24 October 2016 The Parliamentary Friendship Group with Belarus and Belarusian delegation

24 October 2016 The Parliamentary Friendship Group with Belarus and Belarusian delegation

Monday, 24 October 2016

PFG with Belarus Meets with Belarusian Delegation

The Parliamentary Friendship Group with Belarus met today, at the National Assembly House, with a delegation of the Republic of Belarus, headed by Liliya Ananich, Belarusian Minister of Information.


Dragomir Karic, Head of the PFG with Belarus, thanked Liliya Ananich on the behalf of the PFG members and himself, for her first official visit to Serbia, stressing that the PFG with Belarus with its 44 members was among the largest ones at the National Assembly and adding that, when it comes to friendship with Belarus, the parliamentary majority and opposition stand united. He also said that the cooperation between the two countries’ highest officials is quite intensive, adding that no efforts were spared to strengthen economic cooperation, firmly grounded in the friendly relations.

National Assembly Deputy Speaker Prof. Dr Vladimir Marinkovic said that the two countries’ relations are above all friendly and that, though their economic cooperation and trade are good, there is always room for improvement, especially in the sphere of culture and exchange of information.

Belarusian Minister of Information Liliya Ananich thanked the MPs for the opportunity to visit the National Assembly, saying she was proud of the excellent relations between the two countries which, according to her, could serve as example for the European countries.

The officials also discussed the Belgrade Book Fair and concrete cooperation as regards the wider market where a larger number of books translated into both languages could the placed, and the Minister said that the Republic of Belarus alone annually publishes more than 11,000 titles. Ananich also said that the flow of information is very important in daily life and promised to propose to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development to set up a Serb-Belarus TV programme in Serbia.

At the end of the meeting, the Head of the PFG with Belarus Dragomir Karic was presented with a letter of gratitude for his personal contribution to the advancement of relations between the two countries.

After the meeting, the attending were presented the book by Prof. Dr Ivan Charota “Belarusians about Serbia and Yugoslavia”.


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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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