Rasim Ljajic

BELGRADE - Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks will arrive on a four-day visit to Serbia on Monday in order to assess the situation in the field of human rights.

BELGRADE - Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks will arrive for a few day visit to Serbia next week during which he will confer state officials and representatives of the media, international community and civil sector.

BELGRADE - Kazakh Ambassador to Serbia Nurbah Rustemov said during a meeting he had with Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic Thursday that his country would never recognize the independence of Kosovo, unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians in 2008.

BELGRADE - The quality of food could be the key trump card for Serbia in exports because our country can hardly contest mass production, cheap products and contemporary technologies in the strong competition on the global market, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The government and opposition parties in Serbia agree in their assessment that the ruling passed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which decided to drop the mutual genocide suits filed by Croatia and Serbia, opens the doors to the search for a solution left over from the war in the territory of former Yugoslavia.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic, who is also the minister of trade, tourism and telecommunications, and Qatar's Charge d'Affaires Ahmed Al Missned Al-Mohannadi discussed the promotion of bilateral relations and announced that the Embassy of Qatar will open in Serbia in February.

BELGRADE - Turkish Development Agency (TIKA) Vice President Ali Maskin has met Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic and said TIKA would provide EUR 1.35 million for projects aimed at repairing the damage caused by the May 2014 floods in Serbia.

New Croatian president writes to UN chief about Seselj

ZAGREB, BELGRADE -- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking for "steps to be taken to return Vojislav Seselj to custody."

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic met with Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister for Coalition Policy and Public Administration Rumiana Bacharova on Tuesday to discuss ways of improving the economic relatins between the two countries, and especially their trade.

BELGRADE - A total of RSD 1.130 billion will be set aside for commodity reserves in 2015, with almost half of the sum intended for procurement of basic food supplies, including maize, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic, who is also minister of trade, tourism and telecommunications, said on Monday.