Photo: AP Photo/Darko Vojinović"Our position on Mr. Vulin is well known. He remains under US sanctions," a State Department spokesman said in a statement.
"We are disappointed to see two sanctioned persons proposed for functions in the new government", stated the spokesperson of the State Department in za Voice of America.
According to announcements made by Mandate Miloš Vučević, the new Government of Serbia will also have two members who are under US sanctions: Aleksandar Vulin, who has been nominated for the position of Deputy Prime Minister, and Nenad Popović, who has been nominated for the position of Minister without Portfolio.
"Our position on Mr. Vulin is well known." He remains under US sanctions," the State Department spokesman said in a statement.
It is also emphasized that the United States does not play any role in personnel decisions of the Serbian government.
On Tuesday, Miloš Vučević, the representative for the composition of the new Government of Serbia and the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), announced the names of the ministers he will propose for the new composition of the Government.
While reading the names of the members of the future cabinet, Vucevic mentioned, among other things, Aleksandar Vulin - one of the most controversial actors on the Serbian political scene - who is considered to be a man with strong Russian ties and who has been in office since July 11 last year as the future deputy prime minister. on the list of sanctions of the Treasury Department of the United States for "corrupt and destabilizing acts", for the sake of advancing their own political agendas and personal interests, and to the detriment of peace and stability in the West the Balkans.
"The sanctioning of Alexander Vulin shows the determination of the United States to call to account those who engage in corrupt activities that advance their own political agendas and personal interests to the detriment of peace and stability in the Western Balkans." Those corrupt deals facilitate the spread of Russia's malicious activities in Serbia and the region," the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a statement when the sanctions were introduced in July 2023.
A group of individuals has created two websites where public procurement of the Telecom and IT sectors can be searched and compared. They invite the media, experts and citizens to review the documentation and submit reasoned observations
Very soon it could become obvious whether Milan Radoičić has left Serbia or not
The hospital formed a commission for an extraordinary expert check and informed the health inspection. Cases of death during childbirth in Serbia rarely receive a judicial epilogue.
Two unions of public services supported the request of FDU students for information about RTS employees, since claims appeared in the public that it was a request for "files". The students say they are looking for "public truth about public service."
Among those pardoned is the man who attacked a citizen who came to ask about the street in the office of the mayor of Kosjerić in April. The pardon applies only to one of the two offenses, and the injured party announces a constitutional appeal.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
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