BELGRADE -- Serbia’s new Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić has taken over office from Vuk Jeremić and said that his predecessor “flew the country’s flag high”.
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s new Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić has taken over office from Vuk Jeremić and said that his predecessor “flew the country’s flag high”.
Source: Tanjug
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“Jeremić left a deep impression in the diplomacy by running it for five years,” the new minister said.
Mrkić underscored that Jeremić had been a very successful foreign minister and added that he would try to follow in his footsteps.
Jeremić wished him and the government luck in facing “serious challenges”.
“The fact that he was elected as a UN General Assembly president shows how many results Jeremić achieved,” Mrkić said and offered Jeremić all the help in his work as the UNGA president.
The new foreign minister said that he saw his new job as a great honor, obligation and responsibility and pointed out that he would do his best to responsibly, honorably and professionally perform his duties.
Commenting on his mandate, Jeremić said he was honored to serve his country in a period that was not simple when it comes to the foreign policy.
He expressed hope that the new leadership would learn from mistakes and take advantage of successes that had been reached.
The former minister stressed that Serbia was the first Western Balkan country that would preside over OSCE, have a UNGA president and energetically opposed secession of a part of its territory, which showed that Serbia had managed to restore its reputation.
“I believe that the Foreign Ministry under new foreign minister will continue to represent Serbia’s interests at the international scene in the best possible way,” Jeremić noted.
Mrkić is a career diplomat who worked at the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Ministry.
He served at the Yugoslav mission to the UN, as an ambassador to Cyprus from 1993 to 1999, and to Japan from 2006 to 2011. He became a state secretary with the Foreign Ministry in 2011.
He is known to the public as the chief of staff of the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Dobrica Ćosić, from 1992 to 1993.
"The legality of Kosovo's UDI whould have never been established without Vuk's invaluable contribution."
(icj1, 28 July 2012 17:29)
Why not? Some persons from Kosovo could have asked the same question to the ICJ, with the same result.
Or do you mean the Kosovo officials would have been stupid enough not to ask about the legality of an UDI, but about the legality/statehood of Kosovo instead? Well, then, the answer would have different (or the ICJ would have refused to answer).
(Comm. Parrisson, 29 July 2012 12:16)
Come on, give the guy a brake. The court challenge was a f*#* up, but ultimately a meaningless one. He did an undeniably fantastic job of positively raising Serbia's international profile while ceaselessly emphasizing the issue of its territorial integrity to the world. I really do think that many more countries would have recognized the UDI if any one else in the former government had been foreign minister. He was able to spin the Kosovo issue into an opportunity for many a bullied nation to thumb its nose at the US with little consequence. This was demonstrated when he was personally elected over a US candidate. His only problem is he is a Democrat, but he was the only competent one. Just hope the new guy does nearly as well.
(Sergei, 28 July 2012 21:30)
"“I believe that the Foreign Ministry under new foreign minister will continue to represent Serbia’s interests at the international scene in the best possible way,”Jeremić noted."
Oh boy, this is not good for Kosovo... they're loosing the main contributor to Kosovo's international recognition. The legality of Kosovo's UDI whould have never been established without Vuk's invaluable contribution.
(icj1, 28 July 2012 17:29)
Come on, give the guy a brake. The court challenge was a f*#* up, but ultimately a meaningless one. He did an undeniably fantastic job of positively raising Serbia's international profile while ceaselessly emphasizing the issue of its territorial integrity to the world. I really do think that many more countries would have recognized the UDI if any one else in the former government had been foreign minister. He was able to spin the Kosovo issue into an opportunity for many a bullied nation to thumb its nose at the US with little consequence. This was demonstrated when he was personally elected over a US candidate. His only problem is he is a Democrat, but he was the only competent one. Just hope the new guy does nearly as well.
(Sergei, 28 July 2012 21:30)
"“I believe that the Foreign Ministry under new foreign minister will continue to represent Serbia’s interests at the international scene in the best possible way,”Jeremić noted."
Oh boy, this is not good for Kosovo... they're loosing the main contributor to Kosovo's international recognition. The legality of Kosovo's UDI whould have never been established without Vuk's invaluable contribution.
(icj1, 28 July 2012 17:29)
"The legality of Kosovo's UDI whould have never been established without Vuk's invaluable contribution."
(icj1, 28 July 2012 17:29)
Why not? Some persons from Kosovo could have asked the same question to the ICJ, with the same result.
Or do you mean the Kosovo officials would have been stupid enough not to ask about the legality of an UDI, but about the legality/statehood of Kosovo instead? Well, then, the answer would have different (or the ICJ would have refused to answer).
(Comm. Parrisson, 29 July 2012 12:16)
"“I believe that the Foreign Ministry under new foreign minister will continue to represent Serbia’s interests at the international scene in the best possible way,”Jeremić noted."
Oh boy, this is not good for Kosovo... they're loosing the main contributor to Kosovo's international recognition. The legality of Kosovo's UDI whould have never been established without Vuk's invaluable contribution.
(icj1, 28 July 2012 17:29)
Come on, give the guy a brake. The court challenge was a f*#* up, but ultimately a meaningless one. He did an undeniably fantastic job of positively raising Serbia's international profile while ceaselessly emphasizing the issue of its territorial integrity to the world. I really do think that many more countries would have recognized the UDI if any one else in the former government had been foreign minister. He was able to spin the Kosovo issue into an opportunity for many a bullied nation to thumb its nose at the US with little consequence. This was demonstrated when he was personally elected over a US candidate. His only problem is he is a Democrat, but he was the only competent one. Just hope the new guy does nearly as well.
(Sergei, 28 July 2012 21:30)
"The legality of Kosovo's UDI whould have never been established without Vuk's invaluable contribution."
(icj1, 28 July 2012 17:29)
Why not? Some persons from Kosovo could have asked the same question to the ICJ, with the same result.
Or do you mean the Kosovo officials would have been stupid enough not to ask about the legality of an UDI, but about the legality/statehood of Kosovo instead? Well, then, the answer would have different (or the ICJ would have refused to answer).
(Comm. Parrisson, 29 July 2012 12:16)