National Assembly of Serbia

BELGRADE - In the first year of their term, the Serbian parliament and the government achieved much, and the goal is to make Serbia a politically and economically stable country over the next three years, Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said on Sunday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament's finance committee approved on Thursday a bill governing the expropriation of land and the issuance of building permits for the Belgrade Waterfront project, despite opposition from the Democrats.

The Serbian parliament will discuss this lex specialis at the sitting scheduled to take place on March 18.

NOVI SAD - The Serbian parliament condemned on Tuesday the attacks on the property of members of national minorities and called on the government to firmly deal with the individuals who committed the attacks which constitute an incitement to ethnic hatred.

GENEVA - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic attended the session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) dedicated to gender equality in Geneva on Monday and said that Serbia is committed to the promotion of gender equality and the elimination of violence against women.

BELGRADE - Women MPs Dubravka Filipovski and Marija Obradovic have presented the activities, results and plans of the Serbian Women's Parliamentary Network at a World Bank (WB) panel titled Women In Parliament, the Serbian parliament said in a statement on Monday.

BELGRADE - Zoran Babic, caucus whip of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) as the central party in the government coalition, stated on Sunday that the information of security services shows that only a dozen Serbian citizens or several dozens at most are fighting on battlefields abroad.

BELGRADE- Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will meet with senior officials of the Czech government and parliament in Prague on Wednesday.

Gojkovic will meet with Czech President Milos Zeman and Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Jan Hamacek Republic, the Serbian parliament said in a release on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and members of the Serbian parlaiment's European Integration Committee have agreed that there is room for improvement of bilateral, as well as economic and cultural cooperation between the two countries.

BELGRADE - Serbian parliament's Deputy Speaker Igor Becic and members of parliamentary groups met with Thomas Yazdgerdi, Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State, and jointly agreed that the Serbian-US bilateral relations have improved.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic sent a note of congratulations over Kurban Bayram to Serbian citizens of Muslim faith, and wished for them to spend the holiday in peace, tolerance and love, the Serbian parliament released on Friday.