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I would like to add something regarding Fr. Ljubo Krasic’s lecture. Namely, today the BBC is using Croatian terminology and, respectively, Serbian terminology. Since 1992, two sections have existed; a Croatian section and a Serbian section. The Croatian section has 9 members and the terminology used is the Croatian language Similarly, “the Voice of America” uses the Croatian language. I just wanted to add this and also mention that the recognition of a language is parallel with the recognition of a state. When people have their own state, no one can challenge their right to their own language. We are all very aware of the fact that in Persia (Iran), they say, “fars” (which is a distorted Arabic word for Pars-Persia). Accordingly, the Tadzhikistan language is called “tadzhi”, but in Persia, it is called “Persian”.

Today, when we have our own state, the name of our language is no longer a problem, whatsoever. The Macedonian language was created the very moment that the Macedonian Republic was created; in Moldavia, the Moldavian language was created in 1947, as a result of the creation of Moldavia. Thus, along with the creation of official borders comes the official recognition of the state’s language.

Ante Beljo: That was an old division, and that’s how it appeared in the Atlas of 1987. Is there another theme that needs to be discussed? The highly-respected Montenegrin writer Jevrem Brkovic has asked to speak.

Jevrem Brkovic