Rasim Ljajic

Fight continues to save lives in flood-stricken Serbia

BELGRADE -- The intense fight to save lives continued on Saturday, as the situation is the most critical in the completely flooded Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac.

BELGRADE - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are interested in signing long-term agreements on cooperation in tourism with Serbia, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic told Tanjug on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The total revenue from tourism in Serbia in 2013 was USD 2.5 billion, with the foreign currency revenue at EUR 800 million, Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said on Wednesday, adding that the data proved the vitality of that industry despite the economic crisis.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic, who is also minister of trade, tourism and telecommunications, opened on Monday in Belgrade the International Fair of Technique and Technical Achievements, held under the slogan A step into the future.

BELGRADE - Serbia's objective is to increase its food export revenue to USD 6 billion by 2015 and to USD 10 billion by 2020, said Rasim Ljajic, Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade, at the opening of the International Food and Drink Expo FOODREX on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The new convocation of the Serbian parliament, whose constitution will start on Wednesday, will include presidents of 12 parties from seven slates who will take an oath of office.

Minor posts for SPS coalition partners in new government Crumbles to Palma and Krkobabic for peace at home

If the SPS joins the new Government, its coalition partners the PUPS (Jovan Krkobabic) and the JS (Dragan Markovic Palma) – cannot count on a single ministerial post, the Blic learns.

BELGRADE - Rasim Ljajic, chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, said on Monday that Serbia had requested from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to return the entire documentation that had not been used in the proceedings before that court.

NOVI PAZAR – Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic has said in the southwestern Serbian city of Novi Pazar that Serbia does not need inter-ethnic conflicts and tension and that religious affiliation should never be a reason to draw differences between people as people should be evaluated by how honest, hardworking and successful they are.

A Serbian minister said volunteers from Serbia who have joined pro-Russian self-defence groups in the disputed Ukrainian region of Crimea should face jail terms.

A small group of five Serbian volunteers on Friday sent an open statement on arriving in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, declaring that their role was “to patrol roads and control vehicles and passengers at checkpoints”.