Presidential inauguration Feb. 15, Kosovo session next week

President Boris Tadic will be ceremonially inaugurated for his second term in office on Friday. Beta news agency also reported late on Wednesday that the parliament would meet again early next week, likely on Feb. 18 or 19, to debate Kosovo. Presidential inauguration Feb. 15, Kosovo session next week This was announced after the consultations of heads of caucuses with Speaker Oliver Dulic. Dulic, DS, told reporters that the initiative presented by the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and New Serbia (NS) to hold an early parliamentary session on the interim political agreement with the EU had been withdrawn from procedure. He also said the president's inauguration would be arranged with the Electoral Commission, RIK, which met yesterday evening and announced the final presidential election results, confirming Tadic's victory. Dulic expects, immediately after the Feb. 14 government session, the parliament to receive a document for adoption referring to the Serbian institutions' reaction to the declaration of Kosovo's independence, which the media claim will happen on Feb. 17. At the session, the government is to pass a decision on annulling the unlawful acts by the interim Kosovo bodies regarding the proclamation of independence, which will be activated the minute that illegal act is carried out. However, opposition representatives berated Dulic for not consulting them on convening the parliamentary session and on the document the government was to adopt regarding the situation in Kosovo. The Serb Radical Party (SRS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) said that at yesterday's consultations they were only told about the ruling coalition's agreement, adding they could not say whether they would support the government's document as they had not seen it yet. The government Action Plan on Kosovo has been labeled a state secret. Boris Tadic (FoNet, archive)

Presidential inauguration Feb. 15, Kosovo session next week

This was announced after the consultations of heads of caucuses with Speaker Oliver Dulić.

Dulić, DS, told reporters that the initiative presented by the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and New Serbia (NS) to hold an early parliamentary session on the interim political agreement with the EU had been withdrawn from procedure.

He also said the president's inauguration would be arranged with the Electoral Commission, RIK, which met yesterday evening and announced the final presidential election results, confirming Tadić's victory.

Dulić expects, immediately after the Feb. 14 government session, the parliament to receive a document for adoption referring to the Serbian institutions' reaction to the declaration of Kosovo's independence, which the media claim will happen on Feb. 17.

At the session, the government is to pass a decision on annulling the unlawful acts by the interim Kosovo bodies regarding the proclamation of independence, which will be activated the minute that illegal act is carried out.

However, opposition representatives berated Dulić for not consulting them on convening the parliamentary session and on the document the government was to adopt regarding the situation in Kosovo.

The Serb Radical Party (SRS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) said that at yesterday's consultations they were only told about the ruling coalition's agreement, adding they could not say whether they would support the government's document as they had not seen it yet.

The government Action Plan on Kosovo has been labeled a state secret.