Rasim Ljajic

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday Serbia was not involved in the conflict in Ukraine and added that Serbian citizens who got paid to take part in the hostilities were hurting Serbia.

BELGRADE - Any attempt at selling food, fruits and vegetables from the EU to Russia via Serbia will be prevented, said Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic stated on Wednesday that the digital television signal will be introduced by mid 2015, so the state would be able to sell the free part of the frequency spectre.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic has said that in its first 100 days, this government set the standard for all future governments, as all promises from Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s keynote address have been kept, and citizens can measure the performance.

Region enjoying profits and growth from tourism

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said Saturday that the ministry plans to increase tourism revenue from USD 1 billion reported this year to USD 1.3 billion in 2015, as well as to increase the number of employees in the sector from 70,000 to 100,000 and the number of ovenight stays from the present 6.6 to 10 million.

BELGRADE - There is no ban on Serbian pork meat exports to Russia, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said on Friday.

He denied media reports that another shipment of Serbian meat has been returned from Russia, adding that the next ten shipments from the Koteks company will be under particular scrutiny.

BELGRADE - Rasim Ljajic, president of the Council for Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), stated on Thursday that the Serbian government will comment on the ICTY order regarding the provisional release of Vojislav Seselj by Wednesday, adding that the Tribunal has created a problem and is now searching for a way to export it to Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Justice Ministry has received an order from The Hague tribunal’s trial chamber in the Vojislav Seselj case inviting the Netherlands as the host country and the Serbian government to provide their comments regarding guarantees concerning Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader’s possible provisional release, the ministry told Tanjug on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The state must position tourism in Serbia's economic agenda as an industry that not only achieves continuous growth, but also has the most positive effect on other sectors- agriculture, trade, transport and telecommunications, environment and other fields, Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said on Wednesday.