Members of the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants and the Committee on European Integration of the Parliament of Montenegro, Mr. Miodrag Vuković, Docent PhD, Mr. Suljo Mustafić, Mr. Vasilije Lalošević and Mr. Dritan Abazović, MA participated at the Consultative Meeting of the representatives of the parliaments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia. The Meeting was organized under the auspices of the Igman Initiative and represented the continuation of the consultative process, initiated with the Meeting of the Chairmen of the Committee on International Relations of the four parliaments, held in the Croatian Parliament, on 18th and 19th October 2012.

The topic of the Meeting was “Improvement of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the countries signatories of the Dayton Agreement by the use of the Nordic positive experiences”. One of the panelists at the Consultative Meeting was Mr. Miodrag Vuković, Docent PhD, who spoke on the previous cooperation of parliamentary Committees on Foreign Policy, and possibilities for deepening and improving that cooperation with the application of the Nordic model. MP Dritan Abazović, MA also spoke on Nordic model of cooperation and possibilities of its application. Ambassador of Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Dragan Đurović, attended the Meeting.

It was pointed out, at the Meeting, that during 13 years of its existence, the Igman Initiative had become recognizable to the public by its acting aimed at faster normalization of relations among the countries of Dayton Agreement, through expert projects intended for the governments of the four countries, successfully lobbying for their implementation in practice. With full support of the Nordic Council and embassies of the Nordic countries in the region, the Igman initiative has started, during 2012, the work on the actual project, funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Serbia, aimed at improving inter-parliamentary cooperation among Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia by the Nordic model. Within that framework, this model of inter-parliamentary cooperation was presented in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Podgorica, and in Zagreb, on 18th and 19th October 2012, the Meeting of the Chairmen of the Foreign Policy Committees of the parliaments of the four countries was held, where together with the presentation of Nordic, Baltic and Benelux model, following steps aimed at improving parliamentary cooperation agreed by Nordic model were presented.

The aim of the activities specified in this field so far is for political and general public to meet with this model of cooperation, as well as finding of original solutions with the representatives of the four parliaments, which would, through improving of inter-parliamentary cooperation among the four countries contribute to the improvement of the overall relations in the region and accelerating the process of EU integration.

It was concluded, at the Meeting, that the current communication among parliaments on bilateral level certainly contributed to that, as well as regional meeting forms on the specific topics, but that it would be useful for the four countries to establish permanent forms of cooperation in specific areas in which all four parliaments were interested in. The aim of the Consultative Meeting was identifying areas where the intensive cooperation was the most necessary in this moment and where visible results could be achieved, by using experience from the Nordic model.