Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Dimitrios Kypreos expressed concern over both the fact that a Bosniak national council has not been formed yet, and the events that took place following July 7, when the body should have held a constitutive session.

In a written statement filed to the media, Kypreos urged the representatives of three election lists to find a joint solution based on popular will expressed in the elections.

The mission welcomes comments of the commissioner for equality and the ombudsman of the Republic of Serbia. It is of key importance not to forget the fact that that the role of the Bosniak national council, as well as any other minority council, is to promote integrations and progress of minorities in Serbia, Kypreos said.

Kypreos said that the OSCE Mission to Serbia offered strong support to the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights in the elections for the national minority councils.

Following the elections on June 6, all national councils convened a session, which was preceded by appropriate moves of the ministry.

Following the elections for the national councils of the national minorities in Serbia, the Bosniak community was the only one left without a national council.

Three lists took part in the elections for a Bosniak national council, and the Bosniak Cultural Community won most of the seats - 17, the Bosniak List had 13 and the Bosniak Renaissance won five.

The Bosniak List and the Bosniak Renaissance boycotted the constitutive session scheduled for July 7, and the Bosniak Cultural Community, headed by Mufti Muamer Zukorlic, supported by two members of the council from the Bosniak Renaissance list, formed a council which has not been recognized by the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights.