2009 Serbia

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Capital: Belgrade
Official Language: Serbian
Government: Parliamentary Republic
Head of State: Verica Kalanovic
Formation: 850
Population: 7,365,507 (2008 estimate)
Currency: Serbian dinar
Human Rights Record: Serbia
Territorial Disputes: Kosovo
Ongoing Conflicts: None
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=Government of Serbia=
Position 	Portfolio 	Name 	Party
President 	Head of State 	Verica Kalanovic 	G17+
Prime Minister 	General Affairs 	Mirko Cvetković 	Democratic Party
First Deputy Prime Minister	Ministry of Internal Affairs 	Jasna Matić 	G17+
Deputy Prime Minister 	Ministry of Science and Technological Development	Božidar Đelić 	Democratic Party
Deputy Prime Minister 	Ministry of Economy and Regional Development 	Čedomir Jovanović 	Liberal Democratic Party
Deputy Prime Minister 	Social Affairs 	Jovan Krkobabić 	Party of United Pensioners
Secretary General 	 	Žarko Obradović 	Socialist Party
Minister 	Foreign Affairs 	Predrag Marković 	G17+
Minister 	Finance 	Mlađan Dinkić 	G17+
Minister 	Kosovo and Metohija 	Branislav Ristivojevic	G17+
Minister 	Defense 	Dragan Šutanovac 	Democratic Party
Minister 	Trade and Services 	Diana Dragutinović 	Democratic Party
Minister 	Education 	Božidar Đelić 	Democratic Party
Minister 	Justice 	Veroljub Stevanović 	Together for Serbia
Minister 	Human and Minority Rights 	Ištvan Pastor 	Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians
Minister 	Public Administration and Local Self-Government 	Rasim Ljajić 	Sanjak Democratic Party
Minister 	Religion 	Vladan Batić 	Christian Democratic Party
=Diplomatic Relations=
==No formal diplomatic relations==
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==International Membership==
* United Nations
* Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
* Council of Europe
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=Brief History=
The Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија, Republika Srbija), is a country in Central- and Southeastern Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia is bordered by Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the west. The country's capital, Belgrade, was titled "City of the Future of South Europe" in 2006. Although landlocked, Serbia boasts 2,000 km of navigable waterways on the Danube, Sava, Tisza and their respective canals.
For centuries, located at, and shaped by, the cultural boundaries between the East and the West, a powerful medieval kingdom – later renamed the Serbian Empire – occupied much of the Balkans. The Serbian state disappeared by the mid-16th century, torn by domestic feuds, Ottoman-, Venetian-, Hungarian- and later, Austrian occupations.
The success of the Serbian revolution against Ottoman rule in 1817 marked the birth of the Principality of Serbia, centered in the Šumadija region. This was the first nation-state in CEE. Formal independence was enacted in 1878. In 1913 Kosovo was reacquired from the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Raška (Sandžak) has been terminated. In 1918 the region of Syrmia, followed by the former autonomous Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina proclaimed their secession from Austria-Hungary to unite with the Kingdom of Serbia.
The current borders of the country were established after World War II, when Serbia became a federal unit within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Serbia once again became an independent state in 2006, following the Montenegrin independence referendum.
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