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Salaries of government ministers increased again
05/05/2021
Serbian ministers seem not to be touched by the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic since the Government has increased their salaries and fees for board membership by 40 percent, the Nova.rs website reported on Tuesday.
The website earlier analysis showed that ministers’ wages were increased between 10 and 30 percent on average in 2020, while the current Interior and former Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin held a record of 140 percent salary increase following the change of the post.
His previous salary was some 780 euro a month, while when he was moved to head the Interior Ministry, his wage moved to about 1.900 euro, Nova.rs said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with the Serb member of Bosnia s tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, Milorad Dodik, in Belgrade, Serbia January 17, 2019. [Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via Reuters]
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Accords. The landmark agreement between Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, which officially ended the deadliest conflict on European soil since World War II, was brokered by the United States at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, some three weeks before its signing in Paris, France on December 14, 1995.
The peace accord not only marked the end of the three-and-a-half-year Bosnian war, which resulted in about 100,000 deaths, left another two million people displaced, and paved the way for the Srebrenica genocide, but also outlined a complex constitutional framework for peace in Bosnia, dividing the internationally recognised sov