Milan Milutinović
| Milan Milutinović Милан Милутиновић |
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| 2nd President of Serbia | |
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In office 29 December 1997 – 29 December 2002 |
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| Prime Minister |
Mirko Marjanović Milomir Minić Zoran Đinđić |
| Preceded by |
Dragan Tomić (Acting) Slobodan Milošević |
| Succeeded by |
Nataša Mićić (Acting) Boris Tadić |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 15 August 1995 – 8 January 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Vladislav Jovanović |
| Succeeded by | Živadin Jovanović |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 December 1942 Belgrade, Serbia (occupied Yugoslavia) |
| Political party | Socialist Party of Serbia |
| Spouse(s) | Olga Milutinović (d. 20 January 2017) |
Milan Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Милутиновић; born 19 December 1942 in Belgrade) is a Serbian politician who served as the second President of Serbia from 1997 to 2002. He served as Director of the National Library of Serbia (1983–1988), Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Greece, Yugoslavia's Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1998), and as President of Serbia from 1997 until 2002.
After his presidential term expired in December 2002, he surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia where he was tried for war crimes. He was found not guilty on all charges on 26 February 2009.
Following a six-year term as Yugoslavia’s Ambassador to Greece (between 1992 and 1996, Milutinović was Yugoslavia’s only Ambassador to a Western state, as, due to the UN embargo imposed in May 1992, new ambassadors could not be appointed, while Milutinović was never withdrawn by Belgrade), Milutinović was appointed Yugoslavia’s Foreign Minister in 1995. In November 1995, he was one of the leading negotiators during the Bosnia peace negotiations in Dayton, Ohio and one of the draftsmen of what subsequently became the Dayton Peace Accords, which led to the permanent cessation of hostilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. During his term as Foreign Minister, he also signed several agreements between Yugoslavia and its neighbour and former enemy Croatia aimed at normalizing relations between the two countries.
After Slobodan Milošević's second, the last constitutionally allowable, mandate as the President of Serbia, he was controversially elected the president of Yugoslavia. Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia still wanted to retain the Serbian presidency, and their first candidate in the Serbian presidential elections in 1997 was Zoran Lilić. The first two rounds of elections failed as the necessary majority (under the 1990 Constitution) of population failed to vote.
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