Rasim Ljajic

BELGRADE - Every household in Serbia should have access to high-speed internet by 2020, which would raise the GDP by 1-1.5 pct, Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said Tuesday.

Every household in Serbia should have access to "high-speed internet" by 2020, which would raise the GDP by 1-1.5 percent.

That's according to Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic, who spoke on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Every household in Serbia should have access to high-speed internet by 2020, which would raise the GDP by 1-1.5 pct, Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said Tuesday.

Serbia and Bosnia opened a joint trade and tourism office in Istanbul on Wednesday and promised to update their free-trade agreement as the two countries sought to woo Turkish investors and increase trade. 

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy PM and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic spoke Thursday with Indian Minister of State Jitendra Singh about improving overall economic relations between the two countries, especially in the spheres of information and communications technologies and tourism.

Stability in the region was shaken even before the referendum in the RS, while the referendum further influenced an increase of tensions.

Rasim Ljajic, Serbian cabinet minister and one of the deputy prime ministers, said this for TV B92 on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Croatian Foreign Minister Miro Kovac's claims that Serbia has not met all conditions for the opening of negotiation chapters with the EU are completely ungrounded, false and out of place, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic said on Friday.

BELGRADE - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) could submit a negative report on the cooperation with Serbia over the non- extradition of three Serbian Radical Party (SRS) officials sought by the Tribunal. says Rasim Ljajic, the head of the council for cooperation with the ICTY.

Serbia's government said it was declaring an emergency situation as a preventive measure, so that the authorities can react fast in saving lives and repairing damage caused by floods.

"The government will have daily meetings of the headquarters for emergency situations, and will continuously follow the situation in the field and inform citizens about it," it said.

An electoral coalition at all levels between the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has been confirmed.

SDPS leader Rasim Ljajic announced this after his meeting on Sunday with SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic.