Ruling parties clash over ambassadors?

100 days since the government was formed, Serbia is without ambassadors to ten European states.

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100 days since the government was formed, Serbia is without ambassadors to ten European states. Even though it was almost certain the August 23 session of the government would see necessary appointments take place, Serbia still lacks a complete list of its ambassadors abroad. Ruling parties clash over ambassadors? Media speculate about a disagreement among the parties of the ruling coalition concerning the candidates for the vacant posts. The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) reportedly proposed party Vice-President Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, former Kosovo Coordinating Center chairwoman, as the ambassador to Italy, which failed to meet the approval of their coalition partner, the Democratic Party (DS). According to media reports, the Democrats objected because another DSS Vice-President Vladeta Jankovic has already been tipped as Serbia’s ambassador to Vatican. The DSS allegedly reacted by preventing the candidacies of Radomir Diklic, Ivo Viskovic and Predrag Filipovic of the DS, as future ambassadors in Brussels, Athens and Ljubljana. However, DSS officials claim there are no clashes within the ruling coalition, and that the delay in the appointments was caused by “harmonization of positions in light of a large number of quality candidates.” Dusan Lazic, of the Belgrade-based Forum for International Relations, said there was nothing out of the ordinary in the fact that governing parties were taking this long to agree over such issues, stressing it is typical of all parliamentary democracies in the world. Serbia has recently appointed its ambassadors to Russia and Canada, but posts in Great Britain, Italy, Montenegro, Slovenia, Denmark, Finland and Hungary remain vacant. Sanda Raskovic-Ivic: All roads lead to Rome? (FoNet, archive)

Ruling parties clash over ambassadors?

Media speculate about a disagreement among the parties of the ruling coalition concerning the candidates for the vacant posts.

The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) reportedly proposed party Vice-President Sanda Rašković-Ivić, former Kosovo Coordinating Center chairwoman, as the ambassador to Italy, which failed to meet the approval of their coalition partner, the Democratic Party (DS).

According to media reports, the Democrats objected because another DSS Vice-President Vladeta Janković has already been tipped as Serbia’s ambassador to Vatican.

The DSS allegedly reacted by preventing the candidacies of Radomir Diklić, Ivo Visković and Predrag Filipović of the DS, as future ambassadors in Brussels, Athens and Ljubljana.

However, DSS officials claim there are no clashes within the ruling coalition, and that the delay in the appointments was caused by “harmonization of positions in light of a large number of quality candidates.”

Dušan Lazić, of the Belgrade-based Forum for International Relations, said there was nothing out of the ordinary in the fact that governing parties were taking this long to agree over such issues, stressing it is typical of all parliamentary democracies in the world.

Serbia has recently appointed its ambassadors to Russia and Canada, but posts in Great Britain, Italy, Montenegro, Slovenia, Denmark, Finland and Hungary remain vacant.

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