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Serbian town to send large delegation to Egypt

The visit came ahead of Jagodina delegation visit to Hurghada led by President of the Parliamentary Assembly Dragan Markovic Palma Nov. 14-18, at the invitation of Minister Ahmed Abdullah, governor of the Red Sea, in the framework of the implementation of the twinning agreement with the city Marsa Alam, the Egyptian embassy has announced.

Observers Gather in Bosnia to Scrutinise Elections

More than 50,000 national and international observers will monitor Bosnia's eight post-war election whose campaign has less than a week to run.

The Central Electoral Committee has accredited 2,9191 observers, but this figure only refers to those who will be observing the CIK and the main vote collection centre.

Venice Commission delegation says opinion on amendments to criminal codes to be adopted at Oct. 19-20 session

President Klaus Iohannis welcomed a delegation of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission in short, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Thursday, with the members of this body mentioning that the commission's opinion on the amendments to Romania's Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure is to be adopted at a

FJR:Passage of Criminal Code amendments at speed of light turns Romania away from rule of law standards

The adoption of the amendments to the Criminal Code at the speed of light, in blatant breach of international conventions and by ignoring the opinions of the Venice Commission, turns the Romanian state farther away from the minimal standards of the rule of law, the Romanian Judges Forum (FJR) said.

JusMin Toader: Justice legislation, amendments to criminal codes, transposition of directives, discussed with Venice Commission

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Monday that talks with a Venice Commission delegation will focus on Romania's justice legislation, amendments to the criminal codes, the transposition of European directives into the Romanian legislation, and getting other pieces of legislation in line with the rulings of the Constitutional Court.

Turkish deputy PM accuses PACE of 'double standards' on early elections

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) urging Turkey to postpone its early elections over its state of emergency shows a double standard as no one made an issue about the same situation in France, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on April 24.

NATO "respects Serbia's military neutrality"

According to a press release from the Serbian Presidency, Alli "stressed that NATO respects the position of Serbia to be military neutral and define cooperation according to its needs."

Vucic said that the firm position of Serbia's military neutrality is not an obstacle for developing cooperation with NATO, but is instead in the interest of strengthening regional stability.

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