The Ethnic Affairs Committee delegation of the National Peoples Congress of the PRC is paying a several-day visit to our country, organised by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.