The CEI Parliamentary Committee Meeting took place in Belgrade under the Serbian Chairmanship on 19-22 May.
Delegations from 13 CEI Member States (Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Ukraine) participated. The meeting sessions focussed on “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development – the role of parliaments” and on “CEI Development Perspectives”.
Participants were greeted by Ms. Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, Speaker and Ms Gordana Comic, Deputy Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, as well as by Mr. Oliver Dulic, Serbian Minister for Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning.
The meeting was also attended by the Ambassador of Turkey and representatives of the Russian and Greek Embassies in Belgrade.
In the Final Declaration the parliamentarians expressed their readiness to be represented by the enlarged Troika at the forthcoming Meeting of the CEI Ministers of Foreign Affairs on 10 June in Trieste.
