Milan Milutinovic (19 December 1942-2 July 2023) was President of Serbia from 29 December 1997 to 29 December 2002, succeeding Dragan Tomic and preceding Natasa Micic.
Biography[]
Milan Milutinovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and he served as a member of the presidency of the Yugoslav Socialist Youth Union from 1969 to 1971, as Secretary for Ideology of the City Committee of the League of Communists of Belgrade from 1974 to 1977, as Secretary for Education, Science, and Sport of SR Serbia from 1977 to 1982, as Ambassador to Greece from 1989 to 1995, as Foreign Minister from 1995 to 1998, and as President of Serbia from 1997 to 2002. Milutinovic was one of the leading negotiators of the Dayton Agreement at the end of the Bosnian War, and he was elected President of Serbia to succeed the term-limited Slobodan Milosevic. As President, he enjoyed little political influence, still acting under Milosevic's directives until Milosevic's ouster in 2000. Milutinoic remained in office until 2002, after which he was tried for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2003 an acquitted in 2009. He died in 2023.