Serbian National Assembly to organize commemoration in honor of former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic

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A commemoration will be held tomorrow in the House of the National Assembly on the occasion of the death of former president of the Republic of Serbia Milan Milutinovic.

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The commemoration will start at 12:30 pm

Milan Milutinovic, former president of Serbia, minister of foreign affairs and vice-president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), died on Sunday at the age of 81.

He was the secretary (minister) of Education and Science of Serbia from 1977 to 1982, then the manager of the National Library of Serbia from 1983 to 1987, and the ambassador of Yugoslavia to Greece from 1989 to 1995, the federal minister of foreign affairs for two years and the president of Serbia from December 1997 to December 2002.

He surrendered to the Hague Tribunal after the end of his presidential mandate, in December 2002, where he was accused of war crimes during the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija. Seven years later, on February 26, 2009, he was acquitted and declared innocent.

Milutinovic was friends with Slobodan Milosevic since their student days.

(Telegraf.rs)