Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Serbia)
| Министарство спољних послова Ministarstvo spoljnih poslova |
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| Formed | 1811 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Serbia |
| Headquarters | 24-26 Kneza Miloša street 11000 Belgrade |
| Annual budget | RSD 7.016 billion (2008) |
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| Website | www |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Serbian: Министарство спољних послова / Ministarstvo spoljnih poslova) is a ministry in the government of Serbia responsible for maintaining the consular affairs and foreign relations of Serbia. The current minister of foreign affairs is Ivica Dačić, since 27 April 2014.
The foreign policy and diplomatic tradition of Serbia derive from its independent state in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Specific foreign policy and diplomatic experience of the Serbian state was drawn upon the vassal or autonomous state of the Serbian people during the various periods of the Ottoman domination in the Balkans, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
In the nineteenth century, when the movement for independence from the Ottoman Empire became irrepressible, especially after the First Serbian Uprising (1804) under Karađorđe and the Second Uprising (1815) under Miloš Obrenović, Serbia embarked upon an ever broader diplomatic rapport with the Porte in Constantinople, with Russia, Austria, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other European nations and neighboring states, such as Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. Serbia became fully independent and internationally recognized at the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
Among the states with which Serbia established diplomatic relations first (before that time diplomatic relations were limited to certain diplomatic functions) were Russia, Austria, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and a number of other European countries. The diplomatic relations with the United States, however, were established only in 1882, through the ratification of the Convention on trade and navigation and the Convention on consular relations.
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