The Belgrade Center for Human Rights welcomes the joint decision by the democratic opposition parties to thoroughly and persistently advocate respect for the political rights of all citizens of Serbia. The establishment of a democratic government through free and fair elections is the true way towards establishing respect for all human rights and realising the right to rule. The Center particularly supports the opposition’s stance that, if it comes to power at any level of government, it will not try to control the editorial policy of the media which, as publically-owned companies, belong to that government, but will instead respect their right to report. The Center expects the opposition to honor that promise. The Center welcomes the commitments made by the opposition parties to bring a new information law and we especially note that it has already drafted and published a Model Law on Public Information which matches international human rights standards. The text of the Model Law has already been distributed to representatives from all political parties, and this will be done again in the near future.
