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Thursday, 25 November 2010
National Assembly Speaker Attends Political Sciences Faculty’s Student Parliament Session
The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic visited the Faculty of Political Sciences today where she attended a session of its student parliament.
The Speaker of the National Assembly of the
Greeting the students, Speaker Djukic-Dejanovic wished them success in their studies and future life stressing that the cooperation between the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Serbian Assembly would be expanded.
Through practice, the students will be able to learn about the Parliament’s work, participate in the collection of data for scientific research projects, as well as be initiate legislative activities as relates to the documents pertaining to that segment of the population, stressed the Speaker.
Answering the students’ question, the Serbian Parliament Speaker said that she expected the enactment of a new law on the election of deputies which would alter the electoral system opening up the possibility that a deputy be the owner of his/her term of office. She repeated her personal view that the deputy should be the bearer, owner of the term of office.
The future politicologists wanted to know whether a possible decrease in the number of deputies would make the Parliament’s work more efficient and lower its expenditure, to which the Speaker said that “the supreme legislative body could work more efficiently even with fewer deputies, but that it would not significantly lower its expenses”.
The students of the International Relations Department were interested in the effects of parliamentary diplomacy, and Djukic-Dejanovic explained that parliamentary diplomacy was often termed tourism, but that it was in fact “very serious work”. She told the students that parliamentarians are the ones who can help change the distorted image of
Activities
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11.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)
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12.00 - the members of the PFG with Israel meet with the Israeli Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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12.00 - the members of the PFG with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island States meet with the Australian Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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12.00 - press conference of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) and the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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13.00 - press conference of the MP Radoslav Milojicic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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18.15 - solemn academy “Under the Same Sky”, commemorating the National Day of Roma victims of WWII, accompanied by exhibition “Combing Through Time” (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)