Maja Gojkovic

BELGRADE - Serbian President-elect Aleksandar Vucic will take his oath of office on May 30 or May 31, or June 1, Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic announced on Friday.

Responding to reporters' questions in the parliament building, Gojkovic said the deadlines mandated by law would thus be met, and that the exact date would be announced as soon as it was established.

DOHA - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic has held bilateral meetings with the Speaker of the Advisory Council of the State of Qatar Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi and FM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to discuss possibilities for enhancing relations between Serbia and Qatar and developing parliamentary cooperation, as well as other matters of mutual interest.

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Vojislav Seselj has asked the president Nikolict o pardon Zvezdan Jovanovic, who has been convicted for the murder of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

The leader of the opposition SRS party spoke during a sitting of the Serbian National Assembly in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The EU's door is open to Serbia and all Balkan countries, Swedish Parliament Speaker Urban Ahlin told his Serbian counterpart Maja Gojkovic in Belgrade Wednesday, noting that, for him, Serbia's EU membership was not a matter of whether, but when.

BRATISLAVA - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and her counterparts from several EU member states on Monday discussed Serbia's European integration, parliamentary cooperation and intensification of bilateral ties.

Two opposition members of the Serbian National Assembly have asked for a group of protesters to be allowed to attend Tuesday's session from the balcony.

But Assembly President Maja Gojkovic denied this request filed by deputies Zoran Zivkovic and Marinika Tepic (NS).

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament on Friday rejected a proposal to debate by urgent procedure a motion to dismiss Speaker Maja Gojkovic.

The proposal, originally tabled by 32 MPs, was backed by only 13 MPs in a vote.

The Serbian National Assembly has rejected a proposal to debate by urgent procedure a motion to dismiss Assembly Preident Maja Gojkovic.

The proposal, originally tabled by 32 members of the assembly, was backed by only 13 in a vote, Tanjug reported on Friday.

The Serbian National Assembly will on Wednesday resume the sitting suspended on March 1 as the agenda was being determined.

BELGRADE - Speaker Maja Gojkovic has called the second sitting of the first regular session of the Serbian parliament for Friday, April 21, the parliament announced in a statement on Tuesday.

On the agenda will be bills on biomedically assisted insemination and transfusion medicine, both of which have been tabled by the Serbian government.

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