At the sitting, the Committee members also made additional proposals for certain parliamentary friendship groups, and Committee Chairman Milos Aligrudic noted that some parliamentary groups have not yet submitted their candidate nominations for friendship group heads.

Aligrudic repeated the request that the parliamentary groups should submit their proposals for members of friendship groups with certain states and nominations for friendship group heads by Wednesday, 28 November, so that the final proposal might be submitted to the National Assembly Collegium.

Within item Parliamentary Cooperation, the Committee members accepted several invitations to send National Assembly representatives to international gatherings. Serbian parliamentarians are to take part in the Conference of the Chairpersons of Human Rights Committees, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 2 and 3 December, in the context of the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union, and in the OSCE workshop on strengthening parliamentary structures for women members of parliament in the OSCE region, in Vienna, Austria, on 10 and 11 December.

They also accepted the invitations to the Conference titled “Human Rights and Foreign Policy”, on 13 and 14 December, in Turin, Italy, organised by the Italian Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the Conference of the Chairpersons of Committees on Social Affairs, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 16 and 17 December, in the context of the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union.

A National Assembly delegation will be visiting Berlin on 16 and 17 December, to attend the gathering organised for the EU candidate states.

Within the National Assembly standing delegations’ regular activities, the Committee agreed on the Serbian delegation’s participation in the meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, on 14 December, in Turin, Italy.

The Committee also completed an interview with the newly-appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Angola, Dragan Markovic, before his deployment to diplomatic duty.

The newly-appointed Ambassador Markovic briefed the Committee members on his upcoming activities in the Republic of Angola, adding that he would also be covering the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and Gabonese Republic on a non-residential basis.

Ambassador Markovic stressed that his priority would be to continue to strengthen bilateral relations and develop multilateral cooperation with the friendly Angola, and in particular, to intensify economic cooperation.

At the sitting, the Committee adopted several reports on the parliamentary visits, meetings and contacts realised by Serbian parliamentarians with foreign parliamentarians and dignitaries.

The sitting was chaired by Milos Aligrudic, Committee Chairman.