Slovaks to get Cultural Center in Novi Sad?

The provincial secretary for culture, public information and relations with religious communities, Milan Statkic, and his associates, talked to Ambassador of Slovakia to Serbia Dagmar Repcekova on Friday, June 30, 2017. Statkic emphasized that Vojvodina paid great attention to fostering culture and cultural heritage and enhancing information available in the languages of the national minorities which lived there and which were an inseparable part of the province's heritage and varied culture.

– We also support the work of national and cultural institutions of all national minorities, so as to enable the preservation of one's own identity and spiritual heritage. Institutions are of key importance in that respect – Statkic added.

On the other hand, Repcekova emphasized a remarkably good cooperation with Vojvodina, as proven by the status and the safety of the Slovakian community in the province, as well as support to national and cultural institutions of Vojvodina's Slovaks.

Noting that the majority of Slovakian institutions were concentrated in the places where the Slovakian ethnic community was the most numerous one or especially prominent, such as Backi Petrovac or Kovacica, they agreed to look into the possibilities of founding a Slovak Cultural Center in Novi Sad.

The center should become a place where the most important cultural and media institutions are to be gathered, from the Vojvodina Slovak Cultural Institute to the Slovakian-language newspaper Hlas L'udu.

Vlada AP Vojvodina

Ambasada Republike Slovačke Beograd

Provincial Government

Embassy of Slovakia in Belgrade

Slovak Cultural Center Novi Sad

Novi Sad cultural center

Vojvodina Slovak Cultural Institute

Hlas L udu

Miroslav Statkic

Dagmar Repcekova