Notes:

This paper is a comparative analysis of international standards and domestic legal regulations in the domain of the rights of national minorities and does not examine either the issues such as the compulsory disclosure of international documents or the implementation of domestic legal acts.

The documents used in this paper have been selected from: "Medjunarodni dokumenti o zastiti nacionalnih manjina i njihov polozaj u ustavnom poretku SRJ", Beograd, 1994.

Footnotes:

1. V. Dimitrijevic and M. Paunovic (eds): Prava i slobode - medjunarodni i jugoslovenski standardi, Beograd, 1995, p. 144.

2. The exceptions are certain peace accords after the First World War and declarations of some countries on their joining the League of Nations which require respect for special rights of minorities.

3. Since 1994 it has been known as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).