The new Government of the Republic of Serbia has been elected, Marko Djuric is the new Minister of Foreign Affairs

The members of the new Government of Serbia, led by Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, took a solemn oath in the Serbian Parliament, which began their four-year mandate, and President Aleksandar Vucic also attended the swearing-in ceremony.

The oath with which the members of the Government took office reads: "I swear allegiance to the Republic of Serbia and I pledge my honor to respect the Constitution and the law, to perform my duty as a member of the Government conscientiously, responsibly and with dedication and to be committed to the preservation of Kosovo and Metohija within the Republic of Serbia." .

The new Government of Serbia will have 31 members, of which five are ministers without portfolios.

The new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marko Djuric, comes to the position of Head of Diplomacy from the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to the United States of America.

In the period from 2020 to 2024, the duration of his mandate as ambassador to the USA, Đurić, with the support of the President of the Republic and the Government of Serbia, laid the foundations for a new level of bilateral relations between Serbia and the USA, and renewed the Serbian diplomatic presence in the USA, including infrastructure conditions for carrying out a diplomatic mission.

Djuric became the first Serbian ambassador on a non-residential basis in Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, Colombia and the Federation of St. Keats and Nevis. He served as an observer at the Association of Caribbean States, a permanent observer at the Organization of American States, and the authorized representative of the Republic of Serbia at the Caribbean Community and Common Market. He initiated the establishment of the American-Serbian Business Council, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Executive Council for Diplomacy in Washington.

During his mandate, he multiplied the number of members of the Serbian Caucus in the US Congress. For the first time in the history of Serbia's diplomatic presence in the USA, he organized the gathering of the Serbian diaspora by creating the strategic platform "Strengthening Ties", with the aim of restoring the connection of the dispersed Serbian people with the mother country and their continuous gathering and engagement for the purpose of promoting and representing the interests of the Serbian state and people in the USA.

From 2012 to 2014, Djuric was the youngest adviser to the President of Serbia and managed the foreign policy team in the Presidency. He was the head of Serbia's negotiating team for chapter 35 in the process of accession negotiations on Serbia's accession to the EU.

In that period, he conceived and co-designed Natalija's ramonda - an emblem that is today a commonly accepted sign of Armistice Day in Serbia in the First World War.

In his career, the new head of diplomacy was the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija for six years, from 2014 to 2020.

He led the team that built and capitally reconstructed 2,470 houses and apartments for Serbs and other citizens of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija - internally displaced, returnees and socially vulnerable, and which, in cooperation with the Eparchy of Raska-Prizren, completely or partially reconstructed 45 churches, monasteries and other buildings of the Serbian Orthodox Church, for which he received the Order of King Milutin from the then Patriarch Irinej on behalf of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

During his mandate at the head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, he initiated and implemented a number of other projects of importance for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, such as the returnee settlement "Suncana dolina", the "Rajska Banja" tourist and health complex in Banjska, a new maternity hospital in Pasjane, several new health centers, kindergartens, schools, monuments...

His brutal arrest and beating by the so-called of the Kosovo Special Forces six years ago, after which he was brought before a misdemeanor judge in Pristina. It was decided that he would be "deported" from Kosovo and Metohija, with the explanation that he was "intervened against on the basis of an entry ban order".

Djuric was also the head of the Working Group of the Government of Serbia for internal dialogue on resolving the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, and in September 2020 he was a member of the Serbian state delegation at the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina in Washington.

In the period from 2012 to 2020, he was the head of the negotiating team of Serbia in the negotiation process with the temporary institutions of self-government in Pristina.

He is a member and one of the founders of the Serbian Progressive Party, in which he holds the position of vice president.

He is the holder of numerous honors and awards: the Order of Njegos III degree awarded by the Republic of Srpska, the Order of Nikola Tesla, as well as the Order of King Milutin.

He is a law graduate by education, speaks English and Hebrew fluently, and uses French and Russian.

He is married to Andrijana Djuric and is the father of three daughters - Jovana, Milica and Djurdja.