Croatian World Congress in Austria elects new executive committee

The Croatian World Congress in Austria elected its new executive committee last Saturday at a meeting held in Vienna.Rade Lukic from Graz was elected president, while Ana Petrovic from Innsbruck and Ivan Roncevic from Vienna will serve as vice presidents.Lukic was born in 1963 in Split and is an interpreter in Austria, as well as the president of the Austrian-Croatian Initiative in Graz.HSK is an umbrella organization of all Croatians and Croatian institutions that work outside of the homeland with goals to safeguard Croatian national identity, language, culture, customs and everything else that makes Croatians recognizable regardless of the continent on which they live."We of course want to participate in the political life of our home country, like Italians, Turkish and Austrians do, for example," Lukic said.

Source: Croatian Times Online News