A Regional Meeting of the RECOM Coalition in Belgrade, Serbia

65 members the RECOM Coalition took part in the meeting, where they were given a presentation on the findings of a recently conducted research into the state of transitional justice in post-Yugoslav states. The members of the RECOM Coalition then used the rest of the day to discuss the progress of the process of the institutionalization of the RECOM Initiative, and the “core principles” of the RECOM Statute Proposal as a binding minimum to be adhered to in all public advocacy for the Initiative to establish RECOM.

During the debate about the “core principles” of the RECOM Statute Proposal, the participants agreed with Prof. Žarko Puhovski’s proposal that the RECOM Statute Proposal (adopted by the RECOM Coalition on March 26^th, 2011) be treated as the starting point for reaching the minimum required consensus for any debate to be held at an official level.