The office of the Serbian prime minister has dismissed as "completely fabricated" Feb. 10 media claims that head of government Mirko Cvetkovic had offered his resignation to Serbian President Boris Tadic.

"Claims that Prime Minister Cvetkovic offered to resign are completely fabricated," BETA learned at the prime minister's office in response to a report by the Belgrade daily Blic.

Citing sources close to the Democratic Party top echelons, the Feb. 10 issue of Blic ran a story that Cvetkovic had offered his resignation to Tadic because of "poor coordination in the government, a consequence of each party conducting its own instead of state policies in the departments they control."

Commenting on reports in certain media that Cvetkovic had resigned, Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac said on Feb. 10 that relations between coalition partners were very fair, as they were when the government was formed.

"The government is having a regular session today and no one is offering resignations," Sutanovac told reporters in Belgrade.