27 June 2018 MP Aleksandar Cotric at the 25th General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy

27 June 2018 MP Aleksandar Cotric at the 25th General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

MP Aleksandar Cotric Elected President of IAO Human Rights Working Group

Today, at the General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) in Athens, MP Aleksandar Cotric was elected President of the IAO Human Rights Working Group.


Cotric said that the Working Group’s priority will be to monitor human, religious and minority rights as guaranteed by international law and national legislation and the reports of the IAO, international organizations, media and public relating to them.

“We will be focusing on the systemic discrimination and physical endangerment of the Christian population in Kosovo-Metohija and the Middle East”, said Aleksandar Cotric. “We will make sure that the entire world, and especially the 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world learn about the problems of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and the Christians in Syria, Iraq, Egypt and other countries in the region who are being killed, exiled and their temples destroyed, to help end these sufferings as soon as possible” said Cotric today in Athens.

The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy is holding its General Assembly 25 – 30 June 2018 in Athens, attended by members of 27 national parliaments. In the course of the proceedings the IAO elected a new President - Sergei Gavrilov of Russia, members of the International Secretariat and other working bodies.


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wednesday, 17 december
  • 10.00 - continuation of the Fourth Sitting of the Second Regular Session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)

  • 11.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 12.00 - the members of the PFG with Israel meet with the Israeli Mexican Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 12.00 - the members of the PFG with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island States meet with the Australian Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)

  • 15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 18.15 - opening of the exhibition “Combing Through Time” on the National Day of Remembrance of Roma victims of WWII (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

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