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Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Eighteenth Sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee
At the sitting held on 9 November, the Foreign Affairs Committee members interviewed the newly-appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Australia Neda Maletic before her departure for diplomatic duty.
At the sitting held on 9 November, the Foreign Affairs Committee members interviewed the newly-appointed Ambassador of the
Ambassador Maletic stressed that
The Committee members endorsed the newly-appointed Ambassador’s action proposals and suggested that she put additional efforts into the liberalisation of the visa regime with
The Committee considered and accepted the Report on the international cooperation of the National Assembly of the
The sitting also touched on the National Assembly’s parliamentary cooperation this year. The officials believe that the intensive cooperation achieved with foreign parliaments and international organisations and institutions failed to garner enough media attention. Delegation heads or deputy heads spoke of the activities of the National Assembly’s standing delegations to international parliamentary institutions, highlighting their chief efforts.
The Committee went on to accept the initiative to send National Assembly delegations to: the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s annual session in Warsaw from 12 to 16 November, meeting of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe PA in Paris on 16 November, PACE Political Committee meeting on 18 November in Paris, PACE Foreign Affairs Subcommittee meeting in New York from 1 to 4 December, as well as the Western European Union’s Assembly session in Paris from 1 to 3 December this year. The also accepted the invitation extended to the National Assembly Speaker to visit
The Committee endorsed the initiative to hold a regional seminar on HIV/AIDS in Belgrade on 6 December in cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union, as well as the initiatives for the visits of the Austrian Parliament’s Friendship Group with Serbia at the beginning of December, Ukrainian Parliament’s Friendship Group with Serbia, as well as the visit of the Iranian-Serbian Friendship Group of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Committee also accepted the proposed activity plans for
The Committee appointed Branko Ruzic head of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with
At the sitting, the Committee members also accepted several reports on the parliamentary visits and contacts realised between the representatives of the National Assembly and foreign parliamentarians and diplomatic representatives.
Committees related to this activity
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9.35 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 1)
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10.05 - the representatives of opposition parties' parliamentary groups meet with the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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11.00 - press conference of MP Borko Stefanovic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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12.00 - sitting of the Health and Family Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)