Serbian Deputy Parliament

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Marina Ragus, who also heads the Committee on Foreign Affairs, met with Portuguese Ambassador to Belgrade Jose Rui Velez Caroco on Tuesday to discuss advancement of interparliamentary cooperation between the two countries.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Marina Ragus, who also heads the Committee on Foreign Affairs, met with the Spanish Ambassador to Belgrade Juan Jose Sanz Aparicio on Tuesday.

The parties agreed that advancement of parliamentary relations and cooperation at all levels was in the interest of both states.

BELGRADE - Hungary's EU presidency will be about supporting the EU enlargement process and the Western Balkans' EU accession path - undeniably, the region has been put on hold due to the geopolitical situation but we are hoping Serbia will open Cluster 3 (Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth) in its accession talks during the Hungarian presidency, Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Elvira Kovac,

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Elvira Kovac received Hungarian Ambassador to Belgrade Jozsef Magyar on Friday, thanking Hungary for being the only European country to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica.

MANAMA - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Snezana Paunovic participated in the 146th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Manama, Bahrain, on Friday.

During a debate on fighting intolerance, Paunovic said Serbia was carrying out reforms in the field of non-discrimination to align its legal framework with relevant international and European standards.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Elvira Kovac urged European Parliament members on Tuesday to open new clusters in Serbia's EU accession talks to give the country impetus in the process.

Kovac and a delegation of 20 Serbian MPs who are in their first terms as members of the National Assembly are in Brussels for a two-day study visit to the European Parliament.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Veroljub Arsic on Wednesday met with Luxembourg's FM Jean Asselborn, thanking him for his country's support for Serbia as an EU membership candidate.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Marinkovic met in the Serbian parliament building on Friday with a delegation of the Council of the EU Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA) to discuss Serbia's EU integration.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Marinkovic on Thursday met with Mary Warlick, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Energy Resources, to discuss finding new possibilities for US gas supplies for Serbia, and Warlick responded the US was ready to consider this.

Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Marinkovic has taken part in a U.S. Senate debate on the Islamic State as a threat to the Balkans.

He "stressed that a clear joint Western Balkan plan is needed in the fight against terrorism, but that so is greater U.S. and EU support for efforts to solve the migrant crisis," Tanjug reported.