National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia / Activities / Activity details
Friday, 23 November 2012
Seventh Sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee
At the sitting held on 23 November, the Foreign Affairs Committee considered the Proposal for the Constitution of Parliamentary Friendship Groups. According to the Proposal, the National Assembly is to have parliamentary friendship groups with 63 states and five regions.
At the sitting, the Committee members also made additional proposals for certain parliamentary friendship groups, and Committee Chairman Milos Aligrudic noted that some parliamentary groups have not yet submitted their candidate nominations for friendship group heads.
Aligrudic repeated the request that the parliamentary groups should submit their proposals for members of friendship groups with certain states and nominations for friendship group heads by Wednesday, 28 November, so that the final proposal might be submitted to the National Assembly Collegium.
Within item Parliamentary Cooperation, the Committee members accepted several invitations to send National Assembly representatives to international gatherings. Serbian parliamentarians are to take part in the Conference of the Chairpersons of Human Rights Committees, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 2 and 3 December, in the context of the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union, and in the OSCE workshop on strengthening parliamentary structures for women members of parliament in the OSCE region, in Vienna, Austria, on 10 and 11 December.
They also accepted the invitations to the Conference titled “Human Rights and Foreign Policy”, on 13 and 14 December, in Turin, Italy, organised by the Italian Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the Conference of the Chairpersons of Committees on Social Affairs, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 16 and 17 December, in the context of the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union.
A National Assembly delegation will be visiting Berlin on 16 and 17 December, to attend the gathering organised for the EU candidate states.
Within the National Assembly standing delegations’ regular activities, the Committee agreed on the Serbian delegation’s participation in the meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, on 14 December, in Turin, Italy.
The Committee also completed an interview with the newly-appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Angola, Dragan Markovic, before his deployment to diplomatic duty.
The newly-appointed Ambassador Markovic briefed the Committee members on his upcoming activities in the Republic of Angola, adding that he would also be covering the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and Gabonese Republic on a non-residential basis.
Ambassador Markovic stressed that his priority would be to continue to strengthen bilateral relations and develop multilateral cooperation with the friendly Angola, and in particular, to intensify economic cooperation.
At the sitting, the Committee adopted several reports on the parliamentary visits, meetings and contacts realised by Serbian parliamentarians with foreign parliamentarians and dignitaries.
The sitting was chaired by Milos Aligrudic, Committee Chairman.
Committees related to this activity
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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10.00 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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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)
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15.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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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)
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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)
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16.20 - press statements on the delivered EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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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)