Head of the Serbian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Dragoljub Mićunović says the delegation will support Dick Marty’s report.
He adds that the Serbian delegation will also oppose any amendments that could diminish the significance of the document.
The Dutch parliament decision still does not mean that Serbia’s progress toward the EU will be halted, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Äelić said.
He told Belgrade daily Blic that a Serbian delegation would make an effort to “unfreeze†Serbia’s candidacy bid on October 25 in Luxembourg.
Serbian President Boris Tadić will lead a Serbian delegation at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly in New York from September 20-25. During the General Assembly session, Tadić will have several bilateral meetings with presidents, premiers and foreign ministers of the UN member states, the President’s Press Service announced.
The Serbian delegation and a delegation of the IMF will today reached final agreement on the unfreezing of public sector wages. Salaries and pensions will go up in January 2011 and not as it was previously stated in April 2011, Economy Minister Mlađan Dinkić said.
Cuban companies’ unsettled debts to Serbian creditors will be among the topics of discussion as Trade Minister Slobodan Milosavljević spends three days in Cuba.
The Serbian delegation, led by the minister, will take part in the 11th session of the Serbia-Cuba intergovernmental commission for economic, scientific and technological cooperation, it has been announced.
The permanent Serbian delegation at the OSCE parliamentary assembly will be participating in the 19th annual meeting of the assembly in Oslo, Norway. The main topic of the meeting, which will last until July 10, will be “The Rule of Law: The Fight Against International Crime and Corruptionâ€.
A Serbian delegation led by Finance Minister Diana Dragutinović will participate in the two-day spring conference of the IMF and World Bank. The meeting begins on Saturday in Washington.
Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Äelić said that the Serbian delegation will be one of the first to meet with new EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele. Äelić told B92 that the Serbian delegation will be the first delegation of a country striving for EU candidate status that will be meeting with Fuele immediately after he takes over for Olli Rehn as the new EU Enlargement Commissioner.
Democratic Party (DS) official Dragoljub Mićunović said that the Serbian delegation’s visit to the Dutch parliament began an important process of dialogue. Mićunović, who led the delegation, told B92 that even though the stances of the two countries continue to differ regarding Belgrade’s level of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, the dialogue between Serbian and Dutch parliamentary officials is encouraging.
Serbian and Russian Presidents Boris Tadić and Dmitry Medvedev have agreed on the details of a USD 1bn Russian loan to Serbia. The Serbian delegation told FoNet that USD 200mn would go to the state budget, while the expert teams from both countries would decide what to do with the rest of the loan.
President Boris Tadić is in the U.S., heading the Serbian delegation until September 26 at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly. Tadić began his trip in Cleveland today by meeting with representatives of the Serb Diaspora in the U.S. and the Ohio National Guard.
The International Monetary Fund stated that it has made progress in talks with the Serbian delegation, but that a general agreement has not been reached yet. The talks will continue, especially regarding the 2010 budget, according to a statement from the IMF.
The Serbian delegation being led by President Boris Tadić, currently on an extended visit to China, will be visiting Shanghai on Saturday. The delegation will be meeting in Shanghai to discuss cooperation in modern industries, such as electronics and information technologies, according to Economy Minister Mlađan Dinkić, who is a member of the delegation.
