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Monitoring of local and regional democracy in Serbia: Belgrade, Novi Sad and Novi Pazar: June 29-July 1
 The Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities will carry out its first monitoring mission to assess the state of local and regional democracy in Congress Rapporteurs Odd Kvalöy (Norway, NR) and Christopher Newbury (United Kingdom, EPP/CD) will meet: Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, Speaker of the Serbian Parliament; Dragoljub Micunovic, Head of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Caucus and Jovan Palalic, Head of the Local Self Government Caucus; Bosa Nenadic, President of the Constitutional Court; Milan Markovic, Minister of Public Administrationa and Local Sefl-Government, Diana Dragutinovic, Minister of Finance; and Natasa Corbic, Director of the National Council of Decentralization. In Belgrade, meetings are also scheduled with: Aleksandar Antic, President of the City Assembly of Belgrade and its members; Djordje Stanicic, Secretary General of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities and its Conference Vice-President, Nenad Milenkovic. In Novi Sad, the Congress delegation will meet: Sandor Egeresi and Maja Sedlarevic, respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of Vojvodina; Boris Barjaktarovic, Vice President of the Vojvodina Executive Council and Provincial Secretary for Regional and International Cooperation; Dejan Avdalovic, Advisor to the President of the Executive Council of Vojvodina; Aleksandar Popov, Director of the Center for Regionalism; and Stanka Parac-Damjanovic, Director of the Local Democracy Agency in Subotica. In Novi Pazar, the delegation will also meet: Meho Mahmutovic, Mayor of Novi Pazar and his Cabinet Chief, Mirsad Jusufovic; the Mayors of Sjenica and Tutin; and representatives from the Novi Pazar Civil Society. Following the visit, a report will be submitted to the Congress’ Institutional Committee. * * * In November 2001, the Congress adopted a report on the situation of local and regional democracy in the Contact in |
           
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