"Dacic could be here more often," PM tells cabinet session

"Dacic could be here more often," PM tells cabinet session

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday chaired the 100th meeting of his cabinet and remarked that Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic "could attend more often despite his trips."

The session was for the majority of its duration broadcast live on television. The prime minister, among other topics, touched on how often ministers showed up for cabinet meetings.

Vucic then revealed that "Vucic and (Zlatibor) Loncar" scored the highest in this regard, followed by Aleksandar Antic, Nebojsa Stefanovic, and Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic, while Nikola Selakovic, Ivan Tasovac, Dusan Vujovic, and, Ivica Dacic, occupy the bottom of this list.

As he opened the session today, the prime minister asked the government's secretary-general, Novak Nedic, "why there was nobody present from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

Ivica Dacic is currently in New York where he is taking part in UN activities and meeting with his counterparts.

Vucic dedicated most of the session to the economy, the new arrangement with the IMF and the exchange rate of the Serbian dinar (RSD).

"Clear signal"

Aleksandar Vucic told his cabinet that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) decision to approvea new arrangement with Serbia was "a clear signal that our country was on the right and safe track."

Vucic informed the ministers about the decision of the IMF's board of directors to grant Serbia the precautionary arrangement and said he was proud of that fact as it had come after seven months of hard work.

He thanked former finance minister Lazar Krstic for insisting on stricter discipline and the importance of getting this arrangement, and particularly to the current finance...