LATEST ACTIVITIES
- As part of the 10th Conference of the parliament speakers of the Adriatic Ionian Initiative member states, Slovenian National Assembly President Gregor Virant met with Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic at the National Assembly.
- Swiss parliamentary delegation headed by the President of the National Council of Switzerland Hansjörg Walter, visited Serbia from 9 to 11 April and on the occasion met, separately, at the National Assembly House, with National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic and Committee members Natasa Vuckovic and Milos Aligrudic on 9 April 2012..
- National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic visited the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki on 22 March 2012.
- A delegation of the Legislative Committee and the Justice and Administration Committee comprising Legislative Committee Chairman Vlatko Ratkovic, Srdjan Mikovic, Judita Popovic, Djordje Milicevic, Mirko Cikiriz and Goran Stefanovic visited the Croatian Parliament’s Legislation Committee and Judiciary Committee in Zagreb from 20 to 22 March 2012.
- National Assembly’s standing delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union comprising Nada Kolundzija, Jelena Trivan, Zeljko Tomic and Vesna Pesic visited the British Group at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, at the UK Parliament in London, from 5 to 8 March 2012.
- A joint delegation of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, headed by Sergei Stanishev, President of the Party of European Socialists and Hannes Swoboda, President of the Political Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, visited Serbia on 23 and 24 February and on the occasion met with Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic and Committee member Natasa Vuckovic at the National Assembly on 23 February.
- A delegation of the National Assembly’s Parliamentary Friendship Group with Romania, comprisingdelegation head Sinisa Stamenkovic, Jon Magda, Konstantin Arsenovic, Srboljub Zivanovic and Milan Lapcevic visited the Romanian Parliament between 21 and 23 February 2012.
- On 13 February 2012, Hellenic Parliament Speaker Filippos
Petsalnikos met with National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic at the National Assembly and, on the occasion, the two officials signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and the Hellenic Parliament.
- On 8 February 2012, the Speaker of the Italian Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini met, at the National Assembly, with National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic and the heads of the National Assembly parliamentary groups.
- Bundestag MP and Spokesman for the Social Democratic Party Dr Rolf Mützenich met, at the National Assembly, with Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic and Committee member Zeljko Ivanji on 31 January 2012.
- Aleksandar Cotric and Zoran Bortic, members of the Committee on Relations with Serbs Living Outside Serbia, attended the 2012 St. Sava celebration at the invitation of the Self-Government of Serbs in Hungary, in Budapest, from 27 to 29 January 2012.
- National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic attended the St. Sava Academy, at the invitation of the Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia, in Skopje, on 27 January 2012.
- National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic and Member of Parliament Dr Kosta Milosevic visited Bosnia and Herzegovina at the invitation of the chair of the House of Representatives and the chair of the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly in Sarajevo, on 21 December 2011.
- A delegation of the Legislative Committee headed by Committee Chairman Vlatko Ratkovic visited the Legislative Commission of the Assembly (Sobranie) of the Republic of Macedonia in Skopje, from 21 to 23 December 2011.
- A delegation of the National Assembly headed by National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, paid an official visit to Turkey on 20 and 21 December 2011. The visit was very important as it was the first official visit by the National Assembly Speaker to Turkey which greatly contributed to the improvement of bilateral relations.
- A delegation of the National Assembly headed by National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, visited Japan from 26 to 30 November 2011.
- A delegation of the European Integration Committee headed by Committee Chairman Laszlo Varga visited the Slovak Parliament’s European Affairs Committee in Bratislava on 29 and 30 November 2011.
- National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic visited the Kingdom of Norway, Oslo, on 15 and 16 November 2011.
- Nebojsa Medojevic, Montenegrin MP and President of the Montenegrin National Council for European Integration, met, at the National Assembly, with European Integration Committee Chairman Laszlo Varga on 12 November 2011.
- Djura Mucenski, Head of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Ukraine, visited Ukraine, Kiev, on 10 and 11 November 2011 as member of a state delegation headed by the President of the Republic of Serbia.
- Norbert Kartman, Presidentof the Assembly of the German Federal Province of Hesse (Hessischer Landtag), metwith National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic at the National Assembly, on 3 November 2011.
- Chairman of the Romanian Senate’sForeign Affairs Committee Titus Corlatean visited Serbia on 4 November 2011.
- Abdullah Kalishkan, SEECP PD Working Group member and member of the Turkish Grand Assembly, met with National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gordana Comic at the National Assembly, on 3 November 2011.
- Deputy Speaker of the Bulgarian National Assembly Georgi Pirinski met with National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gordana Comic at the National Assembly, on 3 November 2011, on theoccasion of the Third Meeting of the Working Group of the South East Europe Cooperation Process Parliamentary Dimension.
- Bundestag MP Kai Gehring met with National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gordana Comic and the Head of Parliamentary Friendship Group with Germany Bosko Ristic, at the National Assembly on 2 November 2011.
- Branimir Djokic, the Chairman, and Aleksandar Cotric, Deputy Chairmanof the Committee on Relations with Serbs Living Outside Serbia, took part in the event Days of Serbian Culture, at the invitation of the Serbian Association St. Sava, in Prague, from 1 to 4 November.
- Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Prof. Dr Dragoljub Micunovic visited the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey in Ankara, from 26 to 29 October 2011.
- The Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey Cemil Cicek visited Serbia on 28 October 2011.
- A National Assembly delegation headed by National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, patron of the Serbia-US Women Leadership Network project conducted by the Serbian Unity Congress with the US Government and USAID, and comprising Natasa Vuckovic and Jelena Trivan, visited the US where it had several meetings at the Congress and took part in the Serbian-US Women Leadership Network project in Washington and New York from 19 to 27 October 2011.
- National Assembly Deputy Speaker Nikola Novakovic took part in the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka, on 24 October 2011.
- A delegation of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliamentary Assembly’s Joint Committee for Defence and Security headed by the Joint Committee Chair Dusanka Majkic visited Serbia on 28 and 29 September 2011.
- A delegation of the Committee on Trade and Tourism comprising Dejan Nikolic, Aleksandar Cotric and Zoran Ostojic, visited Slovenia, Ljubljana, from 12 to 14 September 2011.
- Finnish Parliament Speaker Eero Heinäluoma visited Serbia on 5 September 2011.
- Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva Dangovska, Austrian Parliament Speaker Barbara Prammer and Estonian Parliament Speaker Ene Ergma visited Serbia on 2 September 2011.
- A National Assembly delegation headed by National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic paid an official visit to the People’s Republic China, Beijing, from 25 to 31 August 2011.
- Aleksandar Cotric, Deputy Chairmanof the Committee on Relations with Serbs Living Outside Serbia, attended the opening and sanctification of the Serbian House – culture and information centre in Timisoara, on 8 July 2011.
- New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen met withNational Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic on 8 July 2011.
- A delegation of the Committee on European Integration and Regional Cooperation of the Republic of Srpska headed by Committee Chairman Branislav Borenovic met with European Integration Committee Chairman Laszlo Varga at the National Assembly on 24 June 2011.
- Snezana Sedlar, members of the Committee on Development and International Economic Relations, visited the Magna Setting factory in the Czech Republic, Prague, to discuss the presentation of the company’s investment project in Serbia from 4 to 6 July 2011.
- National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic visited Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, on 22 June 2011.
- Dr Vesna Pusic, Chairperson of the Croatian Parliament’s Committee in charge of monitoring Croatia’s accession negotiations with the European Union, visited Serbia, and met with the members of the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Committees at the National Assembly on 13 June 2011.
- Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alexander Babakov visited Serbia and met with National Assembly Speaker Prof. Dr Slavica Djukic Dejanovic at the National Assembly on 9 June 2011.
- National Assembly Deputy Speaker Nikola visited the municipality of Visegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 3 and 4 June 2011.
- A delegation of the Committee on European Affairs of the Provincial Assembly of Bavaria, headed by Prof. Ursula Männle, visited Serbia and met with European Integration Committee Chairman Laszlo Varga on 30 May and the members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Germany on 1 June 2011, at the National Assembly.
- A delegation of the Czech Parliamentary Defence and Security Committee headed by its Chairman Frantisek Bublan visited Serbia from 30 May to 1 June and met with the members of the Committee on Defence and Security at the National Assembly House on 31 May 2011.
- A delegation of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, headed by Committee Chairman Jaromir Jermar, visited Serbia on 24 May 2011.
- A delegation of the Dutch Parliament’s Committee on European Affairs, headed by Committee Chairperson Gerda Verburg, visited Serbia on from 8 to 10 May 2011.
- Marko Djurisic, member of the Committee on Defence and Security, visited the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) and met with the Chairman of the Croatian Parliament’s Domestic Policy and National Security Committee on 4 May 2011.