360:(SDA), although this was denied by the MNVS. The MNVS claimed that 264,000 people in Sandžak, the rest of Yugoslavia and abroad asked to be included on the voter list. The turnout was 71 percent, and 98 percent voted in favour of the political and territorial autonomy of the Sandžak with the right of joining another one of Yugoslavia's republics. Ugljanin claimed that 97 percent of Sandžak Muslims and 33 percent of Albanians participated in the referendum, but hardly any Christians. He also said that the MNVS would decide on which Yugoslav republic Sandžak would join, depending on further developments.
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Republic of Serbia on 27 June 2009. In the Declaration, the Bosniak National Council warned the Serbian authorities about alleged halt in the process of the consummation of collective rights of the Bosniak national minority. Later, the Bosniak National Council adopted the Decision on Determining Traditional Names of the Units of the Local Self-Administration, Populated Places and Other Geographical Names in the Bosnian Language on the territory of
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on Status and
Consummation of Rights of the Bosniak people in Serbia on 1 March 2012, and later the Declaration to the Bosniak People and Citizens of Sandžak as an instruction to the Bosniak political parties and associations to carry out a pressure on the Serbian authorities. On 6 April 2012, the Bosniak National Council adopted the national anthem of the Bosniak national minority called "
423:. On 16 August 1992, the MNVS went a step further. Referring to their imminent participation in the London Conference of August 1992, the MNVS announced a total boycott of Serbia and Montenegro, including their republican assemblies, until the Sandžak was granted official status and "state terrorism" ended. The MNVS called for a boycott of the early parliamentary elections of
508:; BNV) started functioning. The Statute of the Bosniak National Council, adopted on 13 September 2003, described the Bosniak National Council as the highest representative body of the Bosniak national minority in Serbia. It had jurisdiction in the use of language and script, education, culture and information on
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Bosniak National Council participated in the creation of the draft of the Law on National Councils of National Minorities, which improved protection mechanism of the national minorities in Serbia. The Bosniak National Council issued the Declaration on Status of the Bosniaks of Sandžak in
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In these new circumstances, the status of national minorities in Serbia and
Montenegro was legally regulated. On 6 September 2003, the BNVS held an electoral assembly in Novi Pazar; Sulejman Ugljanin was re-elected president. During the Assembly, the Bosniak National Council of Sandžak was suspended,
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asking for "the recognition and full international and legal subjectivity of Sandžak". In
January 1992, the MNVS declared the creation of a "special status" for the Sandžak that would grant the region a far-reaching autonomy. The initiative wasn't recognised by the Yugoslav or Serbian governments. In
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dissolve and called for
Muslims to arm themselves in the case of a civil war. It announced the formation of an assembly, an executive council, public security services and the implementation of the compulsory military service, promising the suspension of every other Yugoslav state body in the case of
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Conference of Muslim Intellectuals of Sandžak, Montenegro and Serbia protested against the foundation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, saying it occurred against the will of the country's Muslim and calling for its non-recognition. The MNVS adopted a resolution on 28 April
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Memorandum on the Establishment of Special Status for Sandžak inside the Rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which sought far-reaching autonomy. The Memorandum, which was envisaged as being signed by Yugoslavia, the MNVS, the Republic of Bosnia and
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Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals held in Sarajevo in 1993. Therefore, the name of the MNVS was changed to the Bosniak Muslim National Council of Sandžak
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512:. Among the most important decisions of the Bosniak National Council were those determining the national flag and the coat of arms of the Bosniak national minority, its national holidays, national awards and acknowledgments and national manifestations. Following
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Muslims so that the land border between Serbs in Serbia and Montenegro could be completely unimpeded. It claimed to be the only legitimate representative of the Sandžak Muslims. The MNVS sought autonomy for the Sandžak should
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for the autonomy of Sandžak asking Muslims whether they were in favour of "full political and territorial autonomy" of the region and its "right to join one of the sovereign republics", presumably
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536:. The Bosniak National Council created the Model for Education of the Bosniaks of Sandžak, the Strategy of Informing on Bosnian Language, and founded the Institute for Culture.
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415:, asked again for the recognition of Sandžak, as well as the deployment of UN troops and the establishment of an international presence in the region.
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recognized the secession of several former Yugoslav republics in December 1991, Ugljanin sent the results of the referendum to Dutch Foreign Minister
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