Sandzak seeks to secede from Serbia

Ugljanin has submitted this request to the special meeting of the Bosniak National Council in the case of “Vetevendosje Dita “, respectively, the anniversary of the referendum organised in Sandzak from October 25th to October 27th 1991, follows “ovost”.

Ugljanin has been called to the results of the referendum in which it is voted for Sandzak's full political and territorial autonomy with the right to join one of the neighbouring republics and has called on Brussels to commit to implement these requirements.

Sandzak citizens, as an autochthon people in their territory, must, through the resolution of Sandzak's status, be guaranteed mechanisms that unconditionally begin to realise the right to life, freedom, security and rapid economic development in order to finally ensure its own political existence”, Ugljanin has said, insisting that this issue be opened in the Western Balkan membership process in the European Union.

The deputy chairman of the Liberal League of Vojvodina and MP in the Vojvodina Assembly, Aleksandar Marton, has also spoken at this meeting. Also included were representatives of Montenegro's GDP, Bosnian MPs in Serbia's Parliament, and local and administration leaders in Sandzak.

Ugljanin long ago organised the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Sjenica Declaration of August 1917, when mayors of the 12 Sandzak municipalities had demanded the secession of their territories from Serbia-Montenegro and their union with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Even then he had demanded that Sandzak seced from Serbia.