Deputies of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro and Deputies of Republic assemblies will be able to exchange experiences with members of Western European countries’ parliaments, as well as to extend their knowledge, at educational seminars which will be organised by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro by the end of the year. Talking to chairman of the Committee on Defence and Security, Dragan Sutanovac, on 21 May 2003, senior advisor of the Parliamentary Reform Programme of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Johan Homms, said that the topic of the seminars would be parliamentary supervision of the defence and security sector. Mr. Homms stressed that the programme was primarily intended for members of the Committee on Defence and Security, and that representatives of the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs would also participate at the seminars.

Speaking about the Committee’s activities and the Deputies’ need to acquaint themselves with the work of related committees from Western European parliaments, chairman of the Committee, Dragan Sutanovac, said that members of the Committee on Defence and Security would visit the Federal Republic of Germany, as guests of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Security, at the beginning of June 2003.

Participants at the meeting also spoke about possibilities for members of the Committee to discuss and make decisions affecting the budget of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia.