At the sitting of the Committee on Defense and Security held on 23 March, SIA Director Sasa Vukadinovic was expected to answer the Committee members’ questions concerning the agency’s activities.

Committee Chairman Dragan Todorovic informed the Committee members that the SIA Director was prevented by other duties from attending the Committee sitting, adding that seven Committee members from the Democratic Party, G17 Plus and the Serbian Renewal Movement requested that the sitting be postponed until an agreement is reached on the manner of control of SIA’s activities.

The Committee members present at the sitting decided to inform the President of the Republic of Serbia and the National Security Council Boris Tadic that the Assembly’s surveillance of the activities of the Security Information Agency has been undermined.