The Presidents’ Personal Envoys to RECOM

President of Croatia Ivo Josipović appointed Zlata Đurđević, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, on 25 January 2013;

President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov appointed Luben Arnaudoski, Deputy General Secretary for Legal and Organizational Affairs at the Office of the Macedonian President, on 25 January 2013;

President of Montenegro Filip Vujanović appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Law in Podgorica and his personal Adviser on Minority and Human Rights, Sonja Tomović-Šundić, on 28 January 2013;

President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga appointed her personal Legal Adviser, Selim Selimi, on 25 March 2013;

Željko Komšić appointed Goran Mihaljević, a lawyer and liaison officer with the Hague Tribunal, on 25 March 2013;and Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bakir Izetbegović appointed the Deputy Mayor of Sarajevo and lawyer Aljoša Čampara, on 21 February 2013;

President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić appointed Judge of the Appellate Court in Belgrade Siniša Važić, on 30 June 2013.

The Delegates to RECOM have had four working sessions: on September 6 and October 27, 2013, and on March 8, 2014, in Zagreb; and on May 4, 2014, in Belgrade. The Coalition for RECOM has organized meetings of Delegates, with the participation of Natasa Kandic, Coordinator of the RECOM Process, and Midhat Izmirlija, a member of the Working Group of the Coalition for RECOM which drafted the Statute of RECOM.

The Delegates individually reviewed each provision of the RECOM Statute proposed by the Coalition for RECOM. The outcome of this approach has been the changes to the RECOM Statute in response to the question of the legal and constitutional possibilities in each of the participating countries for the establishment of RECOM.