9 October 2017 Marija Obradovic elected Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

9 October 2017 Marija Obradovic elected Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Monday, 9 October 2017

Marija Obradovic Elected Vice-President of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe

MP Marija Obradovic, Head of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), was elected PACE Vice-President at this morning’s plenary session. She will be holding the post in 2017 and 2018.


Marija Obradovic is an MP of the Serbian Progressive Party and Head of the parliamentary delegation to PACE starting with the current session, as well as a member of the Group of the European People's Party at the Council of Europe PA.

The Serbian delegation taking part in the PACE October session also comprises MPs Biljana Pantic Pilja, Prof. Dr Zarko Obradovic, Dubravka Filipovski, Jasmina Obradovic, Elvira Kovacs and Aleksandar Stevanovic. The main topics of the session are human rights and the rule of law in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, as well as the crimes committed in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. A debate on a political solution to the crisis in Catalonia was included into the agenda under urgent procedure.

The participants will be addressed by the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

In the course of the session, a rapporteur on Kosovo-Metohija will be elected at the meeting of the Political Committee, and the PACE Monitoring Committee rapporteurs on Serbia will be presenting their report compiled after their visit in July.


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tuesday, 4 november
  • 9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)

  • 10.00 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 10.00 - Second Sitting of the Second Regular Session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)

  • 10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 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, office 53)

  • 15.00 - 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 2)

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