Ivica Dačić

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Ivica Dačić at the Munich Security Conference 2014

Ivica Dačić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ивица Дачић ; born January 1, 1966 in Prizren , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian politician and acting Foreign Minister of Serbia. Since 2006 he has been the party leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). From 2008 to 2012 he was Serbian Minister of the Interior and then from July 2012 to April 2014 Serbian Prime Minister . In 2015 he was Chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Life

Education, SPS press officer and presidential candidate

Dačić attended high school in Niš and the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade . In 1990 he was the first chairman of the Young Socialists in Belgrade and spokesman for the Socialist Party between 1992 and 2000, which was founded by Slobodan Milošević . In his position as press spokesman the appearance of Milošević was similar to him in the early 1990s, through the press, the nickname "little Slobo" bestowed. Between 2000 and 2003 he was chairman of the Belgrade City Association of Socialists. In 2004 Dačić was a presidential candidate. He was temporarily a member of the Serbian parliament and the parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . Dačić was also the chairman of the Partizan Basketball Club in Belgrade and the deputy chairman of the Serbian Olympic Committee .

Government member

From October 2000 to January 2001 he was Serbia's Minister of Information in the transitional government until the first democratic parliamentary election at the end of December. After the death of Slobodan Milošević, Dačić was his successor as party chairman of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) in December 2006. In July 2008 he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Serbia.

His statement in May 2011 caused a sensation that a partition of Kosovo would be the only meaningful peace solution in the long run. SNS boss Tomislav Nikolić indicated support. Ivica Dačić emphasized, however, that this was his purely private opinion, and the Serbian government officially distanced itself from his statement.

After the parliamentary elections in Serbia in 2012 , in which Dačić's SPS almost doubled their share of the vote to 14.54%, Dačić reached an agreement with the chairman of the SNS Tomislav Nikolić and some smaller parties in July 2012 on a new coalition government , the Dačić should take over the post of Prime Minister . The previous alliance partner, the Demokratska Stranka (Democratic Party) of former President Boris Tadić , who was considered pro-Western , was thus relegated to the role of the opposition. On July 27, 2012, Dačić was elected Serbia's new Prime Minister after an approximately twelve-hour, sometimes tumultuous, debate. Ivica Tončev is one of his closest political advisers .

In 2015, Dačić chaired the OSCE in his role as Serbian Foreign Minister . Dačić took over the office from Didier Burkhalter , Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs , and handed it over to Frank-Walter Steinmeier , the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs . Through the OSCE Troika, a construct to bring continuity to the Chairmanship of the OSCE, he works particularly closely with these two Foreign Ministers during his Chairmanship.

criticism

As a spokesman for the government of Slobodan Milosevic Dačić criticized several times Germany for the NATO - war in the Balkans and described the Germans as "genocidal people." Today he distances himself from his previously critical stance on Western war policy and denies having said these sentences, which were published in the Serbian media and which he did not contest at the time. Dačić also received harsh criticism for his assessment in January 2000 when he called the war criminal Željko Ražnatović (known as Arkan ) a " Serbian patriot ". Already in September 1997 Ražnatović was tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia a . a. charged with genocide.

At the beginning of 2013, Dačić was criticized when he admitted in 2008, as Interior Minister, that he had had contact with a leading member of the drug ring around Darko Šarić . According to the broadcaster B92 , Dačić met him twice. Dačić stressed that he did not know that the person he was speaking to was a member of organized crime. He criticized the police for not informing him of the suspicion at the time. In 2012 it became known that Šarić had put a 10 million euro bounty on the head of the murder of six Serbian government officials, including Dačić, who blamed Šarić for the collapse of his drug empire.

family

Ivica Dačić is married and has two children. In addition to his mother tongue, he speaks English and Russian .

Web links

Commons : Ivica Dačić  - collection of images, videos and audio files
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martens, Michael: Serbia: “It's time to taste the honey” at faz.net, July 27, 2012 (accessed on July 27, 2012).
  2. ↑ OSCE: Former OSCE Chairpersons-in-Office. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Ivanji, Andrej: Serbia's little Slobodan . In: the daily newspaper , May 14, 2008, p. 2.
  4. ↑ N-TV - In Milosevic's footsteps "Little Slobo"
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung - Peace and Prosperity
  6. ^ RIA Novosti of May 16, 2011: Serbia's Interior Minister: Partition of Kosovo is the only realistic solution
  7. ^ Die Presse online from June 1, 2011: Serbian minister calls for the division of Kosovo
  8. ^ Pester Lloyd: The Return of the "Comrades" . Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  9. ^ Mia Ilić: The OSCE Troika. OSCE , accessed June 17, 2016 .
  10. ^ Andreas Ernst: Gaining prestige for Serbia. NZZ , December 3, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2016 (German).
  11. ↑ a b faz.net
  12. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel - Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic had contact with the drug mafia
  13. ^ Handelsblatt - Serbian government under suspicion of the Mafia
  14. ↑ Die Welt - Serbian government vacillates because of Mafia contacts
  15. ↑ B92 - Crime boss offers money reward for murder of officials ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.b92.net
  16. ↑ RIA Novosti - drug lord puts bounty on Serbia's ex-president Tadic
  17. ↑ US Department of State - 2012 Human Rights Reports: Serbia
  18. ↑ DerStandard - "Kokain-König" offered ten million euros for the murder of state officials
personal data
SURNAME Dačić, Ivica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Prizren