The Committee considered the amendment submitted by MPs Mr Slaven Radunović, Mr Predrag Bulatović and Mr Milutin Đukanović. Following the explanatory statement by MP Mr Slaven Radunović, the representative of the proposers Mr Leon Gjokaj, Director of Directorate at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, did not accept the proposed amendment.

With a majority of votes (three “for”, three “against”, and two “abstained”), the Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms did not support the amendment submitted by MPs Mr Slaven Radunović, Mr Predrag Bulatović and Mr Milutin Đukanović, and proposed to the Parliament not to adopt it.

Members of the Committee considered the amendment submitted by MP Mr Koča Pavlović to the Proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Minority Rights and Freedoms.  Following the explanatory statement by the submitter of the amendment, the representative of the proposer did not accept the proposed amendment.

With a majority of votes (three “for” and four “against”), the Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms did not support the amendment submitted by MP Mr Koča Pavlović and it proposed to the Parliament not to adopt it.

The Committee also considered amendments (3) submitted by MP Mr Rešad Sijarić. MP Mr Sijarić provided an explanatory statement for the submitted amendments (3), and Mr Leon Gjokaj, representative of the proposer, did not accept them.

With a majority of votes (one “for”, one “against”, and five “abstained”), the Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms did not support the amendment 1 submitted by MP Mr Rešad Sijarić and it proposed to the Parliament not to adopt it.

With a majority of votes (one “for” and six “abstained”), the Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms did not support amendment 2 and amendment 3 submitted by MP Mr Sijarić and it proposed to the Parliament not to adopt them.

With regard to the oral request by the President of the Parliament of Montenegro for convening a meeting of the Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms and revising the Report of the Committee on Reports of the Fund for Minorities for 2012 and 2013 with the Conclusion on the manner of adoption, Chairperson of the Committee Mr Halil Duković informed the Committee members that those reports had been considered in 2014, and the Committee’s reports had been forwarded to the Parliament and archived, with a remark that he could not understand why the reports of the Fund for Minorities and the reports of the Committee had been in the drawers of the Parliament for a year, and that the Committee could not vote twice on the same issue.

Furthermore, he informed the Committee members that he had sent an official letter to the President of the Parliament along with the Information on actions of the Committee with regard to consideration of the said Reports (Official Letter No. 00-63-8/15-33 of 25 June 2015).  Bearing in mind that the said Reports are on the Agenda of the Seventh Sitting of the First Ordinary (Spring) Session of the Parliament, he reminded of the outcome of the voting on the subject Reports (three “for”, three “against”), due to which the Committee, in accordance with the previously established procedure which was in effect at the time, did not create a proposal to the Parliament.