Delegation of the Parliament of Montenegro participated at the Annual meeting of regional parliamentary security and defense committees, to be held in Zagreb in the period 4-6 June 2014, organized by Center for Security Cooperation – RACVIAC.

Aside from the representatives of the Parliament of Montenegro, representatives of the following parliaments took part in the work of the meeting: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Turkey, and the Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces Geneva (DCAF), the UN and UNDP Office in Sarajevo, as well as experts from the George C. Marshall Center. 

Keynote speakers at the event were the President of the Croatian Parliament, Josip Leko, the Chairperson of the Joint Commission for Defence and Security of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dušanka Majkić and Deputy Director of the Center for Security Cooperation (RACVIAC), Brigadier General, Zdravko Jakob.

During the meeting, they discussed global and regional security challenges, the fight against corruption, extremism, illegal migration, cyber-crime, security of energy plants and the limitations in the economic sphere.

The need to continue the good practice of annual meetings was jointly confirmed at the event, where the issues of parliamentary oversight of security sector were discussed about, as well as of forum of members of parliaments and experts from Southeast Europe, responsible for oversight of many segments in the field of defense and security.

Mevludin Nuhodžić, Chairman of the Security and Defense Committee, in his speech pointed out that safety or security of the country represented the basis for economic growth and development of the country as viewed both from the standpoint of domestic and from the standpoint of foreign business entities, for which safety was a condition of investing in our country and that it was undisputed that in the era of global interdependence security and development were interconnected.