The Constitutional Commission's Basic Issues and Coordination Sub-Committee held the sixth session on June 3, 2003 at 12.00 h. Mr. Vladan Batic, Ph. D., presided over this session.

The Sub-Committee decided, by a majority vote, to hand over to the Constitutional Commission the following Draft Preamble:

“The people of Serbia, guided by principles of liberty, justice and equality, states its sovereign will:

- to establish a democratic state, based on both the rule of law and parliamentary democracy;
- to warrant the basic rights and liberties of any man and citizen;
- to build a society dedicated to an ideal of social justice and solidarity among people;
- to cherish the state making, political, moral and cultural traditions of Serbian people, together with a full respect paid to the historical heritage of all minorities and ethnic communities;
- to cooperate with all democratic states and peaceable peoples, thus affirming that it belongs to the European family of peoples.

Therefore, it enacts the..."

The basic constitutional provisions drafts, handed over by the Sub-Committee members, will be systematized before the next session, at which they shall be the subject of reconciliation.