Zlatko Lagumdzija (born 26 December 1955) was President of the SDP BiH political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 2014, as well as Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1996 and as Foreign Minister from 2001 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2015.
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Zlatko Lagumdzija was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia in 1955, and he became a professor at the University of Sarajevo in 1989. In 1992, he switched his party affiliation from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia to the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and he served as Alija Izetbegovic's Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1996, during the Bosnian War. He succeeded in convincing the United Nations to protect the Bosniaks of Srebrenica during the war. From 1996 to 2014, he served as a member of the House of Representatives, and he served as President of the SDP BiH from 1997 to 2014 and as Foreign Minister from 2001 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2015.