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LIST OF THE MINISTERS FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PRINCIPALITY AND KINGDOM OF SERBIA SINCE THE FORMING OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT IN 1811 Miljko Radonjic
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Duration of Mandatefrom February 04, 1811. untill December 25, 1812 Dimitrije DavidovicBiography
His "History of the Serbian People", supplemented by lawyer Jovan Hadzic, was reprinted several times. In 1848 the work was translated into French by Alfred Vigneron. Duration of Mandatefrom June 08, 1834. untill December 02, 1835. Avram PETRONIJEVICBiography
At Russia's request sent in exile. Upon return once again resumed the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Prince's Representative holding both posts from 29 September 1844 to 10 April 1852. Duration of Mandatefrom 03 February 1835 until 17 March 1835;from 14 February 1839 until 03 May 1840; from 26 April 1840 until 03 May 1840 he was represented by Paun JANKOVIC. Djordje PROTICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 03 May 1840 until 06 December 1840; Aleksa JANKOVIĆBiography
Member of the Serbian Scientific Society from 26 August 1845; the Society's President from 1847-1848 and in 1854. Honorary member of the Serbian Learned Society (forerunner of the Academy) from 29 July 1864. Duration of MandateActing Minister from 07 August 1843 until 24 September 1843;from 24 September 1843 until 05 November 1843, represented the absent Minister Aleksa SIMIC Aleksa SIMICBiography
Belonged to the party of supporters of constitutionalism and against the Prince's autocracy. Duration of Mandatefrom 24 September 1843 until 29 September 1844 from 14 March 1853 until 16 December 1855 from 16 September 1856 until 19 June 1857. Ilija GARASANINBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 13 September 1852 until 14 March 1853 from 09 December 1861 until 03 November 1867 Stefan MARKOVICBiography
Duration of Mandate Acting Minister from 29 May until 16 September 1856 from 19 June 1857 until 31 March 1858 Stefan MAGAZINOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 31 March 1858 until 30 January 1859 Cvetko RAJOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 06 April 1859 until 27 October 1860 Filip HRISTICBiography
First Governor of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1885 to 1889. Duration of Mandatefrom 27 October 1860 until 09 December 1861 Jovan RiSTICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 03 november until 21 november 1867 from 10.august 1872 until 22..october 1873 from 19 August 1875 until 26 September 1875 from 19 August 1875 until 26 September 1875 from 24 April 1876 until 19 October 1880 from 01 June 1887 until 19 December 1887 Milan A. PETRONIJEVICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 03 November 1867until 21 November 1867; Designated Minister from 21 November 1867 until 21 June 1868 Radivoje MILOJKOVICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 21 June 1868 until 24 September 1868 Dimitrije MATICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 24 September 1868 until 10 August 1872 Jovan MARINOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 22 October 1873 until 25 November 1874 Milan S. PirocanacBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 25 November 1874 until 22 January 1875 Milan M. BOGICEVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 22 January 1875 until 19 August 1875 from 21 September 1883 until 07 February 1884. from 15 October 1894 until 25 June 1895 Djordje M. PavlovicBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 26 September 1875 until 24 April 1876 Cedomilj MIJATOVICBiography
Published "The Memoirs of a Balkan Diplomatist", in London in 1917. Duration of Mandatefrom 19 October 1880 until 10 October 1881 from 14 April 1888 until 23 February 1889 Milutin GARASANINBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 07 February 1884 until 02 May 1885 from 02 May 1885 until 23 March 1886 Dragutin FRANASOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 23 March 1886 until 01 June 1887 from 19 December 1887 until 14 April 1888 Sava GRUJICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 23 February 1889 until 16 March 1890 from 16 March 1890 until 11 February 1891 Acting Minister from 23 November 1893 until 12 January 1894 Mihailo Kr. DJORDJEVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 11 February 1891 until 21 March 1892 Nikola PASICBiography
One 0of ther founders of the Radical party and iots leader for life. Elected member of Parliament several times. In exile for political reasons from 1883-1889.
Duration of Mandateffrom 21 March 1892 until 09 August 1892 from 26 January 1904 until 16 May 1905 from 17 April 1906 until 07 July 1908 from 30 August 1912 until 03 November 1918 from 01 January 1921 until 05 January 1922 Jovan Dj. AVAKUMOVICBiography
One of the most prominent barristers in Belgrade. Published a large number of works in the field of criminal law. The most important work: Theory of Penal Law (1887-1891). Duration of Mandatefrom 09 August 1892 until 01 April 1893 Andra NikolicBiography
Also published pamphlets. Duration of Mandatefrom 01 April 1893 until 04 June 1893; from 04 June 1893 until 23 November 1893 from 21 September 1903 until 26 January 1904 Djordje S. SIMICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 12 January 1894 until 21 March 1894 from 17 December 1896 until 11 October 1897 Sima LOZANICBiography
As a Minister of Economy proposed laws contributing to the to the country's modernization 1897-1899. Published more than 200 works in the field of applied and experimental chemistry. The first academic to have started organic compounds experiments with weak currents in the research work into the origin of life on the Earth. Duration of Mandatefrom 21 March 1894 until 09 May 1894 from 09 May 1894 until 15 October 1894 from 23 December 1902 until 23 March 1903 Stojan NOVAKOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 25 June 1895 until 17 December 1896 Vladan DJORDJEVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 11 October 1897 until 12 July 1900 Aleksa S. JOVANOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 12 July 1900 until 05 February 1901 Mihailo V. VUJICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 05. February 1901 until 07 October 1902. Vasilije ANTONICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 7 October until 23 December 1902 represented Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2 December 1905 to 1 March 1906. from 1 March to 17 April 1906. Pavle DenicBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 23 March 1903 until 29 May 1903 Ljubomir KALJEVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 29 May 1903 until 21 September 1903 Jovan ZUJOVICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 26 May 1905 until 30 July 1905 Designated Minister from 30 July 1905 until 02 December 1905 Milovan Dj. MILOVANOVICBiography
Member of the Radical Party. Duration of Mandatefrom 07 July 1908 until 18 June 1912 Jovan M. JOVANOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 18 June 1912 until 30 August 1912Mihailo GAVRILOVICBiography
Duration of Mandaterepresented Prime minster Nikola PASIC from 10 March 1918 until 03 November 1918, Stojan PROTICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 03 November 1918 until 07 December 1918 LIST OF MINISTERS FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES, THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA, THE DEMOCRATIC FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA, THE FEDERAL PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA, THE SOCIALIST FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO AND THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Ante TRUMBICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 07 December 1918 until 22 November 1920 Miroslav SPALAJKOVIC
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Duration of MandateRepresented Minister Ante TRUMBIC from 19 February 1920 until 18 August 1920 Milenko VESNICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 22 November 1920 until 01 January 1921 Momcilo NINCICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 05 January 1922 until 27 July 1924 from 06 November 1924 until 06 December 1926 from 27 March 1941 until 01 January 1943 (in exile) Vojislav MARINKOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 27 July 1924 until 06 November 1924 from 17 April 1927 until 03 July 1932 Milos TRIFUNOVICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 06 December 1926 until 24 December 1926 Ninko PERICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 24 December 1926 until 16 April 1927 Bogoljub JEVTICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 03 July 1932 until 24 June 1935 Milan STOJADINOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 24 June 1935 until 05 February 1939Aleksandar CINCAR-MARKOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 05 February 1939 until 27 March 1941 Slobodan JOVANOVICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Prime Minister from 02. January 1943 until 26 June 1943 (in exile) Milan GROLBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 26 June 1943 until 10 August 1943 (in exile) Bozidar PURICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 10 August 1943 until 01 June 1944 (in exile) Ivan SUBASICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 01 June 1944 until 05 March 1945 (in exile) from 07 March 1945 until 17 October 1945 Josip BROZ TitoBiography
Duration of Mandateacting Minister from 30 November 1945 until 31 January 1946 Stanoje SIMICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 01 February 1946 until 31 August 1948 Edvard KARDELJBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 31 August 1948 until 14 January 1953 Koca POPOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 15 January 1953 until 23 April 1965 Marko NIKEZICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 23 April 1965 until 25 December 1968 Miso PAVICEVICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 25 December 1968 until 25 April 1969 Mirko TEPAVACBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 25 April 1969 until 01 November 1972 Jaksa PETRICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 01 November 1972 until 15 December 1972 Milos MINICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 16 December 1972 until 17 May 1978 Josip VRHOVECBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 17 May 1978 until 17 May 1982 Lazar MOJSOVBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 17 May 1982 until 15 May 1984 Raif DIZDAREVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 15 May 1984 until 30 December 1987 Budimir LONCARBiography
Member of the delegation of the SFRY to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Conference of Non-Aligned Countries. Member of the Yugoslav delegation to the XI, XII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII sessions of the UN General Assembly.
Trajanje mandata from 31 December 1987 until 12 December 1991 Milivoje MAKSICBiography
Duration of MandateActing Minister from 12 December 1991 until 28 April 1992 Vladisalv JOVANOVICBiography
Trajanje mandata from 04 March 1993 until 15 August 1995
Ilija DJUKICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 30 September 1992 until 04 March 1993 Milan MILUTINOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom 15 August 1995 until 08 January 1998 Zivadin JOVANOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom January 9, 1998 until November 4, 2000 Goran SVILANOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom November 4, 2000 until April 16, 2004 Vuk DRASKOVICBiography
Duration of Mandatefrom April 16 2004 until May 15, 2007 Vuk JEREMICBiography
Vuk JEREMIC, politician. Born 3 July 1975, Belgrade Serbia. Duration of Mandatefrom May 15, 2007 until 27 July 2012 Ivan MRKICBiography
Mr. Ivan MRKIC, was born on 30 May 1953, Belgrade. Duration of Mandatefrom July 27 2012 until April 27 2014 |
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Dimitrije DAVIDOVIC, journalist, writer and politician. Born in Zemun (Austria) on 12 October 1789; died in Smederevo on 25 March 1838. Completed elementary and secondary school in Zemun and Karlovci (Austria). Studied medicine and philosophy in Budapest and Vienna but did not complete his studies (spoke German, French and Latin). Acquired printer's trade in 1819. Published the newspaper "Novine Serbske" from 1813-1822. Published the almanac "Zabavnik" from 1815-1821. Crossed to Serbia in 1821. Secretary of the Prince's Office from 1821-1829. Head of the Serbian diplomatic delegation in Constantinople (Turkey) from 1829-1833. Minister of Education and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 8 June 1834 to 2 December 1835.
Avram PETRONIJEVIC, statesman. Born in Orsava (Austria) on 2 February 1791; died in Constantinople on 10 April 1852. Educated in Orsava. Arrived in Serbia in 1817. Secretary of the Prince's Office from 1818. Sent to Constantinople on 29 October 1820 as the clerk of the Serbian delegation and remained there until March 1826. Spent a period in prison in Turkey due to the uprising in Greece. In March 1826 resumed the post of the secretary of the Prince's Office. Member of the Prince's entourage from 1832. After the promulgation of the Constitution he became Minister for Foreign Affairs (from 3 February to 17 March 1835). Upon the abolishment of the Constitution and of the Ministry, he became the "Prince's Representative". Member of the State (Prince's) Council from 28 September 1837. In 1838, head of the delegation in Constantinople charged with the task of proposing the Constitution of the Principality of Serbia for approval. The Prince's Representative and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 14 February 1839 to 3 May 1840. Member of the Regency consisting of three members 1 June 1839. In exile in Constantinople from 1840-1842. Governed Serbia, together with Toma Vucic-Perisic from 27 August to 26 October 1842. After Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic became the Prince of Serbia, Petronijevic was reappointed Minister for Foreign Affairs on 26 October 1842 and held the post until 7 August 1843.
Aleksa SIMIC, politician. Born in the village of Boljevci (Austria) on 18 March 1800. Died in Belgrade on 17 February 1872. Educated in Djakovo; worked as a shop assistant. Crossed to Serbia in 1819. Clerk in the Prince's Office from 1 June 1919. Secretary of the Prince's Office from 1823. One of the leading traders in Belgrade from 1824. Minister of Finance from 3 February to 17 March 1835. First Aide de Camps of Prince Milos from 1835. Adviser to the Prince from 1836. Envoy in Constantinople from 1842. The Prince's Representative and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 September 1843 to 29 September 1844. In exile, living in his estate in Wallachia until 1849. Minister of Justice and Education from 1849 to 1852. Minister of Internal Affairs from 1852 to 1853. The Prince's Representative and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 14 March 1853 to 16 December 1855. The Prince's Representative and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 16 September 1856 to 19 June 1857. Retired in 1857. 
Ilija GARASANIN, statesman, politician. Born in the village of Garasi on 16 January 1816; died in Belgrade on 10 June 1874. Educated at home by private tutors. Completed the Greek school in Zemun. Learned German in Orahovica. Customs officer in Visnjica and Belgrade from 1837. First commander of the Serbian regular army with the rank of Colonel. Assistant Minister for Internal Affairs from October 1842 and Minister for Internal Affairs from 1843 to 1852. The Prince's Representative and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 13 September 1852 to 14 March 1853. Member of the Council from 1856-1858. Minister of Internal Affairs from 1858 until the departure of Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic. President of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 9 December 1861 to 3 November 1867.
Stefan MARKOVIC, politician. Born in Zemun (Austria) on 26 December 1804. Died in Vienna on 29 November 1864. Finished elementary school in Zemun in 1815. Completed secondary school in Sremski Karlovci (Austria) in 1821. Studied at the university in Austria. Crossed to Serbia in 1834. Court clerk in Kragujevac from 1834. Member of the Government and Secretary of Prime Minister's Office from 1835. Director of the Prince's Office from 28 September 1837. Principal Secretary of the Council (Government) from 1839. Member of the Council from 1842-1857. Minister of Justice and Education from 21 December 1854 to 29 May 1856. Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs from 29 May to 16 September 1856. Minister of Justice and Education from 16 September 1856 to 19 June 1857. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 19 June 1857 to 31 March 1858.
Stefan MAGAZINOVIC, politician. Born in 1804; died in Belgrade on 5 February 1874. Attended elementary school in Ruma (Austria). Judicial clerk from 1823 to 1829. In the Prince's Office from 1829-1833. Served in the police with the rank of Major from 1833 to 1839. In the judiciary from 1839-1854. President of the Supreme Court from 1852. Member of the Council (Government) and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1854-1855. Minister for For Foreiign Affairs from March 31, 1858 to January 30, 1859, when he retired.
Cvetko RAJOVIC, politician. Born in the village of Vukovic, Trebinje (Herzegovina) in 1793. Died in Belgrade on 22 April 1873. Member of the new Council (Government) from 14 February 1839. Minister of Justice from 4 May 1840 to 26 August 1842. The Prince's Representative (Prime Minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 6 April 1859 to 27 October 1860. Sent on a mission with Avram Petronijevic to Sankt-Petersburg in 1830 to purchase the first State printing machine which printed the official newspaper "Novine Serbske" from 1 January 1834. Supporter of the Obrenovic dynasty. Suspected of having organized the "Smederevo" or "Rajovic's" rebellion against the Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic, in 1844.
Filip HRISTIC PhD, politician. Born in 1819; died in Menton (France) on 29 January 1905. One of the first State scholarship holders abroad in 1839. Took a doctor's degree in law in Paris. In government service as Commissioner of the Danube Commission and member of the Council (Government). Private Secretary to Prince Milos from 1858-1860. The Prince's Representative and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 27 October 1860 to December 1861. After the Turkish shelling of Serbian towns in 1867 sent on a mission to London. Representative of Serbia in Constantinople from 1871. Minister of Education from 22 October 1873 to 25 November 1874. Delegate of Serbia for the conclusion of peace with Turkey in 1877. Envoy of Serbia in Constantinople, Vienna and London from 1878 to 1883.
Jovan RISTIC PhD, statesman, historian. Born in Kragujevac on 4 January 1831. Died in Belgrade on 23 August 1899. After primary education in Kragujevac, his secondary schooling was in Belgrade where he finished the lyceum in 1849 at the top of his class. On a state scholarship, Ristic then studied at German and French universities for five years, receiving a doctorate in history in Heidelberg. Studying under the renowned German historian, Leopold von Ranke, Ristic aimed to become a history professor at the Belgrade lyceum. Learned French in Paris and attended courses at the Sorbonne until 1854. Failing to obtain a position there, he then entered the Serbian administration. Civil servant in the Ministries for Foreign and Internal Affairs, respectively until 1858. Secretary of the Serbian delegation in Constantinople in 1860. Representative in Constantinople from October 1861 to November 1867. On missions to the Courts of Vienna, Sank-Petersburg and Berlin from 1867-1868. Member of the Regency of Three from 1868-1872. Acted as Prime Minister; Prime Minister from 24 March and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 10 August 1872 to 22 October 1873. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 19 August to 26 September 1875. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April 1876 to 1878. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 10 October 1878 to 19 October 1880. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 June to 19 December 1887. Member of the Regency of Three from 1889 to 1 March 1893.
Milan A. PETRONIJEVIC, politician, diplomat. Born in 1830, father Avram. Died in 1914. Envoy in Constantinople from 1854-1861. President of the Theatre Committee (Third) from 9 December 1864 to 13 July 1868. Deputized for Minister for Foreign Affairs Ristic from 3 to 21 November 1867. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 21 November 1867 to 21 June 1868. Envoy of Serbia in Bucharest from 1873-1880. Envoy in Berlin from 1880-1888. Envoy in Vienna from 1889-1890. Envoy in Sank-Petersburg from May 1890 to 1897 (?). Vice-President of the State Council.
Radivoje MILOJKOVIC, politician. Born in the village of Glogovac (Serbia) on 27 December 1832. Died in Belgrade on 16 December 1888. Completed the Lyceum in Belgrade. As a State scholarship holder studied law in Heidelberg and Paris until 1859. Joined civil service in 1859 as Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, subsequently of the State Council. Head of Department in the Ministry of Justice. President of the Appellate Court. Minister of Internal Affairs after the assassination of Prince Mihailo (1868). Acted as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 21 June to 24 September 1868. President of the Council of Ministers from 1869-1872. Member of the State Council from 1872. Minister of Justice from 1875. Minister of Internal Affairs from 1876-1879, in 1880 and from 1887 until his death, in 1888.
Dimitrije MATIC Ph.D. politician and lawyer. Born in Ruma (Austria) on 18 August 1821. Died in Belgrade on 17 October 1884. Completed the Lyceum in Kragujevac in 1841. As a holder of a State's scholarship studied law and philosophy in Germany. Took a doctor's degree in Berlin in 1848. As a clerk went in exile with Prince Mihailo in 1842. Returned in 1843. Barrister in Belgrade from 1843-1845. Member of the People's Committee in Karlovci (Austria) during the 1848 revolution. Professor of civil and State law at the Belgrade Lyceum from 17 August 1848. Secretary of the Appellate Court from 14 July 1851. Head of External Affairs Department of the Prince's Office from 19 May 1855. Member of the Court of Justice from 15 October 1858. Minister of Education from 22 October 1859. Member of the Court of Justice from 12 November from 1860-1862. Principal Secretary of the State Council (Government) from 29 December 1862-1866. Minister of Education and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 September 1868 to 10 August 1872. Member of the State Council from 1872. President of the Assembly from 1878. Minister of Justice from 1878-1879.
Jovan MARINOVIC, scholar and politician. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Turkey) in 1821. Died in Villiers-sur-Mer (France) on 30 July 1893. Educated in Serbia, Kragujevac. As a holder of State scholarship studied in Paris from 1841-1842. In the Prince's Office from 1837-1841. Secretary of the Council (Government) from 1842. Head of Department in the Prince's Office from 1843 to 1856. Minister of Finance from 1856-1857. Member of the State Council from 1860. President of the State Council from 1861. After the assassination of Prince Mihailo, Head of the Provisional Regency; convened the Great Assembly for election of the new Prince in 1868. Confirmed as President of the Council in 1869. President of The Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 22 October 1873 to 25 November 1874. Envoy of Serbia in Paris from 1878 to 1889. In the capacity of a Head of the Prince's Office advised neutrality during the War of Crimea.
Milan M. BOGICEVIC, politician. Born in Sabac on 6 March 1840. Took a degree in law in Paris. Secretary and later on Charge d'Affairs of the Serbian Delegation in Constantinople from 1867 to 1872. Secretary of the Prince's Office from 1872. Minister of Justice from 25 November 1874 to 22 January 1875. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 22 January to 19 August 1875. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 21 September 1883 to 7 February 1884. Envoy of Serbia in Vienna from 1884 to 1888. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 15 October 1894 to 25 June 1895. Envoy of Serbia in Berlin from 1895 to 1900. State Counselor from 1903 to 1906.
Djordje M. PAVLOVIC, politician and law expert. Born in Smederevo in 1838. Died in Belgrade on 28 October 1921. Took a degree in law in Paris (1862). Professor of civil law at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade from 1864 to 1871. One of the founders and first director of the Smederevo Credit Bank (1871). Minister for Foreign Affairs from 26 September 1875 to 24 April 1876. Minister of Finance from 7 February to 9 October 1884 (introduced progressive taxes which meant act of social justice). Minister of Justice from 2 May 1885 to 23 March 1886. King Milan decorated him with a Takovo Cross of the I class. President of the Court of Justice from 1903 to 1908.
Cedomilj MIJATOVIC, statesman, historian, writer. Born in Belgrade on 6 October 1842. Died in London in 1932. Completed the Lyceum in Belgrade (1862). As a State scholarship holder studied political and economic sciences in Munich, Leipzig and Zurich. From 1866 Assistant Professor and later on Professor at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade. Head of Department in the Ministry of Finance from 1869. Minister of Finance from 2 April 1873 to 1875 and from 10 October 1881 to 20 September 1883. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 19 October 1880 to 10 October 1881 and from 14 April 1888 to 23 February 1889. Envoy of Serbia in London and Constantinople. Retired after 29 May 1903.
Milutin GARASANIN, politician. Born on 10 February 1848, father Ilija Garasanin. Died in Paris on 21 February 1898. Completed artillery school in Metz (France). After school lived on the family estate in Grocka and engaged in flour-mill business. Participated in the 1876. Serbian-Turkish war as artillery Captain. Participated in the 1877/78 war with Turkey as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Javor Army with the rank of Major. Minister of Internal Affairs from 1880-1883. Envoy of Serbia in Vienna from 1883-1884. Vice Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 7 February 1884 to 23 March 1886. Vice Premier and Minister of Internal Affairs from 23 March 1886 to 1887. Editor of the newspaper "Videlo" from 1887-1889. Envoy of Serbia in Paris from 1894-1895. President of the National Assembly from 1895-1896.
Dragutin FRANASOVIC, general. Born in Constantinople (Turkey) on 5 December 1842. Died in Vienna on 18 April 1914. Completed secondary school in Austria. Joined the Serbian Army in 1862. Promoted to the rank of officer in 1867, to the rank of Colonel in 1884 and of General in 1894. Aide de Camps of Prince Milan Obrenovic from 1879. Minister of War from 24 November 1885 to 23 March 1886. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 23 March 1886 to 1 June 1887. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 19 December 1887 to 14 April 1888. Minister of Armed Forces from 1 April to 4 June 1893. Head of the King's Decorations (1893-1895). Minister of Armed Forces from 25 June 1895 to 17 December 1896.
Mihailo Kr. DJORDJEVIC, politician. Born in Belgrade in 1850. Died in Belgrade in 1901. Completed secondary school and the studies in Belgrade. Secretary of the Serbian Legation in Constantinople (1881) Minister of Justice from 16 March 1890 to 11 February 1891. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 11 February 1891 to 21 March 1892. Minister of Justice from 21 March to 9 August 1892. Envoy of Serbia in Paris from August 1892. Minister of Justice from 15 October 1894 to 20 March 1895. Acting Minister of Education from 15 to 23 October 1894. Minister of Internal Affairs from 17 December 1896 to 11 October 1897. State Counselor.
Nikola PASIC, politician. Born in Zajecar on 19 December 1845. Died in Belgrade on 10 December 1926. Attended secondary school in Negotin, Zajecar and Kragujevac. Enrolled in the Faculty of Technology in Belgrade in 1866. As a holder of state scholarship continued studies at the Polytechnics in Zurich from 1868-1872. Engineer at the Ministry of Public Works from 1873. Engineer of the Krusevac District in 1875. Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 11 February 1891. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 21 March to 9 August 1892. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Serbia in Sank-Petersburg from 16 May 1893 to 1894. President of the Belgrade municipality from 31 December 1895 to 5 November 1897. Member of the State Council and member of the Senate for life from 6 April 1901. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 26 January 1904 to 16 May 1905. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, representative of the Minister of Public Works from 17 April 1906 to 7 July 1908. Minister of Public Works from 11 February 1909. Prime Minister from 11 October 1909 to 25 June 1911. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 30 August 1912 to 3 November 1918. Prime Minister from 1 January 1921 to 27 July 1924. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 January 1921 to 5 January 1922. Prime Minister from 6 November 1924 to 15 April 1926.
Jovan Dj. AVAKUMOVIC, lawyer and politician. Born in Belgrade on 1 January 1841. Died in Belgrade in 1928. Took a degree in law in Belgrade. Studied legal and government sciences in Germany. Civil servant in the judiciary and the police until 1876. Head of Department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1876 to 1880. Minister of Justice from 5 June to 19 October 1880. Member of the Court of Cassation from 1881-1887. Minister of Justice from 1 June to 19 December 1887. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 9 August 1892 to 1 April 1893. Prime Minister from 29 May to 21 September 1903.
Djordje S. SIMIC, politician, diplomat. Born in Belgrade on 16 February 1843. Died in Zemun on 11 October 1921. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Studied government sciences in Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris. Clerk in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Head of Political Department from 1867 to 1882. Consul-General of Serbia in Sofia from 1882-1884. Envoy of Serbia in Sank-Petersburg from 1887-1890. Envoy of Serbia in Vienna from 1890-1894. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 12 January to 21 March 1894. Envoy of Serbia in Vienna from 1894-1896. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 17 December 1896 to 11 October 1897. Envoy of Serbia in Rome in 1900. President of the State Council and Senator in 1901. Envoy of Serbia in Constantinople from 1903-1906. Envoy of Serbia in Vienna from 1906-1912. At disposal from 1912.
Sima LOZANIC Ph.D., university professor, scientist. Born in Belgrade on 27 February 1847. Died in Belgrade on 7 June 1935. Completed secondary school and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Studied chemistry in Zurich and Berlin. Professor of chemistry and chemical technology at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade from 1872 to 1924. Minister of Economy from 12 January to 21 March 1894. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 21 March to 15 October 1894. Minister of Economy from 15 October 1894 to 25 June 1895 and from 11 October 1897 to 30 June 1899. Envoy of Serbia n London from 1900. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 23 December 1902 to 23 March 1903. President of the Serbian Committee for Assistance to Refugees from 1916. Head of Mission to the USA to ensure support and assistance to Serbia from the end of 1917.
Stojan NOVAKOVIC, academic and politician. Born in Sabac on 1 November 1842. Died in Nis on 18 February 1915. Completed secondary school in Sabac. Took degrees in law and philosophy at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade (1863). Secondary school teacher in Belgrade from 1865. Made a study trip to Europe in 1872. Professor at the Grande Ecole from 1872-1873. Minister of Education from 2 April to 22 October 1873. Head of the National Library from 1873-1874. Minister of Education from 25 November 1874 to 19 August 1875. Professor of the Grande Ecole (University) from 1875. Minister of Education from 19 October 1880 to 21 September 1883. Member of the State Council in 1883. Minister of Internal Affairs from 7 February 1884 to 2 May 1885. Envoy of Serbia in Constantinople from 1886-1891. President of the State Council from 1892-1895. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 25 June 1895 to 17 December 1896. Envoy in Constantinople from 1897. Envoy in Paris from 1900. Envoy in Sank Petersburg from the autumn of 1900-1904. Prime Minister from 11 February to 11 October 1909. Head of the Serbian Delegation to the Peace Conference in London in 1913 following the Balkan war against Turkey.
Ph.D Vladan DJORDJEVIC, physician and statesman. Born in Belgrade on 21 November in 1844. Died in Baden near Vienna on 31 August in 1930. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Took a degree in medicine in Vienna (1869). Specialized in surgery in Vienna from 1869-1871. Military physician and head of the Surgical Ward of the Military Hospital from 1871. Head of the Medical Unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1879. President of the Belgrade municipality from 1884-1888. Minister of Education from 1888. Envoy of Serbia in Athens from 1891. Envoy of Serbia in Constantinople from 1894. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 11 October 1897 to 12 July 1900. Austrian internee during World War One.
Aleksa S. JOVANOVIC, lawyer and politician. Born on 19 August 1846 in Negotin, died on 6 May 1920 in Belgrade. Finished elementary school in Negotin, and completed secondary school and Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Worked as a judicial clerk in Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Belgrade, as well as in the Ministry of Justice. Being appointed judge in Smederevo and Krusevac 1874-1878. Chief of Magistrate, president in Nis and Belgrade 1878-1884. Member of the Court of Justice 1884-1890. Department head in the Ministry of Justice 1890-1894. For the second time appointed Member of the Court of Justice 1894-1899. President of the Court of Appeal as of 1 June 1899. Designated State’s Counselor as of 11 September 1901. Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 12 July 1900 till 5. February 1901. Second time designated Prime Minister and Minister of Justice from 5 February till 20 March 1901.
Ph.D Mihailo V. VUJIC, statesman and academic. Born in Belgrade on 26 October 1853. Died in Susak on 1 March 1913. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Took a doctor's degree in Philosophy in Leipzig. Professor of Political Economy at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade, 1879-1887. Minister of Finance from 1887 to 1897. Envoy of the Kingdom of Serbia in Paris in 1900. Prime Minister from 20 March to 6 April 1901. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 5 February 1901 to 7 October 1902. Envoy of the Kingdom of Serbia in Vienna from 1903 and Envoy in Berlin from 1906. Envoy in Rome from 1909.
Vasilije ANTONIC, colonel. Born in the area of Mt Rudnik on 12 April 1860. Died in Belgrade in 1929. Completed secondary school and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Completed Military Academy (1880-1883), graduated 2nd in class. General Staff Colonel from 1905. Chief of Staff of the Division District; Head of Department in the General Staff; Aide de Camps to the King; Lecturer at the Military Academy from 1899-1900. Military Attaché in Vienna. Minister of Armed Forces from 21 December 1901 to 7 October 1902. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 7 October to 23 December 1902. Envoy of the Kingdom of Serbia in Cetinje (Montenegro). Minister of Armed Forces from 16 May 1905 to 1 March 1906. Represented Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2 December 1905 to 1 March 1906. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 March to 17 April 1906. Retired in 1914.
Pavle DENIC, statesman. Born in Belgrade on 16 April 1855. Died in Belgrade 1939. Completed secondary school and the Military Academy in Belgrade (1871-1875). Took a degree in engineering at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 5 November 1876. Resigned as Lieutenant. Standing Professor of Geodesy at the Military Academy from 11 January 1889 to 8 August 1892 and from 4 April to 17 December 1897. Mayor of the City of Belgrade. Consul-General of Serbia in Thessaloniki (Greece) and Skopje (Turkey). Head of the Belgrade District. Director of the Tobacco Factory and Commissioner of the National Bank. Minister for Public Works from 7 November 1902 to 25 March 1903. Represented Minister for Foreign Affairs from 23 March to 29 May 1903. Director and subsequently Member of the Board of Directors of the Belgrade Bank. President of the Supervisory Board of the State Mortgage House and President of the Supervisory Board of the State Bank of Settlements (1925).
Ljubomir KALJEVIC, politician. Born in Uzice in 1841. Died o 20 march 1907. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Studied government sciences in Heidelberg and Paris. Upon return to Serbia published the newspaper "Serbia", organ of the United Serbian Youth 1867-1870. Member of Parliament (1871-1877) and Minister of Finance from 25 November 1874 to 20 January 1875. President of the National Assembly in 1875. Prime Minister from 26 September 1875 to 24 April 1876. Envoy of Serbia in Bucharest and Athens from 1881-1889. Member of the State Council from 1895-1907. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 29 May to 21 September 1903.
Ph.D Jovan ZUJOVIC, university professor, politician. Born in the village of Brusnica on 18 October 1856. Died in Belgrade in 1936. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Attended a mathematics course in Zurich. Studied mathematics in Belgrade and social sciences in Paris. Lecturer of mineralogy and geology at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade from 1880. Standing Professor from 1883. Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture since its foundation. Secretary of the Royal Serbian Academy since its foundation. Minister of Education from 16 May to 30 July 1905. Represented Minister for Foreign Affairs from 26 May to 30 July 1905. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 30 July to 2 December 1905. Minister of Education from 11 October 1909 to 12 September 1910. President of the Serbian Royal Academy from 1915-1921.
Milovan Dj. MILOVANOVIC, PhD, politician and writer. Born in Belgrade on 17 February 1863. Died in Belgrade on 18 June 1912. Completed secondary school in Belgrade (1873-1880). Began studies of law in Belgrade in 1880. Continued studies and took a doctor's degree in law in Paris (1881-1888). His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Guarantee Contracts in the 19th Century". Professor of government and international law at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade (1888-1891). Head of Department in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1891-1892 and from 1 April 1893 to 1894. Minister of Justice from 17 December 1896 to 11 October 1907. Envoy in Bucharest from July 1900. Minister of National Economy from 8 February 1901 to 6 May 1902 and Minister of Finance from March to May 1902. Envoy of Serbia in Rome from January 1903 to 1907. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 7 July 1908 to 25 June 1911. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 25 June 1911 to 27 January 1912. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 27 January to 18 June 1912.
Jovan M. JOVANOVIC - Pizon, politician, diplomat and historian. Born in Belgrade on 3 September 1869. Died in Ohrid on 20 June 1939. Graduated from the Faculties of Law in Belgrade and Paris. Court clerk in Belgrade from 1892. Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from February 1900. Elected Professor of the Grande Ecole (University). Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in 1903. Charge d'Affairs in Sofia from December 1903. In Foreign Service until 1911. Head of Department in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1911-1912. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 18 June to 30 August 1912. Envoy of Serbia in Vienna from 1912-1914. Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1914. Envoy of Serbia in London from 1916-1919. Envoy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Washington in 1920.
Stojan PROTIC, politician, statesman. Born in Krusevac on 16 January 1857. Died in Belgrade on 28 October 1923. Attended secondary school in Krusevac and Kragujevac. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy (Department of History and Philology) in Belgrade. Court clerk and secondary school teacher until 1882. Contributor and editor of the newspaper "Samouprava" (Self-Government) from 1882. Founded the newspaper "Odjek" (Echo) in 1884. Elected Member of Parliament in 1887. Secretary of the Great Constituent Committee in 1888. Secretary and, subsequently, Head of Department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1889. President of Taxation Office until 20 August 1892. Provisional Mayor of Belgrade in 1893. President of Taxation Office in 1894. Founded and edited the periodical "Delo" (Deed). President of Taxation Office in 1897. Director of the National Library in 1900. Member of the Independent Directorate of Monopolies and Member of Parliament from 1901. Minister of Internal Affairs from 29 May 1903 to 16 May 1905; from 17 April 1906 to 30 May 1907. Minister of Finance from 11 February 1909 to 8 May 1912. Represented Minister of Internal Affairs from 12 September 1910 to 25 June 1911. Minister of Internal Affairs from 30 August 1912 to 22 November 1914. Minister of Finance from 10 June 1917 to 7 December 1918. Acting as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 3 November to 7 December 1918. Prime Minister of the first Government of the Kingdom Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 7 December 1918 to 16 August 1919. Prime Minister from 19 February to 17 May 1920.
Ph.D Ante TRUMBIC, lawyer and politician. Born in Split on 17 May 1864. Died in Zagreb on 17 November 1938. Completed secondary school in Split. Studied law in Zagreb, Vienna and Graz. Took a doctor's degree in law in Graz in 1890. Practising lawyer in Split from 1894. Elected deputy of the Dalmatian Sabor (Assembly) several times from 1895-1914. Elected deputy of the Imperial Council in Vienna in 1897. Mayor of the city of Split from 1905. In exile from 1914-1918. Member of the Yugoslav Committee in London from 1915-1918. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 7 December 1918 to 22 November 1920. Elected deputy of the National Assembly from 1920-1927.
Ph.d Miroslav SPALAJKOVIC, diplomat. Born in Kragujevac on 6 April 1869. Died in Paris in 1951. Completed secondary school in Kragujevac. Studied law and took a doctor's degree in law in Paris in 1898. Began diplomatic career as Secretary of the Legation of Serbia in Sanct Petersburg in 1900. Consul in Pristina (then under Turkish rule) from 1904-1907. Head of Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the summer of 1907-1911. Envoy of Serbia in Sofia from April 1911-1913. Represented Minister for Foreign Affairs (Pasic) in the autumn of 1913. Envoy in Sanct Petersburg from 1913-1917. Appointed envoy in Rome in 1917 but remained in Russia until 1918. Represented Minister for Foreign Affairs from 19 February to 18 August 1920. Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Rome from 1920-1924. Envoy in Paris from 1924-1935.
Ph.D Milenko VESNIC, politician. Born in the village of Dunisic on 13 February 1862. Died in Paris on 15 May 1921. Took a doctor's degree in law in Munich in 1888. Joined diplomatic service in 1891. Secretary of the Serbian Legation in Constantinople from 1891. Professor of international law at the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade from 1893. Deputy of the National Assembly and Minister of Education from 1893. Professor of international law from 1894-1901. Minister of Justice from 1906. Envoy of Serbia in Paris until 1920. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 22 November 1920 to 1 January 1921. Founded the periodical "Pravnik" (Lawyer) (1892).
Ph.d Momcilo NINCIC, University Professor, politician. Born in Jagodina on 10 June 1876. Died in Lausanne in 1949. Attended school in Belgrade. Studied law and took a doctor's degree in Paris (1899). Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1899. Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Grande Ecole (University) in Belgrade from 1902. Minister of Finance, with a short interval, from 1915 to 16 August 1919. Minister of Justice from 19 February to 31 March 1920. Minister of Trade and Industry from 31 March 1920 to 1 January 1921. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 January 1922 to 27 July 1924 and from 6 November 1924 to 6 December 1926. Chairman of the Financial Commission of the League of Nations (1923 - 4th Session). At the 6th Session, nominated Chairman of the Disarmament Commission (1925); in 1926 elected President of the 7th Session of the League of Nations. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 27 March 1941 to 1 January 1943 (Yugoslav Government in London).
Ph.d Vojislav MARINKOVIC, politician, diplomat. Born in Belgrade on 13 May 1876. Died on 18 September 1935. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Studied at the Faculty of Law in Paris and took a doctor's degree (Department of Political and Economic Sciences). Clerk at the Ministry of Finance from 1901. Director of the General Economic Bank. Minister of National Economy in the concentraton Government from 1914 to 1917. Minister in the Coalition Cabinet of Serbia, November-December 1918. Delegate of Serbia to the international conference in Paris for the liquidation of financial debts from the Balkan war. Delegate of Serbia to the Allied Conference in Paris in 1916. Expert in the Delegation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Peace Conference in Paris 1919-1920. Minister of Internal Affairs from 24 December 1921 to 30 February 1922. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 27 July to 6 November 1924 and from 7 April 1927 to 4 April 1932. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 4 April to 3 July 1932. Minister without Portfolio from 22 October to 20 December 1934.
Milos TRIFUNOVIC, politician. Born in Uzice on 30 October 1871. Died in Belgrade on 19 February 1957. Completed secondary school in Uzice. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1894. Secondary school teacher in Uzice. Minister of Education and Religious Affairs from 30 June 1917 to 3 November 1918. Minister of Education from 19 February to 17 May 1920 and from 16 December 1922 to 2 May 1923. Minister of Public Works from 27 March to 27 July 1924 and Representative from 28 March to 29 April 1925. Minister of Religious Affairs from 6 November 1924 to 15 April 1926. Minister of Education from 15 April 1926 to 4 February 1927. Representative of the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 6 to 24 December 1926. Minister of Education from 27 March 1941 to 26 June 1943. On a mission to the USA from 3 October 1941. Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 6 June to 10 August 1943. Member of the Radical Party and Member of its Main Board. From the 1930s, in the capacity as the First Vice-President and Deputy of Aca Stanojevic, leader of the Party. From 1903 elected Member of Parliament without interruption. Several times Secretary of the National Assembly.
Ph.D. Ninko PERIC, lawyer, politician. Born in the village of Bojic (Serbia) on 14 May 1886. Died in Belgrade on 24 april 1961. Attended secondary school in Sabac and Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (1910). Took a doctor's degree in Law in Paris (1913). Law clerk from 1913 to 1917. Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1917-1920. Secretary of the delegation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Peace Conference in Paris. Appointed Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1920. Minister of Social Policy from 4 May to 31 July 1923. Minister of Finance from 15 April to 24 December 1926. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 December 1926 to 12 April 1927. Minister without Portfolio from 17 April to 16 June ..... Represented Ministers of Justice, Education, Religious Affairs. President of the National Assembly 1927-1928. President of the State Council 1930-1931. Ambassador in Bucharest 1935-1936.
Bogoljub JEVTIC, diplomat. Born in Kragujevac on 24 December 1886. Died in 1960. Completed secondary school in Kragujevac. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (1911). Attended courses at the Higher Commercial School in Berlin. Secretary at the Legation of Serbia in Stockholm from 1917. Secretary of the Legation in London from July 1918. Head of Section, Department for International Treaty Implementation, Presidency of the Government from April 1920. Secretary General of the Yugoslav delegation to the Reparation Commission in Paris from December 1920. Counsellor of the Legation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Paris and Brussels from 1924. Minister Plenipotentiary in Tirana from 9 April 1926. Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna and Budapest from 13 January 1928. Minister of the Court from 25 January 1929 to 1932. In addition to regular duties, Acting Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs from 3 February 1929 to 29 October 1930. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2 July 1932 to 20 December 1934. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 20 December 1934 to to 24 June 1935. Minister of Transport from 27 March 1941 to 9 January 1942. Minister without Portfolio until 2 January 1943. Minister of Forests and Mining July- August 1943.
Ph.d. Milan STOJADINOVIC, university professor, politician. Born in Cacak on 23 July 1888. Died in Buenos Aires in 1961. Attended secondary school in Uzice and Kragujevac. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (1906-1910). Took a doctor's degree in the field of finances in 1911. In Germany, Britain and France (1911-1914) for specialised studies; inter alia, in the Ministry of Finance in France. Clerk in the Ministry of Finance from 1914. Director of the Central State Accountancy Department, Ministry of Finance, in 1918. Private employee of the British Commercial Bank in Belgrade from 1918. Minister of Finance from 16 December 1922 to 27 July 1924; from 6 November 1924 to 8 April 1926; from 20 December 1934 to 24 June 1935. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 June 1935 to 5 february 1939.
Ph.D. Aleksandar CINCAR-MARKOVIC, diplomat. Born in Belgrade in 1889. Died in 1952. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Law (1911). Attended courses at the faculties of law in Freiburg and Berlin. Took a doctor's degree in France. Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the end of 1918. Member of the Secretariat of the Delegation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Peace Conference in Paris; Secretary of Nikola Pasic. Consul of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Zadar from June 1921. Consul in Trieste from July 1921. First Secretary and later on Counsellor of the Legation in Tirana from July 1923 to May 1925. Head of the Balkan Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1925-1926. Charge d'Affairs of the Legation in Budapest from June 1926. Counsellor of the Legation in Paris from the autumn 1926. Counsellor of the Legation in Sofia from May 1927. Counsellor of the Legation in Vienna from August 1928. Counsellor of the Legation in Paris from 1930. Envoy in Sofia 1934-1935. Envoy in Berlin 1935-1939. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 5 February 1939 to 27 March 1941.
Ph.D. Slobodan JOVANOVIC, university professor. Born in Novi Sad on 26 November 1869. Died in London on 12 December 1958. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Geneva (1890). Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1900-1907). Professor of the Grande Ecole (University) (1897-1905). Professor of Belgrade University from 1905. During World War One worked in the Press Bureau of the Supreme Command of the Serbian Army. Expert in International Law Section of the Delegation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Peace Conference in Paris. After the war Professor at the Faculty of Law and Rector of Belgrade University. Vice-Premier from 27 March 1941 to 9 January 1942. Prime Minister, Minister of Internal Affairs and Representative of the Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force from 9 January 1942 to 2 January 1943. Prime Minister, Minister of Internal Affairs and Representative of the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2 January 1943 to 26 June 1943. Second Vice-President of the Council of Ministers from 26 June to 10 August 1943. Contributor of journals and political newspapers. Founder, contributor and member of the editorial board of the "Srpski knjizevni glasnik" (Serbian Literary Herald). 
Milan GROL, politician. Born in Belgrade on 31 August 1876. Died in Belgrade on 3 December 1952. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philology and Literature in Belgrade (1899). Studied literature and theatre for two years in Paris. Assistant dramaturgist (1902) and dramaturgist (1903-1906) of the National Theatre in Belgrade. Secondary school teacher in Belgrade (1906-1909). Director of the National Theatre (1909-1924). During World War One headed the Serbian Press Bureau in Geneva (1915-1918). Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from August 1924 and Envoy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to Turkey until December 1924.
Ph.d. Bozidar PURIC, diplomat. Born in Belgrade on 19 February 1891. Died in Chicago in 1977. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Paris in 1912. Took a doctor's degree in Paris in 1918 with the thesis: Clausula rebus sic stantibus en droit international public.
Ph.d. Ivan SUBASIC, politician. Born in Vukova Gorica (Karlovac) on 27 May 1892. Died in Zagreb on 22 March 1955. Completed secondary school in Zagreb. Studied theology until World War One. Served in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Serbian front from the autumn 1914. Taken prisoner of war in Russia in 1916. Became volunteer in the Serbian Army and participated in the operations on the Thessaloniki front in 1918. After the war graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. Practiced law as advocate in Vrbovsko. Member of the Croatian Peasant Party. Elected Member of Parliament in 1938. Ban (governor) of the Banovina of Croatia from August 1939. In exile from 1941. Member of the Government Delegation to the USA from 1941 to 1944. Prime Minister of the Royal Government-in-Exile and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 June 1944 to 5 March 1945. Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Government of the Democratic Federative Yugoslavia from 7 March 1945 to 17 October 1945 (resigned on 8 October). In the course of 1944 concluded, at the British request, a number of agreements between the Royal Government-in-Exile and the Partisan Government (NKOJ) of Marshal Josip Broz Tito with a view to the forming of a joint interim government and a Regency.
Josip BROZ Tito, Marshal. Born in Kumrovec (Austria-Hungary) on 25 May 1892. Died in Ljubljana on 4 May 1980. Completed elementary school in Kumrovec. Learned the trade of metal worker in Sisak. Worker until World War One. During the war non-commissioned officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army; fought on the Serbian and the Russian fronts. Taken prisoner of war in Russia in 1916. Joined the Bolsheviks. Returned to Yugoslavia in 1920 and became member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. From 1934 to 1937 in Moscow. General Secretary of the CPY from 1937. Commander of Partisan Detachments and of the Supreme Command from 1941. Head of the National Committee of Liberation of Yugoslavia ((Partisan Government) from 1943. Prime Minister of the Democratic Federative Yugoslavia from 7 March 1945. Prime Minister of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 30 November 1945 (until 31 January 1946). President of the Republic, General Secretary of the CPY/LCY and Supreme Commander of Armed Forces from 1953 until death.
Stanoje SIMIC, diplomat. Born in Belgrade on 16 July 1893. Died in Belgrade in 1970. Completed secondary school and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (1919). Participated in the liberation wars of Serbia from 1912 to 1918. Joined Foreign Service in 1920. Vice-Consul in Korca (Albania) from July 1923. Vice-Consul in Zadar from August 1927. Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from January 1932. Counsellor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from May 1934. Counsellor of the Legation in Paris from 1935. Retired in 1938. Reactivated in 1939. In 1942, appointed Envoy and, in 1943, Ambassador to the USSR, by the Yugoslav Royal Government-in-Exile. Ambassador of the Democratic Federative Yugoslavia in Washington from April 1945. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 February 1946 to 31 August 1948. Minister in the Government of the FPRY from 1948 to 1953. Deputy in the Chamber of Peoples of the Federal People's Assembly from 30 November 1945 to 1953.
Edvard KARDELJ, politician. Born in Ljubljana on 27 January 1910. Died in Ljubljana in February 1979. Completed Teacher Training School in Ljubljana in 1929. Member of the illegal organisation of communist youth (SKOJ) from 1926. Member of the illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) from 1932. In the USSR from 1934 to 1936. Returned to Yugoslavia in 1937. Member of the Central Committee of the CPY from 1937 until death. Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1941: Member of the Supreme Command; Member of the Main Command of Slovenia and of NKOJ (Partisan Government). Minister in the Government of the DFY from 7 March 1945. Minister in charge of the Constituent Assembly from 30 November 1945. President of the Control Commission from 1946 to 1948. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 31 August 1948 to 14 January 1953.
Koca POPOVIC, general, politician. Born in Belgrade on 14 March 1908. Died in Belgrade on 20 October 1992. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Paris; completed all course requirements in 1932. Member of the illegal CPY from 1933. Participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1937 to 1939 as a military officer. After spending a short time in the camp in France returned to Yugoslavia in 1939. Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1941 as a very capable commander. Commander of the 2nd Army at the end of the war. Chief of General Staff from 1945 to 1953. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 15 January 1953 to 23 April 1965. Member of the Federal Executive Council and Vice-President of the SFRY until 1972. Member of the Council of National Defence and Member of the Council of the Federation.
Marko NIKEZIC, politician, diplomat. Born in Belgrade on 13 June 1921. Died in Belgrade in 1991. Completed secondary school in Belgrade. Studied at the Faculty of Engineering in Belgrade until 1941. During the People's Liberation War held various political posts in the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). Organisational Secretary of the Belgrade District Committe of the CPY from 1945. Vice-President of the City of Belgrade Executive Committee 1950-1951. Secretary of the City of Belgrade Committee of the CPY 1951-1952. In the diplomatic service from 1952-1968. Yugoslav Ambassador to Egypt from 1953 to 1956. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1956 to 1958. Ambassador to the United States from 1958 to 1962. Assistant State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1962 to 1965. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 23 April 1965 to 25 December 1968. President of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia from 1968-1972.
Miso PAVICEVIC, politician, diplomat. Born in Pljevlja on 21 April 1915. Died 1995 in Belgrade. Completed secondary school in Pljevlja. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1938. Member of the illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) from 1941. One of the organisers of the People's Liberation War from 1941. During the war held various political posts in Montenegro. Secretary of the Central Board of the Federation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia from 1947-1951. Envoy Extraordinary to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay from October 1951-1953. Ambassador of the FPR of Yugoslavia to Turkey 1953-1955. Ambassador to Greece from 1955-1958. Secretary of the Central Board of the Federation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia from 1958-1960. Permanent Representative of the SFRY to the United Nations from December 1960 to November 1963. Assistant State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from January 1964. Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from April 1965. Acting State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 25 December 1968 to 25 April 1969. Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council. Ambassador of the SFRY to Italy.
Mirko TEPAVAC, politician. Born in Zemun on 13 April 1922. Died in Belgrade on 28 August 2014. Attended secondary school in Zemun, Sremska Mitrovica and Bela Crkva. Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1941. Member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1942. During the war held the posts of the political commissar of detachment, brigade, division. In the postwar period Member of the Main Board of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Serbia (SAWPS); Member of the CC of the League of Communists of Serbia; Secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Zrenjanin and Pancevo; Member of the Provincial Committee of the CPY for Vojvodina; Secretary of the Council for Education and Culture of Serbia. Director of Radio Belgrade (1955-1959). Ambassador of the FPRY to Hungary; Assistant State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (1959-1965). Director and Editor-in-Chief of the daily "Politika" and Member of the Executive Committee of the CC of the League of Communists of Serbia (1965-1967). President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina (1965-1969). Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 25 April 1969 to 1 November 1972.
Jaksa PETRIC, politician, diplomat. Born in Postire (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) on 1 July 1922. Died 1993. Completed secondary commercial school in Split (1940). Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1941. Member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1942. Secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia for Split from 1945. Secretary of the Committee of the FPRY for Film Making. In the diplomatic service from 1949. Envoy of the FPRY to Albania. Deputy Permanent Representative of the FPRY in the UN Security Council from 1949. Head of Department for Britain and the USA in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1951. Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the FPRY in London. Head of the Department for Asia in the MFA. Ambassador of the FPRY in Prague from 1958-1961. Head of the Department for North and South America, Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries from 1961-1963. Secretary of the Committee for International Co-operation and Relations of the Federal Board of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SAWPY) from 1964-1965. Ambassador of the SFRY in Bucharest 1965-1969. Assistant State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1969-1972. Acting State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1 November to 15 December 1972. Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1972-1974. Permanent Representative of the SFRY to the United Nations 1974-1978. Member of the Presidency of the SR of Croatia from 1978. President of the Presidency of the SR of Croatia from 10 May 1984 to 10 May 1985.
Milos MINIC, politician. Born in the village of Preljina near Cacak on 28 August 1914. Died in Belgrade on 5 September 2003. Completed secondary school in Cacak. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Member of the illegal Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) from 1935 and of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) from 1936. Held senior posts in both organisations. During the People's Liberation War held party and military posts in Serbia from 1941. In the Belgrade Department for the Protection of the People from October 1944. Public Prosecutor of Serbia and Representative of the Military Prosecutor of the JNA from March 1945 to 1950. President of the Planning Commission of the People's Republic of Serbia. Minister in the Government-President of the Council for Legislation and Organisation of People's Authorities from 1950. Member of the Government of the PR of Serbia from 1953. Member of the Federal Executive Council (Government) and Member of the Executive Council of the People's Assembly of Serbia from 1953. President of the City of Belgrade People's Committee from February 1955. President of the Executive Council (Government) of the PR of Serbia from March 1957. Member of the Federal Executive Council (Government) from 1962. Vice-President of the FEC from July 1963 to May 1965. President of the Commission of the CC of the LCY for Socio-Economic and Political Relations in the Economy 1965-1966. President of the Federal Chamber of the Federal Assembly and Vice-President of the Federal Assembly from 1966. President of the Assembly of the SR of Serbia from 16 May 1967. Vice-President of the FEC from 5 December 1972 and Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 16 December 1972 to 17 May 1978. Member of the Presidency of the CC of the LCY from 1982.
Josip VRHOVEC, politician. Born in Zagreb on 9 February 1926. Died in Zagreb on 15. February 2006. Graduated from the Economic Faculty in Belgrade in 1951. Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1941. Member of the People's Liberation Army from 1943. Member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1944. After 1945 held various posts in the JNA. Editor-in-chief of the daily "Vjesnik u srijedu" from 1952. Correspondent of the "Vjesnik u srijedu" from the USA from 1963 to 1970. Member of the Executive Committee of the CC of the League of Communists of Croatia from 1970. Secretary of the Executive Committee of the CC of the LCC from December 1971. Member of the Presidency of the CC of the LCY and President of the Commission for Ideological and Theoretical Questions; President of the Council of the Political School "J.B. Tito" from 1974-1978. Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 17 May 1978 to 17 May 1982. Member of the Presidency of the SFRY from 15 May 1984 to 15 May 1989. Published a number of works in the field of international relations and self-management and about the national question.
Ph.d. Lazar MOJSOV, politician, diplomat. Born in Negotino (Macedonia) on 19 December 1920. Died in Belgrade on 25 August 2011. Graduated and took a doctor's degree from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Participated in the People's Liberation War. Member of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People's Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM). Public prosecutor of Macedonia until 1948. Minister of Justice of the People's Republic of Macedonia from 1948 to 1951. Director of the daily "Nova Makedonija " and Head of the Press Bureau of the Government of Macedonia. Deputy of the Assembly and Member of the Executive Council (Government) of Macedonia from 1952 to 1958. Ambassador to the USSR from 1958 to 1961. Director of the Institute for International Workers' Movement from 1961. Directo and Editor-in-Chief of the daily "Borba" from 1962 to 1964. Ambassador to Austria from 1967. Permanent representative of the SFRY to the United Nations from 1969 to 1974. Assistant Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1974. President of the 32nd session of the UN General Assembly in 1977. Member of the Executive Committee of CC of the League of Commuists of Macedonia. Member of the CC of the LCY and President of the LCY from 1980-1981. Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 17 May 1982 to 15 May 1984. Member of the Presidency of the SFRY from 15 May 1984 to 15 May 1989. President of the Presidency of the SFRY from 15 May 1987 to 15 May 1988.
Raif DIZDAREVIC, politician. Born in Fojnica (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1926. Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1943. Member of the CPY from 1945. In the State Security Service from 1945-1951. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1951. Secretary and Charge d'Affairs of the Embassy of the FPRY in Bulgaria (1951-1954). First Secretary of the Embassy in the USSR (1956-1959). Counselor in Prague (1963-1967). Secretary of the Central Board of the Federation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia from 1967 to 1972. Assistant Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1974. Member of the CC of the LC of B&H from 1974. President of the Board of the Federation of Trade Unions of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1974 to 1978. President of the Presidency of the SR of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1978-1983). President of the Federal Assembly (1982-1983). Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 15 May 1984 to 30 December 1987. Member of the Presidency of the SFRY from 30 December 1984 to 15 May 1989. President of the Presidency of the SFRY from 15 May 1988 to 15 May 1989.
Budimir LONCAR, diplomat. Born in the village of Preko (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes)) on 1 April 1924. Completed secondary school; acquired military education. During the People's Liberation War held various political posts in the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and the CPY for Dalmatia. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Security Service (West) (1947-1948), (East) (1948-1949). Consul of the FPRY in New York and Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of the FPRY to the UN from 1 January 1950. Head of Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1 January 1956. Head of Department in the MFA from 1 July 1957. Adviser to the State Secretary (Minister) for Foreign Affairs from 1 April 1965. Ambassador of the SFRY in Jakarta and Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Malaysia and Singapore from 1 October 1965. Adviser to the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1 November 1969. Ambassador of the SFRY in Bonn from 1 June 1973. Under-Secretary in the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs from 1 December 1977. Ambassador of the SFRY in Washington from 1 November 1979 to 1 December 1983. Deputy Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1987. Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 31 December 1987 to 12 December 1991.
Milivoje MAKSIC, diplomat. Born in Belgrade on 19 January 1928. Died in Belgrade on 2 March 2003. In the diplomatic service from 1 August 1949. Secretary of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1 December 1949. Desk holder in charge of Bulgaria in the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1 March 1951. Press Attache of the Embassy of the SFRY in Warsaw from 1 May 1953. Assistant desk holder for Poland in the Political Department of the MFA from 1 June 1956. Assistant Desk Holder in the Department for Co-ordination of the MFA from 1 October 1957. Counsellor of the Embassy of the SFRY in Moscow from 1 May 1963. Head of Section in the Research & Documentation Department from 1 October 1967. Head of Section for the USSR, Mongolia, Department for Eastern Europe from 1 March 1969. Counsellor of the Embassy of the SFRY in Warsaw from 1 September 1970. Adviser in the Office of the Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 27 March 1973. Head of Department for Western Europe of the MFA from 15 September 1973. Ambassador of the SFRY in Warsaw from 1 September 1982. Head of Sector of the MFA from 1 January 1987. Deputy Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from October 1988. Acting Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 12 December 1991 to 28 April 1992.
JOVANOVIC Vladislav, diplomat. Born in the village of Zitni Potok on 9 June 1933 (father Milorad, school teacher, mother Dragica, nee Petkovic, school teacher). Completed secondary school in Belgrade (1951). Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Joined the Diplomatic Service in 1957. Desk holder in the Embassy of the SFRY in Brussels from 1 March 1960-1964. Desk holder in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1 July 1964. Second Secretary of the Embassy of the SFRY in Ankara from 1 November 1967 to 1971. Assistant Head of Department in the MFA from 1 January 1974. Counsellor of the Embassy of the SFRY in London from 8 October 1975 to 1979. Head of Department for Western Europe from 1 July 1980. Ambassador of the SFRY to Turkey from 13 November 1985-1989. Ambassador at the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs and Assistant Chief of Sector from 29 March 1990. Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Government of the Republic of Serbia from 31 July 1991-1992. Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 15 July 1992 to 30 September 1992 and from 4 March 1993 to 15 August 1995. Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Government of the Republic of Serbia from 1992-1993. Head of the Permanent Mission of the FRY to the UN from 1995 to 2000.
Ilija DJUKIC, diplomat. Born in the village of Novi Rujac (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) on 4 January 1930. Died in Belgrade on October 22, 2002. Completed the Institute for Political Sciences in Beijing. Served in the Embassy of the SFRY in Beijing from 1 June 1959. Desk holder in the Department for China in the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs from 1 April 1961. In the Department for Asia and Australia from 1 May 1968. Counsellor of the Embassy of the SFRY in Beijing from 1 May 1970. Adviser in the Department for Eastern Europe from 5 June 1974. Head of the Department for Eastern Europe from 31 August 1975. Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the SFRY in Moscow from 31 August 1978. Head of the Department for Information of Federal and Republic Bodies from 1 November 1980. Head of the Department for Neighbouring Countries from 1 December 1981. Adviser of the Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1 September 1982. Ambassador of the SFRY in Sofia from 26 October 1983. Chief of Sector for Neighbouring Countries and Eastern Europe from 18 December 1987. Ambassador of the SFRY in Beijing from 30 March 1990. Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 30 September 1992 to 4 March 1993. Ambassador of the FRY in Beijing 2000 - 2002.
Milan MILUTINOVIC, politican. Born on December 19, 1942 in Belgrade (Serbia). Graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, in 1965. Member of the Presidency of the Youth Association of Yugoslavia and Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Relations; 1969-1974 Deputy of the Socio-Political Council of the Federal Assembly (member of the Foreign Policy Council of the Socio-Political Council); 1977-1982 Member of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the SR of Serbia and Republican Secretary for Education and Science of the SR of Serbia; 1983-1987 Director of the National Library of Serbia; 1987-1989 Ambassador at the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs and head of the Press, Culture and Information Department; 1989-1995 Ambassador of the FR of Yugoslavia to Greece; 1995-1998 Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Zivadin JOVANOVIC, diplomat and politician. Born on 14 November 1938 in Oparic, municipality of Rekovac, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Completed his secondary education in Jagodina, Serbia. Graduated from the Belgrade University Faculty of Law in 1961. Legal Officer, Municipal Assembly of Novi Beograd 1961-64; Attache, State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs 1964-66; Vice Consul, Yugoslav Consulate General in Toronto, Canada 1966-70; Adviser, Presidency of the Republic of Serbia 1970-74; Counsellor, Yugoslav Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya 1974-78; Secretary, Foreign Affairs Council of the Republic of Serbia 1978-84; Under-Secretary, Presidency of the SFRY 1984-88; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the SFRY (FRY) to Angola 1988-93; Assistant Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs 1994-97; Vice-President of the Serbian Socialist Party; Deputy to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia 1997-2000. Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998-2000.
Goran SVILANOVIĆ M.A., politician. Born in 1963, Gnjilane, Kosovo, Serbia. 
Vuk DRASKOVIC, politician and writer. Born 29 November 1946, Serbia. Graduated from the Law Faculty in Belgrade in 1968.
