The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean was established as a result of a series of conferences on the security and cooperation in the Mediterranean, within the organization of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1991, when the first conference was organized on this topic. The goal of the process was to develop comprehensive regional policy, cultural dialogue, partnership, and balanced growth - by encouraging the inclusion of all the countries of the region – at the inter-parliamentary and inter-governmental levels. The process of cooperation that grew into a Parliamentary Assembly contributed to the reduction of tensions in the region and improved cooperation.

The plenary session is convened once a year. Three permanent committees also meet once a year.

Our country has been a full member since the organization was founded in 2006.

The composition of the delegation can be downloaded from the appropriate Internet page.

Latest activities

• The standing delegation of the National Assembly to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean took part in the 8th Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean in Marseille, from 20 to 23 January 2014. The National Assembly’s delegation comprised Nevena Stojanovic, member of the Steering Committee of the Panel on Trade and Investments in in the Mediterranean, Svetislava Bulajic, Vice-President of the PAM Committee on Economy, Sasa Maksimovic, Gorica Mojovic, and deputy member Aleksandar Senic.
  
  
  

• The members of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean took part in the High-Level Interstate Conference on 30 and 31 May 2013, in Geneva. The National Assembly delegation comprised delegation members Svetislava Bulajic and Nevena Stojanovic.

• The member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, MP Nevena Stojanovic took part in the meeting of the Steering Committee of the PAM Panel on Trade and Investments in the Mediterranean on 3 May 2013 in Rabat, Morocco.

• The members of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, took part in the organisation’s Seventh Plenary Session, held on 12 and 13 October 2012, in St. Julian’s, Malta.
  Head of the National Assembly’s delegation Momo Colakovic secured the support of the parliamentarians of the Mediterranean PA member states to hold the plenary session in Serbia in 2014. Delegation member Svetislava Bulajic was elected Vice-President of the Mediterranean PA’s Economic Committee, while Ana Sekulovic, who was promoted to a member of the Economic Panel and took over a place in the Executive Board, initiated a regional foreign trade project in cooperation with specialised agencies of the UN and leading universities in the region.
  The National Assembly’s delegation comprised the Head of the delegation, Momo Colakovic and delegation members Mico Rogovic, Gorica Mojovic, Svetislava Bulajic and Ana Sekulovic.

• Veljko Odalović, Secretary General of the National Assembly, participated at the Second Meeting of Secretaries General of Parliaments of Member States of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean held on February 28, 2011 in Paris.
  
  

• Maja Laušević, Head of the Standing Delegation of the National Assembly to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean participated at the first working meeting of the Panel for Foreign Trade and Investments in the Mediterranean of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean held on 12-13 November in Naples.
  
  For additional information about the organization see: www.ipu.org