Slobodan Uzelac

Slobodan Uzelac is a Croatian Serb politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia">Prime Minister of Croatia">Prime Minister of Croatia for Regional Development, Reconstruction and Return in the Cabinet of [Ivo Sanader II|second cabinet] of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and his successor in that position Jadranka Kosor. He is the first member of the Serb minority in Croatia to hold a cabinet position since the first Croatian multi-party elections were held in 1990 Croatian [parliamentary election|1990].

Biography

He offered his resignation in March 2008, after the Government of Croatia recognized Kosovo's 2008 [Kosovo declaration of independence|declaration of independence] However, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader did not accept his resignation, and the Independent [Democratic Serb Party] subsequently decided against withdrawing its member from the government.
Slobodan Uzelac received his Ph.D. in medicine from the University of Belgrade in 1981. He was a guest lecturer at the Penn State University in 2001.
Uzelac is the president of Serbian Cultural Society Prosvjeta.
In addition to Serbo-Croatian, Uzelac also speaks English and Russian. He is a member of the advisory board of the democratic left magazine Novi Plamen.