Preceded by Verica Kalanovic Role Serbian Politician Preceded by Slobodan Lalovic Education University of Sarajevo | Residence Belgrade, Serbia Name Rasim Ljajic Succeeded by Jovan Krkobabic | |
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Prime Minister Ivica Dacic
Aleksandar Vucic Preceded by Dusan Petrovic (Trade)
Milutin Mrkonjic (Telecommunications) Born January 28, 1964 (age 60)
Novi Pazar, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia ( 1964-01-28 ) Political party Social Democratic Party of Serbia Party Social Democratic Party of Serbia | ||
Alma mater University of Sarajevo | ||
Rasim Ljajić-Dosadašnje mere Prištine su toliko radikalne da su potpuno ukinule trgovinu sa Srbijom
Rasim Ljajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Расим Љајић; [rǎːsim ʎǎːjitɕ]; born 28 January 1964) is a Serbian politician, the current Minister of Foreign and Domestic Trade and Telecommunications since 27 July 2012. He holds a degree in medicine from the University of Sarajevo. He is the President of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia, elected from 21 January 2007. Ljajić was also the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
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- Rasim Ljaji Dosadanje mere Pritine su toliko radikalne da su potpuno ukinule trgovinu sa Srbijom
- Political career
- Personal life
- References
Political career
In 1990, he was elected Secretary General of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak as one of its founders, a branch of the SDA in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, aimed at gathering Bosniaks in Serbia. In 1993 he left the party and with dissidents formed the Sandžak Democratic Party, criticizing Sulejman Ugljanin for being an extremist and endorsing separatism from Yugoslavia in an effort to join an enlarged Bosnia dominated by Bosnian Muslims.
One of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia leaders, he became Minister of Human and Minority Rights in 2000 after the fall of Slobodan Milošević, and his mandate as a minister was extended in the rump DS-led 2001 government. He is also the long-term Head of the Coordination Team with the Hague Tribunal.
In the 2003 parliamentary election he unsuccessfully led a massive alliance "Together for Tolerance" that failed to pass the census. The tolerance campaign was originally his concept, he co-led it with Nenad Čanak of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and Jožef Kasa of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians.
Personal life
Ljajić is an ethnic Bosniak. His relative and close friend Dževad Ljajić died in the military helicopter crash in Serbia on the night of 14 March 2015, which had a total of 7 victims.
