National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia / Activities / Activity details
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Eighth Sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee
At the sitting held on 4 December, the Foreign Affairs Committee accepted the initiative to form a standing delegation of the National Assembly to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Parliamentary Assembly, with the status of observer, which it would forward to the National Assembly Speaker.
In the debate, it was proposed that the Serbian Government i.e. the competent ministries of defence and foreign affairs, should rule on the initiative first and the National Assembly should follow.
The Committee members stressed that the delegation would have the status of observer in a parliamentary assembly and the National Assembly should rule on it, after which it accepted the initiative by a majority of votes.
The Committee also considered the Proposal for the Constitution of Parliamentary Friendship Groups with 63 states and five regions. Committee Chairman Milos Aligrudic deemed that there is great deal of interest for the work of parliamentary friendship groups. He said that two candidates have been nominated for heads of parliamentary groups of 29 states. Aligrudic again requested that all the parliamentary groups submit their nominations for heads of friendship groups, as well as agree which of the nominated candidates would be leading them, by the middle of next week, so that the final proposal could be discussed at the National Assembly Collegium.
At the sitting, the Committee accepted the invitation to take part in the parliamentary training programme organised by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, in Brussels, from 4 to 6 March 2013. As part of the standing delegations’ regular activities, they accepted the invitation extended to the members of the Serbian delegation to take part in the regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, 21-25 January 2013.
The Committee members also accepted several reports on the parliamentary visits, meetings and contacts realised by Serbian parliamentarians with foreign parliamentarians and dignitaries.
The sitting was chaired by Milos Aligrudic, Committee Chairman.
Committees related to this activity
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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10.00 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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12.00 - public hearing of the Culture and Information Committee on the topic: Public interview with the proposed candidates for Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media Council members (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.30 - the PFG with Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta meets with the Italian delegation to the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Dimension (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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16.00 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Head of the EU Delegation to receive the EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 1)
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16.20 - press statements on the delivered EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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17.00 - press conference of the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own and Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)