Tuesday, 24 November 2009

National Assembly Speaker Talks to Austrian National Council Speaker

The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic talked to the Speaker of the National Council of the Parliament of the Republic of Austria, Barbara Prammer, heading a parliamentary delegation in an official two-day visit to the Republic of Serbia at the invitation of the National Assembly Speaker.



The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic talked to the Speaker of the National Council of the Parliament of the Republic of Austria, Barbara Prammer, heading a parliamentary delegation in an official two-day visit to the Republic of Serbia at the invitation of the National Assembly Speaker.

The officials discussed the improvement of all levels of parliamentary cooperation, as well as Serbia’s next steps in the process of integration into the European Union.

The National Council Speaker expressed her belief that the Republic of Austria would continue to support the Republic of Serbia in its European integration process. She added that the upcoming visa abolition for Serbian citizens traveling into Schengen agreement countries would be very significant, particularly for those who have relatives abroad and for young people. Prammer emphasised that there is a lot of room for further parliamentary cooperation between Austria and Serbia.

The National Assembly Speaker was grateful for Austria’s support of the efforts the Republic of Serbia is investing in the European integration process. She pointed out that Serbia’s speedy accession to the European Union is a key national goal, reflected in the Parliament’s intensified legislative and monitoring activities. She expressed an expectation that the in addition to cooperation on the level of friendship groups, the two countries’ parliaments would further cooperation through the cooperation of their European Integrations Committees and Foreign Affairs Committees. The Assembly Speaker stressed that Austria is an important economic partner for Serbia in the sphere of telecommunication, construction, banking and commerce and expressed her expectation that both parliaments’ joint projects would, among other things, spur the development of economic relations between the two countries.

After the meeting, the National Council Speaker and the National Assembly Speaker addressed the journalists present at the central hall of the National Assembly House.


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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, Small Hall)

  • 15.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 16.20 - press statements on the delivered EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 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)

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