Friday, 13 October 2017

Gojkovic at Inter-Parliamentary Union Session

The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and Head of the standing delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Maja Gojkovic will be heading the National Assembly delegation to the 137th Inter-Parliamentary Union Session to take place on 14 and 15 October in Saint Petersburg and aiming to promote the values of cultural pluralism and peace through interfaith and inter-ethnic accord.


The session will be attended by over 700 parliamentarians, including 85 heads of parliament and 50 of their deputies from all over the world.

Among other things, the parliamentarians will debate the draft resolution on “Sharing our diversity: The 20th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Democracy” at the Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights, then the role of parliament in monitoring the action of national armed forces participating in UN peacekeeping operations and sustaining peace as a vehicle for achieving sustainable development at the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security. There will also be discussion in the forum of women parliamentarians and the youth forum, as well as a debate on the role of the UN General Assembly in international governance, and the IPU is also to elect a president and vice-presidents.

At the margins the National Assembly Speaker will have a series of bilateral meetings, such as with the heads of the Russian, Belarusian and Armenian parliaments and others.


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monday, 15 december
  • 11.00 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)

  • 11.00 - sitting of the of the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development and the Information Society (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 11.00 - judges elected to judicial office for the first time take the oath of office before the National Assembly Speaker (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)

  • 11.30 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Ukrainian Ambassador (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street)

  • 12.00 - opening of the exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of Mileva Maric Einstein (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 12.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 13.00 - sitting of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 17.00 - sitting of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 17.05 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker at the AEPA Association if Lawyers Conference: NO MORE SILENCE – ME AGAIN (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)

Full event calendar