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14 May 2024 The participants of the meeting

14 May 2024 The participants of the meeting

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

PACE Delegation Receives Belgian Ambassador

The members of the National Assembly delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) met today with with the Belgian Ambassador to Serbia Cathy Buggenhout to discuss the candidacy for Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

The Belgian Ambassador thanked the members of the National Assembly delegation to PACE, saying that the aim of her visit is the candidacy of Didier Reynders for Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Buggenhout said that the Belgian candidate will be a great champion of the rule of law and that she is certain if he is elected would be neutral and perform is duty with due diligence.

The Head of the National Assembly delegation Biljana Pantic Pilja said that the PACE’s stance on Kosovo-Metohija is very important to Serbia, adding that human rights are being violated in the Serbian southern province on a daily basis, that the possible reception of so-called Kosovo to this international organisation is a violation of all the principles on which the work of the Council of Europe rests and that such an act would be a defeat for the rule of law. She added that the position of the Republic of Serbia on the issue of Kosovo-Metohija overcomes all political disagreements among the parliamentarians and that the delegation is passionately fighting for the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities, which, after 11 years, has not been established in Kosovo-Metohija. She said that the wilfulness of Albin Kurti was so far-reaching that Patriarch Porfirije was banned from entering the territory of Kosovo-Metohija and could not attend the ceremonial start of the regular annual meeting of the Holy Assembly, which was supposed to start in the Patriarchate of Pec, the cradle of Serbian identity.

Delegation member Elvira Kovacs added that she got the impression that the issue of national minority rights, one of the most important for the Republic of Serbia, finds its place less and less on the institution’s agenda.

Buggenhout said that Belgium will continue to support the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and that this is the only way to resolve the disagreements between the two opposing sides.

The meeting was attended by the Head of the delegation, Biljana Pantic Pilja, and delegation members Elvira Kovacs, Vladimir Djordjevic and Aleksandar Mirkovic.

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37th Sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee

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National Assembly Library Receives Chinese Donation

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friday, 13 march

  • 12.00 - the Chairman of the Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality meets with the Ombudsman of the City of Kikinda and the Local Ombudsman of the Municipality of Zitiste (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)

  • 12.30 - the students of “Simeon Aranicki” Elementary School from Stara Pazova visit the National Assembly House (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)

  • 13.00 - press conference of MP Marinika Tepic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 13.00 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker Prof. Dr Jovan Janjic meets the representative of the Fund of the Icon of the Holy New Martyrs of Lawyers of Saint Petersburg (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 14.00 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker Prof. Dr Jovan Janjic meets the President of the International Fund for the Spiritual Unity of Orthodox Peoples based in Moscow (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

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