National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia / Activities / Activity details
Monday, 5 November 2012
Sixth Sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee
At the sitting held on 5 November, the Foreign Affairs Committee members considered and endorsed the Bill on the Confirmation of the Consular Convention between the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro and the Bill on the Confirmation of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Government of Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on Mutual Visa Abolition.
The bills were elaborated by the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Within item Parliamentary Cooperation, the Committee accepted invitations to send National Assembly delegations to the parliamentary seminar on “Human rights protection and the state of women’s and children’s rights”, on 14 and 15 November, in Brussels and the European Population and Development Forum, held in Prague, on 15 and 16 November. They also accepted the initiative for the Security Services Control Committee Chairperson to make a study visit to the General Directorate of Public Safety and the Federal Agency for State Protection and Counterterrorism of the Republic of Austria, from 26 to 28 November, as well as for the participation of the members of the National Assembly’s Security Services Control Committee in the International Conference on “Connecting supervision authorities – assessment and strengthening of supervision over intelligence services in Western Balkan countries”, in Ljubljana, on 5 and 6 December this year.
The Committee also endorsed the participation of the National Assembly’s standing delegation at the meeting of the OSCE PA Bureau and OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin, Ireland, on 6 and 7 December.
At the sitting, the Committee adopted several reports on the parliamentary visits, meetings and contacts realised by Serbian parliamentary delegations and other Assembly dignitaries.
Committee Chairman Milos Aligrudic, informed the members that the parliamentary groups had sent to the Committee proposals for the creation of friendship groups with 62 states. The groups also sent in nominations for the heads of only seven of the friendship groups.
The Committee repeated its conclusion asking the parliamentary groups to establish the final proposals for the composition of friendship groups and nominate their candidates for heads of the friendship groups.
The Committee sitting was chaired by Milos Aligrudic, Committee Chairman.
Committees related to this activity
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11.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)
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12.00 - the members of the PFG with Israel meet with the Israeli Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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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)
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12.00 - press conference of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) and the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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13.00 - press conference of the MP Radoslav Milojicic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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15.00 - sitting of the Committee on Administrative, Budgetary, Mandate and Immunity Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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18.15 - solemn academy “Under the Same Sky”, commemorating the National Day of Roma victims of WWII, accompanied by exhibition “Combing Through Time” (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)