The conference was organised by the Central Council of Serbs in Germany and it gathered about thirty activists of Serbian associations and intellectuals from all over Germany.
Committee Chairman Aleksandar Cotric pointed out that Serbia has one of the most populous diasporas compared to its population in the motherland, stating that four million Serbs live abroad while Serbia itself is home to less than six million. He believes that Serbs in Germany need a united and strong umbrella organisation which would overcome internal divisions and ensure a more united position for the 800,000 Serbs living in the biggest European Union country.
In addition to the representatives of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, Prof. Dr Stojanka Aleksic, founder and honorary President of the Central Council of Serbs in Germany, Dr Ivo Viskovic, Serbian Ambassador in Berlin, Aleksandar Vlajkovic, Deputy Director of the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region and Milan Cobanov, Vice-President of the Central Council of Serbs in Germany also spoke at the conference.

In the continuation of the visit to Berlin, on 17 December 2012, the delegation of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region visited the headquarters of German Chancellor where it was received by Dr Rafl Gobel, State Secretary of the Ministry for Migration, Refugees and Integration, and Honey Deihimi, Head of the Ministry department.
State Secretary Gobel stressed that “the German state prizes the successful integration of all immigrants and that Germany does not have a better of worse attitude toward ones or others”.
The members of the delegation of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region deemed that “Serbian citizens are treated appropriately and without discrimination by the German authorities, in relation to other foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany”.
“Our citizens are well-integrated in German society, which we, as the mother state, applaud and endorse and which makes it our intent to assist their even better integration, with the provision that their identity be maintained and assimilation prevented”, said MPs Aleksandar Cotric and Aleksandra Djurovic.
They suggested that the German state assist the opening of bilingual and additional schools in Serbia and asked about the possibility for Serbs in Germany to gain the legal status of national minority which they have, in recent years, gained in some European Union countries.
The MPs showed particular interest in the problem of asylum-seekers from Serbia who come to Germany attracted by social welfare. In the context of “fake asylum-seekers” they invited the Minister for Migration, Refugees and Integration, Maria Boehmer, to visit Serbia and see first hand that there is no discrimination of any kind in the country.