Rasim Ljajic
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Government of Serbia | |
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Assumed office 27 July 2012 |
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| President | Tomislav Nikolić |
| Prime Minister |
Ivica Dačić Aleksandar Vučić |
| Preceded by | Verica Kalanović |
| Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications | |
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Assumed office 27 July 2012 |
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| Preceded by |
Dušan Petrović (Trade) Milutin Mrkonjić (Telecommunications) |
| Minister of Labour and Social Policy | |
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In office 15 May 2007 – 27 July 2012 |
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| President |
Boris Tadić Tomislav Nikolić |
| Prime Minister |
Mirko Cvetković Vojislav Koštunica |
| Preceded by | Slobodan Lalović |
| Succeeded by | Jovan Krkobabić |
| Minister of Human and Minority Rights of Serbia and Montenegro | |
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In office 17 March 2003 – 3 June 2006 |
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| President | Svetozar Marović |
| Minister of Human and Minority Rights of FR Yugoslavia | |
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In office 4 November 2000 – 7 March 2003 |
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| President | Vojislav Koštunica |
| Prime Minister |
Dragiša Pešić Zoran Žižić |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 28, 1964 Novi Pazar, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Political party |
Social Democratic Party of Serbia (2008–) |
| Other political affiliations |
Sandžak Democratic Party (1993–) Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (1990–1993) |
| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Alma mater | University of Sarajevo |
Rasim Ljajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Расим Љајић; Serbian pronunciation: [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.
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.
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