The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is the parliamentary dimension of the oldest pan-European organisation. The first Assembly session was held on 10 August 1949. Since then, it has been the initiator of the most important activities and the main driving force of the Council of Europe.

The Parliamentary Assembly was established to promote democratic values and protect human rights. It comprises parliamentarians from 47 member states and 5 states with the status of observer. Each country, in accordance with its size, has between 2 and 18 representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly. The Parliamentary Assembly has sessions four times a year, while meetings of its working bodies are organized in between sessions.

Our country has been a full member since 2003.

More information on the organization may be found on: www.assembly.coe.int
Document: Resolution 1782 (2011) - Investigation of allegations of inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo

Latest activities

• Foreign Affairs Committee Deputy Chairperson Marina Ragus, European Integration Committee Chairperson Elvira Kovacs and Foreign Affairs Committee and European Integration Committee member Dunja Simonovic Bratic, took part in the Conference on Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue to Further Promote the European Integration of the Western Balkans, held on 20 October 2023 in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. The conference was co-organised by the Interparliamentary Cooperation and Project Support Division of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia.
  
  
• The standing delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) took part in the PACE Autumn Session held in Strasbourg, 9 to 13 October 2023. The delegation comprised Biljana Pantic Pilja, Head of the delegation, Elvira Kovacs, Dubravka Filipovski, Dunja Simonovic Bratic, Stefan Jovanovic and Tatjana Pasic.
  
  
• The National Assembly Speaker, representatives of the parliamentary groups and members of Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues had separate meetings with the rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Axel Schafer on 2 October 2023.
  
  
• National Assembly Deputy Speaker Elvira Kovacs took part in the Conference of Presidents of Parliament, in Dublin, on 28 and 29 September 2023, organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and hosted by the Parliament of Ireland.
  
  
• The National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) took part in the PACE Summer session in Strasbourg, 19 to 23 June 2023. The delegation comprised members Dubravka Filipovski, Elvira Kovacs and Dunja Simonovic Bratic, as well as deputy members Jelena Milosevic and Slavica Radovanovic.

  
  
• The Head of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Biljana Pantic Pilja and delegation member Dubravka Filipovski took part in the meeting of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on 22 and 23 May 2023 in Larnaca.

  
  
• The members of the National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, took part in the PACE Spring Session, in Strasbourg, 24 – 28 April 2023. The delegation comprised: Biljana Pantic Pilja, Head of the delegation, Elvira Kovacs, Dubravka Filipovski, Dunja Simonovic Bratic and Stefan Jovanovic.
  
  
• The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held its Autumn Session from 10 to 14 October 2022 in Strasbourg. The delegation comprised Biljana Pantic Pilja, as Head of the delegation, Elvira Kovacs, Tatjana Pasic, Vojislav Mihailovic, Stefan Jovanovic and Dunja Simonovic Bratic as delegation members.
  
  
• The Head of the National Assembly standing delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Biljana Pantic Pilja, and the Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Elvira Kovacs took part in the meetings of the PACE Bureau and Standing Committee on 2 and 3 March 2023 in The Hague, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
  
  
• The standing delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe comprising Elvira Kovacs, Dubravka Filipovski, Dunja Simonovic Bratic, Stefan Jovanovic, Aleksandar Markovic and Jelena Milosevic took part in the PACE Winter Session held in Strasbourg, 23 to 27 January 2023.