The reshuffled cabinet of the Serbian government will have 17 ministries and 21 ministers, the Serbian government released in a statement on Sunday evening.However, the list of the ministers is still not completed, and as Tanjug has learned from unofficial sources the open issues are the election of deputy prime minister from the G17 Plus party, as well as the appointment of the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry and Water Management.
The reshuffled cabinet of the Serbian government will have 17 ministries and 21 ministers, the Serbian government released in a statement on Sunday evening.
According to a coalitional agreement, the reshuffled cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, will comprise:
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Defence
- Ministry of Interior
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Justice
- Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry and Water Management
- Ministry of Economy and Regional Development
- Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
- Ministry of State Administration, Local Self-Government and Human and Minority Rights
- Ministry of Education and Science
- Ministry of Youth and Sport
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Labor and Social Policy
- Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning
- Ministry of Culture, Communications and Information Society
- Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija
- Ministry of Religious Affairs and Diaspora
However, the list of the ministers is still not completed, and as Tanjug has learned from unofficial sources the open issues are the election of deputy prime minister from the G17 Plus party, as well as the appointment of the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Forestry and Water Management.
According to the unofficial sources, the first deputy prime minister and interior minister will still be Ivica Dacic.
Bozidar Djelic will remain the deputy prime minister for EU integration, while the deputy prime minister for economy and regional development will be a G17 Plus official.
Jovan Krkobabic will continue to perform the duties of a deputy prime minister.
Apart from the ministries that they were in charge up to now, five ministers will also head the newly-founded departments, according to the government’s statement.
The offices will be held by Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac and Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Goran Bogdanovic.
The agreement on ministries, which is final, should be made formal in the parliament on Tuesday, with the adoption of the bill on ministries and amendments to the Law on Government.
As the Serbian government stated, the two documents should be presented to the parliament on Monday, given that the 15-day deadline by which Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic is due to propose the ministers that should replace the three G17 Plus ministers who tendered their resignations expires on Tuesday, March 8.
Cvetkovic is expected to present the new members of the government to the parliament, as well as the measures the government will take.
The reshuffled government will redefine its economic priorities including betterment of the standard of living, unemployment rate control, acceleration of economic activities, price stability and support to the real sector development.
The government reshuffle should be accompanied with the adoption of the 2011 budget rebalance.
Source emg.rs
