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Article 79. Protection of identity Persons belonging to minority nations and other minority national communities shall be guaranteed the rights and liberties, which they can exercise individually or collectively with others, as follows: 1. the right to exercise, protect, develop and publicly express national, ethnic, Right to culture cultural and religious particularities; 2. the right to choose, use and publicly post national symbols and to celebrate national holidays; 3. the right to use their own language and alphabet in private, public and official use; Protection of language use 4. the right to education in their own language and alphabet in public institutions Protection of language use and the right to have included in the curricula the history and culture of the persons belonging to minority nations and other minority national communities; 5. the right, in the areas with significant share in the total population, to have the Protection of language use local self-government authorities, state and court authorities carry out the proceedings in the language of minority nations and other minority national communities; 6. the right to establish educational, cultural and religious associations, with the Right to culture material support of the state; Montenegro 2007 (rev. 2013) Page 15 constituteproject.org PDF generated: 27 Apr 2022, 10:50 7. the right to write and use their own name and surname also in their own Protection of language use language and alphabet in the official documents; 8. the right, in the areas with significant share in total population, to have Protection of language use traditional local terms, names of streets and settlements, as well as topographic signs written in the language of minority nations and other minority national communities; 9. the right to authentic representation in the Parliament of the Republic of First chamber representation quotas Montenegro and in the assemblies of the local self-government units in which they represent a significant share in the population, according to the principle of affirmative action; 10. the right to proportionate representation in public services, state authorities and local self-government bodies; 11. the right to information in their own language; Protection of language use 12. the right to establish and maintain contacts with the citizens and associations outside of Montenegro, with whom they have common national and ethnic background, cultural and historic heritage, as well as religious beliefs; 13. the right to establish councils for the protection and improvement of special rights. Right to culture Integration of ethnic communities