The Parliament of the Council of Europe, established in 1949 to promote democratic values and protect human rights, gathers delegated representatives of Parliaments of 46 member states. Each country, in accordance with its size, has between 2 and 18 representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Plenary sessions are convened four times a year. Between and during plenary sessions, meetings of working bodies are organized.

Our country has been a full member since 2003.

More information on the organization may be found on: www.assembly.coe.int
Document: Resolution 1782 (2011) - Investigation of allegations of inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo

Latest activities:

• Natasa Vuckovic, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly and member of the National Assembly’s standing delegation, took part in the meetings of the Standing Committee and Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Tirana on 24 and 25 May 2012.
  Among other things, the Parliamentary Assembly’s Standing Committee adopted the report of the Ad hoc Committee for the observation of the elections in Serbia.
  
  
• The Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, lead by the head of the delegation Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic, took part in the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, from 23 to 27 January 2012.
  On the first day of the session PACE elected a new President, Jean-Claude Mignon (Republic of France), and Natasa Vuckovic, member of the delegation of the Republic of Serbia, was elected one of the PACE Vice Presidents.
  On the third day of the session, 25 January, PACE adopted Resolution 12813 on The Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Serbia, proposed by PACE Monitoring Committee rapporteurs Davit Harutyunyan and Indrek Saar.
• The Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, led by delegation Head Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic took part in the October session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, from 3 to 7 October 2011.
  
  
• The Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, led by delegation Head Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic took part in the June session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, from 20 to 24 June 2011.
  
  
• Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, headed by the Head of the Standing Delegation Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic, participated at the April session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held on April 10-15, 2011 in Strasbourg.
  
  
• Elvira Kovacs, Deputy Member of the Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Vice President of the Committee for Culture, Science, and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, participated - in the capacity of the representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - at the 66th General Assembly of the European Youth Parliament held on April 8, 2011 in Athens.
  
  
• Milos Aligrudic, member of the Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe participated at the meeting of the Political Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on March 9, 2011 in Paris.
  
  
• Mevlut Chavushoglu, Speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, visited Serbia on March 6-9, spoke to MPs of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and had separate talks with Prof. Dr Slavica Đukic-Dejanovic, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, and the Parliamentary Group Heads on March 7, 2011.
  
  
• Standing Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, headed by Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic, Head of the Standing Delegation, participated in the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held on January 23-28, 2011 in Strasbourg.
  
  For additional information about the organization see: www.assembly.coe.int