Wednesday, 4 October 2017

10th and 11th Sitting of the Security Services Control Committee

At the sitting held on 4 October 2017 and closed to the public, the Security Services Control Committee reviewed and accepted the Military Intelligence Agency Activity Report.


The Committee members ascertained that the Military Intelligence Agency Activity Report provides a comprehensive insight into the most important segments of the security agency’s work in the reporting period and noted that the Agency had efficiently performed the tasks within its purview.

In view of the global security environment and the security challenges in the region, the Committee noted that the Military Intelligence Agency, as part of the security-intelligence system, has successfully conducted the intelligence tasks important for the security of the Republic of Serbia, in line with its duties. The frequent terror attacks and the rising number of victims in the biggest European cities are an indicator of the importance and need to strengthen the intelligence structures in the Republic of Serbia. In view of this, the Committee emphasized the importance and high quality of the job done by the Military Intelligence Agency.

The Committee also noted the Agency’s significant contribution to the development of bilateral military and military-economic cooperation. Commending the participation of the members of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces in missions abroad, under the patronage of the UN and EU, the Committee highlighted the important role the Military Intelligence Agency plays in monitoring the situation in the areas they are engaged and offering intelligence support in the realization of their missions. The Committee fully supports the continued coordinated work of the security services on the protection of the national interests and security of the citizens of the Republic of Serbia.

On the same day the Committee held another sitting closed to the public where it reviewed and accepted the Ministry of Defence Inspector General of the Services Activity Report.

The Committee concluded that the security services should continue to implement the Inspector General’s recommendations and commended the Inspector General’s positive assessments of the legality and regularity of the Ministry of Defence security services’ work. The cooperation between the Committee and the Inspector General is a significant element of the civil and democratic control of the Ministry of Defence security services’ work which contributes to its legality and efficiency. The Committee fully supports the Inspector General in the supervision of the Ministry of Defence security services’ work and believes this type of control to be important for the improvement of the legality and regularity of the security services’ work.

The sittings were chaired by Committee Chairman MA Igor Becic, and attended by the following Committee members: Marija Obradovic, Dragan Sormaz and Vladimir Djukanovic, and substitute member Vladan Zagradjanin.

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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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