Parliamentary committee backs gay parade

Members of the Serbian parliament Committee for Defense and Security expressed on Wednesday their support for holding of the Pride Parade in Belgrade.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 22.07.2010.

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Members of the Serbian parliament Committee for Defense and Security expressed on Wednesday their support for holding of the Pride Parade in Belgrade. A statement from the committee session said that state authorities will do everything in their power to ensure the safety of the event's participants. Parliamentary committee backs gay parade Addressing the representatives of the Gay-Straight Alliance NGO at an extraordinary meeting of the defense and security committee held at the alliance's request, chairman of the committee Dusan Bajatovic said that neither Serbia's ruling coalition nor the majority of its opposition parties are making an issue out of whether the Pride Parade should be allowed to be held. “The state is here at a test and we must not allow certain minority and extremist groups to win this time, since these groups do not represent the attitude of Serbia's society as a whole to the issues that you are opening,” Bajatovic said. The committee members agreed that the working body that will organize the Pride Parade should include one member from the committee, and the chosen representative will be Marko Djurisic from the Democratic Party. Representative of the Gay-Straight Alliance Mirjana Bogdanovic said that the organization initiated this meeting in order to discuss with the members of the parliament's committee how to successfully hold the Pride Parade this year and thus make Belgrade one of the many cities in Europe and the world that have successful and safe manifestations of this type. The meeting was not attended by representatives of opposition parties, except a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia Zeljko Tomic, who was present at the beginning of the meeting, but soon left.

Parliamentary committee backs gay parade

Addressing the representatives of the Gay-Straight Alliance NGO at an extraordinary meeting of the defense and security committee held at the alliance's request, chairman of the committee Dušan Bajatović said that neither Serbia's ruling coalition nor the majority of its opposition parties are making an issue out of whether the Pride Parade should be allowed to be held.

“The state is here at a test and we must not allow certain minority and extremist groups to win this time, since these groups do not represent the attitude of Serbia's society as a whole to the issues that you are opening,” Bajatović said.

The committee members agreed that the working body that will organize the Pride Parade should include one member from the committee, and the chosen representative will be Marko Đurišić from the Democratic Party.

Representative of the Gay-Straight Alliance Mirjana Bogdanović said that the organization initiated this meeting in order to discuss with the members of the parliament's committee how to successfully hold the Pride Parade this year and thus make Belgrade one of the many cities in Europe and the world that have successful and safe manifestations of this type.

The meeting was not attended by representatives of opposition parties, except a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia Željko Tomić, who was present at the beginning of the meeting, but soon left.

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